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Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans
Wired | December 13, 2012 | Kim Zetter
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969135/posts
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Note Date - Posted on 12/15/2012
Massive new surveillance program uncovered by Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the little-known National Counterterrorism Center, based in an unmarked building in McLean, Va., has been granted sweeping new authority to store and monitor massive datasets about innocent Americans.
After internal wrangling over privacy and civil liberties issues, the Justice Department reportedly signed off on controversial new guidelines earlier this year. The guidelines allow the NCTC, for the first time, to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, using predictive pattern-matching, to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior.
The data the counterterrorism center has access to, according to the Journal, includes entire government databasesflight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others.
Notably, the Journal reports that these changes also allow databases about U.S. civilians to be handed over to foreign governments for analysis, presumably so that they too can attempt to determine future criminal actions. The Department of Homeland
Securitys former chief privacy officer said that it represents a sea change in the way that the government interacts with the general public.
Piasa posted Today, 4/5/2018:
The NCC ...that was the former workplace of Obama CIA chief John O. Brennan, the communist.
Thank you, piasa. Good find.
Thanks LucyT. This is probably what one of Obama's fag-hags was talking about.