NSA spying scandal - the story so far. The real purpose is political blackmail NOT counter terror

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30. Great job! This might fit that list too:

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NSA plant in San Antonio shrouded in secrecy
By Nolan Hicks | June 16, 2013 | Updated: June 17, 2013 5:48pm

SAN ANTONIO - Over the past six years, the National Security Agency has quietly transformed the former Sony chip fabrication plant on the northwest side into a black-box hub of intelligence gathering and data storage.

Satellite and aerial imagery show that massive air conditioning units and backup generators have been added to the facility, which is now ringed by barbed-wire fencing. City permits and property tax records show that the complex has been dramatically expanded.

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Longtime observers of the intelligence agency say they believe the San Antonio plant has a mission similar to the agency's other new facilities in Georgia and Hawaii, where communications intercepted by NSA are translated and then sent to headquarters in Maryland for analysis.

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With the facilities in Georgia and Hawaii, as well as with other major construction projects, the NSA included the costs as line items in the Defense Department's budget. But it hasn't done so with the San Antonio location. In a written statement, an NSA spokeswoman said funding for the project followed normal protocol. However, she did not identify the budget item that Congress approved for the expansion

Full article:

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/NSA-plant-in-San-Antonio-shrouded-in-secrecy-4604109.php