Obama Thumbs Nose

NSA has 5 Zettabytes Storage = 100 Yrs Worldwide Storage

Within the many agencies operating under the Obama administration, the lack of trust generated in its totality demonstrates how people have reacted to Obama's high-handed tactics that trample on Constitutional rights. (It would make anarchist, liberal Sol Alinsky proud of Obama, his student.)

NSA Thumb DriveThumbs down for the largest "thumb-drive" in the world from the National Security Agency, NSA, that can plug in, store and track every American citizen's personal electronic data with little regard to any constitutional rights and civil laws.

Obama accused George W Bush of making a “false choice” between liberty and security. He has now found himself caught carrying on a “fourth Bush Presidential term” after being caught red-handed spying on private citizens too. Obama insists that his NSA spying was authorized by Congress and kept under strict oversight by the special FISA courts. Both, however, are misleading weak claims due to sparse oversight notifications to Congressional members where some were not aware of the broader covert intelligence scope.

Obama has defended his FISA court search warrants and the record-breaking numbers issued growing underObama & Holder his watch while he claims them valid based on the fact they surprisingly had a small number of judicial rejections. Public records showed this trend forward through the end of 2004, 18,761 warrants were granted, while just five were rejected and this pattern was continued on into his present administration. It is also rare for FISA warrant requests to be turned down by the court. Another reason, however, may be much more plausible too since it's apparent that routine "rubber stamped" FISA court approved warrants could effortlessly circumnavigate meaningful judicial reviews of the Justice Department requests.

Creating a "privacy vs. security" balanced system must be brought out to the light of day in order to discuss implementation without the "Big Brother" elements. It would help to understand the behemoth size of the National Security Agency and its general capabilities, but not the top-secret capacities that would compromise our security. We have to remember that the U.S. Constitution is our ruling document and not a treaty between nations; therefore, to say it is constitutionally bad and abusive to spy of others living outside the United States is ludicrous. Since time memorial, historically sovereign countries have spied on each other and will continue.  The radical Muslim terrorists operating without borders or countries will also persist in spying to wage their holy war, Jihad, around the world too. So why is Obama crowing loudly that the war on terror is won, who gave up and when?

The NSA Utah Data Center is a data farm that will begin harvesting all emails, phone records, text messages and other electronic data in September 2013. The estimated power of those computing resources in Utah is so massive it requires use of a little-known unit of storage space: the "Zettabyte". as the amount of data that would fill 250 billion DVDs.

The NSA's Utah Data Center will be able to handle and process five zettabytes of data, NSA Utah Data Centeraccording to William Binney, a former NSA technical director ."They would have plenty of space with five zettabytes to store at least something on the order of 100 years worth of the worldwide communications, phones and emails and stuff like that," Binney asserts, "and then have plenty of space left over to do any kind of parallel processing to try to break codes."

Despite its capacity, the Utah center does not satisfy NSA's data demands. Last month, the agency broke ground on its next data farm at its headquarters at Ft. Meade, Md.   But, that facility will be only two-thirds the size of the mega-complex in Utah.