Sunday, May 5, 2013

Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case

A heads up from Gregg Roberts over at AE911Truth.org:

Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?

A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case

G

P.S. I assume that this source was speaking loosely, and strongly encrypted messages (such as are enabled by Thunderbird+GPG+Enigmail) are still "secure enough" (i.e, worth the supercomputer time needed to decrypt them only if you have already otherwise given the government serious reason to do so). I trust neither Hushmail nor Comodo, which both admit they'll hand the key to your email to the government if asked.

P.P.S. See also:

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/whistleblower_the_nsa_is_lying_us
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/drone-death-us-moral-compass
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110700006.html
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=civilliberties_235#civilliberties_235 (note the date carefully)