http://www.lowfatbrains.com/2006/05/11/nsa-eavesdropping/ kills 99.9% of dumb bacteria Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:04:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.lowfatbrains.com/2006/05/11/nsa-eavesdropping/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Transparent Grid » Blog Archive » The NSA Story Was Always There Thu, 11 May 2006 21:14:15 +0000 http://www.lowfatbrains.com/2006/05/11/nsa-eavesdropping/#comment-10 [...] Or so says the blog Lowfatbrains, and the argument is pretty convincing: Another great example is the â??revelationâ? from USA Today that the NSA is compiling a massive database of Americansâ?? phone calls, â??secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouthâ?. I say â??revelationâ? in inverted commas because itâ??s not as if we should really be surprised. We know, ever since the Total Information Awareness scheme was dreamed up shortly after 9/11, that the TIA never actually died when it was shut down in 2003. According to the Christian Science Monitor it was merely transformed and funded under a different name. Where did it go exactly? To the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) at NSA headquarters. [...] [...] Or so says the blog Lowfatbrains, and the argument is pretty convincing: Another great example is the â??revelationâ? from USA Today that the NSA is compiling a massive database of Americansâ?? phone calls, â??secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouthâ?. I say â??revelationâ? in inverted commas because itâ??s not as if we should really be surprised. We know, ever since the Total Information Awareness scheme was dreamed up shortly after 9/11, that the TIA never actually died when it was shut down in 2003. According to the Christian Science Monitor it was merely transformed and funded under a different name. Where did it go exactly? To the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) at NSA headquarters. [...]

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