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?itok=rAK_9n9VNSA Global Spy Stations Revealed: 'Sniff It All, Collect It All, Know It All, Process It All, Exploit It All'
Latest documents leaked to journalists by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden offer new insight into mysterious 'domes of Waihopai' and the global spy network of which they represent only a part
Regarding this global network of surveillance stations, the Sunday Star-Times reports:
Altogether, these bases can snoop on the entire world, friend as well as foe.
The leaked documents do not talk about "Waihopai". They use the station's secret Five Eyes code name Ironsand ("IS" . It's not clear why Waihopai is Ironsand.
An NSA map shows it is one of a global network of oddly-named satellite interception stations. These stations are the eyes of the Five Eyes alliance.
Australia has a base near Geraldton, a small port city on the west coast of Australia. Its codename is Stellar.
The British station in Oman has the codename Snick. Britain's Kenya base is known as Scapel. Britain also spies on satellites from Carboy, a station in Cornwall, and from a base in Cyprus called Sounder.
The American equivalents of Waihopai are Jackknife in Washington State on the Pacific coast, Timberline in West Virginia and Coraline in Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. The biggest of these is the Moonpenny base in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/67082905/snowden-files-inside-waihopais-domes
The leaked documents do not talk about "Waihopai". They use the station's secret Five Eyes code name Ironsand ("IS" . It's not clear why Waihopai is Ironsand.
An NSA map shows it is one of a global network of oddly-named satellite interception stations. These stations are the eyes of the Five Eyes alliance.
Australia has a base near Geraldton, a small port city on the west coast of Australia. Its codename is Stellar.
The British station in Oman has the codename Snick. Britain's Kenya base is known as Scapel. Britain also spies on satellites from Carboy, a station in Cornwall, and from a base in Cyprus called Sounder.
The American equivalents of Waihopai are Jackknife in Washington State on the Pacific coast, Timberline in West Virginia and Coraline in Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. The biggest of these is the Moonpenny base in Harrogate, Yorkshire.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/67082905/snowden-files-inside-waihopais-domes
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/07/nsa-global-spy-stations-revealed-sniff-it-all-collect-it-all-know-it-all-process-it
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NSA Global Spy Stations: 'Sniff It All, Collect It All, Know It All, Process It All, Exploit it all' (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2015
OP
Yakima is not on "the pacific coast" in washington state. It's east of the cascades, in the middle
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#3
Of course the authoritarian response will be, "FIND THE LEAKER AND IMPRISON THEM FOR LIFE."
rhett o rick
Mar 2015
#4
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)1. Huge K&R. We are ruled by criminals.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)2. If you have nothing to hide...
... you have nothing to fear. ... blah, blah, blah or something...
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)3. Yakima is not on "the pacific coast" in washington state. It's east of the cascades, in the middle
of the state, in a semi-desert for chrissake.
Near the Hanford nuclear res, which is probably why it's where it is.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)4. Of course the authoritarian response will be, "FIND THE LEAKER AND IMPRISON THEM FOR LIFE."
Authoritarian denial.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)5. thank you, Edward Snowden. nt
johnnyreb
(915 posts)6. I'm just gonna wish it away in the cornfield.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)7. Thank You Snowden - Humanity Is Indebted
eom
snot
(10,540 posts)8. K&R'd & Bookmarked.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)9. "Moonpenny"? is it supposed to be Monneypenny?
elias49
(4,259 posts)10. We've yet to hear from the "that's old news" crowd.
It's snowing on their parade.