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The domestic spying programs of the government are pretty well known by now – wiretapping, intercepting phone calls, data tracking. But there are some other spying operations happening that you probably aren’t aware of.
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Published on Oct 11, 2013
Did you know the NSA is now outsourcing spying to usurp the Constitution?
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Utah Data Center of the NSA in Bluffdale, Utah CREDIT: Tom W. Suicer, SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain).
Utah lawmakers are considering a bill that would severely hinder the National Security Agency’s ability to work at its massive data center in the Beehive State. The legislation directs municipalities like Bluffdale, where the NSA’s building is located, to “refuse support to any federal agency which collects electronic data within this state.” RT’s Lindsay France takes a closer look at the bill and how it would affect the secretive spy agency.
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Published on Jul 26, 2013
Between the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program and the Associated Press scandal, the Obama administration has been under intense scrutiny for spying on journalists across the country. But one website, Anti-war.com, is fighting back and suing the FBI for spying on the media organization. Angela Keaton, director of operations at Anti-war.com, gives her first-hand account on going head-to-head with the US government for its practices.
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from Before its News
PUBLISHED: 04:32 EST, 26 May 2012 | UPDATED: 12:46 EST, 26 May
Department of Homeland Security forced to release list following freedom of information request.
Agency insists it only looks for evidence of genuine threats to the U.S. and not for signs of general dissent.
The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.
The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as ‘attack’, ‘Al Qaeda’, ‘terrorism‘ and ‘dirty bomb’ alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like ‘pork’, ‘cloud’, ‘team’ and ‘Mexico’.
Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats. . . . Read Complete Report
August 15, 2014
Spoleto, Italy
Back in March serious allegations came out of the Senate that the CIA was monitoring and even hacking Senate computers. They were denied vehemently at the time by CIA director John Brennan, who went so far as to say “that’s just beyond the scope of reason.”
Unsurprisingly, of course, the CIA has now come out saying that, yes, they did in fact spy on Senate aides’ computers. Oh, and that they’re sorry. Very sorry.
This is stuff that would have been a major scandal not too long ago, causing a public outcry for the heads of those responsible.
Today, it seems par for the course. . . Read Complete Article
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CIA Turns Gaze To Domestic surveillance
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TheAlexJonesChannel Published on Mar 7, 2014
David Knight discusses with callers on how the CIA has stopped looking into world affairs and now has turned it’s gaze on domestic surveillance.
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Published on Jul 3, 2013
The following interview originally aired on the June 12th, 2013 airing of the Ed Schultz Show. If you think that the NSA’s spying activities aren’t that bad because you have nothing to hide, just remember that it isn’t the intrusion of privacy that’s the only problem. One of the main problems with the NSA’s domestic spying is that it is completely unreliable, and it actually helped push us into Iraq years ago. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio discusses this with Nation magazine contributor George Zornick.
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It’s about time one of our glorious leaders did something about this ever-growing intrusion into our rights. It’s just too bad that the only political family in our government to care about people’s rights when it comes to the intrusiveness of big government/business into our lives is the Paul family. I guess most of the politicos are either to busy trying to get re- elected or trying to stay out of jail, or both. Thanks Rand for caring . . . EDITOR
from The Raw Story
By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 16:29 EDT
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced legislation on Tuesday that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from using unmanned aerial vehicles to conduct surveillance without a warrant.
“I’m not against technology per se,” he explained on CNN. “What I am for are the constitutional processes that protect our civil liberties. So, you know, it’s not like I’m against the police using cars or against them using airplanes or helicopters or robots. But I am for personal privacy for saying that no policeman will ever do this without asking a judge for permission.”
This year’s Federal Aviation Administration funding bill contained provisions that made it easier for law enforcement agencies to use drones within the United States. The new law requires the FAA to speed up the process by which it authorizes government agencies to operate drones. The law also requires the FAA to allow agencies to operate any drone weighing 4.4 pounds or less as long as it is operated within line of sight, during the day and below 400 feet in altitude.
The American Civil Liberties Union has warned the law could usher in an “era of aerial surveillance.” . . . Read Complete Report
CNN Rand Paul Says Stop using Drones for domestic spying
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From Daily Kos SAT JUL 20, 2013 AT 11:26 AM PDT
It’s amazing what our inverted totalitarian government can accomplish when they focus their collective institutionally paranoid minds upon a project. Take the NSA’s massive surveillance data processing and collections center in Bluffdale, Utah. As James Bamford noted in early 2012, it was scheduled to be up and running by September 2013, two months from now. But, according to NSA whistleblower Russell Tice, it already is.
And, before reading this eye-opening piece, I just want to state the obvious to all those reading these words, because this certainly is worthy of repetition: The simple fact remains that if all this information (and I earn my livelihood, in part, by working with personal-private information on a daily basis) is accessible to domestic law enforcement authorities, IT WILL BE ABUSED, and it most certainly is being abused; and, sooner or later, the odds are that this abuse will egregiously target not just YOU (it already has), but virtually all that struggle via non-violent protest for change in America. . . . Read Complete Report
Image: The National Security Agency of the United States is building a giant data center in Bluffdale Utah. It will cost $2 billion and collect so-called “yottobytes” of information; a yottobyte is a septillion bytes (10^24). According to one report, “It’s a state-of-the-art facility designed to support the intelligence community in its mission to, in turn, enable and protect the nation’s cybersecurity.” It will collect a wide range of data about people to prevent terrorism. In addition, it will have powerful computers built to decipher encrypted information. Ref: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 – The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) By James Bamford, Wired, 03.15.12; Source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Conceptual Site plan. CREDIT: Tom W. Sulcer. Source: Wikipedia Commons. (This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication).
