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by James Bamford
On a remote edge of Utah's dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America's equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges's "Library of Babel," a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at the same time monstrous, where the entire world's knowledge is stored, but not a single word is understood. At a million square feet, the mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt Lake City combined.
Unlike Borges's "labyrinth of letters," this library expects few visitors. It's being built by the ultra-secret National Security Agency -- which is primarily responsible for "signals intelligence," the collection and analysis of various forms of communication -- to house trillions of phone calls, e-mail messages, and data trails: Web searches, parking receipts, bookstore visits, and other digital "pocket litter." Lacking adequate space and power at its city-sized Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters, the NSA is also completing work on another data archive, this one in San Antonio, Texas, which will be nearly the size of the Alamodome. ....
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Excellent article!! You are right on the money with this one, and more! Also, don't miss the NSA's two other new facilities in Georgia and Hawaii (Hawaii is still under construction).
Christian conservative author TERRY L COOK has just published a superb new book covering these things! His new book is titled, "BIG-BROTHER-2010," because the entire international NSA/CSS/HS/NORTHCOM military system is scheduled to be fully integrated and operational by OCTOBER 2010---Such a new system has been named, 'CYBERCOM'.
To get your copy of Terry L Cook's breaking new book, "BIG BROTHER 2010" (and others) simply go to WWW.AMAZON.COM and click on the BOOK Department. Then, enter Terry L Cook's name in the search box and all of Terry's books will be displayed.
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