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Headlines : Civil Liberties

Summary:

CIFA is little more than an excuse to get the military back in the business of “investigating” (subverting the Constitutional rights) of Americans. “The [Bush stacked] commission urged that CIFA be given authority to carry out domestic criminal investigations and clandestine operations against potential threats inside the United States,” including the threat of “treason.“

According to the Pentagon, it does not want to spy on “innocent” Americans, according to the Christian Science Monitor. Of course, this depends on the Pentagon’s definition of “innocent.” If the Pentagon’s past (and recent, in relation to Cindy Sheehan) activities are any indication, “innocent” Americans are those who do not criticize the government, who dutifully wave little plastic American flags made in China, and encourage their kids to become cannon fodder for the neocons.

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By Kurt Nimmo
Republished from Alternative Press Review

Our new COINTELPRO, run by military intelligence and probably the CIA, will make the old COINTELPRO pale in comparison.

The Washington Post reports today:

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 American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, defines treason as follows:

Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies.

If we are to believe this news item, the freshly minted and tasked CIFA will investigate people with questionable “allegiance” to the Bush administration. Princeton University’s WordNet defines allegiance as “the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign)” and a synonym is fealty, defined as fidelity owed by a vassal to a feudal lord.

Of course, we long ago issued a Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights precisely to throw off a tyrannical monarch. Now…

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the entire realingment and restructuring of the US intelligence services

after demoting intelligence individuals from his NSC in 2001. Think about it. (Just not outloud, with the new domestic NCS)

From The Washington Post

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.

scooter @ 11/30/05 23:23:35