U.S. President Barack Obama announced Friday that the United States will have to make some choices "balancing privacy and security, secret plan before starting a vigorous defense, sweeping up an estimated 300 million phone calls a day, and amassed Internet data from U.S. suppliers in an attempt to prevent terrorist attack.
He warned that it would be difficult to detect threats to the United States, and now the two top-secret tool targeting terrorists have so thoroughly publicized.
Turns defense and provocation, Obama stood revealed this week spyware.
U.S. National Security Agency has collected tens of millions of Americans every day phone records, the establishment of a database, through which you can know whether terror suspects who have been in contact with the United States, it also disclosed this week, the U.S. National Security Agency has been collecting all Internet use - audio, video, photos, email, and search - American nine major Internet service providers, including Microsoft and Google, hoping to detect suspicious behavior begins overseas.
"Nobody is listening to the phone," Obama told the country two days later, many disturbing reports. The government what to do, he said, was digested telephone number and duration of the call, could "identify potential customers who may be engaged in terrorism, seeking links." If there is a hit, he said, "If the intelligence community actually want to listen to a phone call, they've got to go back, a federal judge, like they do in a criminal investigation. "
Although Obama said the program aims to make U.S. security, he did not provide specific details how to monitor the program has already done so. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, said on Thursday that telephone records scanning has foiled domestic terror attacks, but he did not specify.
Obama claimed that his government has tightened the phone records, the collection procedure, since it began in the Bush administration, the audit program to ensure that measures to protect the privacy of Americans being taken seriously - he called as part of the effort to resist mentality "You know, "Believe me, we're doing the right thing, we know who the bad guys. "
However, he did not provide details of the program or audit looked at how to tighten.
Sensation has been divided Congress this week, and promote civil liberties advocates and some constitutional scholars accused Obama of crossing a line eradicate the terrorist threat name.
Obama's own constitutional lawyers, trying to quell the fears of Americans - but also reminded them that Congress and the courts signed on supervision.
"I think the American people understand, there are some trade-offs involved, Obama said:" When a reporter questioned in San Jose, California in healthcare activities
, "He said:" It is important to realize that you can not have 100% secure, there are also 100% privacy and zero inconvenience. "We will have to make some choices, as a society, I can say that, in the assessment of these programs, they have made a difference in our ability to predict and prevent possible terrorist activities."
Obama said U.S. intelligence officials are looking for phone numbers and call length - and not in someone else's name - do not listen in.
Two classification monitoring program revealed this week, the newspaper reported that the first deep dive into the United States National Security Agency telephone and Internet data, looking for security threats. New details, first by "The Guardian" and the "Washington Post" reported that the U.S. National Intelligence Director James Clapper prompted to take the unusual step and reluctant to admit that the program exists.
Obama echoed intelligence experts - inside and outside government - predict potential attackers will find a way to communicate secretive, and now they know that they may be targeted to mobile phones and Internet records.
"Bad guys antenna back, they become more cautious for some time, said:" The former, who sat for a decade, including nearly three years of the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Pete Hoekstra. He said, through his cell phone monitoring program, but do not know online spy.
"So now, we are trying to track with these organizations and individuals, we will see a drop-off capacity of these tools useful or meaningful intelligence," Hoekstra said Friday. "People will start to put in the agreement, in order to protect their own intelligence gathering, which will have a negative impact, but we just let the future a more complex way, deep into the data it became a technician of the game, we will try to come up with new tools, overcoming all obstacles. "
For example, extremists may begin using the online vendor headquartered in the United States is not a server, so you do not comply with U.S. court order.
In the September 11 terrorist attacks a few years, the government began collecting data from the U.S. phone company, is looking for overseas terror suspects in the United States, the program does not allow the government to monitor the call originating telephone number, but it can track a call is placed on how long it lasted. If you single out intelligence officials, they hope against wiretapping telephone numbers that they must return to the court for approval.
2006, wiretapping, the first revealed in a public outcry, a secret court's approval of all government requested records - up to $ 300 million the amount of phone calls daily charge. But until this week, was not widely know how many phone records, or for how long.
U.S. National Security Agency websites and Internet service providers seizure record is more secretive, only in the past few years begun. Clapper said that these records are released only with the secret court orders, and the display looks only from overseas file appears. Data can not be used against American citizens, and the government must try to reduce the error of any information obtained from the Americans.
It was not immediately clear how intelligence analysts Americans online documentation sent out another country's citizens. It is unknown if the citizens from America's closest allies - Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - Check the Internet communication.
Some Internet companies, including Apple and Facebook in a carefully worded statement, they provide the Government with direct access to its server, denial, and said that they will not do so without a court order. But their participation is still unclear Friday, monitoring procedures authorized by the court, may establish a designated route, direct access to server data transfer, so that the already unnecessary.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) said in a statement encourages Governments to be more transparent about plans to ensure public safety.
"This is the only way to protect everyone's civil liberties and the creation of safe and free society, we all want in the long term," Zuckerberg posted on his Facebook page.
Extensive monitoring brings new details, civil liberties and privacy advocates criticized, as well as long-awaited re-ignited the debate in Congress on the security issues of government power.
"Tell our nation's leaders to stop spying on calls, e-mail," the Council on American-Islamic Relations wrote last Friday by his followers. The American Civil Liberties Union calls for a congressional investigation.
In his comments on Friday, Obama said, "Congress" Each member has been briefed on the spy program. However, only the House of Representatives and the Senate Intelligence Committee members and leaders, with a high security clearance, regularly listen to and oversight monitoring.
Arizona Democrat Rep. Raul Grijalva said the program "a serious violation of the federal government and the American people's confidence in between." He asked the Obama administration limit monitoring. Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said telephone data collection "," Constitution "in an astonishing attack", he introduced legislation requiring warrants prior to any government agency can search phone records of Americans.
However, many other Members, including Democrats and Republicans who vociferously defend Intelligence Committee sitting as a necessary safeguards to prevent terrorist threat to public never knew programs.
Obama said he would be happy to join a new parliamentary debate on the adequacy of control procedures, noting that members of Congress continue to authorize measures, and now some people criticize.
But he also warned that the program is now open security risks: "It is difficult for us to effectively protect the American people," Obama said.
 
 



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