Homeland Security Given Green Light to Monitor American Journalists

The Blaze ^ | January 9, 2012 | Tiffany Gabbay

[Fitzy_888]

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.”

RT adds:

"Previously established guidelines within the administration say that data could only be collected under authorization set forth by written code, but the new provisions in the NOC’s write-up means that any reporter, whether someone along the lines of Walter Cronkite or a budding blogger, can be victimized by the agency."

"Also included in the roster of those subjected to the spying are government officials, domestic or not, who make public statements, private sector employees that do the same and “persons known to have been involved in major crimes of Homeland Security interest,” which to itself opens up the possibilities even wider."

"The department says that they will only scour publically-made info available while retaining data, but it doesn’t help but raise suspicion as to why the government is going out of their way to spend time, money and resources on watching over those that helped bring news to the masses."

According to RT, the website “Fast Company” reports that the NOC Monitoring Initiative has been in play since at least early-2010 and that the data is being shared with both private sector businesses and international third parties.

[Danae]

Well, took em a while to admit it didn’t it?

[Steve Newton]

There is no one to protect us except ourselves.

Yes

Indeed

There will come a time that “we” are all we will have.

Have we got the will to do what is right?

I’m very much afraid that we will have to find out.

But be don’t be afraid

There are many Americans that will stand with you in the end.

Trust me folks

We will NOT go quietly into the night

God willing

[Steve Newton]

I am very much afraid that the years and years of us letting our kids be influenced by our schools and colleges have caught up with us.

No prayer, no pledge to our flag.

We have let this happen. There is no one to blame but us.

Now

What do we do?

[mkjessup]

Along with Yahoo-Obama, Google-Obama, YouTube-Obama, we have GE-Obama.

There IS however one irrefutable and unavoidable fact, that none of us, not even 0bama can evade or avoid:

There is a God in Heaven that has permitted each of us to live 'X' number of days on this Earth, and that means 0bama too, is ultimately headed for the graveyard, it all depends on when the Almighty decides to pull the plug.


(AND for the benefit of our fascist DHS monitors, DISCLAIMER: "The above statement is not to be construed or interpreted in any way, shape or form, as advocating, inciting, or threatening any act of violence towards any elected or appointed public official, living OR brain-dead.")

[Fitzy_888]

Someone somewhere knows something about someone and everyone knows someone. That was the fate of the bathists in Iraq. Such is the fate of middle management.

[Old Sarge]

Now THAT was a useful disclaimer, thank you!

[mkjessup]

The Lord be with you Sarge, I would be proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with you anytime.