NSA Tracks All Emails, Texts, Phone Calls in Iraq

In Iraq, the NSA is able to sweep up all emails, text messages and phone location signals in real time. This revelation doesn't come from documents leaked by Edward Snowden, but from the spy agency's own former second-in-command

Former NSA deputy director John Inglis revealed these capabilities in an interview with the Los Angeles Times . Before outgoing NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander arrived, Inglis said, the agency was only able to intercept "half of enemy signals" in Iraq

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This seems to be the first time such capabilities have ever been revealed, even though the Washington Post reported in July that Alexander had major aspirations for Iraq in 2005. The newspaper wrote that Alexander "wanted everything: Every Iraqi text message, phone call and e-mail that could be vacuumed up by the agency’s powerful computers." Read more...

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