'Frontline' Doc Explores How Sept. 11 Created Today's NSA - Tonight

[mitty14u2]

When stories began to emerge about the U.S. government's massive surveillance of Americans' phone and Internet communications, it was no surprise to a group of analysts who had left the National Security Agency soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. Those analysts, who'd worked on systems to detect terrorist threats, left in part because they saw the NSA embarking on a surveillance program they regarded as unconstitutional and unnecessary.

Two of those analysts, Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe, are interviewed in a Frontline documentary called United States of Secrets, which airs Tuesday night.

Binney was a cryptomathematician who worked as technical director of the NSA's World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group.

Wiebe was a senior analyst who was awarded the NSA's Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the agency's second-highest honor.

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/12/311853206/frontline-doc-explores-how-sept-11-created-todays-nsa

[corkhead]

1. I have lost a lot of faith and confidence in PBS since the David Koch bought them

but I will make a point to watch this.

[mitty14u2]

2. New Greenwald Book Claims the NSA Tampered with U.S.-Made Internet Routers

In Glenn Greenwald's new book, No Place to Hide, he addresses the National Security Agency's need to know it all. Greenwald was one of three recipients of the top-secret information Edward Snowden chose to leak. He used some of Snowden's findings to address that the NSA is truly trying to know it all, regardless of the cost.

One of the more curious points in his book is the NSA's role in intercepting communication through hardware technology. In an excerpt from his new book, published in The Guardian, Greenwald believes that the NSA has been "covertly implanting interception tools in U.S. servers heading overseas," particularly to China. The U.S. has issued similar warnings in the past about using routers and other Internet providing devices made in China, saying "they are built with backdoor surveillance functionality that gives the Chinese government the ability to spy on anyone using them."

However, in Greenwald's research he came across NSA documents showing that the United States was doing this to China, at the same time they were accusing the Chinese. A report from June 2010 was particularly obvious in the NSA's motive. The report came from the head of the Access and Target Development Department, and confirmed "The NSA routinely receives – or intercepts – routers, servers and other computer network devices being exported from the US before they are delivered to the international customers."

http://www.thewire.com/technology/2014/05/the-nsa-tampered-with-us-made-internet-routers/370775/

[sakabatou]

3. If only I was at home to watch it

[SacoMaine61]

4. Watched Part 1 of this last night - it was excellent! Please watch.

Did a great job of showing how Bush was puppet to master Cheney. I was totally creeped out by the masterminds of NSA.