The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center

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The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) | Threat Level | Wired.com

According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”

What's next from the Govt?
 
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I've noticed that if you follow up a potentially flaggable statement by joking, "heh, I bet Echelon caught that one, guess they'll be visiting me tomorrow" they never come to visit. :)
 
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I noticed that the comments section of the Wired.com article was filled with "Ron Paul is our only hope" chants.

This near-messianic portrayal of RP is as disturbing as the left's swoon over Obama in 07-08.

No one person is going to be able to stop the path the US is on.
 
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MG1968 said:
I noticed that the comments section of the Wired.com article was filled with "Ron Paul is our only hope" chants.

This near-messianic portrayal of RP is as disturbing as the left's swoon over Obama in 07-08.

No one person is going to be able to stop the path the US is on.
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I agree MG. there won't be a single person that can stop this road we are headed down now.
 
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utvolpj said:
so Congress gives them $2bil and now wants to know what it was for?
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Well of course.

But in reality, the HPSCI would have controlled this money through the allocation process and Rep. Hank Johnson isn't on the HPSCI. This part of the budget would have been classified, meaning only members of the HPSCI and their counterparts in the Senate would have the full details.

Rep Johnson probably read the Wired article and decided to stir things up a bit.

Interesting that this project was cancelled under Bush but restarted under Obama...


edit: sorry, appropriations process...
 
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YorkVol said:
Well of course.

But in reality, the HPSCI would have controlled this money through the allocation process and Rep. Hank Johnson isn't on the HPSCI. This part of the budget would have been classified, meaning only members of the HPSCI and their counterparts in the Senate would have the full details.

Rep Johnson probably read the Wired article and decided to stir things up a bit.

Interesting that this project was cancelled under Bush but restarted under Obama...
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all part of the "reshaping" process
 
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T-TownVol said:
all part of the "reshaping" process
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Media Matters' current facilities aren't up to the task of shielding Obama from criticism. This new facility, graciously being built for them under the guise of an NSA project is just one more way Obama rewards his loyal sycophants.
 
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MG1968 said:
Media Matters' current facilities aren't up to the task of shielding Obama from criticism. This new facility, graciously being built for them under the guise of an NSA project is just one more way Obama rewards his loyal sycophants.
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Ah, yes, if only it were that simple!
 
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Still doesn't hold a candle to the mass of private intelligence firms around the country, which proliferated under W and have continued under Obama. There was a PBS Frontline about it a year or so ago, recommended watching. It will raise the hair on the back of your neck.
 
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myrobbins7 said:
The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) | Threat Level | Wired.com

According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: Everybodys a target; everybody with communication is a target.

What's next from the Govt?
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This: Pentagon Hosting Lecture on the Case for Democratic Socialism
The Department of Defense’s National Defense University (NDU), the premier education institution for military and defense civilian leaders, is planning to host a lecture on how Western countries should adopt socialism in response to the challenge from China.

The lecture, which is scheduled to take place online February 16, is titled, “Responding to China: The Case For Global Justice and Democratic Socialism,” and will be given by French economist Thomas Piketty, who is the author of a 2021 book titled Time for Socialism.

A summary of the event, posted on the university’s website, reads:

Western countries are still struggling to define their attitude towards the Beijing regime. In this talk on February 22, 2022, Thomas Piketty will argue that the right answer lies in ending Western arrogance and promoting a new emancipatory and egalitarian horizon on a global scale, a new form of democratic and participatory, ecological and post-colonial socialism. If they stick to their usual lecturing posture and a dated hyper-capitalist model, Western countries may find it extremely difficult to meet the Chinese challenge.​
 
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NCFisher said:
This: Pentagon Hosting Lecture on the Case for Democratic Socialism
The Department of Defense’s National Defense University (NDU), the premier education institution for military and defense civilian leaders, is planning to host a lecture on how Western countries should adopt socialism in response to the challenge from China.

The lecture, which is scheduled to take place online February 16, is titled, “Responding to China: The Case For Global Justice and Democratic Socialism,” and will be given by French economist Thomas Piketty, who is the author of a 2021 book titled Time for Socialism.

A summary of the event, posted on the university’s website, reads:

Western countries are still struggling to define their attitude towards the Beijing regime. In this talk on February 22, 2022, Thomas Piketty will argue that the right answer lies in ending Western arrogance and promoting a new emancipatory and egalitarian horizon on a global scale, a new form of democratic and participatory, ecological and post-colonial socialism. If they stick to their usual lecturing posture and a dated hyper-capitalist model, Western countries may find it extremely difficult to meet the Chinese challenge.​
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This is soooo easy peasy....they are the ones leading the "effort" to be like the CCP. Jealousy of the growth and control that the CCP has amassed. This is your American leadership.
Funny enough, I bet they themselves are subservient to the CCP through American corporate dollars.
 
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NCFisher said:
This: Pentagon Hosting Lecture on the Case for Democratic Socialism
The Department of Defense’s National Defense University (NDU), the premier education institution for military and defense civilian leaders, is planning to host a lecture on how Western countries should adopt socialism in response to the challenge from China.

The lecture, which is scheduled to take place online February 16, is titled, “Responding to China: The Case For Global Justice and Democratic Socialism,” and will be given by French economist Thomas Piketty, who is the author of a 2021 book titled Time for Socialism.

A summary of the event, posted on the university’s website, reads:

Western countries are still struggling to define their attitude towards the Beijing regime. In this talk on February 22, 2022, Thomas Piketty will argue that the right answer lies in ending Western arrogance and promoting a new emancipatory and egalitarian horizon on a global scale, a new form of democratic and participatory, ecological and post-colonial socialism. If they stick to their usual lecturing posture and a dated hyper-capitalist model, Western countries may find it extremely difficult to meet the Chinese challenge.​
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This is why the whole of the .gov needs a 50% budget cut…or more.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Senators: CIA has secret program that collects American data



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I can't agree with what people like Snowden and some others have done on the basis that what they divulge can be irresponsible and dangerous, but I also can't agree with a government that slides into big brother totalitarianism because nobody is looking. It seems we need some kind of incorruptible civil oversight, but that's obviously not possible with such a huge federal government. Money and power absolutely corrupt - the more people have, the more they want, and they will do anything to keep it. You won't find more of that than in intelligence agencies that cannot be monitored from the outside, and congress has abdicated and failed. Worse is that members of congress are basically incompetent at anything but keeping themselves there and make millions through corruption - they more money they approve for stuff like the NSA, the more opportunity to profit from bribes.
 
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