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Thousands Of Firms Trade Confidential Data With The US Gov In Exchange For Classified Intelligence
Zero Hedge ^ | June 14, 2013 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 06/13/2013 10:28:23 PM PDT by Zakeet

Complete Headline: Thousands Of Firms Trade Confidential Data With The US Government In Exchange For Classified Intelligence

The rabbit hole just got deeper. A whole lot deeper.

On Sunday we predicated that "there's one reason why the administration, James Clapper and the NSA should just keep their mouths shut as the PRISM-gate fallout escalates: with every incremental attempt to refute some previously unknown facet of the US Big Brother state, a new piece of previously unleaked information from the same intelligence organization now scrambling for damage control, emerges and exposes the brand new narrative as yet another lie, forcing even more lies, more retribution against sources, more journalist persecution and so on."

And like a hole that just gets deeper the more you dug and exposes ever more dirt, tonight's installment revealing one more facet of the conversion of a once great republic into a great fascist, "big brother" state, comes from Bloomberg which reports that "thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said."

The companies extend far wider than the legacy telcos, such as Verizon, that launched the entire NSA-spying scandal a week ago: "Makers of hardware and software, banks, Internet security providers, satellite telecommunications companies and many other companies also participate in the government programs. In some cases, the information gathered may be used not just to defend the nation but to help infiltrate computers of its adversaries."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; espionage; harassconservatives; nsa; spying; terrorism
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The rabbit hole just got deeper. A whole lot deeper.

1 posted on 06/13/2013 10:28:23 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

NSA = domestic data spooks with no accountability or warrant !


2 posted on 06/13/2013 10:37:39 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Zakeet

Graphic stolen...


3 posted on 06/13/2013 10:38:12 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: Zakeet; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...
Don't Spy On Me photo Dontspyonme_zpsa3c57d39.jpg

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

4 posted on 06/13/2013 10:39:27 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: Zakeet

{The rabbit hole just got deeper. A whole lot deeper.}

“with mother finally ******, and the last fantastic book flung out the tenement window, and the last door closed at 4 AM and the last telephone slammed at the wall in reply and the last furnished room emptied down to the last piece of mental furniture, a yellow paper rose twisted on a wire hanger in the closet, and even that imaginary, nothing but a hopeful little bit of hallucination -——

“ah, Carl, while you are not safe I am not safe , and now you’re really in the total animal soup of time ——”

[Allen Ginsberg]


5 posted on 06/13/2013 10:42:04 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Zakeet

Crony capitalism at its finest — U.S. government departments and agencies swapping information on rivals and others with selected businesses. WHAT national security?


6 posted on 06/13/2013 10:42:40 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Zakeet

Snakes are expert at navigating rabbit holes. The spirit invoked in that revised Gadsden banner became more poignant.


7 posted on 06/13/2013 10:44:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Zakeet
"thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence,..."Makers of hardware and software, banks, Internet security providers, satellite telecommunications companies and many other companies also participate in the government programs."

How many here are aware of some of the foreign interests involved in American-"based" manufacturing (on foreign soil) and in "telecommunications companies?" Not many, I reckon.


8 posted on 06/13/2013 10:49:03 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: Zakeet

There are many Islamists in such telecommunications companies doing exactly the same work that Snowden did (systems administration). And you do know where much of the manufacturing, especially of hardware, is done.


9 posted on 06/13/2013 10:51:09 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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Excellent and deep enough.

Try setting up an Ebay account and asking for them to increase your selling limit from $500 to $5,000.

They limit you initially mitigate your ability to perform any expensive scams.

Let’s say you have an item however that you rightfully believe should sell for $4,500.

You have to call Ebay and they perform a very sophisticated and deep background check on you. They will ask you some pretty surprising questions that you don’t think anyone would know and information you had long just about forgot.

If you pass with one score they give you a provisional increase.

If you pass with flying colors you get pretty much what you asked for but, they will watch your every move to ensure you don’t scam their members.

How did they get this info?

Think....


10 posted on 06/13/2013 11:01:50 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Zakeet
Insider trading for the hedge fund operators. Can you say Rahm Emanuel.
11 posted on 06/14/2013 12:05:07 AM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: Zakeet; All

12 posted on 06/14/2013 12:14:21 AM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Zakeet
The World is a Business
13 posted on 06/14/2013 1:10:52 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: MasterGunner01

This is not crony capitalism, this is something worse- crony socialism (i.e.: Obammunism)


14 posted on 06/14/2013 1:51:27 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: Mr. K

>> this is something worse- crony socialism

Yes, it’s called fascism — something Hitler embraced.


15 posted on 06/14/2013 1:56:17 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

NSA = No Steenkin’ Accountablity


16 posted on 06/14/2013 2:17:32 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: Zakeet

The rise of mercantilism. Capitalism seems to have had a short life which is a shame. Capitalism put the fruit within everyone’s reach, but the State and its cronies became jealous and greedy.


17 posted on 06/14/2013 4:03:48 AM PDT by gotribe (Limit The Government's Right To Bear Arms)
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To: penelopesire; maggief; hoosiermama; holdonnow

Ok now we’re in crisis mode.


18 posted on 06/14/2013 4:26:05 AM PDT by SE Mom
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To: Zakeet
Good morning.

Did you ever ask yourself the questions, "why," or "how," when you get a particular email, snail mail, or telemarketer call (for example)?

If Orwell was alive today he would say, "I told you so." "You boys are in big trouble."

5.56mm

19 posted on 06/14/2013 5:00:31 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: SE Mom

Fascism.....straight up.


20 posted on 06/14/2013 5:14:10 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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