Mind Boggling Facts About Usa Govt Online Spying......

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According to CNET, the NSA told Congress during a recent classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls.

According to U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, members of Congress learned “significantly more than what is out in the media today” about NSA snooping during that classified briefing.


The chief technology officer at the CIA, Gus Hunt, made the following statement back in March: “We fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever.”

During a Senate Judiciary Oversight Committee hearing in March 2011, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted that the intelligence community has the ability to access emails “as they come in.”

Back in 2007, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell told Congress that the president has the “constitutional authority” to authorize domestic spying without warrants no matter when the law says.

The Director Of National Intelligence James Clapper recently told Congress that the NSA was not collecting any information about American citizens. When the media confronted him about his lie, he explained that he “responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.”

The Washington Post is reporting that the NSA has four primary data collection systems.

The NSA knows pretty much everything that you are doing on the Internet.

The NSA is supposed to be prohibited from spying on the Internet activity of American citizens, but it is doing it anyway.

It has been estimated that the NSA gathers[size=5][color=#FF0000] 2.1 million gigabytes of data on all of us every single hour of every single day.[/color][/size]

In addition to collecting data on their own, a recent Bloomberg article claims that “thousands of firms” are giving your personal information directly to the NSA.

Companies that share their data with the NSA are exempt from prosecution due to a law that Congress passed back in 2008.

The NSA is constructing the largest data center in the world out in Utah. It is going to have about a million square feet of storage space, it is going to cost about 2 billion dollars to build, and it is going to take about[size=5][color=#FF0000] 40 million dollars a year just to pay for the energy needed to run the facility. It is also being reported that it will have the capability of storing 5 zettabytes of data.[/color][/size]

The NSA has a budget of about 10 billion dollars a year.

Overall, the United States government spends more than 80 billion dollars a year on intelligence programs.

According to NSA whistleblower William Binney, the NSA has a “target list” of somewhere between “500,000 to a million people“.

Binney also claims that the NSA “has the capability to do individualized searches, similar to Google, for particular electronic communications in real time through such criteria as target addresses, locations, countries and phone numbers, as well as watch-listed names, keywords, and phrases in email.”

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