9/2/12 07:48 AM
Possible connection between "Stellar Wind" and LDS Church
By wildflower
The following are excerpts from articles posted on Wired.com and democracynow.org. I did not research whether these web sites are to the right or to the left, I ran across the following while searching for an answer to another question. I am merely passing on information that is not only distrubing but could affect us all in the very near future. I am certain I will get put down, ridiculed, etc from some fellow bloggers, but I really don't care. I truly believe that our freedoms will rapidly disappear not matter who is elected in November.
"Stellar Wind" is the code name for a hugh complex under construction in Bluffdale, Utah for the National Security Agency (NSA) by the construction company Bid D-Construction which is not only one of the biggest construction companys in the U.S. but has close ties to the Church of Latter-Day-Saints.
The following are excerts from an interview in which James Bamford states his observations, opinions and such regarding "Stellar Wind" project. James Bamford was employed by NSA for 30 years, now retired and telling his story to anyone who wants to listen.
"The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray safebrush rustle in the breeze. Blufffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah's Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It's the heart of Mormon country, where religious pioneers first arrived more than 160 years ago. They came to escape the rest of the world, to understand the mysterious words sent down from their god as revealed on buried golden plates, and to practice what has become know as 'the principle,' marriage to multiple wives."
"Today Bluffdale is home to one of the nation's laargest sects of polygamists, the Apostolic United Brethren, with upwards of 9,000 members. The brethren's complex includes a chapel, a school, a sports field, and an archive. Membership has doubled since 1978--and the number of plural marriages has tripled--so the sect has recently been looking for ways to purchase more land and expand throughout the town."
"But new pioneers have quietly begun moving into the area, secretive outsiders who say little and keep to themselves. Like the pious polygamists, they are focused on deciphering cryptic messages that only they have the power to understand. Just off Beef Hollow Road, less than a mile from brethren headquarters, thousands of hard-hatted construction workers in sweat-soaked T-shirts are laying the groundwork for the newcomers' own temple and archive, a massive complex so large that it necessitated expanding the town's boundaries. Once built, it will be more than five times the size of the US Capitol."
"Rather than Bibles, prophets, and worshippers, this temple will be filled with servers, computer intelligence experts, and armed guards. And instead of listening for words flowing down from heaven, these newcomers will be secretly capturing, storing and analyzing vast quantities of words and images hurtling through the world's telecommunications networks. In the little town of Bluffdale, Big Love and Big Brother have become uneasy neighbors."
The NSA has become the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelliegence agency ever.
Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world's communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreigh, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Glowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails--parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital "pocket litter." It is, in some measure, the realization of the "total information awareness" program created during the first term of the Bush administration--an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans' privacy. But "this is more than just a data center," says one senior intelligence offical (James Bamford), who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle--financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications--will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the U.S. The upshot, according to this official: "Everybody's a target; everybody with communication is a target."
For the NSA, overflowing with tens of billions of dollars in post-9/11 budget awards, the cryptanalysis breakthrough came at a time of explosive growth, in saize as well as in power. Established as an arm of the Department of Defense following Pearl Harbor, with the primary purpost of preventing another suprise assault, the NSA suffered a series of humiliation in the post-Cold War years. Caught offguard by an escalating series of terrorist attacks--the first World Trade Center bombing, the blowing up of US embassies in East Africa, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, and finally the devastation of 9/11--some began questioning the agency's very reason for being. In response, the NSA has quietly been reborn. And while there is little indication that its actual effectiveness has improved--after all, despite numerous peieces of evidence and intelligence-gathering opportunities, it missed the near-disastrous bomber in Times Square in 2010--there is no doubt that it has transformed itself into the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever created. In the process--and for the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administration--the NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas. It has created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns and unscramble codes. Finally, the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. And, of course, it's all being done in secret. To those on the inside, the old adage that NSA stands for Never Say Anything applies more than ever.
The main construction company doing the building is Big D-Construction who recently built the new LDS temple, City Creek Center in Salt Lake City, a massive shopping mall. Big D-Constuction in August, 2012 broke ground on another project for the new headquarters of Xactware Solutions, Inc. in Lehi, Utah. Xactware Solutions 210,000 sq. ft. building project will be completed by February 2014. Big D also in August, 2012 won a $22.61 Million Federal Contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for a 41,200 permanent addition to the existing Life Sciences Test Facility in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
James Bamford has written three books regarding warrantless eavesdropping conducted by NSA on American citizens'...they are "The Puzzle Palace". "Body of Secrets", and "The Shadow Factory".
Here is what James Bamford said about President Obama in the lengthly interview article, "President Obama, for example, when all the furor broke out over the warrantless eavesdropping during the Bush Administration, came out and said that he was totally against that, he was going to vote against changing the law to allow that kind of thing and also to vote against viging immunity to the telecom companies. The telecom companies could have been charged with a crime for violating everybody's privacy. But the, when he--when push came to shove and it came time to vote, he didn't. He voted opposite to what he said, and he voted for the legislation, sort of creating this warrantless eavesdropping change to the law that he was--said he was previously against, which basically legalize what the Bush administration had been doing in their warrantless eavesdropping. And he also voted aginst--or he voted in favor of giving immunity to the telecom companies, which is again opposite of what he said previously. And now he's, you know, the president here for the last three plus years, while they've been building this enormous--or at least completing this enormous infrastructure, and they hadn't even started this when he became president, the large data center in Bluffdale. So I don't really see an awful lot of difference between the two in terms of what's goind on with NSA. If anything, it's gotten much larger under Obama than it was under Bush."
Two other whistleblowers regarding "Stellar Wind" NSA project are Thomas Drake, who worked at the NSA, did not stand trial. The other John Walker Lindh, stood trial and is still in prison.
When the article entitled "Inside the NSA's Largest and Most Expansive Secret Domestic Spy Center in Bluffdale, Utah" posted by Wired Magazine in March, 2012 there was a brief investigation by Congress as follows:
Democratic Congressman Hank Johnson of Georgia questioned NSA director and CYBERCOM commander, General Keith Alexander, about reports that NSA is intercepting U.S. citizen's phone calls and emails, the transcript as follows:
Rep. Hank Johnson: "General, a article in Wired Magazine reported this monthat that a whistleblower, formerly employed by the NSA, has stted NSA signals intercepts include, quote, "eavesdropping on domestice phone calls" and "Inspewction of domestic emails," end-quote. Is that true? The author of the Wired Magazine article's name is James Bashford (sic). He writes that NSA has software that, quote, "searches US sources for target addresses, locations, countries, and phone numbers, as well as watch-listed names, keywords, and phrases in email. Any communication that arouses suspicion, especially those to or from the million or so people on agency watch lists, are automatically copied or recorded and then transmitted to the NSA." Is this true?
Gen. Keith Alexander's replies" No, not in that context. The question that--or, I think what he's trying to raise is, are we gathering all the information on the United States? No, that is not correct." No, it's not."
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The article in Wired Magazine noted activity between two major telecommunication corporatings and NSA which are AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
So here we are in September, 2012 with information gathered from individual's who worked for NSA, we have a project code name "Stellar Wind" (to be completed in September, 2013), a hugh Western states construction company tied to the LDS church and a former bishop of the LDS church campaigning for the United States Presidency.
I went on to research some other web sites and found that the LDS church also has holdings in the 14th largest radio station in the United States.
I surmise that what I have read and the probablity of the connection between "Stellar Wind" and the LDS Church has something to do with the GOP nominating Mitt Romney to run against President Obama. I haven't figured out the way and wherefores but I do have concern regarding if and any connections.
As I stated in the beginning of this blog, I am up for put downs and ridicule to stay on course with posting FYI type blogs. Charlie will probably scream at me this belongs in the Stories section.....the debate will entail partisan sides, narrow minded responses and the lack of objectivity in regards to the Big Picture that will possibly (in the near future) affect every man, woman and child in this country not matter what political party they hold dear.
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