A new exposé in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National
Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the
country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed "Stellar Wind." We speak with investigative reporter James Bamford, who says the NSA
has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and
sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they
originate within the country or overseas. The Utah spy center will
contain near-bottomless databases to store all forms of communication
collected by the agency. This includes the complete contents of private
emails, cell phone calls and Google searches, as well as all sorts of
personal data trails — parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore
purchases and other digital "pocket litter." "The NSA
has constantly denied that they’re doing things, and then it turns out
they are doing these things," Bamford says in response to NSA
Director General Keith Alexander’s denial yesterday that U.S. citizens’
phone calls and emails are being intercepted. "A few years ago,
President Bush said before camera that the United States is not
eavesdropping on anybody without a warrant, and then it turns out that
we had this exposure to all the warrantless eavesdropping in the New
York Times article. And so, you have this constant denial and parsing of
words."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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