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July 27, 2013

NSA: They Know Much More Than You Think

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In the end, both UPSTREAM and PRISM may be only the tips of a much larger system.
Another new document released by Snowden says that on New Year’s Eve, 2012, SHELLTRUMPET, a metadata program targeting international communications, had just “processed its One Trillionth metadata record.” Started five years ago, it noted that half of that trillion was added in 2012. It also noted that two more new programs, MOONLIGHTPATH and SPINNERET, “are planned to be added by September 2013.” James Bamford | The New York Review of Books

Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 27, 2013 7:47 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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SPINNERET is rather ominous sounding.

Stasi
Pricks
Invoking
National
Networked
Entrapment
Regimes
Employed
by
Emerging
Tyrants


Posted by: monkeyfan at July 27, 2013 11:05 AM

And of course, it's never, ever just the tip.

Posted by: Rich Fader at July 27, 2013 12:35 PM

and this started long before Obama was president, both parties knew about it.

Posted by: Potsie at July 27, 2013 5:09 PM

After both parties became one and the same, they needed to have a way to know if they were to be overthrown.

The revolution never announces itself.

Posted by: Peccable at July 28, 2013 5:54 AM

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