James Bamford (Threat Level), Wired 15.3.2012: "The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy."
Wilkerson: "Let's make it a commercial empire and let's maintain that empire in terms of commerce and not in terms of killing people, killing people for oil or killing people for human rights. I think both are just as bad as the other..."
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda Jeff Jarvis: Washington shows the morals of a clumsy spammer Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain The Guardian, Thursday 17 March 2011 "The multiple persona contract is thought to have been awarded as part of a programme called Operation Earnest Voice (OEV), which was first developed in Iraq as a psychological warfare weapon against the online presence of al-Qaida supporters and others ranged against coalition forces. Since then, OEV is reported to have expanded into a $200m programme and is thought to have been used against jihadists across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East."
Regie: James Bamford, C. Scott Willis "Das jüngste Werk von James Bamford, "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America", bildet die Grundlage der Dokumentation. Darin deckt der amerikanische Journalist und Autor auf, wie die National Security Agency , die amerikanische Nationale Sicherheitsbehörde - deren Existenz übrigens James Bamford 1982 publik machte - die neuesten Informationstechniken anwendet, um im Krieg gegen den Terror an Informationen zu gelangen. Von Lichtwellenleitern bis zur Satellitenkommunikation erkundet er alle Mittel, die der NSA für die Audio- und E-Mail-Überwachung, bei der Millionen von E-Mails abgefangen werden, zur Verfügung stehen."
17 nov 2012 Speakers: JAMEEL JAFFER DEPUTY LEGAL DIRECTOR, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION ; WILLIAM BINNEY FORMER OFFICIAL, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY ; JAMES BAMFORD INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST ALEX ABDO STAFF ATTORNEY, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION