Gracias, Paul!
Money comes first, security down in the list of those pretending to make us
safe! The more we know is like going down in Dante's lower inferno. Is this
what Americans wish for themselves and the coming generations?
Abrazo
Azril
______

More good news about our national security (agency).

Paul

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*From: *"'Madavis95' via PsySR Militarism Action Group" <
psysr-militarism-action@...>
*Subject: **[psysr-militarism-action] Re: [PsySR-humanrights] NSA's use of
'traffic shaping' allows unrestrained spying on Americans | ZDNet*
*Date: *June 22, 2017 at 11:42:42 AM EST
*To: *psysr-humanrights@...
*Cc: *ssoldz@...
*Reply-To: *Madavis95 <madavis95@...>

In addition, I strongly recommend the 2015 documentary, "A Good American"
which is streaming now and covers the story of the NSA experts who
internally protested development and operation of the massive US
surveillance by the NSA and whose persecution (FBI raids, litigation,
banishment, threats) was a cautionary tale for Snowden.  A shocking
revelation in this film (which apparently had to be made in Europe):  in
the 90's one of these NSA experts had developed a workable method for
assessing the billions of bits of data (called "Thin Thread") and built
into it a screening capacity that protected people in the US.  But it was
far, far less expensive than the one the NSA adopted which gave out very,
very lucrative contracts until it was finally abandoned as complete
rubbish.  The higher ups in the NSA stopped the small team of experts from
working on and applying Thin Thread, but one of them was still in the NSA
when 9/11 happened.  He went into the office the next day, turned on Thin
Thread and gave it the task of looking for terrorists.  In 37 hours it
turned up the 9/11 highjackers AND evidence of other planes and teams that
were part of the plan, but that didn't get highjacked when planes were
grounded.   Apparently when the banished experts set up their own company
and tried to get a US protected version of Thin Thread to other agencies in
the US, this was stopped by the NSA.  Meanwhile the heads of NSA supporting
the expensive program that failed to catch the 9/11 high jackers did just
fine and got promotions.    My summary of this may be faulty, but the
documentary itself and the interviews are very good and very disturbing.
As if we needed more disturbing news...

Martha


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Soldz <ssoldz@...>
To: psysr-humanrights <psysr-humanrights@...>
Cc: Stephen Soldz <ssoldz@...>
Sent: Thu, Jun 22, 2017 11:46 am
Subject: [PsySR-humanrights] NSA's use of 'traffic shaping' allows
unrestrained spying on Americans | ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/article/legal-loopholes-unrestrained-
nsa-surveillance-on-americans/?loc=newsletter_featured_
related_listing&ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=27218241237637189215887915825054
“A new analysis of documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden details
a highly-classified technique that allows the National Security Agency to
"deliberately divert" US internet traffic, normally safeguarded by
constitutional protections, overseas in order to conduct unrestrained data
collection on Americans.
According to the new analysis
<https://tcf.org/content/report/surveillance-without-borders-the-traffic-shaping-loophole-and-why-it-matters/>,
the NSA has clandestine means of "diverting portions of the river of
internet traffic that travels on global communications cables," which
allows it to bypass protections put into place by Congress to prevent
domestic surveillance on Americans.”

Stephen Soldz
Director, Social Justice and Human Rights Program
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
2016-2017 Fellow-in-Residence, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard
University
ssoldz@...


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