Homeland Security Given Green Light to Monitor American Journalists

The Blaze ^ | 1/9/12 | Tiffany Gabbay

[Nachum]

Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that emerged from the Department of Homeland Security in November, Washington has written permission to collect and retain personal information from journalists, news anchors, reporters or anyone who uses “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”

According to DHS, the definition of personal identifiable information can consist of any intellect “that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information which is linked or linkable to that individual.”

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

[ntnychik]

So, they’ll be closely following Internet fan Brian Williams of NBC?

[ntnychik]

So, they’ll be closely following Internet fan Brian Williams of NBC?

[vpintheak]

No, you have to be a journalist, not a propaganda mouthpiece!

[Captain7seas]

Congress created this Frankinstine monster that will turn on them also.

[Cheerio]

Is this somehow a resurrection of the infamous UNfairness Doctrine? Setting the stage to shutdown talk radio?

[Kickass Conservative]

Thank goodness all the Liberals keep telling us Rush Limbaugh is just an entertainer, just like Bill Maher.

Bad comparison, how about just like Joe Biden.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I’m just wondering if liberal journalists are so convinced of their own ability to throw elections to the communists, that they don’t believe these things could be used against them in the future?

Just wondering is all.

Not that journalists think clearly to begin with.

[dragnet2]

Department of Homeland Security has written permission to collect and retain personal information from journalists, news anchors, reporters or anyone who uses “traditional and/or social media

We're being led way down the path...

The government wants total complete control.

[mkjessup]

And let's not forget who that 'compassionate conservative' was that created this totalitarian nightmare that is expanding it's reach into every corner of our lives now.


And in 1968 this prophetic movie aired on TV:


Don't say that we weren't warned.

[FlyVet]

Maybe the Left will finally understand. They might love Obama because they think he will get those evil conservatives for them, but the day they are deemed no longer useful, they are just as disposable.

[Little Pig]

So that last clause includes pretty much anyone who uses Facebook, twitter, email mailing lists, a blog, or a pinglist like those used on this site. That encompasses a significant percentage of everyone who uses a computer in the US.

[eak3]

That’s how I read it exactly. Anymore usually the most up to date information comes from people’s twitter accounts on site and their facebook status updates. Recent examples are the OWS, the Eqytptian revolution along with the squashed Iranian uprising. DHS already keeps tabs on the people like Rush but now they can come after anyone that posts anything they don’t like

[Lancey Howard]

Wow, this Ubama is not only a Stalin-style communist, he’s a Hitler-style fascist as well. I wonder if the “journalists, news anchors, reporters or anyone who uses traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed” will care about this directive from the Ubama regime?

Nahhhh..

[Gaffer]

Obama isn’t interested in keeping journalists, news anchors, and reporters in toe; he already has their souls, given to him by the Democrat Party.

He’s primarily interested in the “or anyone who uses traditional and/or social media in real time ..” people. You, me and any other Freedom lover willing to post something against him on the internet.

He is doing the same thing to this country that Hitler did with the German legal system prior to fully consolidating his power when laws were then not needed.

Uncle Joe, Adolph and Benito would be very, very proud of their boy.

[Little Pig]

According to the full article, for now all this means is that the DHS can put your name on a “list” if you come under the ambit of the directive. Where the name-gathering becomes worrisome is that being on a list associated with the DHS means you’re much more likely to get flagged when passing through an airport (or, now, bus station, interstate highway, hockey game, or social security office). It’s not a far stretch to imagine that those on one list are much more likely to be placed on other “lists” as a result: “You’re on the ‘journalism’ list, so we have concerns about you and are therefore putting you on the watch list for flying” etc.

Of course, DHS lists do look an awful lot like “usual suspect” lists that could be used later on to persecute citizens who don’t hold the appropriate viewpoint. But that’s just silly tinfoil-hattery, much along the same lines as if the government were to start doing intrusive searches of people, or calling protestors “terrorists”, or claiming that veterans were potential extremists, and we all know the government would never do something like that.

[Venturer]

I guess we will all meet in the concentration camp.

[jacknhoo]

The title is misleading, apparently it can be pretty much anyone using social media.

[jacknhoo]

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