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To: RetiredNow who wrote (135054)	7/26/2013 5:41:17 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

"How about you call Pelosi and ask her why she supported continued funding for the NSA surveillance" It's a boon to her district. The Unknown Patriot Who Exposed the Government's Verizon Spy Program Room 641A is located in the SBC Communications building at 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco, three floors of which were occupied by AT&T before SBC purchased AT&T. [1] The room was referred to in internal AT&T documents as the SG3 [Study Group 3] Secure Room. It is fed by fiber optic lines from beam splitters installed in fiber optic trunks carrying Internet backbone traffic [3] and, as analyzed by J. Scott Marcus, a former CTO for GTE and a former adviser to the FCC, has access to all Internet traffic that passes through the building, and therefore "the capability to enable surveillance and analysis of internet content on a massive scale, including both overseas and purely domestic traffic." [4] Former director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group, William Binney, has estimated that 10 to 20 such facilities have been installed throughout the United States. [2] The room measures about 24 by 48 feet (7.3 by 15 m) and contains several racks of equipment, including a Narus STA 6400, a device designed to intercept and analyze Internet communications at very high speeds. [1] The very existence of the room was revealed by a former AT&T technician, Mark Klein, and was the subject of a 2006 class action lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T. [5] Klein claims he was told that similar black rooms are operated at other facilities around the country. Room 641A and the controversies surrounding it were subjects of an episode of Frontline, the current affairs documentary program on PBS. It was originally broadcast on May 15, 2007. It was also featured on PBS's NOW on March 14, 2008. The room was also covered in the PBS Nova episode "The Spy Factory". en.wikipedia.org

To: RetiredNow who wrote (135054)	7/26/2013 6:19:43 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

the subject was corporate welfare and raising the minimum wage so taxpayers don't have to subsidize Walmart billionaires... your response re Pelosi and the NSA has nothing to do with what i posted, but like a Alex Jones conspiracy freak you want to harp on the NSA.... in the vast scheme of things the NSA "scandal" is another libertarian snipe hunt... Why are you so worried about the NSA?... is it because they have your ph records where you order raw chicken breasts for $9 lb from Donald Trump?