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Edward Snowden - "Boundless Informant" - Global Auditing System, and New Moscow Video!

Posted on the 15 July 2013 by Freeplanet @CUST0D1AN
"The NSA lied (to Congress) about this tool," Edward Snowden confirms the existence of "Boundless Informant", the NSA's global auditing system, in Guardian's second part of their June 8th Hong Kong video interview with the whistleblower.
The Boundless Informant documents show the agency collecting almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks over a 30-day period ending in March 2013. One document says it is designed to give NSA officials answers to questions like, "What type of coverage do we have on country X" in "near real-time by asking the SIGINT [signals intelligence] infrastructure."
An NSA factsheet about the program, acquired by the Guardian, says: "The tool allows users to select a country on a map and view the metadata volume and select details about the collections against that country."
[source GUARDIAN]


"I want to live in a world of creativity, love and friendship," says Snowden, echoing almost TO THE WORD the Creativity, Passion and Kinship mantra put forward by Free Planet.
Anyway, here's a more recent appearance, recorded while Snowden languishes in Moscow's (noisy) Sheremetyevo Airport:

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