NSA part II

As you may have read, a federal judge slammed the NSA for violating the Fourth Amendment rights of our citizens. Why does the NSA admit collecting the public’s phone metadata allegedly for tracking terrorists, the reason given for everything that our government does nowadays?

Because they can and do, as they are above the law. What does above the law mean in this instance? If I were to tap into fiber optic circuits or otherwise gain access to telephone company records I could expect a knock on the door and a visit to prison.

If our government does it, is caught red-handed and admits it what happens? Nothing. So in spite of being caught, admitting to a violation of the Constitution, the fundamental framework of our nation, and almost certainly being “reprimanded” they will continue to do it. Why? Because they can.

Even if they stop doing it, they’ll work with our friendly foreign intelligence agencies, such as the British GCHQ to do it for them, so the same records become officially foreign intelligence. I’m sure that we have a reciprocal arrangement with them. They collect our data, we collect theirs and then swap it. All roads lead to Rome.

As I did an analysis of the data centers being built out by the NSA, it became clear that a lot more than just metadata is being collected. I’m sure that another Snowden leak will attest to that. What will happen to the NSA management who approved it? Nothing?

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Read about why the NSA is lying to the American public here. In a nutshell, they are building enormous data capacity in Utah, magnitudes greater than needed for phone metadata and other reasonable needs.

So what do they do with the enormous excess capacity? They will fill it with everything that they can get their hands on, all electronically processed so they can claim that it isn’t being reviewed by humans. They may not look at it, but it’s there waiting for human analysis when they want. It will be there forever.

Sadly, the word “accountable” means nothing in Washington. This has to change.