Pasdar’s Allegations

by Brian Beutler, The Media Consortium: Fri., Mar 7, 2008
Filed under: Congressional Oversight

The good people at the whistleblower protection outfit Government Accountability Project have released some documents about Babak Pasdar’s FISA allegations. They can be accessed here and here. The second one, crucially, is a Pasdar-signed affidavit describing the illegal surveillance. Of particular interest from the second document:

The scope of uncontrolled “Quantico Circuit” access allowed the third party to obtain significant information about any mobile phone subscribers, including –

• listening in and recording all conversations en-mass;
• collecting and recording mobile phone data use en-mass;
• obtaining the data they accessed from their mobile phone (Internet access, e-mail, web);
• trending their calling patterns and other call behavior;
• identifying inbound and outbound callers;
• tracking all in and outbound calls
• tracing the user’s physical location