Posted on 11/23/2013 9:29:51 PM PST by Nachum
Meet the Spies Doing the NSA's Dirty Work.
With every fresh leak, the world learns more about the U.S. National Security Agency's massive and controversial surveillance apparatus. Lost in the commotion has been the story of the NSA's indispensable partner in its global spying operations: an obscure, clandestine unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that, even for a surveillance agency, keeps a low profile.
When the media and members of Congress say the NSA spies on Americans, what they really mean is that the FBI helps the NSA do it, providing a technical and legal infrastructure that permits the NSA, which by law collects foreign intelligence, to operate on U.S. soil. It's the FBI, a domestic U.S. law enforcement agency, that collects digital information from at least nine American technology companies as part of the NSA's Prism system. It was the FBI that petitioned the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to order Verizon Business Network Services, one of the United States' biggest telecom carriers for corporations, to hand over the call records of millions of its customers to the NSA.
But the FBI is no mere errand boy for the United States' biggest intelligence agency. It carries out its own signals intelligence operations and is trying to collect huge amounts of email and Internet data from U.S. companies -- an operation that the NSA once conducted, was reprimanded for, and says it abandoned.
The heart of the FBI's signals intelligence activities is an obscure organization called the Data Intercept Technology Unit, or DITU (pronounced DEE-too). The handful of news articles that mentioned it prior to revelations of NSA surveillance this summer did so mostly in passing. It has barely been discussed in congressional testimony. An NSA PowerPoint presentation given to journalists by former NSA contractor
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Yep.
Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.
I’m afraid this is our nation now.
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Welcome to glorious new Soviet Amerika comrade!
Depressing
Whoa. So, by recording the call for the NICS check, they aren’t making a registry from NICS data, but could have a record of every FFL communication, who was being checked out, etc. IOW, a database of NICS data, unrelated to the BATFE officially, collected as ‘phone records’.
I think one would be naïve to think that anything going over a cell phone or the internet is secure, perhaps short of some good encryption.
It’s a safe bet that they know who probably has guns
Assume they know, act on that assumption.
too bad we can’t super glue that eye looking at us….
Have you sent out a cyber hug to your assigned suit today?
I bow down to my cyber masters at the computer screen 6 times a day. I recite the cyber call of faith. "We have no god but NSA, FBI, CIA, and Bankers"
What?
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