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Hidden Microphones Exposed As Part of Government Surveillance Program In The Bay Area
CBS Local via The Drudge Report ^ | May 13, 2016 6:24 PM | Jackie Ward

Posted on 05/14/2016 3:42:41 PM PDT by thecodont

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Hidden microphones that are part of a clandestine government surveillance program that has been operating around the Bay Area has been exposed.

Imagine standing at a bus stop, talking to your friend and having your conversation recorded without you knowing. It happens all the time, and the FBI doesn’t even need a warrant to do it.

Federal agents are planting microphones to secretly record conversations.

Jeff Harp, a KPIX 5 security analyst and former FBI special agent said, “They put microphones under rocks, they put microphones in trees, they plant microphones in equipment. I mean, there’s microphones that are planted in places that people don’t think about, because that’s the intent!”

FBI agents hid microphones inside light fixtures and at a bus stop outside the Oakland Courthouse without a warrant to record conversations, between March 2010 and January 2011.

(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: energy; maxwelligan; microphones; policestate; surveillance; tranceformation; transportation; tyranny
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To: fuzzylogic

“This basically highlights that the only private place is your property.”

Or a golf course..........


21 posted on 05/14/2016 4:08:48 PM PDT by wrench
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To: thecodont

This absolutely disgusts me.


22 posted on 05/14/2016 4:11:01 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: thecodont

Goodness Gracious! This is the sort of thing that paranoid schizophrenics say. Guess instead of ignoring/medicating them, we ought to start listening to them.


23 posted on 05/14/2016 4:11:37 PM PDT by TxGrandMom
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To: buffaloguy
The “Internet of Things” will be watching and recording you 24 hours a day.

My suggestion is, don't buy any things.

24 posted on 05/14/2016 4:12:08 PM PDT by mhx
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To: proust

It was all a conspiracy theory is what I heard. Our government would never do anything this freaky and dangerous to the public and to liberty.


25 posted on 05/14/2016 4:12:09 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: RoosterRedux

I beat him by 53 seconds.


26 posted on 05/14/2016 4:12:11 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: SaraJohnson

The 0bama chip is now in PCs.


27 posted on 05/14/2016 4:14:15 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: thecodont

They elect Socialists and they get what they voted for. I don’t see the problem.


28 posted on 05/14/2016 4:14:22 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: thecodont

Then why can’t the “citizens” monitor Hussein, Traitor Roberts, Ryno and McConnell 24/7?


29 posted on 05/14/2016 4:16:21 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: proust
Alex Jones has been saying this for years.

My friend and I were talking the other day about when we thought Alex Jones was over the edge, and now we found out he wasn't- that a lot of stuff we discussed as crazy talk was the truth.

30 posted on 05/14/2016 4:17:30 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: wrench

“Or a golf course..........”

:)
As I’ve been saying on here for years.
Perfect place to run a Government from...now who do we know that does that?


31 posted on 05/14/2016 4:17:34 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah. ...Ermentrude chewed on some more grass and watched....)
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To: thecodont

Why does anybody realy care what happens in the bay area. What a waste of government money.


32 posted on 05/14/2016 4:18:33 PM PDT by seawolf101 (This)
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To: thecodont
I can think of a useful application of this sort of surveillance.

Think of the sort of conversations you might record if you were to put a microphone in a bus stop close to a mosque.

33 posted on 05/14/2016 4:22:46 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: thecodont

Calling It - The next new viral app will be a hidden mic detector (if it hasn’t already been written).


34 posted on 05/14/2016 4:23:22 PM PDT by Shugee
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To: TxGrandMom

Definition of a paranoid, someone who knows more about what’s going on then the rest of us care to admit. Frank Zappa


35 posted on 05/14/2016 4:23:34 PM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: Pontiac

Great point, you should ask that it be deleted, loose lips


36 posted on 05/14/2016 4:25:35 PM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: thecodont

1984 was not a how-to manual.


37 posted on 05/14/2016 4:25:38 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm actually going back to school. I kinda don't believe it.)
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To: thecodont

Yes, surveillance equipment is being installed all over the country. Some tourists heading to CO for vacations should have a look at the camera in the middle of nowhere (up on the pole at the intersection of Hwy. 24 and Hwy. 9).

Want to know what’s going on in general?

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38 posted on 05/14/2016 4:28:31 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: thecodont

All involved need to be imprisoned for life.


39 posted on 05/14/2016 4:29:47 PM PDT by Ray76 (Judge Roy Moore for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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To: thecodont

bump


40 posted on 05/14/2016 4:30:50 PM PDT by apocalypto
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