Welcome To The Totalitarian State by Walter Brasch

by Walter Brasch
Writer, Dandelion Salad
www.walterbrasch.com
June 21, 2013

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It makes no difference if Edward Snowden, who had fled to Hong Kong and revealed that the American government was spying upon American citizens, is a traitor or a hero.

Intelligence agencies from China, Russia, England, Israel, and maybe even Lichtenstein, probably already know that the National Security Administration (NSA) is collecting data of all the phone calls and emails of Americans, and linking them to conversations with foreign nationals.

Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails: A Massive Surveillance State

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http://www.democracynow.org – We speak with Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story Thursday that the National Security Agency has obtained access the central servers of nine major internet companies — including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo and Facebook. The Guardian and the Washington Post revealed the top secret program, code-named PRISM, after they obtained several slides from a 41-page training presentation for senior intelligence analysts. It explains how PRISM allows them to access emails, documents, audio and video chats, photographs, documents and connection logs that allow them to track a person or trace their connections to others. One slide lists the companies by name and the date when each provider began participating over the past six years. “Hundreds of millions of Americans, and hundreds of millions — in fact billions of people around the world — essentially rely on the internet exclusively to communicate with one another,” Greenwald says. “Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online chat, and social media messages, and emails, what you’re really talking about is the full extent of human communication.” This comes after Greenwald revealed Wednesday in another story that the NSA has been collecting the phone records of millions of Verizon customers. “They want to make sure that every single time human beings interact with one another … that they can watch it, and they can store it, and they can access it at any time.”

Big Brother FBI: Data-Mining Programs Resurrect “Total Information Awareness” by Tom Burghardt

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by Tom Burghardt
www.globalresearch.ca, October 8, 2009
Antifascist Calling– 2009-10-04

Like a vampire rising from it’s grave each night to feed on the privacy rights of Americans, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is moving forward with programs that drain the life blood from our constitutional liberties.

From the wholesale use of informants and provocateurs to stifle political dissent, to Wi-Fi hacking and viral computer spyware to follow our every move, the FBI has turned massive data-mining of personal information into a growth industry. In the process they are building the surveillance state long been dreamed of by American securocrats.

Christopher Pyle on Military Spying of Olympia Peace Activists

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Democracy Now!
www.democracynow.org
July 29, 2009

Christopher Pyle, Whistleblower Who Sparked Church Hearings of 1970s, on Military Spying of Olympia Peace Activists

ACLU Briefs Key House Committee on Privacy + videos

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Homeland Security Panel: Privacy Implications in Data Mining & Domestic Intelligence, & Information Sharing

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December 03, 2008 C-SPAN

Panel 1: Panelists spoke about national security, the practice of data mining, and protection of individual privacy rights. Among the issues they addressed were the ineffectiveness of the practice, government use of information gained through data mining, and ways data had been used for intelligence and security purposes. Data mining is the process of sorting through large amounts of data and picking out relevant information. Kate Martin moderated the panel and questions.

Pentagon To Test Unclassified Alternative to Talon

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by David Morgan
After Downing Street
Reuters
Aug 10, 2008

The Pentagon, which closed its Talon intelligence database nearly a year ago amid concerns about domestic spying, will soon begin testing an unclassified alternative for tracking possible threats to U.S. military bases, officials said on Tuesday.

The system, an FBI-operated program called eGuardian, would for the first time sever the Defense Department’s collection of data on suspicious activity from U.S. intelligence operations by placing the information in an unclassified database for law enforcement agencies, officials said.

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Secretive Pentagon Spy Unit: Closed or Outsourced?

Private Spies: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing, by Tom Burghardt

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by Tom Burghardt
Global Research, August 2, 2008
Antifascist Calling…

CACI Grabs Scottish Census Contract, Ignites Political Firestorm Over Torture Allegations

Glasgow’s Sunday Herald reported July 27 that a British subsidiary of CACI International was awarded an £18.5 million ($36.6) contract by the Scottish government to carry out the country’s next census. The announcement ignited a political firestorm.

“Keeping America Safe”- from the Constitution by Tom Burghardt

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by Tom Burghardt
Global Research, July 3, 2008
Antifascist Calling…

Total Information Awareness Finds its “Second Life” at IARPA

Like countless resurrections of Freddy Krueger, it appears that John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program has found a new, more accommodating home for its “mission” of “keeping America safe”–from the Constitution–at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA).

According to McClatchy investigative journalist Warren Strobel,

IARPA … is the U.S. intelligence community’s counterpart to DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which has been in business for more than 35 years and is meant to be a small, flexible R&D agency that funds high-risk, but potentially high-payoff technologies. (“What’s IARPA?”, McClatchy Washington Bureau, June 30, 2008)