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| Is the Government Also Monitoring the CONTENT of Our Phone Calls?
Yes, Government Spooks May Be Listening
The Obama administration has been caught spying on the Verizon phone calls of tens of millions of Americans. The spying effort specifically targeted Americans living on U.S. soil.
And as NBC News reports:
NBC News has learned that under the post-9/11 Patriot Act, the government has been collecting records on every phone call made in the U.S.
But the government has sought to “reassure” us that it is only tracking “metadata” such as the time and place of the calls, and not the actual content of the calls.
That claim is patently absurd.
The American government is in fact collecting and storing virtually every phone call, purchases, email, text message, internet searches, social media communications, health information, employment history, travel and student records, and virtually all other information of every American.
Whistleblowers revealed years ago that the NSA was vacuuming up virtually all Internet communications. The Washington Post and Guardian
report today that the NSA is tapping directly into the central servers
of 9 leading U.S. Internet companies – including Microsoft, Yahoo,
Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple, and soon Dropbox –
and extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and
connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and
contacts over time.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the NSA spies on Americans’ credit card transactions as well.
In fact, all U.S. intelligence agencies – including the CIA and NSA – are going to spy on Americans’ finances. The IRS will be spying on Americans’ shopping records, travel, social interactions, health records and files from other government investigators.
Glenn Greenwald reported in May:
A seemingly spontaneous admission this week by a former FBI
counterterrorism agent provides a rather startling acknowledgment of
just how vast and invasive these surveillance activities are.
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On Wednesday night, [CNN's Erin] Burnett interviewed Tim Clemente,
a former FBI counterterrorism agent, about whether the FBI would be
able to discover the contents of past telephone conversations between
the two. He quite clearly insisted that they could:
BURNETT: Tim, is there any way, obviously, there is a
voice mail they can try to get the phone companies to give that up at
this point. It’s not a voice mail. It’s just a conversation. There’s no
way they actually can find out what happened, right, unless she tells
them?
CLEMENTE: “No, there is a way. We certainly have ways in national security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation.
It’s not necessarily something that the FBI is going to want to present
in court, but it may help lead the investigation and/or lead to
questioning of her. We certainly can find that out.
BURNETT: “So they can actually get that? People are saying, look, that is incredible.
CLEMENTE: “No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not.”
“All of that stuff” – meaning every telephone conversation
Americans have with one another on US soil, with or without a search
warrant – “is being captured as we speak”.
On Thursday night, Clemente again appeared on CNN, this time with
host Carol Costello, and she asked him about those remarks. He
reiterated what he said the night before but added expressly that “all digital communications in the past” are recorded and stored:
More: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/is-the-government-also-monitoring-the-content-of-our-phone-calls.html |
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