A new expose in Wired Magazine has revealed new details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy centre in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed "Stellar Wind."

According to investigative reporter James Bamford, the NSA has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect & sift through billions of email messages & phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas.

The Utah spy centre will contain near-bottomless databases to store all forms of communication collected by the agency. This includes the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls & Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails - parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases & other digital "pocket litter."

In addition, the NSA has also created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns & unscramble codes. James Bamford writes the secret surveillance program "is, in some measure, the realization of the 'total information awareness' program created during the first term of the Bush administration," but later killed by Congress in 2003 due to privacy concerns & public outcry.

The author of the Wired Magazine article writes that the NSA has software that, quote, "searches US sources for target addresses, locations, countries & phone numbers, as well as watch-listed names, keywords & 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 & then transmitted to the NSA.

Now the NSA has constantly denied that they’re doing things like this & then, of course, it turns out that that’s precisely what they’ve been doing. They denied they were doing domestic eavesdropping back in the 1970s & it turned out they had Operation SHAMROCK & Operation MINARET, & they'd been reading every single telegram coming in or going out of the US for 30 years at that point, & also eavesdropping on antiwar veterans. That came out during the Church Committee enquiry.

More recently, George Bush said that the US was not eavesdropping on anybody without a warrant & then it turned-out that warrantless eavesdropping was all the go. Then along comes Obama who said that he was totally against that; he was going to vote against changing the law to allow that kind of thing & also to vote against giving immunity to the telecom companies.

The telecom companies could have been charged with a crime for violating everybody’s privacy. But then, when he - when push came to shove & it came time to vote, he didn’t. He voted opposite to what he said & he voted for the legislation that perpetuated warrantless eavesdropping. And he also favour of giving immunity to the telecom companies, which is again the opposite of what he’d said previously.

And now he’s been president for the last three years, while they’ve been building this enormous - or at least completing this enormous infrastructure, which they hadn’t even started when he was elected.

Trust who?