If you’ve been reading the skewspapers or watching eyewitless news on the television, you’ve been hearing quite a bit about the major telecommunications carriers like Verizon cooperating with the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Within the last few days, you’ve also heard that major technology and Web companies have also been sharing information with the NSA in a program named PRISM.
To get a narrow glimpse at what the NSA can glean from internet transactions, read one of its own unclassified publications titled Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research. Since it’s only 650 pages, you should be able to easily finish it in one night.
There’s more information revealed by U.K.’s The Guardian today. It’s interesting that The Guardian has picked up the slack left by the U.S. skewsmedia’s abandonment of the First Amendment. Of course, it could be that AG Holder’s threat to prosecute James Rosen might dampen their willingness to publish information that doesn’t come from Administration press releases. Sounds a lot like the Coeur d’Alene Press, doesn’t it?
Comment by Bill — June 8, 2013 @ 4:32 pm