NSA Whistleblower: Wiretaps Were Combined with Credit Card Records of U.S. Citizens

[L. Coyote]

NSA Whistleblower: Wiretaps Were Combined with Credit Card Records of U.S. Citizens
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/nsa-whistlebl-1.html

VIDEO

NSA whistleblower Russell Tice was back on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC program Thursday evening to expand on his Wednesday revelations that the National Security Agency spied on individual U.S. journalists, entire U.S. news agencies as well as "tens of thousands" of other Americans.

Tice said on Wednesday that the NSA had vacuumed in all domestic communications of Americans, including, faxes, phone calls and network traffic.

Today Tice said that the spy agency also combined information from phone wiretaps with data that was mined from credit card and other financial records. He said information of tens of thousands of U.S. citizens is now in digital databases warehoused at the NSA.

"This could sit there for ten years and then potentially it marries up with something else and ten years from now they get put on a no-fly list and they, of course, won't have a clue why," Tice said.

In most cases, the person would have no discernible link to terrorist organizations that would justify the initial data mining or their inclusion in the database.

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[distantearlywarning]

1. Here's what the NSA learned about me:

"Honey, could you pick up milk at the store today?"

And I eat a lot of sushi.

[ThomWV]

5. You don't seem to have much appreciation for what can be learned about you

For instance that you post here regularly says something all in itself and that special 'something' might be just what the next tyrant to take office wants to remove from society.

[IdaBriggs]

6. They learned more about me and the other activists

while we were investigating election fraud during 2004. Apparently we weren't high ranking enough to warrant the 'good equipment' -- we could hear the clicks and stuff. Ah, good times! (That last bit was sarcasm.)

[peacetalksforall]

15. It is really amazing to hear how trite you think this is.

[distantearlywarning]

17. I'm making fun of them, not this issue.

It's amazing how many people at DU no longer have a working sense of humor. :hi:

[peacetalksforall]

19. Sorry. Give us a clue.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Freaking Republicon Fascist Pharisees -

The Repubs really do live in a world of fear, and hate for all that America stands for.

[FreakinDJ]

3. No wonder the Bush admin was a step ahead of us for 8 yrs

No matter what the scandle was for the last 8 years they were always able to wiggle their way out with the correct amount of spin at just the right time.

It had to be they were spying on the journalist - the people who would expose them and their corruption.

This had nothing to do with domestic terrorism and every thing to do with propaganda so why would FISA laws or any thing other constitutionally legal act protect them. This needs to be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted.

Again - THIS IS ABOUT A CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION CONTROLLING THE PUBLIC THROUGH PROPAGANDA AND DISINFORMATION

[L. Coyote]

7. Eliot Spitzer was going to blow the whistle on Wall St. Marc Dann on election fraud in OH, .....

etc.!

[malaise]

13. Ding ding

Spitzer should not have resigned. Neither Vitter nor Craig resigned.

[BeFree]

12. heh

Of course they intercepted all the journalists. Why not? That's good info to have.

And the politicians, too.

Anybody and everybody they wanted to know anything about was 'listened' to.

We gave them an inch and they took a mile. No one should be surprised.

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Could all the NSA spying have had something to do with a the fricking credit card breaches

in the past few years?

Millions of people have had their identities threatened or stolen because of systems that, supposedly secure, have been compromised.

I know there are hacks out there, but did the NSA weaken the systems?
Did the companies give over information, allow NSA access to their customer secure systems, and create weaknesses to those systems? (all in the name of the Patriot (American Bullying) Act, of course....)

[glitch]

9. That wouldn't surprise me one bit "did the NSA weaken the systems?" nt

[peacetalksforall]

16. Every time I heard about a laptop being stolen that held citizen information, I told myself - it's

on its way to the Poindexter Depository and Fishing Contest.

[Whoa_Nelly]

18. Choose your destination

[Gman]

8. Nixxon lives

[MadHound]

10. Not just credit cards

But I imagine that they got ahold of all those records from those discount cards and such many businesses adapted in the early '00's.

One more reason that I don't have a CC or discount cards, my purchases are pretty mundane, but they're mine and I don't want anybody, either in a corporation or government, keeping track of them.

Sadly, from early indications, I doubt that the Obama administration is going to do anything to dismantle the National Security State, after all, the Dems have been chomping at the bit to use all these nifty new Executive Branch powers for their own purposes.

[hootinholler]

14. Don't have to imagine...

They have it, I'll bet my ass on it.

-Hoot

[xiamiam]

11. Does calling the white house and demanding the president resign get you on the list?

because I did that more than once...
:spank: