Re: NSA NSA NSA hey hey hey SHOW US THE WAY RAY!!!

V-gorilla, YOU still doing it doggie style with Art Deco?

How do you both get by on the low LOW sub-salary form your DARPA
checks?

Total Information Awareness and the Neocon Stasi State

by Kurt Nimmo

December 29, 2005
One day in The Empire

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I recall laughing sardonically back in September 2003 when our bought
and paid for Congress expected us to believe it had eliminated the
so-called Total Information Awareness program run by Iran-Contra
convicted criminal John Poindexter, then-director of DARPA's
Information Awareness Office (see this useless bill). I said at the
time this was nothing more than smoke and mirrors because spooks are
rarely if ever dissuaded from their criminal efforts, least of all at
the behest of Congress, populated as it is by scoundrels who are
supposedly the representatives of the people.

As noted by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, this all but
meaningless decree issued by Congress did not "necessarily signal the
end of other government data-mining initiatives that are similar to
TIA. Projects such as the Novel Intelligence from Massive Data within
the Intelligence Community Advanced Research and Development Activity
(ARDA) will apparently move forward. The FBI and the Transportation
Security Administration are also working on data-mining projects that
will fuse commercial databases, public databases, and intelligence data
and had meetings with TIA developers."

And move forward in a big way, as we now understand (and considering
the sordid history of the Pentagon, CIA, FBI, NSA, and sundry other
spook agencies, we should have understood well before the current
scandal). "Besides the NSA, the Pentagon, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security and dozens of
private contractors are spying on millions of Americans 24 hours a day,
seven days a week, 365 days a year," writes Doug Thompson for Capitol
Hill Blue. "It's a total effort to build dossiers on as many
Americans as possible," a former NSA agent "who quit in disgust over
use of the agency to spy on Americans" told Thompson. "We're no
longer in the business of tracking our enemies. We're spying on
everyday Americans." In short, a massive and all-encompassing spook
apparatus-the distinction of all totalitarian states (think East
Germany's Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, or Stasi)-has taken
root here in America, a country that once prided itself on a
Constitution and a Bill of Rights, now doormats for the Straussian
neocons and their slimebucket neolib confederates to wipe their
blood-stained shoes on as they enter the "the People's House," now
little more than a brothel and a rogue's gallery.

As for Poindexter's TIA:

Although supposedly killed by Congress more than 18 months ago, the
Defense Advance Project Research Agency's Terrorist Information
Awareness (TIA) system, formerly called the "Total Information
Awareness" program, is alive and well and collecting data in real time
on Americans at a computer center located at 3801 Fairfax Drive in
Arlington, Virginia.

The system, set up by retired admiral John Poindexter, once convicted
of lying to Congress in the Iran-Contra scandal, compiles financial,
travel and other data on the day-to-day activities of Americans and
then runs that data through a computer model to look for patterns that
the agency deems "terrorist-related behavior."

Poindexter admits the program was quietly moved into the Pentagon's
"black bag" program where it does escapes Congressional oversight.

Of course, the Pentagon and the spook monolith are not interested in
the "day-to-day activities" of the vast majority of most Americans,
most who have "nothing to hide" (as more than a few witless Americans
have told me over the years; for background on this attitude, see
Americans split on feds listening in), but rather political enemies of
the neocons and their fellow travelers ensconced in the White House and
the Department of Forever War. "The Pentagon has built a massive
database of Americans it considers threats, including members of
antiwar groups, peace activists and writers opposed to the war in Iraq.
Pentagon officials now claim they are 'reviewing the files' to see if
the information is necessary to the 'war on terrorism,'" Thompson
writes. In other words, the war on our civil liberties-especially the
civil liberties of those of us considered a "threat" to the Bushcons
and Company (and in Bushzarro world, it is a threat to practice the
First Amendment and hold up an anti-Bush sign in public).

"Given the power granted to the office of the presidency and the
unaccountability of the intelligence agencies, widespread illegal
domestic operations are certain," warns Verne Lyon, a former CIA
undercover operative. In fact, the snoops were unleashed a long time
ago, explains Richard Polenberg, professor of history at Cornell
University. "The era of the First World War witnessed several
fundamental changes in the role of the American federal government. Not
the least of these was the use of military services as a counter-force
against disaffected elements of the civilian population-particularly
against radical labor organizers and leftist intellectuals. This
development had long-lasting consequences, beginning a tradition that
continued, with few lapses, through the Second World War and beyond."

"The public exposure of COINTELPRO and other government abuses resulted
in a flurry of apparent reform in the 1970s, but domestic covert action
did not end. It has persisted, and seems a permanent feature of our
government. Much of today's domestic covert action can also be kept
concealed because of government secrecy that has been restored," note
Mike Cassidy and Will Miller.

Much of what was done outside the law under COINTELPRO was later
legalized by Executive Order 12333 (12/4/81). There is every reason to
believe that even what was not legalized is still going on as well.
Lest we forget, Lt. Col. Oliver North funded and orchestrated from the
White House basement break-ins and other "dirty tricks" to defeat
congressional critics of U.S. policy in Central America and to
neutralize grassroots protest. Special Prosecutor Walsh found evidence
that North and Richard Secord (architect of the 1960s covert actions in
Cambodia) used Iran-Contra funds to harass the Christic Institute, a
church-funded public interest group specializing in exposing government
misconduct.

North also helped other administration officials at the Federal
Emergency Management Administration develop contingency plans for
suspending the Constitution, establishing martial law, and holding
political dissidents in concentration camps in the event of "national
opposition against a U.S. military invasion abroad." There were reports
of similar activities and preparations in response to the opposition to
the Gulf War in 1991. Even today, there is pending litigation against
the FBI involving alleged misconduct in connection with the near-fatal
bombing of Judi Bari.

Bush-or rather, since Bush is an enfeebled cardboard cut-out of a
president, the Straussian-Machiavellian neocons-are simply using
well-established tools in an all-out effort to destroy what remains of
the Constitution, a prerequisite for the sort of total war they
envision first against Islam (in the name of the Jabotinsky Zionists in
Israel) and then against all comers who would question or challenge
U.S.-corporate hegemony. It is certainly no mistake the shakers and
movers of the Bushcon administration are former Iran-Contra alumni,
well-versed in the methods and means of totalitarianism.

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