Spooky stuff.
We live in interesting times, indeed.
I noticed just now that part of my post auto-completed. I guess I’m already being surveilled. :-)
The supercomputer that processes and stores all this data is called "Cascade," and it's capable of computing 100,000 trillion calculations per second. The system stores all text messages, phone calls, website visits, Internet searches, emails, credit card information, travel information, legal documents, financial information, and health records.
Now also throw in the mix that govt always believes what one gender says about the other gender. A recipe for false charges to provide govt a way to go after people.
Anything posted or typed onto the internet is subject matter the government may review.
Some good information in this piece except re certain people surveilled in the COINTEL programs. Some were national security threats. Some, not! You have to know the full backgrounds of each individual in order to see why they were under some form of intelligence surveillance or action.
I just wish that the government would, and should have, revealed more information about individuals after a certain period of time when such disclosures would not affect national security.
Why do you think that the late Rep. John Conyers Jr. tried to have all House Committee on Un-American Activities and it’s successor, the House Internal Security Committee, destroyed in 1975?
It would have exposed him as a secret supporter or covert member of the Communist Party as well as possible KGB/GRU asset.
The same thing was done to the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security/Sen. Judiciary Committee re it’s existence.
Attempts were made to destroy the invaluable Military Intelligence Division files but they were saved by a very savvy and patriotic military officer. You wouldn’t believe what they contain, going back to WW I. They are a historian’s archival dream and damming re certain people in America’s modern history.
If you haven’t seen them and other investigative files re national security threats, then you (I.e.) the author of this article, shouldn’t make broad generalizations. You would end up looking like a fool.
Read later.
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