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Headlines : Government

Summary:

“Eavesdropping” is such an innocent sounding euphemism, is it not?

Let us call it what it is: Spying and Illegal Surveillance.

John McLaughlin, a former deputy director of the CIA, is paraphrased as describing the NSA program as “the most secret operation in the entire intelligence network, complete with its own code word – which itself is secret.”

Data-mining technology and techniques “increases pressure on the agency to bypass civil liberties and skirt formal legal channels of criminal investigation.”

The NSA was created to spy on foreign surveillance targets and was never meant to be used domestically against American citizens. These days, ordinary American citizens are considered a threat to national security and the interests of the global ruling-class elite.

_Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat who was then chairman of the select committee on intelligence, said that if a dictator ever took over, the NSA “could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back._”

Church made these statements in 1975, and things have only gotten worse since then. Much worse.

Today, with people expressing their innermost thoughts in e-mail messages, exposing their medical and financial records to the Internet, and chatting constantly on cellphones, the agency virtually has the ability to get inside a person’s mind.

Also See: [courtesy of Demockery101

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[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By James Bamford
Republished from The New York Times

Deep in a remote, fog-layered hollow near Sugar Grove, W.Va., hidden by fortress-like mountains, sits the country's largest eavesdropping bug.

Located in a “radio quiet” zone, the station’s large parabolic dishes secretly and silently sweep in millions of private telephone calls and e-mail messages an hour.

Run by the ultrasecret National Security Agency, the listening post intercepts all international communications entering the eastern United States. Another NSA listening post, in Yakima,Wash., eavesdrops on the western half of the country.

A hundred miles or so north of Sugar Grove, in Washington, the NSA has suddenly taken center stage in a political firestorm. The controversy over whether the president broke the law when he secretly ordered the NSA to bypass a special court and conduct warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens has even provoked some Democrats to call for his impeachment.

According to John E. McLaughlin, who as the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the fall of 2001 was among the first briefed on the program, this eavesdropping was the most secret operation in the entire intelligence network, complete with its own code word – which itself is secret.

Jokingly referred to as “No Such Agency,” the NSA was created in absolute secrecy in 1952 by President Harry S. Truman. Today, it is the largest intelligence agency. It is also the most important, providing…

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“Today, with people expressing their innermost thoughts in e-mail messages, exposing their medical and financial records to the Internet, and chatting constantly on cellphones, the agency virtually has the ability to get inside a person’s mind.” That’s what I’m talking about, Shiftshaper!

Thus, the NSA technocrats, lewdly in the grips of the hegemonic, paranoid ambitions of a religiously delusional U.S. corporate political class has taken the advertising agencies’ probing of sample groups to the end of the line. Perfectly valid beliefs of average American working persons regarding an evil ruling class system can be the trigger for human rights privacy violations.

Is it unfair to say that Americans are living in a virtually totalitarian environment, one that many outside groups in the world have already faced from America, accompanied by their own mass murders over decades and even centuries? This, directly or through proxies — like in the U.S.‘s SHAHed/SAVAKed bazaars, the U.S.’s DUVALIERed/TONTON MACUTed shantytowns, the U.S.’s SOMOZAed/NATIONAL GUARDed colonias, the U.S.’s PINOCHETed/DINA’d barrios, etc., etc., through agent orange and napalm bombing in Vietnam, extermination of native American tribes, enslavement of African families, and on and on and on.

This is a history of Nazism when the majority of hardworking, talented American working people and professionals have deferred or succumbed to a huge community actively and passionately involved in these patterns.

Lot08 @ 12/29/05 18:37:51

In an electronic society where the average citizen seeks the easiest means possible to get software, IE…by getting it free off the internet is it any wonder that your representative government, comprised by the people, seek to do the same thing but on a different scale. I’m more concerned about social engineering.

whophlungpoo @ 12/30/05 09:16:12

NSA Gave Other U.S. Agencies Information From Surveillance

ShiftShapers @ 01/01/06 23:28:55

Behind the Eavesdropping Story, a Loud Silence: The New York Times’s explanation of its decision to report, after what it said was a one-year delay, that the National Security Agency is eavesdropping domestically without court-approved warrants was woefully inadequate. And I have had unusual difficulty getting a better explanation for readers, despite the paper’s repeated pledges of greater transparency.

ShiftShapers @ 01/01/06 23:30:39

ACLU Calls for Investigation Into President’s Illegal Surveillance of U.S. Citizens

ShiftShapers @ 01/02/06 12:52:34

Justice Deputy Resisted Parts of Spy Program: A top Justice Department official objected in 2004 to aspects of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program and refused to sign on to its continued use amid concerns about its legality and oversight, according to officials with knowledge of the tense internal debate. The concerns appear to have played a part in the temporary suspension of the secret program.

ShiftShapers @ 01/02/06 16:54:10

Bush’s Long War with the Truth: George W. Bush does not appear to have made a New Year’s resolution to start telling the truth. His first comments to the press corps in 2006 tried to refute questions about his honesty by making at least two misleading assertions. New disclosures also make clear that the White House duped the New York Times in 2004 to stop the newspaper from disclosing Bush’s warrantless wiretaps – and possibly derailing his campaign for a second term.

ShiftShapers @ 01/02/06 16:55:54

interesting: