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The Rise of the Police State
The Coach's Team ^ | Saturday, February 18, 2017 | Jim Emerson, staff writer

Posted on 02/18/2017 8:21:00 AM PST by darkwing104

Before Obama left office, he expanded the power of the National Security Agency (NSA) to share globally intercepted personal communications, including those of Americans, with 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections. The NSA is the collection agency of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT). SIGINT is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication. This includes cell phones.

The new rules greatly relax longstanding security limits which dictated what the NSA may do with the information gathered by its surveillance operations. For instance, rules had been written limiting the sharing of information with the DOJ and FBI. These include collecting satellite transmissions, phone calls and emails that cross network switches abroad and messages between people abroad that cross domestic network switches.

The take away, this change will allow more agencies to search through raw electronic data, reducing the risk that NSA may provide information that would be valuable to other agencies and allow the analysts to “private information about innocent people.” Such operations don’t require a warrant and could be easily sanitized and released to friendly media sources to smear political opponents.

The Flynn collection and release to the press is evidence of a rising police state. Flynn’s ouster was a soft coup engineered by anonymous, intelligence community bureaucrats loyal to Obama. In the name of “justice,” these agenda-driven analysts will gladly violate civil rights and destroy the constitutional republic called America. Donald Trump should be aware of the threat and reign in the Intelligence community, remove the guilty and return the remainder to their original mission of protecting the United States. Ronald Reagan’s Executive Order 12333 would be a good place to start as it contains built-in protections for U.S. citizens, permanent residents and

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 12333; cia; deepstate; doj; eo; fbi; flynn; intelagencies; leaks; lynch; nsa; obamadeepstate; obamaintelnetwork; pieobama; twelvetriplethree
The real scandal is how a bureaucratic shadow Government can monitor and keep information on American Citizens without a warrant.


1 posted on 02/18/2017 8:21:00 AM PST by darkwing104
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To: Mears

bfl


2 posted on 02/18/2017 8:21:56 AM PST by Mears
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To: darkwing104

And how is it, that Obama did this on his last day as president? If this was such a great idea, why didn’t Obama and liberals publicize this action, and take this action well before he left office????

Have Obama or his people commented publicly about this final action as president???? Or was it just supposed to have been a secret action, taken by the allegedly most transparent administration in history??


3 posted on 02/18/2017 8:25:52 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
He started the process last year.

Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts


4 posted on 02/18/2017 8:31:08 AM PST by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

This should then clear Snowden from wrongdoing.


5 posted on 02/18/2017 8:33:31 AM PST by tillacum (I'm still a Deplorable.)
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To: tillacum

President needs to state his policy on collection made against citizens who are not spies. Assumes collection can be done under a warrant from a judge for criminals.


6 posted on 02/18/2017 8:48:21 AM PST by Rapscallion (illed and America)
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To: darkwing104

SIGINET. Rhymes with Skynet...


7 posted on 02/18/2017 9:29:43 AM PST by alpo (Resist we did.)
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To: darkwing104

SIGINT. Spell check off.


8 posted on 02/18/2017 9:31:17 AM PST by alpo (Resist we did.)
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To: Rapscallion

Yep.


9 posted on 02/19/2017 8:16:38 AM PST by tillacum (I'm still a Deplorable.)
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