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Podcasts with Cups today from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on the media, commonsense

with Dan Carlin, Race Forward and Democracy Now.

The Utah Data Center is a building that the NSA has been constructing for a number of years

to store the data that they're collecting.

From what we can tell, this thing is enormous.

It is over a million square feet, 100,000 of which are going to be data center storage facilities.

The Snowden documents that came out last summer showed that the NSA is sucking up millions

of phone records of Americans who aren't suspected of any crime.

They're also back you mean up the Internet Communications of People all over the world.

This is added to a trove of data with the collecting over the years.

Other whistleblowers who have come forward, people like Bill Binney, Thomas Drake and Mark

Klein.

All of whom had said that the NSA is surveilling far more information than we, the public,

their beds believe.

They've built it, they intend to use it, they're trying to use it, they're having a difficult

time using it.

The Wall Street Journal reported last fall that they were experiencing meltdowns.

We know they need a lot of water.

It's this big eye sore in the desert in this small community that tells us, look, we are

here and we are collecting information on you whether you want us to or not.

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