Even Congress Wants To Know What The NSA Is Doing With This $2 Billion Utah Spy Center

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http://www.businessinsider.com/top-nsa-general-says-this-new-2-billion-spy-center-will-definitely-not-snoop-on-americans-2012-4



Maybe you've heard of it and maybe you haven't, but in Bluffdale, Utah alongside one of the largest polygamist sects in America, the NSA is building a one-million-square-foot data collection center — five times the size of the U.S. capital.

Despite immense secrecy, construction workers with Top Secret clearances, news of the project made it to the pages of Wired last month. Intelligence authority James Bamford wrote that the center is part of President Bush's "total information awareness" program that was killed by Congress in 2003 in response to public outrage over its potential for invading Americans privacy.

One senior intelligence official formerly involved with the project told Bamford "this is more than just a data center," it's a code breaking megalopolis the likes of which the world has never seen.

Several years ago the NSA made a major leap in breaking complex encryptions used in everything from "financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications."

The official concluded by saying “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”

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1. They have to put all those cloned servers with your data on it somewhere.

Might as well be in the middle of Utah. How better to reward Orin Hatch?

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2. right?

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3. Nothing to see here, move along

there is No Such Agency (magic hand wave).

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4. Here is where Paul Ryan meets the reality of Orin Hatch