On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:16 AM, <calgirlsddd85021@yahoo.com> wrote:
9/11 LINK - NSA's PROJECT GROUNDBREAKER. All
interviewed for the story are particularly secretive
about "Groundbreaker":
washingtontechnology.com/news/15_6/cover/1477-1.html
06/19/00; Vol. 15 No. 6
Contractors Spy Dollars In NSA Outsourcing
By Nick Wakeman, Staff Writer
Three leading systems integrators have begun selecting
partners as they gear up for a $5 billion National
Security Agency contract to outsource its basic
computer and telecommunications operations.
While a request for proposals still is several months
away, teams of contractors are being led by AT&T Corp.
of Basking Ridge, N.J., Computer Sciences Corp. of El
Segundo, Calif., and OAO Corp. of Greenbelt, Md.,
industry sources said.
The contract is expected to be awarded in spring 2001
and could be worth $5 billion over 10 years. Called
Groundbreaker, the contract would move 4,000 to 5,000
information technology workers from the government to
the private sector....
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. of Dallas is on one
of the teams, but William Woodard, president of ACS
Government Solutions Group, declined to name which
team.
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The National Security Agency seeks the assistance of global telecommunications corporation AT&T to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site to eavesdrop on US citizens' phone communications, according to court papers filed in June 2006 as part of a lawsuit against AT&T (see October 2001). The NSA is expressly forbidden to spy on US citizens within US borders unless authorized by the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC) (see 1978). When the NSA program, which wiretaps phone and e-mail communications often without court warrants, becomes public knowledge well over four years later (see December 15, 2005), President Bush, NSA director Michael Hayden, and other White House and government officials will assert that the program was set up in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. If the claims made in the lawsuit are accurate, these assertions are provably false. "The Bush administration asserted this became necessary after 9/11," lawyer Carl Meyer will claim in 2006. "This undermines that assertion." Unbeknownst to most Americans, the NSA is operating a secret "data mining" operation that, by 2006, will have compiled phone records and contact information on millions of domestic phone and e-mail communications. The NSA project is code-named "Project Groundbreaker," and is ostensibly an above-board attempt announced in June 2000 to have AT&T and other firms help modernize its technological capabilities. The project originally seeks to have AT&T build a network operations center that duplicates AT&T's facility in Bedminster, New Jersey; that plan will be altered when the NSA decides it would be better served by acquiring the monitoring technology itself. The agency is seeking bids for a project to "modernize and improve its information technology infrastructure," including the privatization of its "non-mission related" systems support. [TechWeb, 6/13/2000; Bloomberg, 6/30/2006] Groundbreaker's privatization project is expected to provide up to $5 billion in government contracts to various private firms such as AT&T, Computer Sciences Corporation, and OAO Corporation, [Computerworld, 12/4/2000; Government Executive, 9/1/2001] and up to 750 NSA employees will become private contractors. Hayden, who has aggressively instituted a corporate management protocol to enhance productivity and has brought in numerous senior managers and agency executives from private defense firms, is a strong proponent of privatizing and outsourcing much of the NSA's technological operations, and in 2001 will say that he wants the agency to focus on its primary task of breaking codes and conducting surveillance. Hayden does not admit that Groundbreaker is part of a larger NSA domestic surveillance program, [Government Executive, 9/1/2001] and publicly, NSA officials say that the project is limited to administrative and logistics functions. [Computerworld, 12/4/2000] The covert data mining portion of the project is code-named "Pioneer." A former, unnamed employee of the NSA, [Bloomberg, 6/30/2006] and a former AT&T technician, Mark Klein, will provide the key information about Groundbreaker. Klein will say in 2006 that he saw the NSA construct a clandestine area within its switching center in San Francisco, and saw NSA technicians shunt fiber optic cable carrying Internet traffic into that area, which contains a large data bank and secret data mining hardware. Klein will say he knew that the NSA built other such facilities in other switching locations. He will go on to say that the NSA did not work with just AT&T traffic; when AT&T's network connected with other networks, the agency acquired access to that traffic as well. [Democracy Now!, 5/12/2006]Martina McBride Broken WingJohn Lennon Stand By MeJohn Lennon - Power To The PeopleLotta Love Nicolette Larson__._,_.___Related links :
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