A word about prisms...

For anyone who’s been following the Ed Snowden whistleblowing story, I can;t help being suspicious of anyone intelligent who claims a Powerpoint presentation is proof of anything. 

A bit of digging brought this up. An interview from 2008 for a ('factual') book, The Shadow Factory. 

Turns out, the whistle was blown way back then.

“And that’s what happened. NSA began making these agreements with AT&T and other companies, and that in order to get access to the actual cables, they had to build these secret rooms in these buildings.

So what would happen would be the communications on the cables would come into the building, and then the cable would go to this thing called a splitter box, which was a box that had something that was similar to a prism, a glass prism. And the prism was shaped like a prism, and the light signals would come in, and they’d be split by the prism. And one copy of the light signal would go off to where it was supposed to be going in the telecom system, and the other half, this new cloned copy of the cables, would actually go one floor below to NSA’s secret room. So you had one copy of everything coming in and going to NSA’s secret room. And in the secret room was equipment by a private company called Narus, the very small company hardly anybody has ever heard of that created the hardware and the software to analyze these cables and then pick out the targets NSA is looking for and then forward the targeted communications onto NSA headquarters.”

From http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/14/james_bamford_the_shadow_factory_the

Why the media would want to pick up on this now is beyond me. 

Something to do with the Bilderberg Group Meeting going on at the same time? 

Something to do with the new push to tighten laws against digital piracy and internet porn?

Who knows. But Powerpoint slideshows, for all their prettiness, do not make evidence of anything except people can be so gullible.