Ned Scott's longtime friendship with Keith Alexander is no secret to us and their surveillance program PRISM has been the subject of many conversation starters since Snowden outed them in June of 2013.
The Guardian reported that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans. The newspaper published the secret court order directing telecommunications company Verizon to hand over all its telephone data to the NSA on an "ongoing daily basis".
PRISM began in 2007 in the wake of the passage of the Protect America Act under the Bush Administration with the help of Keith Alexander, Ned Scott, Michael Hyden and Lincoln Faurer. It was just a week after the 9/11 attacks, Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF), which inaugurated the "War on Terror". It later featured heavily in arguments over the NSA program.
Ned Scott Headed up the Terrorist Surveillance Program and it was established pursuant to an executive order that authorized the NSA to surveil certain telephone calls without obtaining a warrant. Although not officially public, according to administration statements, the authorization covers communication originating overseas from or to a person suspected of having links to terrorist organizations or their affiliates even when the other party to the call is within the US.
October 2001, Congress passed the Patriot Act, which granted the administration broad powers to fight terrorism and this was just the start to how PRISM was formed.
...But the real question we all have is, Why is NED SCOTT now heading up a blockchain social media site like STEEMIT?
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