Spying for the NSA or the Brits

The NSA may be spying but for who, for what?  Perhaps for the British Financial Empire.  More reports are coming out in the Guardian newspaper about the large British role with their GCHQ in spying on Americans.  The game of special relationship and you spy on me and I'll spy on you and we will call it "spying on foreigners" is well known.

Here are some tasty reports originating from Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian and from larouchepac on the subject:

In December 2012, according to the June 27 report, the NSA's Special Source Operations (SSO) directorate announced a new capability, allowing it to collect far more Internet traffic and data than ever before, directing more than half of the Internet traffic it intercepts, into its own data repositories. These are communications of which one end is in the U.S. The program, called One-End Foreign (1EF) Solution, and code-named EvilOlive, relies on the notorious 2008 FISA Amendments Act for its legal authority; under the program, "traffic has literally doubled," NSA documents boast.

"A substantial portion of the Internet metadata still collected and analyzed by the NSA comes from allied governments, including its British counterpart, GCHQ," Greenwald and Ackerman report.

"An SSO entry dated September 21, 2012, announced that 'Transient Thurible, a new Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) managed XKeyScore (XKS) Deep Dive was declared operational.' The entry states that GCHQ 'modified' an existing program so the NSA could 'benefit' from what GCHQ harvested. 'Transient Thurible metadata [has been] flowing into NSA repositories since 13 August 2012,' the entry states."

The scope of the NSA-GCHQ combination, is discussed in an article entitled "The NSA: Is it American, or British?" in the current issue of EIR.