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In reply to the discussion: The Snowdon Controversy on DU [View all]HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Compare to CIA's annual budget of $56 billion. NSA's budget has approximately doubled since Obama took office.
The construction cost of the new Utah facility has been reported as $2 billion...I expect its much higher, but we'll probably never be told the actual cost. There have been other facilities constructed also, under Bush and Obama, to intercept communications on fiber-optics cables and the like. Probably similar to intercept sat-coms.
Also, it should be mentioned the Utah facility has storage capacity of over a yottabyte, that is a huge number, thousands-fold larger than needed to simply store meta-data....leading to the obvious conclusion its to store content.
Taking into account the vast spending, the secrecy, the lying, the re-defining of words....its pretty obvious the Obama Admin is on a headlong rush to build a vast security state. Yes we scan.