8 AT&T buildings that are ‘central to NSA spying’

[steven36]

Here are eight AT&T-owned locations, buildings that are reportedly central to the NSA's internet spying purposes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have you ever wondered what locations on American soil serve as backbone or “peering” facilities that the NSA might secretly be using for eavesdropping purposes?

 

The Intercept revealed eight such AT&T-owned locations: two in California, one in Washington, another in Washington, D.C., one in New York, one in Texas, one in Illinois, and one in Georgia. You might pass by these AT&T buildings having no idea that they are “central to an NSA spying initiative that has for years monitored billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats passing across U.S. territory.”

 

While neither AT&T nor NSA spokespeople would confirm that the NSA has tapped into data at these eight locations that normally route telecom companies’ data traffic, former AT&T employees did confirm the locations of the “backbone node with peering” facilities. AT&T refers to the peering sites as “Service Node Routing Complexes.”

 

 

The Intercept explained various code-named NSA surveillance programs, previously made public thanks to Edward Snowden, which seem to have taken place at these eight AT&T facilities.

 

 

In addition, the Intercept article cites “a top-secret NSA memo” that “has not been disclosed before;” the memo “explained that the agency was collecting people’s messages en masse if a single one were found to contain a ‘selector’ – like an email address or phone number – that featured on a target list.”

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“One example of this is when a user of a webmail service accesses her inbox; if the inbox contains one email message that contains an NSA tasked selector, NSA will acquire a copy of the entire inbox, not just the individual email message that contains the tasked selector,” the memo stated.

 

The NSA's past activity

There’s a bit of a history lesson included in the article, going over how the NSA was hoovering emails if they mentioned information about surveillance targets, including domestic communications that violated citizens’ Fourth Amendment right to be protected against unreasonable searches and seizures.

 

The NSA moved to using a cautionary banner that warned analysts not to read the communication unless it had been lawfully obtained. The NSA acknowledged the violations in April 2017. The messages had reportedly been part of upstream surveillance allowed under Executive Order 12333. After receiving a NSA memo via Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request, the ACLU previously warned that NSA analysts might even be “laughing at your sex tape” thanks to surveillance under EO 12333.

 

At any rate, according to The Intercept, the eight AT&T buildings that have secretly served as NSA spying hubs for monitoring “billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats” – codenamed FAIRVIEW for NSA surveillance – are located at:

 

• 30 E Street Southwest in Washington, D.C.
• 1122 3rd Avenue in Seattle, Washington
• 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco, California
• 811 10th Avenue in New York City
• 420 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, California
• 4211 Bryan Street in Dallas, Texas
• 10 South Canal Street in Chicago, Illinois
• 51 Peachtree Center Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia

 

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[steven36]

Look how fake the media is here the person posting the same kind of post in  2012

 

By Ms. Smith, CSO | Apr 25, 2012 2:04 PM PT

 

 

The NSA possible domestic interception/collection points have been mapped and include seven AT&T and one Verizon location. Despite NSA Chief Alexander denying domestic spying, NSA whistleblower Binney told Democracy Now that the NSA is lying and has copies of all emails in the United States. Binney added that the Total Information Awareness program was alive and covertly running . . . and may still be.

 

Jacob Appelbaum, a computer security researcher, hacker, human rights activist, privacy advocate, Tor developer and WikiLeaks supporter was once called the "most dangerous man in cyberspace" by Rolling Stone. Yet many people would call Appelbaum, aka @ioerror, an Internet freedom fighter. He recently tweeted about the possible domestic NSA capture/interception points that were disclosed at the Whitney Museum's "Surveillance Teach-In"

Then Public Intelligence posted the NSA possible domestic interception/collection points map with seven AT&T locations and one Verizon location as listed below.

• AT&T located at 2651 Olive St, St Louis, MO 63103.
• AT&T located at 420 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071.
• AT&T located at 611 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94107.
• AT&T located at 51 Peachtree Center Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30303.
• AT&T located at 10 S Canal St, Chicago, IL 60606.
• AT&T located at 811 10th Ave, New York, NY 10019.
• AT&T located at 12976 Hollenberg Dr, Bridgeton, MO 63044.
• Verizon located at 30 E St SW, Washington, DC 20003.

 

 

 

You may choose not to believe it, since not too long ago NSA chief General Keith Alexander denied the Orwellian surveillance nightmare of Total Information Awareness to Congressman Hank Johnson. The "NSA does not have the ability to do that in the United States," Alexander testified. Here's a link to the video and below is a partial transcript of Alexander's testimony:

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Rep. Johnson: Does the NSA routinely intercept American citizens’ emails?

Gen. Alexander: No.

Rep. Johnson: Does the NSA intercept Americans’ cell phone conversations?

Gen. Alexander: No.

Rep. Johnson: Google searches?

Gen. Alexander: No.

Rep. Johnson: Text messages?

Gen. Alexander: No.

Rep. Johnson: Amazon.com orders?

Gen. Alexander: No.

Rep. Johnson: Bank records?

Gen. Alexander: No.

Rep. Johnson: What judicial consent is required for NSA to intercept communications and information involving American citizens?

Gen. Alexander: Within the United States, that would be the FBI lead. If it was a foreign actor in the United States, the FBI would still have the lead and could work that with NSA or other intelligence agencies, as authorized. But to conduct that kind of collection in the United States, it would have to go through a court order, and the court would have to authorize it. We are not authorized to do it, nor do we do it.

Point blank, however, is a conflicting report from a Democracy Now! interview with ex-NSA official and whistleblower William Binney:

 

Amy Goodman: Do you believe all emails, the government has copies of, in the United States?

 

William Binney: I would think—I believe they have most of them, yes.

 

Amy Goodman: And you’re speaking from a position where you would know, considering your position in the National Security Agency.

 

William Binney: Right. All they would have to do is put various Narus devices at various points along the network, at choke points or convergent points, where the network converges, and they could basically take down and have copies of most everything on the network.

According to the transcript of this Democracy Now video interview, "More Secrets on Growing State Surveillance," Goodman asked Binney to compare today's surveillance to Total Information Awareness (TIA) which was allegedly shut down after the public freaked out about such spying on citizens. Binney said when Poindexter spoke about developing TIA, he was testing the waters to see if Congress "would be receptive to something they were already doing. In other words, that process of building that information about everybody getting total information was already happening." The point is that it wasn't being developed; it was already being used covertly to spy on all of us.

 

Lastly, in a WNYC podcast with Appelbaum, filmmaker Laura Poitras, and Binney, Poitras said all three are "targets of surveillance and government harassment and abuse." And sadly America is an out-of-control surveillance state. Interviewer Brian Lehrer mentioned Jack Goldsmith's book "Power and Constraint" which talks about how Obama and Bush, "two presidents with starkly different views about executive power and proper counterterrorism tactics" ended up on the same page when it comes to surveillance issues like wiretapping "because constitutional forces more powerful than the aims of the presidents were at work."

 

As we continue to see, we have no rights to our own digital communications that go through the dreaded Third Party service. The NSA repeatedly says "No" about domestic spying . . . precisely as the NSA denied warrantless wiretapping even though the agency was later caught like a fly entangled in a spider's sticky web of lies. Binney has apologized for creating the mass monitoring "ThinThread" program for the NSA which was turned on American citizens after 9/11. Democracy Now! has interviews claiming the NSA is lying again about capturing and storing all of our emails and other electronic communications. Are you going to believe the NSA turned over a new truth-telling leaf, or believe an NSA whistleblower? So now I ask you, how probable does the reality seem to you now of the NSA possible domestic interception/collection points map?

 

Have you called, emailed or tweeted your congressman to object to CISPA yet? While it seems the NSA is still covertly operating some form of TIA, if CISPA legislation passes, digital privacy will be tossed back to the dark ages and the NSA can legally vacuum up our emails and other electronic communications.

 

https://www.csoonline.com/article/2222244/microsoft-subnet/nsa-domestic-intercept-map--nsa-lies--spies-in-orwellian-world-of-gov-t-surveillanc.html

 

[steven36]

30 E Street Southwest in Washington, D.C.  info from  2012

https://publicintelligence.net/nsa-domestic-collection-points/

 

1122 3rd Avenue in Seattle, Washington is a house

https://www.trulia.com/p/wa/seattle/1122-3rd-ave-1-seattle-wa-98101--2087313474

 

 

AT&T located at 611 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94107.

AT&T Switching Center (San Francisco, California)

Location of alleged NSA (National Security Agency) tap using a Narus supercomputer for mass-surveillance of national and international telephone and internet communications.

Info is from 2007

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/13/AR2007081301113.html?noredirect=on

 

AT&T located at 811 10th Ave, New York, NY 10019.info from  2012

https://publicintelligence.net/nsa-domestic-collection-points/ 

 

420 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, California info from  2012

https://publicintelligence.net/nsa-domestic-collection-points/ 

 

 

 

[Archanus]

Oh, so there are the locations, let's destroy them ! jajajaja