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Ex-NSA Chief: 'We Kill People Based on Metadata'

May 12, 2014 12:59pm

The U.S. government kill[s] people based on metadata, but it doesnt do that with the trove of information collected on American communications, according to former head of the National Security Agency Gen. Michael Hayden.

Hayden made the remark after saying he agreed with the idea that metadata the information collected by the NSA about phone calls and other communications that does not include content can tell the government everything about anyone its targeting for surveillance, often making the actual content of the communication unnecessary.

[That] description is absolutely correct. We kill people based on metadata. But thats not what we do with this metadata, said Hayden, apparently referring to domestic metadata collection. Its really important to understand the program in its entirety. Not the potentiality of the program, but how the program is actually conducted.

So NSA gets phone records, gets them from the telephone company, been getting them since October of 2001 from one authority or another, puts them in a lockbox and under very strict limitations can access the lockbox, Hayden said and then described a hypothetical situation in which a number connected to a terrorist could be run against the metadata already collected to help investigators find additional leads in the name of national security.

What it cannot do are all those things that allows someone to create your social network, your social interactions, your patterns of behavior. One could make the argument that could be useful, [or] that could be illegal, but its not done, he said. In this debate, its important to distinguish what might be done with what is being done.

Hayden, who served as NSA head from 1999 to 2005 followed by a stint running the CIA from 2006 to 2009, made the remarks early last month while discussing the NSAs mass domestic and foreign surveillance programs at Johns Hopkins Universitys Foreign Affairs Symposium.

David Cole, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center who was Haydens foil in the discussion, this weekend wrote in the New York Review of Books that Haydens remarks were evidence that arguments from government officials that there is little threat to privacy from metadata collection is misleading. In the April discussion, Cole noted President Barack Obamas remarks to reporters last June, as media reports based on leaks by from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden were just beginning, in which he said, Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

They are not looking at peoples names, theyre not looking at content, Obama said then. But by sifting through this so-called metadata, they may identify potential leads with respect to folks who might engage in terrorism.

Six months later, an expert review panel set up by the White House recommended the government cease the mass collection of metadata on Americans.

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'Frontline' Doc Explores How Sept. 11 Created Today's NSA

hide captionPresident George Bush examines the devastation at the Pentagon with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Sept. 12, 2001, a day after a hijacked airliner slammed into the building.

President George Bush examines the devastation at the Pentagon with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Sept. 12, 2001, a day after a hijacked airliner slammed into the building.

When stories began to emerge about the U.S. government's massive surveillance of Americans' phone and Internet communications, it was no surprise to a group of analysts who had left the National Security Agency soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. Those analysts, who'd worked on systems to detect terrorist threats, left in part because they saw the NSA embarking on a surveillance program they regarded as unconstitutional and unnecessary.

Two of those analysts, Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe, are interviewed in a Frontline documentary called United States of Secrets, which airs Tuesday night.

Binney was a cryptomathematician who worked as technical director of the NSA's World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group.

Wiebe was a senior analyst who was awarded the NSA's Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the agency's second-highest honor.

Before the Sept. 11 attacks, Binney led a team that created a program called "Thin Thread," which could gather and analyze enormous amounts of Internet and telephone traffic and encrypt the identities of people in the U.S. so their privacy was protected.

Both Binney and Wiebe left the agency in 2001 after working there for decades and have publicly criticized the course the NSA has taken. Both were also eventually targeted in a leak investigation by the FBI that led to their homes being raided. After they left the NSA, they joined others in filing a complaint with the inspector general of the Defense Department about the agency's use of private contractors to develop a surveillance system the analysts regarded as expensive, ineffective and abusive of citizens' constitutional rights.

Binney, Wiebe and the documentary's director, Michael Kirk, spoke with Fresh Air's Dave Davies.

On the legality of the Bush White House approving new NSA measures after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks

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NSA Susan Rice reaffirms U.S. support for Israel’s security – Video


NSA Susan Rice reaffirms U.S. support for Israel #39;s security
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Gen. Michael Hayden – former director of the CIA and NSA and principle at The Chertoff Group – Video


Gen. Michael Hayden - former director of the CIA and NSA and principle at The Chertoff Group
former director of the CIA and NSA and principle at The Chertoff Group joins Steve to weigh in on Boko Haram and Putin #39;s latest moves.

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WZZM 13 Grand Valley University professor shows how to crack NSA cipher tweet – Video


WZZM 13 Grand Valley University professor shows how to crack NSA cipher tweet
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Weakened NSA bill passes out of House committee

WASHINGTON, May 7 (UPI) -- A bipartisan bill to prohibit the bulk collection of phone records by the NSA was put on the fast-track to passage in the House, despite lingering skepticism from Democrats and civil liberties advocates who say the bill didn't go far enough to protect privacy.

An amendment to the USA Freedom Act, which was unanimously voted out of the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, appeared to pave the way to avoid a clash between it and a similar bill from the House Intelligence Committee. The amendment allows the government to collect phone data on U.S. citizens in cases where "reasonable, articulable suspicion" of wrongdoing can be proved, which would in turn allow the government to collect metadata on individuals who are two "hops," or degrees of separation, from the suspect.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., a key defender of the NSA's surveillance and a co-author of the competing bill, called the change a "huge improvement" and hinted he would sink his own legislation in favor of the USA Freedom Act if passed.

Judiciary Committee leadership on both sides of the aisle touted the bipartisan effort to craft legislation that could make it through both houses and to the president's desk for signature, incorporating some of the recommendations made by the president's panel in December. Additional effort was made to please both those who supported the NSA surveillance, if perhaps not the method of collection revealed through leaks of classified information by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden last year, and those who decried it as a gross violation of privacy and civil liberties.

"Today's bill unequivocally ends bulk collection," said bill sponsor (and USA Patriot Act author) Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. "Let me repeat, there is no bulk collection."

The congressman's comments were likely directed at critics of the amendment who interpreted the language of the amendment would reopen the very loophole originally exploited by the NSA to conduct so-called "back-door" searches of American citizens' data.

"It ends up basically outsourcing mass surveillance strategy," explained Thomas Drake, a former NSA executive who faced espionage charges in 2010 for exposing waste and privacy violations at the agency, in an interview Tuesday.

Drake said he had supported the USA Freedom Act, changed his mind with the introduction of the manager's amendment.

"It's totally compromised," he said. "That's faux reform, that's kabuki dance reform. That's shadow reform."

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., perhaps trying to give Sensenbrenner an opportunity to reverse course, offered an amendment to the amendment that suggested omitting the content collection language was a "clerical error." She later withdrew her suggestion after Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said he "wasn't aware" of a such a mistake.

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NSA Spies "Pretending to be Veterans with PTSD" Threaten Patriot John Adams – Video


NSA Spies "Pretending to be Veterans with PTSD" Threaten Patriot John Adams
http://www.TrillionDollarMedia.com Supposed veteran with PTSD; claims to live in Lynchburg, VA, yet has a GPS signature of New Jersey.. Who types in English like a Chinese guy, claims to have...

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