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Saturday, December 24, 2005
NSA Eavesdropping Wider
Than W. House Admitted
We learn more
everyday…Data mining in action!
The volume of
information gathered from telephone and Internet communications by the National
Security Agency without court-approved warrants was much larger than the White
House has acknowledged, The New York Times reported on Saturday. Citing current
and former government officials, the Times said the information was collected by
tapping directly into some of the
A former
telecommunications technology manager told the Times that industry leaders have
been storing information on calling patterns and giving it to the federal
government to aid in tracking possible terrorists since the September 11
attacks. Calls to and from
U.S. President
George W. Bush
and his aides have said his executive order allowing eavesdropping without
warrants was limited to monitoring international phone and e-mail communications
linked to people with connections to al-Qaeda. What has not been acknowledged,
according to the Times, is that NSA technicians combed large amounts of phone
and Internet traffic seeking patterns pointing to terrorism suspects.
Some officials
described the program as a large data mining operation, the Times said, and
described it as much larger than the White House has acknowledged. Many calls
going from one foreign country to another are routed through U.S. switches and a
communications expert who once worked at the NSA said in recent years government
officials have been encouraging the telecommunications industry to bring more
international traffic through U.S.-based switches.
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-security-eavesdropping.html
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