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Posted on 06/06/2013 7:10:52 PM PDT by kristinn
Analysts at the National Security Agency can now secretly access real-time user data provided by as many as 50 American companies, ranging from credit rating agencies to internet service providers, two government officials familiar with the arrangements said.
Several of the companies have provided records continuously since 2006, while others have given the agency sporadic access, these officials said. These officials disclosed the number of participating companies in order to provide context for a series of disclosures about the NSA's domestic collection policies. The officials, contacted independently, repeatedly said that "domestic collection" does not mean that the target is based in the U.S. or is a U.S. citizen; rather, it refers only to the origin of the data.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that U.S. credit card companies had also provided customer information. The officials would not disclose the names of the companies because, they said, doing so would provide U.S. enemies with a list of companies to avoid. They declined to confirm the list of participants in an internet monitoring program revealed by the Washington Post and the Guardian, but both confirmed that the program existed.
"The idea is to create a mosaic. We get a tip. We vet it. Then we mine the data for intelligence," one of the officials said.
SNIP
From the different types of data, including their credit card purchases, the locations they sign in to the internet from, and even local police arrest logs, the NSA can track people it considers terrorism or espionage suspects in near-real time. An internet geo-location cell is on constant standby to help analysts determine where a subject logs in from.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Has the 4th amendment been violated?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Once a tip is received, the data is mined, and then 3 guys in a pool of water decide whether you are up to something and what your motive is.
Someone has seriously pissed off Langeley.
Big time. If this doesn't qualify as an unreasonable search what does?
Big time. If this doesn't qualify as an unreasonable search what does?
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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As I posted somewhere else, a comment from another forum:
“Had this existed in the 1700s, the Founders would have covered It under the 3rd amendment. Our government is literally quartering soldiers in our homes today.”
I hate to say this but the entire thing needs to be shut down. I hope we have a govt shutdown over funding these organizations like NSA, IRS and DHS. It will be a short-term disaster but it would start the discussion of the size and scope of government that we need to have.
Way too much blockbuster stuff coming out at once. Makes me suspicious team kenya is doing a scandal dump. Next the WH will blame everything on “government” out of control. Like they are trying to minimize IRS targeting by rolling all the IRS scandals into one story.
Never thought I would hear a leftist blame something on big government. LOL.
Good movie for the time.
To: tobyhill
“PatCon” was an ambitious SPLC/FBI op to monitor ALL “right-wing” groups in the USA.
The final OkBomb arrests at OKC were timed VERY delicately in order to permit for maximal prosecution and drama.
But the field is messy unlike HQ, and the blast timetable was suddenly moved up at the last minute, and the blast did go off, leaving the authorities with a HUGE tar-baby on their hands.
But McVeigh’s cover was intact, and very few knew he was a government asset. But there had been 170 deaths that had to be blamed on SOMEONE, and the very worried suits in DC decided McVeigh was then best used as a fall-guy, instead of carrying on in his capacity as an agent.
His sheep-dipping process had involved a very credible process of going around acting nutty, the better to convince genuine kooks, but it would also serve especially well to convince liberal media people of his dastardly and solitary culpability.
Did the gummint WANT to blow up their own building..? Probably not, but they did put all the pieces in place.
A gov that would burn down churches, shoot mommmies in the head, blow up a day-care center:
Would they smuggle guns to narcos?
Would they, say, uh...bug the media?
Would they relentlessly harass 500 groups and even individual donors?
Would they spy on the communications of the innocent American public?
WOULD THEY SPY ON MEMBERS OF CONGRESS?
"We determine what court decision we want, then we mine the data on the Judge (or Justice) or Congressman (especially the conservative ones), then we create a manila folder containing the incriminating information and intimidating threat then put a big 'FBI' sticker on the outside, then we get the ruling we want."
Gamers help them test the software used for the tracking. Here’s an example of free electronic bling from Google http://www.ingress.com/
Americans are too entertainment addicted to resist the candy.
“Someone has seriously pissed off Langeley.”
Could be related to Benghazi. Revenge?
“We get a tip. We vet it.”
Unless a marxist usurper runs for the highest office in the world.
It also jives with Obama's appointment of Susan Rice.
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