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While the discredited FBI lead counter-intelligence agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, discussed forming a “secret society” which they now claim was a joke, there is a Sept. 20, 2017, article in True Pundit which describes how six U.S. intelligence agencies formed a “Stealth Task Force” headed by CIA Director John Brennan to run the unauthorized surveillance on Trump associates and possibly against Mr. Trump himself. According to the article, after being denied two FISA court warrants applications, this group used the British spy element, headed by Robert Hannigan, embedded at NSA, Ft. George Meade, Md....

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes issued the following statement today: “Having stonewalled Congress’ demands for information for nearly a year, it’s no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies. The FBI is intimately familiar with ‘material omissions’ with respect to their presentations to both Congress and the courts, and they are welcome to make public, to the greatest extent possible, all the information they have on these abuses. Regardless, it’s clear that top officials used unverified information in...

...With all of that as preamble, here is what is at issue. Q1: Did the Obama administration wrongly use its power to access NSA intercepts in multiple ways and under the guise of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative (created as DNC opposition research) in order to gain intelligence on its political enemies? Q2: Did the Obama administration wrongly “unmask” NSA intercepts to target the Trump administration? Was that information then leaked to the public to Trump’s detriment? Q3: Was the Obama administration sharing NSA intercepts with Democrat political operatives? Q4: Did the Obama administration wrongly (but legally) use FISA information to...

RUMOR has been afoot in the last couple of months of a major operation against the globalist gangsters. Do these rumors have any substance? The Anti-New York Times has an important entry today about a poster at the forum known as “4chan” who goes by the name of Q and claims to be “a high-level government insider with special ‘Q clearance’ (hence the name) tasked with posting ‘crumbs’ for the purpose of covertly informing patriots about Donald Trump’s master plan to rout the Deep State and the whole Globalist-Rothschild structure above them.” Some of Q’s predictions appear to have been...

Below is the transcript of the second press conference, held at the White House following Nunes’ meeting with the president. Nunes: I haven’t had a chance to brief a lot of you in the past, but just to have a chance to keep you updated with what’s happening with this investigation. Today I briefed the President on the concerns that I had about incidental collection and how it relates to President-elect Trump and his transition team, and the concerns that I had. As I said earlier, there will be more information, hopefully by Friday. The NSA is cooperating very very...

The National Security Agency maintains a page on its website that outlines its mission statement. But earlier this month, the agency made a discreet change: It removed “honesty” as its top priority.Since at least May 2016, the surveillance agency had featured honesty as the first of four “core values” listed on NSA.gov, alongside “respect for the law,” “integrity,” and “transparency.” The agency vowed on the site to “be truthful with each other.”On January 12, however, the NSA removed the mission statement page – which can still be viewed through the Internet Archive – and replaced it with a new version....

A three-week spending bill that ended this month’s government shutdown allegedly allows tens of billions of dollars in “black budget” appropriations to be sloshed among secret intelligence agency programs without longstanding congressional notification requirements. The change is creating unusual allies and consternation among lawmakers who traditionally oversee secretive technology purchases, weapons deals, and covert operations by the intelligence agencies. The controversial measure amends previous legislation that funded the government by waiving a reporting provision in place since 1947 for intelligence spending.

Tom, the NSA has it all in their massive spy cloud in Utah. All emails and text messages that are traversing US networks are stored there by default, no exception. Use X-Keyscore, type in email address or mobile number, and you got it all, incl missing Clinton emails & FBI texts. https://t.co/ehLulOERtM— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 22, 2018

The National Security Agency (NSA), whose warrantless surveillance program was just reauthorized by Congress and President Donald Trump, recently confessed to having destroyed data it had been ordered to retain — and said it was retaining — in connection with lawsuits against the program, reported Politico.

...NSA’s tool would be after a person’s voice instead of any particular words, which would make the wake-word safeguard much less of an issue. If you can get all the voice commands sent back to Google or Amazon servers, you’re guaranteed a full profile of the device owner’s voice... When police try to collect recordings from a voice assistant, they have to play by roughly the same warrant rules as your email or Dropbox files — but the NSA might have a way to get around the warrant too. Collecting the data would still require a court order (in the...

..............SNIP............ “Today, the NSA has an enormous facility in Utah that saves the copies of every email, every text message, and meta data from every phone call made by every American and they have enough memory to keep it for the next 500 years,” Kiriakou said. Think the National Security Agency has limited power? Think again. Take an average American with a smart phone, and think about how many times that person looks at their phone, sends a text message, posts a picture, makes a phone call, watches a video, and more. Think about every move you make within a...

Still basking in the glow of speaking from an amazing conversation with Lionel from Lionel Nation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xySOF..., Thomas continues to explain the role Michael Horowitz has in the unfolding FISAGate drama. Make sure you subscribe to our daily TRUTH NEWS HEADLINES at www.aim4truth.org. It is free, yet priceless. Articles mentioned in this report are: Michael Horowitz report: https://aim4truth.org/2017/12/17/doj-...Michael Horowitz audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QkWn...Obama’s Army Found: https://aim4truth.org/2018/01/03/deep...Notices: Unless marked otherwise, American Intelligence Media (AIM), Aim4Truth.org, copyright claims are waived. Reproduction is permitted with or without attribution. This content and its links may contain opinion. As with all opinion, it should not be...

Begun by the New York Times opinion section in 2011, Op-Docs is a series of short, interactive, and virtual reality documentaries. Each film is produced with wide creative latitude by both renowned and emerging filmmakers, and premieres across Times online platforms. The goal of each Op-Doc is to present a unique point of view. -- Posting comment: That is all the NYT says about this documentary which describes domestic surveillance being done against all Americans post-9/11. The focus of this documentary is the Stellar Wind project which conducted warrentless surveillance. The Utah Data Center facility was nearing completion at the...

After just viewing the excellent video by Joe diGenova, I was struck with his comment about a FISA Opinion Report issued in April, 2016, or to quote deGenova: "In April, 2016, the FISA court issues this 99 page opinion which I'll bet you didn't even know about until I talked about it this morning. This opinion describes illegal activity by the FBI, illegal activity by contractors, and it calls it the improper disclosure of raw intelligence about Americans to unauthorized individuals. All of those things the bureau did and the contractors were crimes. Now, this is a public document, it's...

Synopsis: Desperate Dems are trying to string this government shutdown out as long as possible to keep the real story out of the headlines for as long as possible – the FISA memo written by the House Intelligence Committee investigative staff. So what is the method to get this FISA memo declassified and released to the American people? President Trump could declassify the 4-page document immediately, but no doubt the Democrats are lying in wait to pounce on that alternative. Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, could declassify it, then send it to the President who has 5 days to...

Friday night, Donald Trump Jr. joined the growing choir calling on the United States Congress to release the FISA memo that has Congressional Republicans saying that people are "going to jail." Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com "I don't know what's in it," the president's oldest son told Tucker, "but if all of these guys are saying people's heads are going to roll, people may get fired and people may actually go to jail. I think the American people deserve to know." He added on Twitter: [TWEET] Democrats have all voted against all members of Congress getting permission to read...

The agency tells a federal judge that it is investigating and 'sincerely regrets its failure.' The National Security Agency destroyed surveillance data it pledged to preserve in connection with pending lawsuits and apparently never took some of the steps it told a federal court it had taken to make sure the information wasn’t destroyed, according to recent court filings. Word of the NSA’s foul-up is emerging just as Congress has extended for six years the legal authority the agency uses for much of its surveillance work conducted through U.S. internet providers and tech firms. President Donald Trump signed that measure...

Back in 2005, The New York Times reported that President Bush had been lying through his teeth about a warrantless wiretapping program his administration had set up under the NSA. The baldly illegal program required participation from telecom companies, who were thus exposed to millions of lawsuits from their spied-on customers. Bush urged Congress to pass a bill granting the telecoms retroactive immunity, prompting outrage from Democrats, including then-Sen. Barack Obama, who promised to filibuster any bill with such an immunity provision in October 2007. But Obama blatantly broke his promise, not only failing to filibuster the bill, but actually...

Shipp was a CIA Anti Terrorism expert and was assigned as a protective agent for the Director of Central Intelligence. He is the recipient of a Medallion for overseas covert operations, two CIA Meritorious Unit Citations and three Exceptional Performance Awards. Zerohedge published a partial transcript of Ship's comments made to USAWatchdog.com's Greg Hunter: "They are terrified, they are terrified right now. They did not expect Trump to do what he is doing now. The reason they tried to get him even before he was elected is they knew he was uncontrollable, and they knew if he got in there,...

Some lawmakers would like to see the Justice Department prosecute former spy chief James Clapper for inaccurate testimony to Congress about domestic surveillance before it's too late. Privacy-conscious critics say looming five-year statutes of limitation for perjury and making false statements — establishing a March 12 deadline for charges — make an urgent case for action, and that nonprosecution would set a dangerous precedent that impedes oversight and executive-branch accountability. Clapper, director of national intelligence from 2010 to 2017, testified during a March 2013 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that the NSA was "not wittingly” collecting “any type of data at...