CIA Director David Patraeus unwinds with some Wii golf, 2008. Photo: Wikimedia
More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannotwaitto spy on you through them.
The Bush Administration's holy grail of "Total Information Awareness," which suffered a setback when Congress pulled funding in 2003, has finally been realised under the Obama Regime.
"The NSA has become the largest, most covert, and potentially intrusive ever."
In Utah the NSA is constructing bottomless digital storage files, where they can store every email, blog, tweet, SMS/text message, or digitised phone call made. This vast data pile will retain the data indefinitely, to be scoured by super fast computers in real time, and also years later.
It will shortly be a reality for everyone at all times, not just those under arrest... anything you say can and presumably will be used against you.
Here is some further in-depth analysis from Democracy Now!
We speak with investigative reporter James Bamford, who says that the NSA has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas.
The Utah spy centre will contain near-bottomless databases to store all forms of communication collected by the agency. This included the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls and google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails - parking receipts, trade itineraries, bookstore purchases and other digital "pocket litter."
All of this reminds us of President Eisenhower's prophetic warning at the close of his term...
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That's not "change we can believe in."
Only days after clearing Congress, US President Barack Obama signed his name to H.R. 347 on Thursday, officially making it a federal offense to cause a disturbance at certain political events — essentially criminalizing protest in the States.
RT broke the newslast month that H.R. 347, the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, had overwhelmingly passed the US House of Representatives after only three lawmakers voted against it. On Thursday this week, President Obama inked his name to the legislation and authorized the government to start enforcing a law that has many Americans concerned over how the bill could bury the rights to assemble and protest as guaranteed in the US Constitution.
Under H.R. 347, which has more commonly been labeled the Trespass Bill by Congress, knowingly entering a restricted area that is under the jurisdiction of Secret Service protection can garner an arrest. The law is actually only a slight change to earlier legislation that made it an offense to knowingly and willfully commit such a crime. Under the Trespass Bill’s latest language chance, however, someone could end up in law enforcement custody for entering an area that they don’t realize is Secret Service protected and “engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct” or “impede[s] or disrupt[s] the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions.”
stickybeak |ˈstikēˌbēk| Austral./NZ, informal noun an inquisitive and prying person. verb [ intrans. ] pry into other people's affairs : I don't mean to stickybeak, but when is he going to leave?
