National Security Agency

National Security Agency (NSA) is a part of US Department of Defense which has been described by James Bamford of The New York Times as "ultrasecret". +1 +2

Who controls the NSA?

It was, 2006-01-14, in a headline in alt.politics "(Live From Fascist America)" explained that "The NSA: A Lockheed Martin Corporation". The reality is that NSA is a part of United States Department of Defense. It is a DoD operation. It is not a US Government Agency. It is a (evil) military operation.

NSA Satellites

NSA operates a world-wide network of spy-satellites. These satellites are available to top-level branches of NATO and are used by facist NATO-regimes such a Norway to spy on citizens.

NSA satellites can be used for covert mind control and torture as well as spying. This usage is very common in the USA, Australia, Norway and also sporadically reported in other NATO-member-countries.

National Security Agency in the media

1997

• 1997: IP: NSA Spy Network confirmed by EU

2005

• 2005-12-16: New York Times admits it held domestic spying story for a full year
  • "On the second page of a report which reveals the White House engaged in warrantless domestic spying, the New York Times reveals that it held the story for a full year at the request of the Bush Administration, RAW STORY can reveal."
• 2005-12-25: The Agency That Could Be Big Brother +1 +2 +
  • "What made the intercepts particularly difficult, General Hayden said, was that they were not "targeted" but intercepted randomly from Afghan pay phones.
  • "For the agency to snoop domestically on American citizens suspected of having terrorist ties, it first must to go to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA, make a showing of probable cause that the target is linked to a terrorist group, and obtain a warrant. The court rarely turns the government down. Since it was established in 1978, the court has granted about 19,000 warrants; it has only rejected five."
  • Originally created to spy on foreign adversaries, the NSA was never supposed to be turned inward. Thirty years ago, Senator Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat who was then chairman of the select committee on intelligence, investigated the agency and came away stunned.
    • "That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people," he said in 1975, "and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide."
    • He added that if a dictator ever took over, the NSA "could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back."
• 2005-12-30: Covert CIA Program Withstands New Furor + +
  • "This month he went into more detail, defending the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping within the United States. That program is separate from the GST program, but three lawyers involved said the legal rationale for the NSA program is essentially the same one used to support GST, which is an abbreviation of a classified code name for the umbrella covert action program."

2006

• 2006-01-11: NSA: Free Speech is a Weapon of Mass Destruction

• 2006-01-03: (democracynow.org) National Security Agency Whistleblower Warns Domestic Spying Program Is Sign the U.S. is Decaying Into a “Police State” +
  • "Former NSA intelligence agent Russell Tice condemns reports that the Agency has been engaged in eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without court warrants. Tice has volunteered to testify before Congress about illegal black ops programs at the NSA. Tice said, “The freedom of the American people cannot be protected when our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed into a police state." [includes rush transcript]"
• 2006-01-04: Secret Surveillance May Have Occurred Before Authorization
  • "During your appearance before the committee," she wrote, "you indicated that you had been operating since the September 11 attacks with an expansive view of your authorities with respect to the conduct of electronic surveillance." The letter, while redacted in parts concerned with surveillance, made clear that the agency was "forwarding" intercepts and other collected information to the FBI. Two sources familiar with the NSA program said Pelosi was directly referring to information collected without a warrant on U.S. citizens or residents.
• 2006-01-10: Senator Frank Church: The NSA could enable a dictator to impose total tyranny +
  • "BushCo is trying to bury the significance of their illegal spying, why aren’t the Democrats "screaming to the rafters"?"
• 2006-01-17: (nytimes.com) Spy Agency Data After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends +
  • "WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to check out thousands of tips a month."
  • "But virtually all of them, current and former officials say, led to dead ends or innocent Americans."
• 2006-01-17: Groups Sue to Stop Domestic Spying Program +
  • "The Center for Constitutional Rights is suing Bush, the head of the National Security Agency and the heads of the other major security agencies."
• 2006-01-17: ACLU Sues to Stop Illegal Spying on Americans, Saying President Is Not Above the Law
  • "NEW YORK – Saying that the Bush administration’s illegal spying on Americans must end, the American Civil Liberties Union today filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the National Security Agency seeking to stop a secret electronic surveillance program that has been in place since shortly after September 11, 2001."
• 2006-01-11: NSA: Free Speech is a Weapon of Mass Destruction
  • "As further evidence the Bushcons are not interested in snooping "al-Qaeda," and in fact there is no "al-Qaeda" threat in America, consider revelations that the NSA snooped the Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore, a Quaker peace group."
  • "Of course, it is completely absurd that the NSA and the Baltimore police would actually believe a small group of Quakers have weapons of mass destruction, that is unless they believe the Bill of Rights is a weapon of mass destruction."

• 2006-05-13: US President George W Bush has used his weekly radio address to launch a strong defence of his administration's domestic surveillance programme.
  • "It follows claims the phone records of tens of millions of Americans are being collected by a US intelligence agency."
  • "Mr Bush stressed that all intelligence activities he authorised were "lawful" and "strictly target" al-Qaeda."
  • "A former director of the agency - Gen Michael Hayden - is now Mr Bush's nominee to become the next head of the CIA."

NSA Internet surveillance

• 2006-04-06: AT&T Forwards ALL Internet Traffic Into NSA Says EFF
  • San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Wednesday filed the legal briefs and evidence supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction in its class-action lawsuit against AT&T. After asking EFF to hold back the documents so that it could review them, the Department of Justice consented to EFF's filing them under seal - a well-established procedure that prohibits public access and permits only the judge and the litigants to see the evidence.

Software development

One of the Tor developers is a "former" NSA employee.

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