Shadow Factory Revelations: The Illegal NSA Domestic Spy Dragnet
January 23, 2009 in Free Information and Media, Human Rights, I doubt, I think, The Big Brother
Tags: Domestic Spying, nsa
Recently, additional news has surfaced regarding the government’s unlawful domestic surveillance operations. A former NSA analyst and whistle-blower, Russell Tice, has revealed that the government’s illegal spying on Americans is far more pervasive than previously known. In a brazen display of arrogance, government officials who have sworn to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution, are routinely violating their duties and responsibilities to the American people.
Information regarding the unconstitutional NSA surveillance program has been steadily trickling out for the past several years. Of particular import is the 2005 New York Times story that broke the news of illegal domestic spying, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s lawsuit detailing information that AT&T allowed the government to surreptitiously monitor the phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants, and the revelations in James Bamford’s books uncovering the widespread incompetence and illegality of NSA domestic intelligence gathering operations.
Russell Tice, the NSA whistle-blower, recently appeared on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC program and provided shocking details about information he uncovered during his tenure at the spy agency. According to Tice, organizations, news agencies, and journalists were targeted with a 24/7 data-collection dragnet despite evidence of criminal or terror-related involvement. Compartmentalization procedures were employed to prevent him (and other analysts) from knowing the full extent of the unlawful NSA domestic spying operations.
According to Tice, “The National Security Agency had access to all Americans’ communications — faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications. It didn’t matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications.”
Tice revealed that the information gathered by the NSA sweep is “digitized and put on databases.” A $130 million, the 470,000-square-foot facility in San Antonio is being built to warehouse the spy data. NSA’s new Texas Cryptology Center will employ 1,500 people and “may eventually be able to hold all the information in the world.” According to James Bamford, the author of “Shadow Factory“, the goal is to know “exactly what Americans were doing day by day, hour by hour, and second by second… where they shopped, what they bought, what movies they saw, what books they read, the toll booths they went through, the plane tickets they purchased, the hotels they stayed in… In other words, Total Information Awareness, the same Orwellian concept that John Poindexter had tried to develop while working for the Pentagon’s [Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency].”
Despite George W. Bush’s previous assurances to the contrary, The NSA has been violating the rights of American (non-terrorist) citizens for years. The false-flag 9-11 attack on America was a pretext for legislation and unconstitutional executive actions designed to erode the rights of average Americans. With Osama bin Laden still on the loose (wink-wink), the military submerged in two far-and-away imperialist quagmires, and the economy in free-fall, the blatant assault on individual rights and privacy is, unfortunately, a minor blip on most Americans’ radar screens.
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious ~ George Orwell (1984)
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February 27, 2009 at 5:23 pm
CeBIT leidet unter der Krise – von raivo pommer
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– Die Zeichen der Krise sind allgegenwärtig. Auch die CeBIT in Hannover als größte Computermesse der Welt bleibt in diesem Jahr von der globalen Wirtschaftsflaute nicht verschont.
Bereits vor einigen Jahren hatte – auch bedingt durch den wachsenden Wettbewerb mit anderen großen Messen – ein langsamer Ausstellerschwund eingesetzt. In diesem Jahr spitzte sich die Lage allerdings dramatisch zu. Insgesamt wird die Zahl der Aussteller um 25 Prozent einbrechen, lauten die jüngsten Schätzungen der Deutschen Messe AG. Die Ausrichter hoffen nun, für die Branche ein Signal des Aufbruchs zu setzen und Wege aus der Krise aufzeigen zu können.
Angesichts der Weltwirtschaftskrise seien auch 4300 Aussteller immerhin ein noch Erfolg, heißt es aus Hannover. Das Gros der Aussteller, die der Messe in diesem Jahr fernbleiben, seien vor allem kleinere Hersteller aus Asien. Die wichtigsten großen Unternehmen würden aber wieder nach Hannover kommen. Allerdings bleiben der Messe in diesem Jahr tatsächlich auch Schwergewichte wie Samsung oder Toshiba fern. Zugleich wollen die CeBIT-Macher unter dem Stichwort “Webciety” (Kunstwort aus “Web” und “Society”) auch kleine und größere Unternehmen aus der Internet-Branche anlocken, die bislang nicht zu den traditionellen Ausstellern zählen.
“Die Hightech-Industrie steht im Vergleich zu vielen anderen Branchen noch recht gut da”, sagt Bernhard Rohleder, Hauptgeschäftsführer des Branchenverbands BITKOM. Der Informationstechnologie- und Kommunikationsbranche komme bei der Bewältigung der Krise derzeit auch eine Schlüsselrolle zu. Viele kleine und große Unternehmen investieren gerade jetzt in neue IT- Systeme, um Kosten zu senken und in der angespannten Geschäftssituation weiter konkurrenzfähig zu bleiben.
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Die Schweiz, Luxemburg und Österreich suchen einen Weg, wie sie einen Rest ihrer Bankgeheimnisse retten können
Vier Wochen vor dem Treffen der 20 wichtigsten Wirtschaftsnationen der Welt (G20) kommt Bewegung in die Riege der europäischen Steueroasen. Die Schweiz, größter Finanzplatz für internationale Privatvermögen, hat sich am Freitag offiziell zu einer weiteren Aufweichung ihres Bankgeheimnisses bereit erklärt. Ähnliche Signale werden von einem Treffen der Finanzminister der Schweiz, Österreichs und Luxemburg am Sonntag in Luxemburg erwartet.
“Wir wollen die internationale Zusammenarbeit bei Steuerdelikten verbessern”, sagt der Schweizer Bundespräsident und Finanzminister Hans-Rudolf Merz nach einer Kabinettssitzung in Bern. Die Drohungen von Seiten großer Industriestaaten seien ungerechtfertigt, aber ernst zu nehmen. Für die Schweiz gelte es zu verhindern, dass sie von der G20 oder einem ähnlichen internationalen Forum auf eine Schwarze Liste gesetzt werde. “Auf Verträge einzugehen, die unter Sanktionen entstanden sind, wäre ganz schlecht”, sagte Merz. Erwartet wird, dass Österreich und Luxemburg bei dem Treffen am Sonntag ein ähnliche Position einnehmen werden. Belgien und Luxemburg, so sagte der britische Botschafter in Bern jüngst, hätten ohnehin signalisiert, dass sie das Bankgeheimnis nach 2013 “nicht in dieser Form weiterführen werden”. Ein Sprecher des Luxemburger Finanzministers wies diese Darstellung am Freitag jedoch zurück.
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