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.
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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.
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Intense converation with Greta and Gowdy on right now.
I didn’t think anyone else remembered that movie. I think Eric Braeden may still have called himself Hans Gudegast when he made it.
Surely and probably more than one.
Are all the scandals raining down all of a sudden PURPOSEFUL; to accelerate impeachment proceedings on Benghazi Barry BEFORE the truth comes out on his INELIGIBILITY?
If he’s found to be a fraud, wouldn’t every law he’s enacted, every Czar, every E.O. be moot?
Perhaps his commie handlers would rather he be impeached as a way of insuring protection of the American devastation his works will/ARE bringing to fruition.
Any thoughts?
When is Benghazi going to come back into the picture, anyone know?
Benghazi AND Team 6.
Our best men are being avenged.
Basic Cloward Piven...overwhelm the system. Nothing unique here. Just the strategy in full effect.
People just refuse to accept the evidence before them and call it tinfoil. Which is why it works.
Hmmmm.. I’m thinking this leak was triggered by team 0bama themselves, so as to bring back the ‘Bush’s fault’ mantra and attach his name to the scandals. It’s worked so well the past four years.
Loved the movie!
There’s something going on here that’s not completely apparent yet. IMO, the dam is about to break and drown the Obuma administration. Everything breaking in rapid succession is not random. There’s a well-managed plan in action. I’m thinking DIA (not CIA) is pushing levers and buttons.
Just speculating.
what is DIA
Who knew Maxine Waters was on the cutting edge of Intelligence when she said that Obama had a data base that could track everybody. Of course, she thought it was a good thing.
And that would be the resident at 1600 Penn. I think they should monitor what goes on there.
Obama made it quite clear who the terrorists are. Not the jihadis, but his political opponents. US.
It is easy for the average person to be lulled into a sense that the people in power now are part of an unbroken line of ideology going back to the Constitution. That their motives and allegiances only vary a bit but otherwise follow along a steady trajectory of protecting the citizenry and the integrity of our institutions. Nothing could be further from the truth. The executive branch has been hijacked by a criminal organization, involved in the deepest and most dangerous conspiracies to have ever shaken our republic. Read again if it didn’t sink in.
“Are all the scandals raining down all of a sudden PURPOSEFUL; to accelerate impeachment proceedings on Benghazi Barry BEFORE the truth comes out on his INELIGIBILITY?”
Hmmmmm.
I think most folks seeing the forged “date stamp” on his Selective Service card would conclude it’s a fake document.
The problem for the Marxists is, it just takes ONE of his many bogus documents to be debunked as fraudulent before the question immediately arises: “Were the last 4 years of Presidential actions/signatures legit, or committed by a usurper?”
Defense Intelligence Agency
“There’s something going on here that’s not completely apparent yet. IMO, the dam is about to break and drown the Obuma administration.”
I agree.
I think folks inside the fed gov’t at top levels have gotten a whiff of PHASE 2 (or seen bits of the blueprints) and panicked.
They’re blowing the whistle in bite-sized chunks the public will (i) Believe, and (ii) Can digest.
The other approach would be “Go on FOX programs and announce Obama is a fascist dictator who has turned against the American people and plans to screw us.”
Although I believe that, most Americans probably wouldn’t. The leftist MSM could also dismiss that as exaggeration/paranoia.
It’s an inter-agency, inter-department war, methinks.
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