🔍Amazon provides cloud infrastructure for CIA, NSA, and FBI operations
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Amazon Web Services provides cloud infrastructure for multiple intelligence agencies through contracts dating to 2013. Former NSA Director Keith Alexander joined AWS board in 2020, creating revolving door between surveillance state and corporate profits.
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Why This Matters
☁️ Your personal data feeds intelligence operations:
Amazon Web Services hosts classified intelligence databases while simultaneously collecting consumer data, creating unprecedented merger between commercial surveillance and government espionage capabilities
🔍 Tech executives gain top-secret clearances:
Amazon leaders access classified intelligence systems while running commercial operations, creating conflicts between corporate profits and national security that eliminate government control over spy infrastructure
💰 CIA outsources core functions to profit-driven corporations:
Intelligence agencies depend on Amazon for data storage, analysis tools, and computing power, meaning America spy capabilities now depend on a private company profit margins and business decisions
🏛️ Democratic oversight impossible:
Congressional committees cannot examine Amazon role in intelligence operations due to commercial secrecy and classification levels, creating accountability gaps that protect corporate interests over public oversight
🎯 Commercial and intelligence surveillance merge:
The same company that tracks your shopping habits and delivers packages now processes the most sensitive intelligence data, making it impossible to separate commercial and government surveillance
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When did Amazon Web Services first begin providing cloud services to the intelligence community?
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Which former NSA director joined Amazon's board of directors in 2020?
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What is the estimated value of the intelligence community's C2E cloud contract awarded to multiple companies including AWS?
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How did Edward Snowden characterize Keith Alexander's appointment to Amazon's board?
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Which NSA contract did Amazon win that was codenamed "WildandStormy"?
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What percentage of all websites does Amazon Web Services host, according to surveillance critics?
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How many intelligence agencies does the C2E contract serve beyond the CIA?
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What role did Keith Alexander play during the Abu Ghraib prison scandal?
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What is the primary constitutional concern raised by Amazon's integration with intelligence agencies?
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According to the NSA CIO, how far along is the agency in moving capabilities to Amazon's cloud?
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