The US has constructed an espionage spying facility in Utah that can intercept, monitor and store all electronic communications worldwide including inside the US.
Press TV has interviewed Gordon Duff, Senior Editor of Veterans Today in Ohio about the construction of the most advanced espionage and spying facility ever built at a cost of two billion dollars which according to Mr. Duff, is useless and a betrayal.
What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: According to www.wired.com , which wrote of the facility in a recent feature story, the facility is, "the most covert and potentially the most intrusive intelligence agency ever". It will basically monitor everything: phone calls, text messages, e-mails, parking tickets, public records, employment, taxes, power usage, utility records, bank account numbers and anything else.
Can you break it down for us on what's happening and why does the US government need this very advanced espionage facility?
Duff: The interesting part of this of course that wired.com points out in their article is that this is entirely a secret facility.
At a time when we're laying off police officers; when we're closing schools; cutting the pay of nurses and teachers, we have two billion dollars to talk to our home appliances and learn how much butter people are eating.
During the Bush administration he tried to recruit 300,000 postmen, appliance repairmen and delivery boys to look in people's windows. This country has entered a period of insanity; of total mistrust of its own population.
The other issue of course I have is that with all of this equipment - all of this ability to scan all of the information in the world - it's all going to come down to one paragraph a day that will land on the president's desk that he'll pick up for a second and simply throw away. There is no client for this information
Press TV: With the signing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act, many progressive voices in the US have been warning that America is becoming a police state.
Now, does constructing this colossal espionage facility confirm that this is actually happening in your view?
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