"A new exposé in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National
Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the
country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance
program codenamed "Stellar Wind." We speak with investigative reporter
James Bamford, who says the NSA has established listening posts
throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email
messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or
overseas. The Utah spy center will contain near-bottomless databases
to store all forms of communication collected by the agency. This
includes the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls and
Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails —
parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases and other
digital "pocket litter." "The NSA has constantly denied that they’re
doing things, and then it turns out they are doing these things,"
Bamford says in response to NSA Director General Keith Alexander’s
denial yesterday that U.S. citizens’ phone calls and emails are being
intercepted. "A few years ago, President Bush said before camera that
the United States is not eavesdropping on anybody without a warrant,
and then it turns out that we had this exposure to all the warrantless
eavesdropping in the New York Times article. And so, you have this
constant denial and parsing of words."
Watch the complete interview at
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/2...as_largest_and
Good stuff, this is what REAL not FAUX journalism is.