NSA will destroy millions of American calling records 'as soon as possible'

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

The Obama administration has decided that the National Security Agency will soon stop examining – and will ultimately destroy – millions of American calling records it collected under a controversial program revealed by former agency contractor Edward Snowden.

When Congress passed a law in June ending the NSA’s bulk collection of American calling records after a six-month transition, officials said they were not sure whether they would continue to make use of the records that had already been collected, which generally go back five years.

Typically, intelligence agencies are extremely reluctant to part with data they consider lawfully obtained. The program began shortly after the September 2001 terrorist attacks, but most of the records are purged every five years.

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That still left the question of what to do about the records already in the database. On Monday, the director of national intelligence said in a statement those records would no longer be examined in terrorism investigations after 29 November, and would be destroyed as soon as possible.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/27/nsa-destroy-american-calling-records

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Associated Press in Washington
Monday 27 July 2015 22.53 BST

[Dont call me Shirley]

1. PDQ NSA!

[Alkene]

2. And you know, you can trust them.

[Purveyor]

3. Yeah...right!

[JDPriestly]

4. Sounds good. I wonder how much of the promise will be kept? I'm very skeptical about

the intentions of the NSA. Obama is OK on this, most likely. But the NSA?????

Will they really do what Obama says they are to do?

Don't hold your breath.

Note the vast number of parking spaces outside that building or picture of a proposed building.

That many people involved and living out in nowhere-land and they thought they could keep the project a secret?

And those guys are in charge of our "intelligence" bureau?

Oh, dear. We are in worse trouble than I ever thought.

[NV Whino]

5. Not sure, but I think that is CIA at Langley

[Ford_Prefect]

6. That's the NSA main Campus at Fort Meade, MD. CIA Langley is in VA and looks like this:

And I doubt they destroyed anything. Most likely they will simply rename the project results (records) and assign them to another heading where they can troll through any time.

They no doubt plan to do the same with the program. In the past they have simply found a way to bureaucratically bury, rename or off-shore programs they did not want to lose, as they did with the off-shore torture sites. The proof would be in the power use records for the storage sites.

[NV Whino]

7. Ah, thanks. That looked like the Langley sprawl.

[uhnope]

8. Thanks goes to Obama and his leadership on this issue

He has been open and forthright in leading the public debate about this, and now the slow-turning wheels are responding rather well.

[Psephos]

13. uhhh - nope n/t

[BeanMusical]

18. Lol! Yeah, right.

[cstanleytech]

9. Translation just as soon as they make backup copies and camouflage the new

facilities to hide them from the public.

[snot]

11. Rec'd for the skeptical comments.

[OnyxCollie]

12. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[marble falls]

14. I hope this is as good as news as it should be.

[passiveporcupine]

15. I bet they are dumping all of mine

if they collected any. Mine are so F'ing boring.

[Beauregard]

16. As Charlie Manson said when they asked him if he was really getting married--

"That's just for public consumption."

[Calista241]

17. Wonder what they'll do with that giant datacenter they built. n/t

[BeanMusical]

19. That rogue organization will do as they please.

They don't give a damn about what a President or Congress tell them to do.

[trillion]

20. Crumb! I was hoping I was boring them to death. What are they going to do with my internet data?

[Thor_MN]

21. Don't suppose they could do something useful, like prosecuting telemarketers with that data?

I don't know, maybe look for calling patterns, like they said they were using it for? Except that needing a powerful microscope to tease out brief, scattered connections, Mr. fucking Magoo could see the telemarketers?

[Sunlei]

22. where can we Americans request our personal files? I'd like to see what the Gov. has collected AND

my Mom and Dad both passed away not to long ago.

If our government has saved some of the wonderful phone calls, I had with them, I want those recordings. I paid for those records through my taxes.

[Javaman]

23. any day now...any day...nt