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Massive new surveillance program uncovered by Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the little-known National Counterterrorism Center, based in an unmarked building in McLean, Va., has been granted sweeping new authority to store and monitor massive datasets about innocent Americans.
After internal wrangling over privacy and civil liberties issues, the Justice Department reportedly signed off on controversial new guidelines earlier this year. The guidelines allow the NCTC, for the first time, to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, using “predictive pattern-matching,” to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. The data the counterterrorism center has access to, according to the Journal, includes “entire government databases—flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others.”
Notably, the Journal reports that these changes also allow databases about U.S. civilians to be handed over to foreign governments for analysis, presumably so that they too can attempt to determine future criminal actions. The Department of Homeland
Security’s former chief privacy officer said that it represents a “sea change in the way that the government interacts with the general public.”
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And I bet there is a field on one of the tables that marks “D” versus “R”, versus “I”.
Wonder if the liberal fascists will utter a word about this? I won’t hold my breath.
bttt
Waiting for the lefties to protest this abuse of power...and waiting...and waiting.
March towards totalitarianism...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969098/posts
“”Justice Dept. Studied and Shelved Ideas to Bolster Gun Database” - the Justice Department drew up a detailed list of steps the government could take to expand the background-check system in order to reduce the risk of guns falling into the hands of mentally ill people and criminals.”
They’ll be taking that expanded background check back off the shelf with these latest rounds of shootings. Welcome to al Amerika.
No Communism, no Nazism, nah...it’s only the dictatorship you voted for and deserve.
Probably this post will update my government surveillance account!
This is the expected L0w and H0lder in my tag line.
THanks for the ping!
The NCC ...that was the former workplace of Obama CIA chief John O. Brennan, the communist.