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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/nsa-whistleblower-klein/?cid=co9260244NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower
The collection program, which lasted from 2001 to 2011, involved email metadata the enveloped information for email that reveals the senders address and recipient, as well as IP addresses and websites visited, the Guardian newspaper reported today.
Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, revealed in 2006 that his job duties included connecting internet circuits to a splitting cabinet that led to a secret room in AT&Ts San Francisco office. During the course of that work, he learned from a co-worker that similar cabins were being installed in other cities, including Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego, he said.
The split circuits included traffic from peering links connecting to other internet backbone providers, meaning that AT&T was also diverting traffic routed from its network to or from other domestic and international providers, Klein said.
Latest Glenn Greenwald Scoop Vindicates One Of The Original NSA Whistleblowers
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-whistleblower-william-binney-was-right-2013-6#ixzz2XSbM53pC
Binney claims that the NSA took one of the programs he built, known as ThinThread, and started using the program and members of his team to spy on virtually every U.S. citizen under the code-name Stellar Wind.
Thanks to NSA whistleblower/leaker Edward Snowden, documents detailing the top-secret surveillance program have now been published for the first time.
And they corroborate what Binney has said for years.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)think
(11,641 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Yes, I posted this here...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023114411
You will enjoy the predictable responses.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)because it gets into conflicting territory. This is disturbing...but, hard to not feel that there's more there than we know and that we don't wan't to Jump On This...too soon.
What did YOU think of it Nadin...? But...if you are like me...you'd probably want to see how it plays out a bit before commenting.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)to allied companies and countries in the Gulf region.
We have known somebody leaked the news for a few years, not who.
So it raises way too many questions... it is in parallel to all this. The actual leak is actually old news, the leaker is very surprising... a four star? you mean brass? Now that is heavy.
And one who was part of the program to begin with.
The cyber attack was essentially a cyber pearl harbor, the kind that Keith Alexander fears in the US... of course hard to claim victim status when you opened fire first.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)If you have something that counters that fact, I would like to see it.
spooky3
(34,510 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)just the Vice Chairman of the Joints Chiefs... nobody.
This will be one to watch.
Now time to write that immigration story.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)it's what scares the shit out of those supporting our current policies.
BehindTheCurtain76
(112 posts)Russ Tice WILL BE VINDICATED....Obama and many federal judges and Congressional members are being blackmailed by NSA and the military...in my opinion.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I got reason to believe that my large block of salt on that story went down to a single grain.
railsback
(1,881 posts)From Excel 2000 to Excel 2010!
KoKo
(84,711 posts)seriously except for a "LOL" for your snark.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)You should read the exchange of about 5 messages for a good laugh.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3108920
bvar22
(39,909 posts)...starting at Post#14.
The guy is a bad joke.
He's got No Game at all.
Even the kindergarten attempts at snark are an embarrassing fail.
My wife later read this segment,
and was mad at me for "Beating Up on a child."
In a way, she is right.
Some people are just better suited for the Beavis & Butthead ChatRoom at AOL.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)the Lash Out Phase.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)burnodo
(2,017 posts)TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)uponit7771
(90,370 posts)...say at face value no matter WHO is in office now because they'll do crap like Greenwald did with Prism; not get the technology intentions correct and report them at their worst for the sake of hating on whatever admin
The credibilty of whistlblower reporters has gone to crap because of greenwald
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Even though his disclosures have been verified from other sources...
The ratfuckers here on DU are completely shameless.
Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)out now. I hope more surfaces to add more layers of evidence because there are still some in the American public that haven't decided which side of this issue they should be on.
auntsue
(277 posts)When it came out I told my sister............ I'll bet this is all true. I think I was right !!!
nahant
(93 posts)I knew as soon as I heard about the "Splitters" that all internet traffic was being scooped up by the NSA.. but of course they denied denied any such thing.. This shit has to be stopped!1
Ohy yeah I worked in networks systems Admin for 25 yearso I do know exactly what was being done to all of our electronic communications.. Guess the USPS is still the best way to send a private message..
NealK
(1,890 posts)reusrename
(1,716 posts)Baloney or old news, which is it again?