New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes

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New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes

Postby Matt » Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:54 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/05/politics/u-s-new-leaker/index.html

(CNN) -- The federal government has concluded there's a new leaker exposing national security documents in the aftermath of surveillance disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, U.S. officials tell CNN.

Proof of the newest leak comes from national security documents that formed the basis of a news story published Tuesday by the Intercept, the news site launched by Glenn Greenwald, who also published Snowden's leaks.

The Intercept article focuses on the growth in U.S. government databases of known or suspected terrorist names during the Obama administration.

The article cites documents prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center dated August 2013, which is after Snowden flew to Russia to avoid U.S. criminal charges.

Greenwald has suggested there was another leaker. In July, he said on Twitter "it seems clear at this point" that there was another. Government officials have been investigating to find out who.

The biggest database, called the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, now has 1 million names, a U.S. official confirmed to CNN.

That's boosted from half that many in the aftermath of the botched attempt by the so-called underwear bomber to blow up a U.S.-bound jetliner on Christmas Day in 2009.

The growth of TIDE, and other more specialized terrorist databases and watchlists, was a result of vulnerabilities exposed in the 2009 underwear plot, government officials said.

The underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, was not on government watchlists that would have prevented him from being allowed to fly to the United States.

In 2012, the National Counterterrorism Center reported that the TIDE database contained 875,000 names. There were about 500,000 in 2009 before the underwear bomb plot.

The Intercept first reported the new TIDE database numbers, along with details of other databases.

One watchlist, the Terrorist Screening Database, which is a subset of the TIDE database, has 680,000 names, only a small number of which are Americans.

The Intercept report said, citing the documents, that 40% of those 680,000 don't have affiliations to terrorist groups.
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Re: New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes

Postby Rspaight » Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:32 am

Good.

Sadly, I'm not sensing much outrage or even concern about this. People in general seem pleased with the surveillance/police state that's been constructed.
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Re: New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes

Postby Matt » Thu Sep 04, 2014 2:59 pm

Agreed. Sadly it seems most people are just apathetic anymore.
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