Tag: Deep State

Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records | WIRED

According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims. Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well.

The DAS program, formerly known as Hemisphere, is run in coordination with the telecom giant AT&T, which captures and conducts analysis of US call records for law enforcement agencies, from local police and sheriffs’ departments to US customs offices and postal inspectors across the country, according to a White House memo reviewed by WIRED. Records show that the White House has provided more than $6 million to the program, which allows the targeting of the records of any calls that use AT&T’s infrastructure—a maze of routers and switches that crisscross the United States.

Source: Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records | WIRED

I mean, I keep saying that they’re doing all of this, in the open, despite the clear intent and letter of the Constitution, but, here we are, and here we will continue to be, unless someone like Vivek Ramaswamy can get elected, and shut it down. Unfortunately, we’ve already witnessed our “deep state” kill three prominent national leaders to prevent them from changing their agenda, and watched in slow motion as no one was ever held accountable for these conspiracies, so it’s not like they’ll let him — or anyone like him — anywhere near the presidency.

The Government Controls the Horizontal and the Vertical

Feel Free to Panic Now

Welcome to today’s proof that the government “controls the horizontal and the vertical,” as the old TV show, the Outer Limits, used to say. I have all of this crap turned off. They pushed it through to everyone in the country anyway.

Take this as a reminder that every place you go, every text you send, every phone call you make, every email you send or receive, every web site you visit, every social media post, every thing you purchase by credit card… it’s all tracked and recorded. All someone in the bowels of the FBI or CIA has to do is put your name into a web app, and they can see it all, no warrant required. Edward Snowden told us about these systems a decade ago, and nothing has changed, except that he now has to spend the rest of his life in hiding.

White House urges reauthorization of Section 702 spy powers

While there may be only three cases of intentional misconduct reported, the briefing does seem to gloss over the hundreds of thousands of instances of FBI misuse between 2020 and early 2021 alone — as well as the time and effort it takes to declassify these top-secret disclosures to give the public any insight into how these surveillance powers are being abused.

Source: White House urges reauthorization of Section 702 spy powers

Once and yet again, the UK press is doing the job the American press won’t or can’t do.

Secret Service and ICE break the law with fake phone towers • The Register

Investigations ‘at risk’ from sloppy surveillance uncovered by audit probe

Source: Secret Service and ICE break the law with fake phone towers • The Register

Once again, the UK media is doing the job the US media won’t. This has been the case for several years now. Whatever truth-to-power legacy the likes of Ellsburg and Woodward and Bernstein laid down is utterly washed away now. I smell collusion between the US deep state and ALL US media companies now.

There’s a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo here about how the laws are written and interpreted, versus the departments following their own, internal guidelines. To me, it’s all the same as the situation with privacy laws, and all the privacy policies we click through and agree to every day. These kinds of laws are written to be exploited in specific ways, and designed to be completely obtuse, even to other lawyers. Even if you could somehow look inside these organizations, and prove that laws were being broken by either the government or some Fortune 100, it would take an army of elite lawyers and specialists to successfully litigate it. The end result is the same: “they” are going to do whatever they want, regardless of the legalese they throw down on the desk.

Look no further than the continuing saga of Edward Snowden. He laid several smoking guns on the table, proving that the government knowingly broke their own laws, regarding several of our Constitutional rights. He’s still on the lamb, and Congress has done nothing to change the situation. So, this is nice and all, but, really, who cares? It’s clear nothing can be done about it, or anything like it.

Videos of people absolutely losing it are becoming really, really popular on sites like TikTok. What they show is a society in which a lot of people are at their breaking point at any given time. In my opinion, these kinds of stories — that we are absolutely powerless against a government that is actively, purposely violating the basic tenets of its charter — is a large factor in why everyone is so pissed off all the time.