{"id":8148,"date":"2012-12-26T16:46:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T16:46:21","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8148","title":{"rendered":"Wired.com: “The NSA Is Building the Country\u2019s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wired.com: The NSA Is Building the Country\u2019s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)<\/a> by James Bamford<\/p>\n

The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah\u2019s Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It\u2019s the heart of Mormon country, where religious pioneers first arrived more than 160 years ago. They came to escape the rest of the world, to understand the mysterious words sent down from their god as revealed on buried golden plates, and to practice what has become known as \u201cthe principle,\u201d marriage to multiple wives.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

But new pioneers have quietly begun moving into the area, secretive outsiders who say little and keep to themselves. Like the pious polygamists, they are focused on deciphering cryptic messages that only they have the power to understand. Just off Beef Hollow Road, less than a mile from brethren headquarters, thousands of hard-hatted construction workers in sweat-soaked T-shirts are laying the groundwork for the newcomers\u2019 own temple and archive, a massive complex so large that it necessitated expanding the town\u2019s boundaries. Once built, it will be more than five times the size of the US Capitol.<\/p>\n

Rather than Bibles, prophets, and worshippers, this temple will be filled with servers, computer intelligence experts, and armed guards. And instead of listening for words flowing down from heaven, these newcomers will be secretly capturing, storing, and analyzing vast quantities of words and images hurtling through the world\u2019s telecommunications networks. In the little town of Bluffdale, Big Love and Big Brother have become uneasy neighbors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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