How the NSA Tracks Mobile Phone Data
Last week the Washington Post reported on how the NSA tracks mobile phones worldwide, and this week they followed up with source documents and more detail.
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani are doing some fantastic reporting on the Snowden NSA documents. I hope to be able to do the same again, once Pierre Omidyar’s media venture gets up and running.
3.14 • December 12, 2013 3:50 PM
Bruce:
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani are doing some fantastic reporting on the Snowden NSA documents.
Yes I think so too but why are parts of the source documents covered in this article you linked to:
New documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10/new-documents-show-how-the-nsa-infers-relationships-based-on-mobile-location-data/
I mean I would think that the original document that came through Snowden would not have had any redactions (because all his docos came from NSA through inofficial channels).
This brings to mind the statement made recently by the physicist Stanton Friedman to a question about whether there is a US government cover-up on UFOs. Friedman said that in those cases where you get a document pertaining to aliens from the government, most of the words on it have been covered with a marker. Only a handful of the words can be read. And so even if there are no “real” aliens there is at least a cover-up.
Covering and concealing just leads to more questions.