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The NSA was just awarded $565m to construct another massive NSA Data Center, along with the existing NSA Utah Data Center facility under construction.
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NSA Utah Data Center Facility and New NSA Maryland Data Center Contract Amidst NSA Whistleblower Snowden’s Revelations
Ignoring the outrage of American Citizens from the information provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA Surveillance and Data collection, the NSA was just awarded $565m to construct another massive NSA Data Center, along with the existing NSA Utah Data Center facility under construction.
The details of the new Maryland NSA Data Center can be read in the article posted by Yevgeniy Sverdlik on June 6, 2013 on the site DatacenterDynamics titled, US Spy Agency Building Another Massive Data Center (Awards US$565m design-build contract for Maryland project). Some of the details are revealing in that the Obama Administration created the very program to build these data centers in 2008.
The main spy agency of the US government, the National Security Agency (NSA), is building another massive data center in the State of Maryland, as construction of its Utah data center is approaching completion.
The agency held a groundbreaking ceremony on the US$565m project in Fort Meade, Maryland (home to the NSA headquarters), Thursday. The US Army Corps. of Engineers, which is overseeing construction of the High Performance Computing Center 2 (HPCC2), has awarded the design-build contract to a joint venture between two large US contractors Hensel Phelps and Kiewit.
According to contract-award documents, the facility will provide 60MW of power, incoming through a dedicated substation that will be built on site. The 600,000 sq ft building will house a 70,000 sq ft raised floor for the IT equipment.
In a statement, the NSA explained that the project, slated for completion in 2016, was part of a Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, launched by the White House in 2008.The initiative aims to create a unified approach to security the nation’s digital infrastructure.
James Corbett of CorbettReport.com post titled Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear highlights that our privacy as individuals merits protection and is now completely disregarded by the government. Source: Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear
Abby Martin of BreakingTheSet just posted a video in which she talks to Thomas Drake, former NSA senior executive and whistleblower, and Jesselyn Raddack, National Security Director for the Government Accountability Project, about whistleblower Edward Snowden
In the article GAP Statement on Edward Snowden & NSA Domestic Surveillance posted at whistleblower.org by Government Accountability Project on June 14, 2013 is an official statement on Edward Snowden:
Recently, the American public learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) has conducted, and continues to conduct, wholesale surveillance of U.S. citizens through a secretive data-mining program. The program collects the phone records, email exchanges, and internet histories of tens of millions of Americans who would otherwise have no knowledge of the secret program were it not for the disclosures of recent whistleblowers. The latest of these whistleblowers to come forward is former Booz Allen Hamilton federal contractor employee, Edward Snowden.
As the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) would like to be clear about its position on each of the following points that relate to these significant revelations:
I. SNOWDEN IS A WHISTLEBLOWER.
Snowden disclosed information about a secret program that he reasonably believed to be illegal. Consequently, he meets the legal definition of a whistleblower, despite statements to the contrary made by numerous government officials and security pundits. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky), Sen. Mark Udall (D-Co), Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Ca), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) have also expressed concern about the potential illegality of the secret program. Moreover, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wi) who is one of the original authors of the Patriot Act – the oft-cited justification for this pervasive surveillance – has expressed similar misgiving.
II. SNOWDEN IS THE SUBJECT OF CLASSIC WHISTLEBLOWER RETALIATION.
Derogatory characterizations of Snowden‘s personal character by government officials do not negate his whistleblower status. On the contrary, such attacks are classic acts of predatory reprisal used against whistleblowers in the wake of their revelations.Snowden’s personal life, his motives and his whereabouts have all been called into question by government officials and pundits engaged in the reflexive response of institutional apologists. The guilty habitually seek to discredit the whistleblower by shifting the spotlight from the dissent to the dissenter. Historically, this pattern of abuse is clear from behavior towards whistleblowers Daniel Ellsberg, Mark Felt, Frank Serpico, Jeffrey Wigand, Jesselyn Radack, and recent NSA whistleblower Tom Drake.
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