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NSA, DEA, IRS Lie About Fact That Americans Are Routinely Spied On By Our Government
Forbes ^ | Aug 14, 2013 | By Jennifer Stisa Granick and Christopher Jon Sprigman

Posted on 08/15/2013 10:21:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

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NSA, DEA, IRS Lie About Fact That Americans Are Routinely Spied On By Our Government: Time For A Special Prosecutor

It seems that every day brings a new revelation about the scope of the NSA’s heretofore secret warrantless mass surveillance programs. And as we learn more, the picture becomes increasingly alarming. Last week we discovered that the NSA shares information with a division of the Drug Enforcement Agency called the Special Operations Division (SOD). The DEA uses the information in drug investigations. But it also gives NSA data out to other agencies – in particular, the Internal Revenue Service, which, as you might imagine, is always looking for information on tax cheats.

The Obama Administration repeatedly has assured us that the NSA does not collect the private information of ordinary Americans. Those statements simply are not true. We now know that the agency regularly intercepts and inspects Americans’ phone calls, emails, and other communications, and it shares this information with other federal agencies that use it to investigate drug trafficking and tax evasion. Worse, DEA and IRS agents are told to lie to judges and defense attorneys about their use of NSA data, and about the very existence of the SOD, and to make up stories about how these investigations started so that no one will know information is coming from the NSA’s top secret surveillance programs.

“Now, wait a minute,” you might be saying. “How does a foreign intelligence agency which supposedly is looking for terrorists and only targets non-U.S. persons get ahold of information useful in IRS investigations of American tax cheats?” To answer that question, let’s review this week’s revelations.

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To: Jim Robinson


MACHO MACHO MAN


21 posted on 08/15/2013 11:28:04 AM PDT by devolve (----- ----- ----- it not unlegal iffen I do`s it ----- ----- -----)
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To: Jim Robinson


Obama: "We Don't Have A Domestic Spying Program"

Guess what. He lied. Again.

22 posted on 08/15/2013 12:09:39 PM PDT by McGruff (I need a new party.)
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To: bamahead; SunkenCiv

Ping


23 posted on 08/15/2013 12:10:24 PM PDT by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: Old Sarge
WAIT, WAIT, I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT CONSERVATIVES ACROSS AMERICA WILL DO ABOUT THIS!!

Absolutely nothing...

Wait, wait. I think you're getting confused here: the conservatives want to conserve, that is keep things the same, the statist machinery, the republicans are those that do nothing.

Yes, it is a distinction without a difference, but one that needs to be made.

;)

24 posted on 08/15/2013 12:18:19 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Tuketu

Not sure why my brain works like that, but hey, we gotta laugh at something with all the rotten news hittin us daily.

God bless


25 posted on 08/15/2013 1:05:16 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Jim Robinson
HAD ENOUGH YET AMERICA?


26 posted on 08/15/2013 2:05:52 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Jim Robinson
Finally, somebody said it.

IMHO, the only purpose for a facility as huge as the Utah Data Center was to store EVERYTHING, every phone call, email, and click of the mouse. The big lie is that taking possession of private communications is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment if nobody looks at the content. It is equivalent to raiding your home and copying all your files, and then claiming that it's not an illegal search.

The first thing that needs to happen is to cut those fiber optic links at the sources where they tap into major trunks. Then we'll talk about what kind of surveillance is appropriate for the purpose of interdicting international terrorism. Frankly, we could do a lot more by purging this country of Islamic nationals, which a bounty system could accomplish quite promptly.

27 posted on 08/15/2013 2:17:45 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers choices: convert, submit, or die.)
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To: Jim Robinson; Sidebar Moderator

Boss: I have a few articles on privacy tools that I don’t believe have been posted. A tad dated (couple months). Would you be willing to forebear a bit on the classification?


28 posted on 08/15/2013 2:30:10 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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To: Cheerio

Uh, you do realize that the DHS and the spying programs started under Bush, right?


29 posted on 08/15/2013 3:07:12 PM PDT by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: raybbr

Trust me, it doesn’t matter : )


30 posted on 08/15/2013 3:22:15 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: Old Sarge

Sarge, you have hit the nail square on the head. But by God we wlll damn sure post about it won't we?


31 posted on 08/15/2013 4:03:04 PM PDT by rhubarbk (It's official, I'm suffering from Obama fatigue!)
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To: Jim Robinson

And yet Republican “leaders” (like Lindsay Graham, Peter King, et al) assure us that there’s nothing to see here - the NSA spying is necessary to catch terrorists.

If only these “leaders” would get on board with conservatives and fight this obvious NSA spying overreach, they would gain the support of independents, millenniums, and even many liberals. With that support Republicans would probably win the next three elections.

Instead these Republicans hem and haw and meanwhile more and more Democrats are grabbing this ball and running with it.

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for Republicans to significantly expand their “big tent” and to prove that they stand for liberty and personal privacy. Instead, they show themselves to the wavering groups of non-Republican voters, who are right now seeking fighters on this issue, as petty supporters of big, corrupt government.


32 posted on 08/15/2013 4:12:41 PM PDT by EarlyBird (This space for rent)
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To: cripplecreek

We really need a leader that will fight against this.


33 posted on 08/15/2013 4:16:44 PM PDT by BlueCat
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To: raybbr
Uh, you do realize that the DHS and the spying programs started under Bush, right?

I do realize that Bush pushed through the Patriot Act - remember how the left equaled about "warrentless wiretaps" - and he did in response to America's worst attack on the homeland. BUT in all fairness, listening in on AMERICA began long before Bush cam to power. Remember Echelon? Clipper?
34 posted on 08/15/2013 4:41:58 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Tuketu

Low tech? Yeah, been there, done that——the Washington geniuses still can’t really handle Hawaiian Pidgeon English. And that’s a bit of a rip on Navajo too. People who don’t want to be overheard just devise their own frames of reference, It’s possible to burn a lot of energy/time/hardware trying to keep simpleass things hidden.

Curiously the current conversation is touching on the NSA’s weak spot from the beginning. It has always been seriously illegal for the “listeners” to disclose anything they hear/read/see without a court order, etc. But if they happen to overhear something really dangerous or suspicious (in their mind) there has never been a way to keep them from dropping a postit in somebody’s mail box. It’s never been a problem except that now I fear Odumbo has worked his IRS “listeners” in to the NSA and misuse of the info for political reasons has to be concerning.


35 posted on 08/15/2013 5:14:06 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: rhubarbk

So I’ll be serious... What CAN we do about it?

I’ve written my representative and both senators. I’m in Alabama. Jeff Sessions wants a formal investigation with a special prosecutor. Richard Shelby doesn’t even bring it up, and my TEA party representative, Martha Roby, sent me back a blah-blah form letter absolutely void of a single thing I mentioned.

Bostonians in the late 1760’s were pissed... But didn’t do anything until Sam Adams came along.

Were is that man/men/woman/women for us?


36 posted on 08/15/2013 5:51:55 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Jim Robinson

The US government is breaking our laws. In that sense, it has gone from being the servant of the People to become simply a massive criminal organization.


37 posted on 08/15/2013 7:10:01 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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To: Jim Robinson
Snowden is without a doubt a hero. They would still be denying every single thing for years until we all ended up in an electronic prison.
38 posted on 08/15/2013 8:48:56 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: EdReform; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; albertp; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; amchugh; ...
This one is a MUST READ.



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39 posted on 08/15/2013 11:19:19 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: Carry_Okie
IMHO, the only purpose for a facility as huge as the Utah Data Center was to store EVERYTHING, every phone call, email, and click of the mouse. The big lie is that taking possession of private communications is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment if nobody looks at the content. It is equivalent to raiding your home and copying all your files, and then claiming that it's not an illegal search.

Others have come to the same conclusion. Such a huge data center can only have one purpose. To store all electronic communications within America and that are routed through America on their way from foreign location A to foreign location B. Also the NSA "campus" at Fort Mead Maryland is largely empty. Plenty of room for new buildings and affirmative action drones earning Fererale paychecks///// and they -NSA- are building at Ft Mead like crazy with all kinds of billions of taxpayer dollars and phony (created out of thin air) Federal Resrerve fiat money shoveled in their direction by stupid Senators and Representatives who due to national security concerns (preventing 911 type attacks) will approve all and any NSA funding demands. These Senators and Representatives (and their staffs) are too lazy and technologically illiterate to question NSA funding demands and sort out the legitimate from the illegitimate

It could be the NSA built in Utah (data center) only because they were reaching limits on how much electricity they could demand from DC area utilities to power this Godzilla sized data center. 

The average ipad using idiot has no idea now many megabytes (kilobytes) an audio file or photos will take up and whether it can be stored in smaller size via compression in NSA data centers

NSA mission creep is contractor driven. These contractors are ravenous for Federal money....don't forget that Edward Snowden was a NSA contractor employee. My opinion is 99% of the reason NSA is spying on and storing all Americans communications is simply due to NSA contractors wanting to earn billions and pressuring NSA bureaucrats to expand the NSA mission to internal spying which it never was.

That super dumbass Obama stooge James Clapper was formerly employed by NSA contractor Booze-Hamilton which also employed Snowden, NSA has a revolving door employment situation with its contractors. As usual, follow the $$$$ when it comes to understanding what goes on in Washington DC

MUST READ SCARY--- The Palantir corporation

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/agent-of-intelligence-how-a-deviant-philosopher-built-palantir-a-cia-funded-data-mining-juggernaut/

http://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-technologies-revealed-2011-3?op=1

40 posted on 08/16/2013 12:14:27 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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