Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email

mspohr writes with this excerpt from Democracy Now!: "National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney reveals he believes domestic surveillance has become more expansive under President Obama than President George W. Bush. He estimates the NSA has assembled 20 trillion 'transactions' — phone calls, emails and other forms of data — from Americans. This likely includes copies of almost all of the emails sent and received from most people living in the United States. Binney talks about Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and challenges NSA Director Keith Alexander's assertion that the NSA is not intercepting information about U.S. citizens." The parts about National Security Letters in particular are chilling, even though the issue is not new.

anyone surprised?

[stoolpigeon]

if someone is - that would be shocking.

i hope...

[ks9208661]

... they got all the spam as well.

Good...

[CrazyDuke]

Then they should have all those missing White House emails. ...oh, wait...

Fort Meade

[Spy Handler]

has 18 acres of mainframe computers underground. You're talking to your wife on the phone and you use the word "bomb", "president", "Allah", any of a hundred keywords, the computer recognizes it, automatically records it, red-flags it for analysis. That was 20 years ago.

Just BCC [e-mail] on all emails

[trout007]

Save the taxpayers' money.

Re:anyone surprised?

[JamesTRexx]

they've got every email message that entered or exited the country

Excellent. I lost an email I sent. I'll just give them a call and have them retreive it.
Very handy, government backed backup solution...

Submittal of FOIA request

[Anonymous Coward]

The following is a formal FOIA request.

My current employer sent me an email a few years ago detailing the terms of my employment. This would have been about two weeks before my hire date.
I've lost the email, and frankly get along well with the guy so it doesn't matter all that much.

Since you've spent my money to get all this stuff on some big honkin' server farm (geez, I'd sure like a new HDD; I damned sure paid for a few for you!), I'd like you to retrieve a copy of it.

Also, can you please put all my stuff on this "cloud" thingy?
Just give me access to email sent to or from me; also, please all the phone calls etc.
Since you've got security procedures in place to keep bad guys from seeing my stuff, this will be easy, too.

The above is sufficient for you to locate the email.
Please send it and my id/pw for access to the data I've already paid you to collect to my current work or home email address, which you already have.

Failure to comply with this FOIA request in a timely manner will be grounds for legal action.

Thank you

(you know who I am)