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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

SPYING ON AMERICAN CITIZENS : NSA HAS YOUR NUMBER

ONE DEFINITION OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) MAY BE "POWER, PARANOIA AND TREASON".
ANYONE, EVERYONE WHO HAS MADE USE OF AMERICAN SOCIAL NETWORKS LIKE FACEBOOK, SENT OR RECEIVED EMAILS FROM THE USA, WATCHED VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE, USED SKYPE, SEARCHED FOR ANYTHING USING GOOGLE, POSTED TO AN AMERICAN NEWS GROUP OR FORUM, ALL HAVE HAD THEIR INFORMATION RECORDED BY THE NSA.

AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY WILL NEVER GIVE THAT BACK TO ONE PERSON ON THIS EARTH!
ALL THE DATA, ALL THE EMAILS, EVERYTHING IS IN THEIR HANDS NOW AND THEY WILL DO WITH IT AS THEY PLEASE.

THE FOLLOWING VIDEO  (TWO VERSIONS, SAME SPEECH BY U.S. REPRESENTATIVE FROM FLORIDA, ALAN GRAYSON) WAS JUST UPLOADED YESTERDAY AND THE LINK IS "INVALID" TODAY, SO YOU'LL HAVE TO CLICK THE LINK TO SEE IT, SO DO THAT, AND UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE TO US ALL.



http://youtu.be/ffSD2zRX-kQ

WE DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE UP OUR LIBERTY TO BE "SAFE", JUST AS GRAYSON SAID!
WHAT AN AMAZING PRESENTATION HE MAKES!

"'The more a society monitors, controls and observes its citizens, the less free it is...
The suspicion of excessive surveillance of communication is so alarming that it cannot be ignored. For that reason, openness and clarification by the U.S. administration itself is paramount at this point. All facts must be put on the table."
That is a quote from Germany's Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger according to Spiegel Online.
In Italy, the government official in charge of data protection, Antonello Soro, said that the surveillance that the NSA is doing "would not be legal in Italy" and would be "contrary to the principles of our legislation and would represent a very serious violation".
[See http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/10/obama-pressured-explain-nsa-surveillance]

The too-long-in-office Dianne Feinstein, if anyone cares, and I do not, said of the whistleblower Snowden, "What he did was an act of treason."


YEAH WELL SO IS EVERY "ACT" CONGRESS HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN FOR THE PAST 100 YEARS OR SO, AND SO IS EVERY 'VOTE' YOU CAST AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE, SO SHOULD WE READY TWO TRIALS FOR TREASON, FEINSTEIN? BETTER YET, TRY THE LOT OF YOU, YOU MISBEGOTTEN TRAITORS TO THE CONSTITUTION!
WHAT SNOWDEN DID IS REVEAL WHAT A BUNCH OF CRIMINALLY INSANE PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT HAVE DONE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! HE, AND OTHERS LIKE HIM THAT HAVE A SET SHOULD BE AWARDED A MEDAL OF SOME SORT!

RUSSIA, WHOM WE HAVE LONG WAGGED HYPOCRITICAL TONGUES ABOUT FOR THEIR SIMILAR SPYING, EXPRESSED AN OPINION ON THIS ONE, AND IT'S A FAIR OPINION!
<<Alexey Pushkov, head of the Duma's international affairs committee and a vocal US critic, said on Twitter: "By promising asylum to Snowden, Moscow has taken upon itself the protection of those persecuted for political reasons. There will be hysterics in the US. They only recognise this right for themselves."He continued: "Listening to telephones and tracking the internet, the US special services broke the laws of their country. In this case, Snowden, like Assange, is a human rights activist.">>

Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst who revealed secrets of the Vietnam war through the Pentagon Papers in 1971, has stated that these leaks are even more important than his and are perhaps the most significant leak in American history.

AND, JUST AS  BRADLEY MANNING HAS STATED, JUST AS ELLSBERG STATED WHEN HE BLEW THE LID OFF, JUST AS ASSANGE AND COUNTLESS OTHERS WHO HAVE COME OUT WITH THE TRUTHS WE'VE ONLY KNOWN BECAUSE OF THEIR WILLINGNESS TO PUT THEIR LIVES AND THEIR FREEDOM ON THE LINE, THEY DID IT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, FOR YOU AND FOR ME.


IF WE DID NOT HAVE THESE 'LEAKS' WE'D STILL BE CALLED "CONSPIRACY THEORISTS" AND RIDICULED INTO SILENCE, BUT NOW WE HAVE PROOF!

WE HAVE ROCK-SOLID PROOF THAT WE HAVE, INDEED, BECOME THE ENEMY, ALL OF US, THAT WE ARE ALL CONSIDERED "THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY", THAT, JUST AS FDR AND HIS HENCHMAN DECIDED IN 1933, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE "ENEMIES OF THE STATE" AND THEY HAVE PLANS FOR US.

IF WE DON'T MATCH THE COURAGE AND CONVICTION OF SNOWDEN ON THIS ONE, WE WILL ALL BE SORRY.

IF WE DON'T DEMAND THAT HEADS ROLL OVER THIS, WE ARE ALL AS GUILTY OF TREASON AS THOSE WHO DID THIS TO US, AS BAD AS THOSE WHO DECIDED WE BORE SUCH 'WATCHING', THOSE WHO WOULD LOCK US AWAY AT THE DROP OF A HAT AND TOSS THE KEY IN A VAT OF ACID.


IF WE DON'T ACT NOW, FINALLY, AT LONG LAST DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS BETRAYAL, THESE CRIMINAL ACTS, THESE BREACHES OF OUR FREEOMS AND RIGHTS AS CITIZENS OF THIS NATION, WE WILL ALL LIVE TO DEEPLY, BUT IRREVOCABLY, REGRET IT.

JAMES CLAPPER, HEAD OF THIS SPY RING, FLATLY DENIED LAST YEAR BEFORE CONGRESS THAT THE NSA WAS DOING THIS, REMEMBER?


WHEN QUESTIONED BY SENATOR RON WYDEN, WHO ASKED POINT-BLANK IF THE NSA WAS COLLECTING INFORMATION ON AMERICAN CITIZENS, CLAPPER VEHEMENTLY DENIED IT!
HE WAS LYING THEN, AND HOW MUCH MORE HE HAS OR WILL LIE IS UP FOR GRABS.
PEOPLE IN 'HIGH PLACES' ALL OVER THE GLOBE ARE UP IN ARMS OVER THIS.
HOW CAN WE NOT BE JUST AS IRATE?

German chancellor ANGELA MERKEL indicated she would press Obama on the revelations at a Berlin summit next week, while deputy European Commission chief Viviane Reding said she would press US officials in Dublin on Friday, adding that "a clear legal framework for the protection of personal data is not a luxury or constraint but a fundamental right".

Peter Schaar, Germany's federal data protection commissioner told the Guardian that it was unacceptable that US authorities have access to the data of European citizens "and the level of protection is lower than what is guaranteed for US citizens."

[WHICH IS NO GUARANTEE AT ALL, AS OBVIOUSLY WE'VE BEEN TOTALLY SCREWED.]


ALL OF YOU IN THE UK WHO READ HERE, TAKE NOTE.

The British foreign secretary William Hague DEFENDED the UK's use of intelligence gathered by the US.

In the House of Commons, Hague told MPs that British laws did not allow for "indiscriminate trawling" for information. "There is no danger of a deep state out of control in some way," he said.

[HOW BIG A LIE THAT IS WE MAY NEVER KNOW.]
But Hague was reluctant to go into detail on how Britain handled information offered by US intelligence agencies, as opposed to information requested, or whether it was subject to the same ministerial oversight, including warrants.
HE WAS RELUCTANT?
NO, HE WAS ON THE DEFENSE!

TO SAVE FACE OR SAVE HIS OWN BEHIND, TAKE YOUR CHOICE, THE WHITE HOUSE SAID THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD PLACE TO REASSESS THE PATRIOT ACT FOR "REVISION" TO PREVENT THIS SORT OF THING FROM HAPPENING.

NO, THAT IS A JOKE. 

OBAMA HAS HIS MIRROR IMAGE OF THE PATRIOT ACT IN THE HEINOUS NDAA!
THAT ADDED A FEW UNCONSTITUTIONAL FACTORS TO BUSH2'S DESPICABLE ABOMINATION, THE PATRIOT ACT.

"The NDAA has become the most controversial element of President Obama's foreign policy. Section 1021 of the NDAA bill of 2012 allowed for the "indefinite detention of American citizens without due process at the discretion of the President." Section 1021 has been challenged as a violation of constitutional principles and the United States Bill of Rights.
[BUT IT PASSED THE SENATE 98-0! EVERY SENATOR PRESENT SAID YES TO THIS BREACH OF PRIVACY WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT THANKS TO SNOWDEN!]
The Act was strongly opposed by the Center for Constitutional Rights... It was criticized in editorials published in The New York Times, Al-Jazeera, and The Guardian."
SEE: http://www.policymic.com/articles/20835/why-the-ndaa-bill-is-even-scarier-than-you-thought

BUT CONGRESS LOVED IT AND 98 SENATORS SAID YES, YES, DO IT, YES!

YEAH, AND WHERE THE HELL WAS ALL THE PROTEST WHEN BUSH2 BENT US OVER THE PATRIOT ACT AND VIOLATED US?

WHERE IS THE PROTEST, PERIOD?

OUR BEHINDS ARE IN A SLING AND NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING?
WHY?

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG IN AMERICA?
WE'RE TOLD TO TIGHTEN OUR BELTS, THAT WE MUST GO OVER THAT FISCAL CLIFF, THAT WE MUST SHUT DOWN THIS PROGRAM OR THAT AND ROB OTHER PROGRAMS LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE, BUT ALL THE WHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH...



Marine Corps Times reports   "the $650 billion bill contains $88.5 billion more for ongoing wars" and "would add $60 billion to the Navy's plans for the F-18 fighter program."

The newsletter said "the bill supports the Pentagon’s plans for the Air Force to spend $3.7 billion on the F-35 fighter program and the Navy to spend $3.2 billion, on what is the biggest weapon program in history."

Three billion was approved for the Army to enhance its ground services capabilities and to purchase Blackhawk helicopters.

The Navy was approved for an additional $778 million for the "advance procurement for attack submarines."

The Marine Corps Times said, "the Armed Services Committee's proposals on major weapon programs were left unscathed."

How’s that for the fiscal cliff, the sequestration process and tightening our belts?"

TRANSLATION: "TO BLAZES WITH THE 'COMMON CITIZEN' LET'S KEEP THE WAR MACHINE OILED AND RUNNING AND MAKE ALL THE MONEY WE CAN WHILE WE CAN, AND TO HELL WITH THE TROOPS ON THE GROUND."
What makes all of this even worse is that our top intelligence officials are making JOKES about this scandal.
YES, JOKES!

Just check out the wisecracks that the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, made just last Friday at an "awards ceremony":
"Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the black-tie crowd of more than 700 he would “address the elephant in the room” and proceeded, to applause, to denounce “the unauthorized leaks as reprehensible and egregious.”

Clapper characterized the program as completely legal, debated and reauthorized by Congress under strict oversight and by court order “to make our nation safe and secure.”
He then cracked a few jokes.

“Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up—so many emails to read!” Clapper said.

Greeting fellow banqueter John Pistole, the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration who recently reversed a planned policy to permit air travelers to carry certain knives on planes, Clapper said, “John, can I borrow your pocket knife?”

[SOURCE:

http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/fedblog/2013/06/banqueters-and-spying-news-bombshell/64598/?oref=river]
How in the world can he make a joke about reading our emails at a time like this?
This is how arrogant the U.S. intelligence community has become.  They feel like they can do whatever they want and get away with it."

THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE JOKING ABOUT THIS BECAUSE THEY HAVE SEEN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BE APATHETIC AND COMPLACENT AND SHEEPISH FOR ABOUT 100 YEARS OR MORE NOW AS THINGS WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE.

NONE OF THAT GROUP BELIEVES THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WILL DO ONE THING TO STOP THEM.

NONE OF THEM IMAGINE THAT THEY, THE DEMIGODS OF THE GOVERNMENT, CAN BE, OR EVER WILL BE TAKEN TO TASK FOR ANYTHING THEY DO.


ARE THEY RIGHT?
HOW LONG HAS THE JOKE BEEN ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?
SINCE WAY BEFORE THESE CLOWNS!


U.S. News & World Report says a lawsuit is being filed by a former Justice Department prosecutor...
AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, PalTalk, Skype, Yahoo! and Youtube will be named in the suit, an attorney says.

Klayman told U.S. News he will file a second class-action lawsuit Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia targeting government officials and each of the nine companies listed in a leaked National Security Agency slideshow as participants in the government's PRISM program.

SEE:
http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/06/11/nine-companies-tied-to-prism-obama-will-be-smacked-with-class-action-lawsuit-wednesday


THERE'S ALSO A VIDEO ON THAT SITE YOU NEED TO WATCH WHICH EXPLAINS ALL THIS NSA CRAP IN ABOUT A MINUTE. DO TAKE NOTE THAT MICROSOFT, GATES' BABY, MR. EUGENICS HIMSELF, WAS THE FIRST TO SIGN ON WITH THE NSA.
SEE:
http://www.usnews.com/news/features/news-video?freewheel=90080&sitesection=usnews&VID=24875850



RAND PAUL, EVER QUICK TO MAKE A SPLASH, SAYS HE'S GOING TO DO SOMETHING, BUT NOT SURE HOW. 
"I'm going to be asking all the Internet providers and all of the phone companies: Ask your customers to join me in a class action lawsuit," Paul said Sunday. "If we get 10 million Americans saying we don't want our phone records looked at, then maybe someone will wake up and something will change in Washington."

WELL, WAY OVER 10 MILLION HAVE BEEN RECORDED, SO WE MIGHT SUPPOSE 10 MILLION ARE ROYALLY PISSED-OFF ABOUT THIS AND JUST MIGHT SAY SO IN COURT...
NO? YES? MAYBE?


ALL OF FACEBOOK HAVE THEIR INFO STORED BY THE NSA NOW, AND I DO MEAN ALL OF THEIR INFO STORED.

NOW WE KNOW WHY FACEBOOK STARTED THAT "SHOW ME YOUR PHOTO ID OR ELSE" THING, EH?
SAME FOR YOUTUBE, WHICH WON'T EVEN LET YOU COMMENT ON A VIDEO NOW UNLESS YOU SELL YOUR ONLINE SOUL TO GOOGLE PLUS.



According to USA Today, the ACLU has also filed a lawsuit...


"National Security Agency surveillance programs came under more scrutiny Tuesday as the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit and a prominent senator and Internet giant Google called on the Obama administration to disclose more information.In its lawsuit, the ACLU said an NSA program that harvests phone calls violates the rights of all Americans.
"The program goes far beyond even the permissive limits set by the Patriot Act and represents a gross infringement of the freedom of association and the right to privacy," said Jameel Jaffer, the ACLU's deputy legal director."

SUPPOSEDLY, the National Security Agency is divided into two major missions: the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID), which produces FOREIGN 'SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE' information, and the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD), which 'PROTECTS' U.S. information systems.

PROTECTS?
FROM WHOM, ITS CITIZENS?

PROTECTS WHAT?
NSA PROTECTS ITS OWN. 
MAYBE, THAT'S IT?


NSA, AN UNKNOWN FOR OVER A GENERATION, HIDDEN FROM THOSE IT "PROTECTS".
The creation of NSA resulted from a December 10, 1951, memo sent by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Walter Bedell Smith to James S. Lay, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council.

The memo observed that "control over, and coordination of, the collection and processing of Communications Intelligence had proved ineffective" and recommended a survey of communications intelligence activities.

The proposal was approved on December 13, 1951, and the study authorized on December 28, 1951. The report was completed by June 13, 1952.

Generally known as the "Brownell Committee Report," after committee chairman Herbert Brownell, it surveyed the history of U.S. communications intelligence activities and suggested the need for a much greater degree of coordination and direction at the NATIONAL level.

As the change in the security agency's name indicated, the role of NSA was EXTENDED BEYOND THE ARMED FORCES.

IT WAS EXTENDED INTO YOUR PRIVATE HOMES, INTO YOUR PRIVATE LIVES.

By law, NSA's intelligence gathering is limited to foreign communications, but it never was and isn't now.

IT IS UNLIMITED, THANKS TO THE BUSH 2 PATRIOT ACT AND THE OBAMA NDAA
.


The creation of NSA was authorized in a letter written by President Harry S. Truman in June 1952.

The agency was formally established through a revision of National Security Council Intelligence Directive (NSCID) 9 on October 24, 1952, and officially came into existence on November 4, 1952.

TRUMAN'S LETTER ITSELF WAS CLASSIFIED AND WAS UNKNOWN TO THE PUBLIC FOR MORE THAN A GENERATION.
JUST ANOTHER 'SHADOW AGENCY' THAT WE, THE PEOPLE NEVER GOT TO VOTE ON, WEREN'T EVEN CONSULTED ABOUT.
JUST ANOTHER NOOSE AROUND OUR NECKS, JUST ANOTHER BREACH OF THE CONSTITUTION.

The Director of the National Security Agency serves as the Commander of the United States Cyber Command and Chief of the Central Security Service.
ACTUALLY, the NSA is directed by at least a lieutenant general or Vice Admiral.

NSA is a key component of the U.S. Intelligence Community, which is headed by the Director of National Intelligence. 

Keep in mind this started as a military agency, and it continues as one, which is also a breach of the constitution!


Gradually, NSA created new IT systems to deal with the flood of information from new technologies like the internet and cellphones.
These "systems" had some catchy names.

ThinThread contained advanced data mining capabilities. It also had a 'privacy mechanism'; surveillance was stored encrypted; decryption required a warrant. The research done under this program may have contributed to the technology used in later systems. Thinthread was cancelled when Michael Hayden chose Trailblazer, which did not include Thinthread's privacy system.[64]

Trailblazer Project ramped up circa 2000. SAIC, Boeing, CSC, IBM, and Litton worked on it. Some NSA whistleblowers complained internally about major problems surrounding Trailblazer. This led to investigations by Congress and the NSA and DoD Inspectors General.

The project was cancelled circa 2003-4; it was late, overbudget, and didn't do what it was supposed to do.

The Baltimore Sun ran articles about this in 2006–07. The government then raided the whistleblower's houses. One of them, Thomas Drake, was charged with 18 U.S.C. § 793(e) in 2010 in an unusual use of espionage law. He and his defenders claim that he was actually being persecuted for challenging the Trailblazer Project. In 2011, all 10 original charges against Drake were dropped.


Turbulence "system" started circa 2005.
It was developed in small, inexpensive 'test' pieces rather than one grand plan like Trailblazer.

It also included offensive cyber-warfare capabilities, like injecting malware into remote computers. Congress criticized Turbulence in 2007 for having similar bureaucratic problems as Trailblazer.


Turbulence was to be a realization of information processing at higher speeds in cyberspace.

REMEMBER, THE INTERNET WAS CREATED FOR THE MILITARY, WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED ARPANET, AND COMMISSIONED/FUNDED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT (ACTUALLY BY THOSE WHO FUND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT) WAY BACK IN THE 1960s, BUT THE 'DEEP THINKERS' WERE GOING IN THAT DIRECTION SINCE JUST BEFORE WORLD WAR II.

ALSO REMEMBER THAT THE INTERNET IS INTERNATIONAL, BUT DIDN'T BEGIN THAT WAY.
THE WHOLE THING CAME ABOUT SORT OF LIKE WHEN TOM SAWYER GOT ALL THOSE BOYS TO WHITEWASH THAT FENCE FOR HIM, BECAUSE HE SAID IT WAS SO IMPORTANT AND RARE A JOB, AND MADE THEM WANT IN ON IT.
THE U.S. BEGAN IT, BUT SOON BROUGHT OTHERS IN, GREAT MINDS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE.
The principal name spaces of the Internet are administered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), headquartered in Marina del Rey, California.

ICANN is the authority that coordinates the assignment of unique identifiers for use on the Internet, including domain names, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, application port numbers in the transport protocols, and many other parameters.

Globally unified name spaces, in which names and numbers are uniquely assigned, are essential for maintaining the global reach of the Internet. ICANN is governed by an INTERNATIONAL board of directors.

Nice read on who those directors are, here:
http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board
THEN GO LOOK UP PROFILES/BIOS ON THOSE FOLKS.

ARE PEOPLE ACTUALLY AWAKENING FROM THE LONG SLUMBER AFTER SEEING WHAT NSA CAN DO AND HAS DONE?
DARE WE DREAM?

There is a "bipartisan coalition" of 86 Internet companies and civil liberties organizations that have sent a letter to Congress demanding action on these issues. 

You can read the full letter right here

Some of the organizations involved include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the Center for Digital Democracy.

Will Congress listen to them?
Probably not.
CONGRE$$ LISTENS TO $$$$$$$$$$$$.

But at least SOME ARE trying to do something about this.
OR SO IT APPEARS...MAYBE...

There have been a couple of public opinion polls taken over the past few days that show some very curious results. 

A Rasmussen survey found that 59 percent of Americans are against the government secretly collecting our phone records and only 26 percent are in favor. 

But a Washington Post survey found that 56 percent of Americans consider the collecting of our phone records to be "acceptable" and only 41 percent consider the practice to be "unacceptable".

DAMNEDEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN! PEOPLE JUST DON'T CARE WHAT THEY LOSE!

WHAT ABOUT YOU?
WILL THIS OBVIOUS AN ASSAULT ON YOUR PRIVACY FINALLY MAKE YOU TAKE ACTION?
I HOPE SO...I HOPE WE'RE ALL FINALLY AWAKE NOW!
OH, AND BTW, I TOLD YOU SO!
http://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2013/02/national-security-agency-spies-are-us.html


CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT!


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