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Monitoring America: How the U.S. Sees You
Washington Post ^ | 12/20/10 | Dana Priest & William M. Arkin

Posted on 12/20/2010 9:54:30 AM PST by Nachum

Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing. The government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency in the country feed information to Washington to buttress the work of the FBI,

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; frontpage; monitoring

1 posted on 12/20/2010 9:54:31 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Creepy. But then, that’s your tax dollars working for you. More often creepy than not.


2 posted on 12/20/2010 9:57:39 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: All

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
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3 posted on 12/20/2010 10:00:42 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." CS Lewis)
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To: Nachum

9/11 was just an excuse. The feds wanted this before 9/11, and under Bush they got what they wanted. (”Patriot” act)


4 posted on 12/20/2010 10:01:05 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
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To: Nachum

IMHO we are all slaves to the government, as long as it rules us, instead of serving us.


5 posted on 12/20/2010 10:09:21 AM PST by wizr (Keep the Faith! Even when it gets tough! Nothing else will do.)
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To: Nachum

I think we need to start a database of government employees and all the details around them.


6 posted on 12/20/2010 10:09:34 AM PST by microgood
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To: Nachum

We need something like that “Stuxnet” virus Israel launched against Iran, only this one needs to get nto the ATF files. It’s too bad I studied girls rather than programming.


7 posted on 12/20/2010 10:12:31 AM PST by oldfart (Obama nation = abomination. Think about it!)
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To: Still Thinking

Blame idiots who watch TV. TV empowers and keeps the muslim in power. Where are the losers on FR who attacked LTC Lakin?


8 posted on 12/20/2010 10:23:54 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: oldfart

You have no idea if Israel created Stuxnet. That was just speculation. Americans traded their liberty for a TV clicker. ALL of TV is 100% behind the regime and Prince Al Waleed’s Fox is no better. As long as they control Tv and idiots watch it - they are in control.


9 posted on 12/20/2010 10:27:53 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: Frantzie

I blame idiots who post the same moronic posts over and over on thread after thread.


10 posted on 12/20/2010 10:34:34 AM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Frantzie
Blame idiots who watch TV.

But, you repeat yourself. I think a TV ate your brain, Frantzie.

11 posted on 12/20/2010 10:40:00 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Nachum

Oh goody. American Stasi.


12 posted on 12/20/2010 10:59:45 AM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Nachum
"The old view that 'if we fight the terrorists abroad, we won't have to fight them here' is just that - the old view," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told police and firefighters recently.

Well maybe if we shut down Islamic immigration, we wouldn't be having this problem, Janet!

Ever get the feeling that they want these crazies among us as an excuse to create this monstrous invasion of our privacy?

13 posted on 12/20/2010 12:52:10 PM PST by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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