New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach
Found on Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, 21 August 2013
The system has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic in the hunt for foreign intelligence, including a wide array of communications by foreigners and Americans. In some cases, it retains the written content of emails sent between citizens within the U.S. and also filters domestic phone calls made with Internet technology, these people say.
Details of these surveillance programs were gathered from interviews with current and former intelligence and government officials and people from companies that help build or operate the systems, or provide data. Most have direct knowledge of the work.
You cannot trust a single word the officials say. Imagine the worst you can, and the thruth will be even worse. It's time to invalidate all the secret gag orders so everybody can talk about what's happening and reveal the real thruth. In fact, if all companies would collectively ignore the gag orders there wouldn't be really anything the government could do. Except to shut down every company in the US.