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None of them are people lose confidence in the data and the old crying wolf syndrome, rightng to angel even big brother faces road blocks. if the government wants to track you, its ability to gather all sorts of private data and to analyze it at massive facilities like this nsa data center still under construction in utah will allow them to do it. >> there is no human reading going through and looking at your e-mails. it is possible. it is only going to look at things the computer throws out as interesting or important. >> it is the interaction between cold data and live humans where the syner...

What it didn't know could hurt it very much. there was a a need to be up on enemy intelligence. >> this form of stretchry shall never again endanger us. >> after world war ii came the cold war and the threat of global communism. it sparked a fierce debate at the highest levels regarding is citizens' rights versus international security and rot of that debate ultimately came the national security agency or nsa. in the 1950s the spy center was so secretive the joke was the initials stood for no such agency. >> what did the president know and when did he know it? >> after watergate, however, peop...

Billing data records of people in the united states calling people in the united states. my estimate was they were collecting on the order of 3 billion a day. >> 3 billion phone records. >> just internal to the country. >> in simple terms nsa is spying on americans inseidenberg of this country. >> that's correct. >> binney thought it was wrong and quit in protest. someone leaked the sore storery to the "new york times" which exposed it in 2005. in 2007 the nsa officially discontinued the program. the same year suspecting he was a source for the new york times leaks the fbi raided bill binney's...

Center. >> the spy center. that is what jasmin and amy told me he last summer. >> do you know what they are going to do there? >> collect data. >> as good a guess as any for the gargantuan facility. >> a lot of rumors fly around it is monitoring. but no one knows. >> we were approached a couple of years ago about possibly bringing water. >> mark reed is the bluffdale city manager. he was asked to figure out how to supply the center with its extraordinary water requirements. >> we built a large pump station and then wil built a te million gallon tank to store the water. >> a three million gallo...

Headquartered at fort mead, maryland was eavesdropping on messages sent into and out of the country. the federal government passed the foreign intelligence surveillance act which required orders from certain courts. the nsa adapted and moved on. with the fall of the soviet union its mission seemed less urgent to many and the nsa lagged behind in the latest technology. as general michael hayden the nsa director who took charge in 1989 put it in an age of telenoncations breakthroughs the nsa was becoming deaf. 9/11 delivered a shock that was loud enough for everyone to hear. the nsa got a bigger...