New NSA Docs Detail The Surveillance And Killing Of a Bin Laden Associate

[Matsuda]

Previous Snowden leaks have focused on the excesses of government surveillance, but a new story in The Washington Post looks at a case in which NSA surveillance was turned towards its original purpose: tracking foreign militants. The piece tells the story of Hassan Ghul, a known Bin Laden associate who was captured in Iraq in 2004, released in Pakistan in 2007, and killed by a drone strike in October of last year.

According to the Snowden documents, the key breakthrough for the recent strike came from an email, sent by Ghul's wife, detailing her current living conditions. That was enough for analysts to pinpoint Ghul's location, and send the drone that killed him less than a month later.

The program involved many tools revealed in previous leaks, like email monitoring, targeted malware and captured encryption keys. In Ghul's case, it took nearly a year of tracking across a variety of electronic devices before the agency could bring about a successfully targeted drone strike. Checking with former CIA officials, the Post says the files are an accurate reflection of the NSA's role in the current action in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, which has killed thousands of alleged militants and hundreds of civilians.

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Edited October 17, 2013 by Matsuda

[locoJoe]

So I am glad that they "got a bad guy". If indeed they did get him and assuming he really was a "bad guy". I take nothing the govt says at face value. What I am hoping for mostly is that no drones mistakenly come my way...or yours! One of these days we'll all be criminals until proven innocent.

[Ambrocious]

So I am glad that they "got a bad guy". If indeed they did get him and assuming he really was a "bad guy". I take nothing the govt says at face value. What I am hoping for mostly is that no drones mistakenly come my way...or yours! One of these days we'll all be criminals until proven innocent.

That's the plan. Educated and informed people will be targeted when it all breaks apart. The swoths of people who don't understand History and how this scenario has played out befere are being used to push an antihuman agenda. It's a modern day version of Eugenics and population control. War is another messure of population control. Before they can come outright and just attack us, they will have to stage a horrible event to blame in on "patriots". It's game on after that. We are now entering the end game. What is the end game? This:

Made in 2007

Edited October 18, 2013 by Ambrocious

[funkyy]

Ambrocious...what are you smoking????? Haven't you heard of Al Quaeda or Al Shebab? (the creatures that recently attacked a mall in Nigeria and slaughtered unarmed men, women and children?) Don't you have a single "theory" about those murderers? Wake up man.

[Matt]

I'll never like US government. and the rest world government