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Headlines : Civil LibertiesPentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
Among the steps already taken by the Pentagon that enhanced its domestic capabilities was the establishment after 9/11 of Northern Command, or Northcom, in Colorado Springs, to provide military forces to help in reacting to terrorist threats in the continental United States. Today, Northcom’s intelligence centers in Colorado and Texas fuse reports from CIFA, the FBI and other U.S. agencies, and are staffed by 290 intelligence analysts. That is more than the roughly 200 analysts working for the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and far more than those at the Department of Homeland Security.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from The Washington Post
The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world.
The moves have taken place on several fronts. The White House is considering expanding the power of a little-known Pentagon agency called the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, which was created three years ago. The proposal, made by a presidential commission, would transform CIFA from an office that coordinates Pentagon security efforts – including protecting military facilities from attack – to one that also has authority to investigate crimes within the United States such as treason, foreign or terrorist sabotage or even economic espionage.
The Pentagon has pushed legislation on Capitol Hill that would create an intelligence exception to the Privacy Act, allowing the FBI and others to share information gathered about U.S. citizens with the Pentagon, CIA and other intelligence agencies, as long as the data is deemed to be related to foreign intelligence. Backers say the measure is needed to strengthen investigations into terrorism or weapons of mass destruction.
The proposals, and other Pentagon steps aimed at improving its ability to analyze counterterrorism intelligence collected inside…
Posted by ShiftShapers
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What is CounterIntelligence Field Activity?
Kurt Nimmo: CIFA: The Pentagon’s COINTELPRO
cfia?,,,,, the eagle eyes upon us?,,,,,fully utilizing the tools of the 21st century?,,,,pretty much sounds like computer cross lists to me,,,, which crosses my mind every time i voice my opinion here,,,, and now you can detain foreign nationals without charge and indefinately and “persuade “an answer from them? .... as a canadian vocal about the tyrrany of capitalists and the military i am terrified by the prospect of having absolutely no rights one step inside your border….. in your war on terror the direction of the paranioa is managing to terrorise virtually everyone,,,,,, what will you think of next?.... oh ya merry christmas eagle guy…. makes me feel better knowing this will be read by someone with keen interest ,,,,,,,, chuckle chuckle
I’m Canadian and there is an easy way to stay safe, stay off US soil.
And pray that the federation doesn’t fall apart, because if quebec nationalizes, canada is dead. It will be swallowed up by the USA piece by piece.
P.S. It also helps to have a EU passport, just in case.
I hate finding stuff like this… (old comments from related blog )
ANYONE WHO deliberately set out to invent a government program with the specific aim of terrifying the Orwell-reading public could hardly have improved on the Information Awareness Office. Tucked away in the outer reaches of the Defense Department, brandishing an eerie and cryptic logo — an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid and the slogan “Scientia Est Potentia” (“Knowledge Is Power”) — the office is headed by retired Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter, the Reagan administration official who was convicted in the wake of the Iran-contra scandal of five felony counts of lying to Congress, destroying official documents and obstructing the congressional inquiry into the affair. Not surprisingly, there have already been some fast-breathing reactions to recently published information about the office, including allegations that it is funded by the Homeland Security Bill (it isn’t) and that Adm. Poindexter has compiled a computer dossier on every American (he hasn’t, or not yet).
In fact, the program is still a research project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the high-tech innovators who helped create the Internet — and who claim that this project is equally benign. Among other things, the Information Awareness Office is trying to find ways of better identifying potentially dangerous people by using video cameras and biometrics, and of processing large amounts of data from different sources so as to predict and prevent terrorist attacks (the “Total Information Awareness System”). Police tracking the Washington sniper suspects might, for example, have caught them more quickly with the help of a computer program that could simultaneously search their motel records, their immigration and police histories, and the traffic violations tied to their Chevrolet Caprice.
From The Washington Post
Welcome to OSINT....
and the future of Domestic Intelligence (along with the NCS )
And a more recent CIA press release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8 November 2005
DNI and D/CIA Announce Establishment of the DNI Open Source Center
The Director of National Intelligence, John D. Negroponte, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Porter J. Goss, today announced the creation of the DNI Open Source Center (OSC) based at CIA, effective 1 November 2005.
DCIA Porter Goss, who will administer the Center on behalf of the DNI, said, “The DNI Open Source Center represents a major strategic initiative and commitment to the value we place on openly available information.”
This is highlighted in the old blog above, with an excerpt on the El Paso Intelligence Centre (EPIC)
And Butt, if you read this, I am still trying to pull together that blog on Intelligence Services