!!! Overview[1]
[{$pagename}] is an [National Security Agency] ([NSA]) [SIGINT] program that was first established in [1985|Year 1985], according to NSA documents, and involves tapping into international telecommunications cables, routers, and switches.


The documents, provided in [2013|Year 2013] by the former agency contractor [Edward Snowden], were jointly reviewed by The New York Times and ProPublica. 


The [NSA], [AT&T] and [Verizon] declined to discuss the findings from the files. "We don’t comment on matters of [National Security]", an AT&T spokesman said.[2]


In the words of Thomas Drake, a former [NSA] senior executive who blew the whistle on the agency’s reckless spending and invasive surveillance in [2006|Year 2006], [{$pagename}] is the [NSA]’s project to “own the Internet.” [{$pagename}] is what Drake called an “umbrella program.” It incorporates many different operations, such as [BLARNEY], [OAKSTAR], and [STORMBREW] (discussed below), that intercept massive amounts of international Internet [traffic] by various means.[3]

!! What data is collected? 
In an email to the Daily Dot, Drake described [{$pagename}] as focused on collecting messages and phone calls at “the main [Internet] backbone links/junctions of the undersea trunk/cable fiber optic systems.” On a slide released by O Globo (presumably depicting [{$pagename}]’s reach), there is an image of what appears to be North America’s submarine cables.

!! Category
%%category [Government Surveillance]%%

!! More Information
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* [#1] - [THE WIRETAP ROOMS|https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2018-06-26- 
* [#2] - [AT&T Helped U.S. Spy on Internet on a Vast Scale|https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/politics/att-helped-nsa-spy-on-an-array-of-internet-traffic.html|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2018-06-26- 
* [#2] - [The definitive guide to NSA spy programs|https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/nsa-spy-prgrams-prism-fairview-blarney/#fairview|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2018-06-26-