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Caden Carlson
Lundstrom
6th
The power of fear

The Fear Of The NSA

Why should the general personnel fear the (NSA) National Security Agency? To open this
essay the first point I would like to state that I am very strongly against the power of the NSA.
The National Security Agency is invading your personal rights and privacy. The reason that the
NSA has become such a heated topic is because of their illegal spying of citizens phone calls.
The national security agency claims that they are using surveillance as a form of cracking
down on terrorist acts. The NSAs highest and most experienced field is cyber surveillance.
Which is exactly what they are doing except, from an illegal standpoint. the National Security
Agency mistakes this for trying to seek out economic espionage.
The general problem that the common person is associated with on the daily, and also a
main part of the modern day man, is technology. Phone and internet surveillance, this argument
has been vigorously debated throughout the course of the years of the National Security
Agencys existence. No one can deny that the power that technology has over our lives is alpha
to everything else, and has become overpowering. Especially the youth of this generation.
Attorneys have specialized interests in the privacy of privileged communication with clients,
after just one leak people began to fear that the National Security Agency has disregarded the
privacy pillar of the United States legal system.
The National Security Agency surveillance program that keeps tabs on almost every phone call
in the United States is illegal and should be shut down. Especially because there has not been one
terrorist threat to our country, throughout that massive data collection set, according to the to the

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federal privacy program watch dog. First we need to realize why the government created the
corrupt program that is todays National Security Agency. President Harry S. Truman authorized
the creation of National Security Agency in a letter he wrote in June 1952, which itself remained
classified for decades. It was formally established through a revision of National Security
Council Intelligence Directive 9 on Oct. 24, 1952, and officially came into existence on Nov. 4.
2010. The Secretary of Defense, acting under specific instructions from the President in the
National Security Council (NSC), at a time where there is an issued threat, The NSA would be
responsible for the aid and cooperation of the situation as well as, be the ones who would seek
out and find negative threats, after the threat has been known. What today we have realized is
that the NSA does not seek out danger as the threat has become known. They have been
intentionally viewing and seeking out knowledge about everyone. When I say everyone. I mean
they keep data collected about every american individual. As well as some individuals that are
not currently living in the United States.
In what appears to be one of Edward Snowden's final revelations, the former CIA and
NSA agent has demonstrated conclusively that the national security agency has collected and
analyzed the contents of emails ,text messages, and mobile and landline telephone calls from
nine nontarget United States residence for everyone U.S. Resident it has targeted. Based off of
recent national security agency findings state that 900,000 innocent United States residents were
subjected to heavy NSA scrutiny, is this really what our country should be undergoing? Should
we all be subjected to bow to the knees of our superior national security agency? Who we all
know has more power over the individual civilian.

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And this here is the infamous NSA data center in Utah. Due to be opened very soon, it will be
both a supercomputing center and a data storage center. You could basically imagine it has a
large hall filled with hard drives storing data they are collecting. And its a pretty big building.
How big? Well, I can give you the numbers 140,000 square meters but that doesnt really
tell you very much. Maybe its better to imagine it as a comparison. You think about the largest
IKEA store youve ever been in. This is five times larger. How many hard drives can you fit in an
IKEA store? Right? Its pretty big. We estimate that just the electricity bill for running this data
center is going to be in the tens of millions of dollars a year. And this kind of wholesale
surveillance means that they can collect our data and keep it basically forever, keep it for
extended periods of time, keep it for years, keep it for decades. And this opens up completely
new kinds of risks to us all. And what this is is that it is wholesale blanket surveillance on
everyone. October 2013 Mikko Hypponen, speech at TEDxBrussels
The newest debate. Amid a new battle, NSA to shut down phone records program. This is
the question that everybody is asking. The first thing that Got the public's attention was the
corruption and spying on of free Americans phone calls as well as private text messages and
social media accounts. The NSA has already broken so many rules but the biggest one is tapping
in on people's wireless cellular devices. If you were to look up the NSA disregarding the law.
There would be about 380,000 results and 0.29 seconds. That goes to show that the NSA has
long ignored laws and constitution to conduct.
The national security agency regularly monitors telephone calls and emails of innocent
Americans, ignoring privacy laws, court orders, and the constitution. This revelation comes from
results of an internal audit and other classified reports. As former head of the NSA'S Michael

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Hayden admitted recently, the agency will continue collecting more and more information from
more and more Americans. And, when it comes to hope some Americans retain of the restoration
of continually protect the liberty.-Hayden told CBS news. Again I would like to say that I am
very against the NSA spying on innocent citizens of the United States of America. When it gets
to the point to where we have already gone to heated debates up to the national level. Doesn't
that go to show that there is already exceeding complaints from the general public who intern run
this country? This also stating that in today's harsh reality that the national government rules us.
Citizens do not get a say in the way they used to when the country was first founded by our
founding fathers.
The shadow factory the ultra secret NSA. A book written by James Bamford. In this book
it talks about the secret an essay from 9/11 to eavesdropping on Americans. Bamford book
contains a description of a processing center at and essays fort Gordon, Georgia facility, and
operation highlander, within which associated staff, the people here analyzed satellite telephone
signals from all over the Middle East. They performed various operations such as matching up
phone numbers with the names of organizations or individuals, Recording messages, finding the
locations of cell phones, language identification and translation also assigning important
numbers to the recordings. All the workers that are stated in this book, were made to swear to
secrecy that they could not tell people about they're new so called investigating. Which in reality
is another term they used for spying and tapping into citizens private life.
Based off of all of the evidence I have supported throughout this essay. I still stand very
strong on the basis of NSA spying on citizens of the United States without appropriate
authorization is illegal. Our country was primarily founded on individual citizens as well as the

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set government, but to also balance out the branches of the government, and freedom of our
country. I hope that you think to yourself how would you like it if everybody could see
everything you've ever done using technology,? As well as anything you bought, even to the
smallest things like where your family members live. Where does that leave the rest of us? The
programs still roll on unencumbered by the statutory and constitutional confusion that now
reigns over us.

Works cited:
Bamford, James. The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on
America. New York: Doubleday, 2008. Print.
Menn, Joseph. "HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA Has Hidden Software in Hard
Drives around the World." Business Insider. Business Insider, Inc, 16 Feb. 2015. Web. 14 Jan.
2016.
"7 Quotes to Summarize U.S. Surveillance." Marotta On Money. Web. 14 Jan. 2016.