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CBS Baltimore / WJZ
February 18, 2018
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The driver of an SUV that was shot at by police outside the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade after ramming a security barrier is reportedly an unlicensed teen who was following GPS directions when he made a wrong turn, panicked and hit the gas. Passenger JavonteÃâà...
The Intercept
January 19, 2018
It wasn't until 1985 that the FBI, thanks to intelligence provided by a Russian defector, was able to establish the caller as Ronald Pelton, a former analyst at the National Security Agency. The next year, Pelton was convicted of espionage. Today, FBI and NSA agents would have identified Pelton withinÃâà...
Sputnik International
January 11, 2018
The US House of Representatives voted on Thursday to extend the National Security Agency's (NSA) warrantless surveillance program for another six ... The main program they do that with is the Fairview upstream collection system from AT&T: it's got about 80-110 fiber line points inside the United States.
CBS Baltimore / WJZ
December 1, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former National Security Agency employee pleaded guilty Friday to keeping top secret U.S. defense material at his home — the latest in a series of breaches involving workers at the nation's largest spy shop. Nghia Hoang Pho, 67, of Ellicott City, Maryland, pleaded guilty to willfulÃâà...
Gizmodo
March 7, 2017
Republicans have long supported the sweeping surveillance capabilities of the NSA and have insisted they're vitally important to national security. But with their man Trump caught up in multiple scandals that may involve intelligence services targeting his communications, privacy is suddenly a top priority.
U.S. News & World Report
March 7, 2017
NSA Whistleblower Backs Trump Up on Wiretap Claims ... His phone calls, everything he did electronically, was being monitored," Bill Binney, a 36-year veteran of the National Security Agency who resigned in ... Those are conversations that are picked up by the FAIRVIEW program, primarily, by NSA.".
The Intercept
November 17, 2016
But 33 Thomas Street is different: An investigation by The Intercept indicates that the skyscraper is more than a mere nerve center for long-distance phone calls. It also appears to be one of the most important National Security Agency surveillance sites on U.S. soil — a covert monitoring hub that is used toÃâà...
New York Times
August 15, 2015
The National Security Agency's ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long .... That year, one slide presentation shows, the N.S.A. spent $188.9 million on the Fairview program, twice the amount spent on Stormbrew, itsÃâà...
ComputerWeekly.com
June 30, 2014
Bill Binney believes that 9/11 was preventable. A month after it happened, he resigned in protest from the US National Security Agency (NSA). Binney was part of an elite NSA team which designed and built an intelligence-gathering system to target and collect data on terrorism threats. He belongs to an intimate group ofÃâà...
Gizmodo
July 12, 2013
At this point in time, everyone is properly upset about the National Security Agency's PRISM program and the seemingly endless surveillance it enabled. ... Along with a program called BLARNEY and a couple other unnamed “upstream” data collection programs, FAIRVIEW is how the NSA gains access toÃâà...
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