The NSA not only records, they record to use material to blackmail potential opponents.
NSA whistleblower Russ Tice is the source and he lets us in on a little secret. The Utah NSA base is not "under construction."
It's operating.
Spying on government officials by "intelligence" and "law enforcement" for the purposes of blackmail is nothing new. Read the history of J. Edgar Hoover.
How do you think he kept his job for 50 years?
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