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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 11:01 AM Jun 2014

NSA Tracks All Emails, Texts, Phone Calls in Iraq

BY LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI

MAR 31, 2014


In Iraq, the NSA is able to sweep up all emails, text messages and phone location signals in real time. This revelation doesn't come from documents leaked by Edward Snowden, but from the spy agency's own former second-in-command.

Former NSA deputy director John Inglis revealed these capabilities in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. Before outgoing NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander arrived, Inglis said, the agency was only able to intercept "half of enemy signals" in Iraq.


This seems to be the first time such capabilities have ever been revealed, even though the Washington Post reported in July that Alexander had major aspirations for Iraq in 2005. The newspaper wrote that Alexander "wanted everything: Every Iraqi text message, phone call and e-mail that could be vacuumed up by the agency’s powerful computers."

Inglis's words seem to confirm Alexander actually got what he wanted.


http://mashable.com/2014/03/31/nsa-iraq/




Hell of a Job brownie.

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NSA Tracks All Emails, Texts, Phone Calls in Iraq (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Jun 2014 OP
And they still missed the current incursion! Worthless. grahamhgreen Jun 2014 #1
worse than worthless grasswire Jun 2014 #2
One could guess. Savannahmann Jun 2014 #3
 

Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)
3. One could guess.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 01:03 PM
Jun 2014

I personally guess that the NSA was too busy reading teenagers sexts to one another and checking out webcams that were supposedly off to watch the little girls getting undressed in their bedrooms to bother tracking a fucking army.

Fire the bunch of them, shut it all down.

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