NSA Foiled NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) Terrorist Plot, We Now Learn

Zero Hedge ^ | June 18, 2013

[txhurl]

Rage Against the Machine shut the NYSE down in 2000 and they had no repercussions.

[DoughtyOne]

Good point. Like you say though, it’s clearly a bait and switch attempt.

I don’t think many of us would object to phone calls between the U. S. and places where terrorist activity is high.

It’s the inside the United States communications that are problematic. And even then, if we’re talking known terrorist suspects, none of us are going to object to monitoring.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Absolutely agree.

[Vendome]

Gen. Keith Alexander, the NSA director, told the committee that the programs had helped stop more than 50 “potential terrorist events” since the Sept. 11 attacks. He said he would provide classified details of all of them to the committee Wednesday.

 

Maybe you did but, I think that number is specious at a minimum but, the more important point is you violted the 4th amendment of untold numbers of Americans.

 

No Effing way for you to White Wash that issue.

 

You have no legitimate right to my private communications.

 

Your continued use of the word METADATA is lie by obfuscation.

 

I privately own my communications equipment and the various identities associated with it such as the telephone number, email address, Wed site address, VPN in it's various forms, Fax and the number, MPLS network, Frame Relay network, Mac Address, CLLI, CPNI, CID and on and on and on.

 

Further, I contracted with private businesses to manage those elements, which I personally own, who then transmit my ID to a distant machine before further information is transmitted by voice or packetized information.

 

When my phone sits idle it is still comunicating a Keep Alive session to constantly enable me to be connected to a service, by a provider, I privately contracted with.

 

The equipment and services that enable this connection are privately owned as well and send back a keep alive connection.

 

How is this done?

 

My phone is a simple gateway device.  That is, it is constantly knocking at the door of the Gatekeeper of any network I may be connected to and is constantly keeping my connection alive by means of Identity and password.

 

My phone's identity is constantly transmitting its unique device ID and a secret password assigned to the phone, by the service provider, enabling me and my phone to constantly and in an autonomous state.

 

[Buckeye McFrog]

LOL! Obama thinks he’s gonna win back the under-30’s by saving the New York Stock Exchange?

[NonValueAdded]

Hmmm ... all involves international calls, no?

[bunkerhill7]

THE DAILY CRAPOLA:

The NSA [testimony] has "acquired" millions of phone numbers,

-they just only "use" one or two when they can get a search warrant for those one or two numbers.

They need to have the "whole haystack" in order to find one needle.

Sorry horses "acquire" hay and "use" it by eating it.

It`s doubletalk deja vu.

These goons are taking Americans on a wild out-of-control runaway horseride.

They must be stopped as this haystack did not stop the Boston bombers.

It is a useless device and a violation of the U.S. Constitution since it only spies on Americans and not on muslims.

duuuuhhhhhhh.

The NSA said that the NSA database doesn`t have telephone number messages, emails etc.,

Ergo there exists a secret internet & phone database of everyone`s info, an "Area 51 top-secret database" which "doesn`t exist"..

It just ain`t the NSA database.

"Sorry NSA- we ain`t that stupoid.

[MeganC]

The NSA didn’t stop Bane from attacking the stock exchange! I know because I saw the attack myself in the recent Batman movie.

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[Darksheare]

Bullcrap!

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Exactly. We have no more freedom.

Following this logic, let’s bug everyone’s houses and let the police bust in any old time they want.

Just think of the criminals we’ll catch.

/s

[NonValueAdded]

What simplistic Barbara Streisand!

1) After 9/11...now we can connect the dots.

2) Public...no don’t connect the dots.

.........................................

3) Public...tell us what you stopped.

4) Ok...here this is what we stopped..

5) Public...spin spin spin.

1) NO THEY CAN'T. They were flooded with dots and completely missed the Boston Bombers. We cannot connect the dots any better than before 9/11. The Bombers were a no-brainer, served up on a silver platter. Even Nancy Pelosi could have connected those dots.

2) WHO EVER SAID THAT?????????

3) Damned straight we asked once we learned of the use of Writs of Assistance.

4) You gave us all overseas contact examples. THAT'S NOT THE POINT IN QUESTION. Monitor Palm Beach to Pakistan, great. Monitor Palm Beach to Palm Springs, not so much.

5) If you mean the public is calling spin, damned straight again.

[Darksheare]

False analogy.
The dots to be connected weren’t Christian White Males and patriotic Americans.
The dots to be connected were muslims.

They refuse to look at or even investigate muslims, might offend them you know.

[Amendment10]

It sounds like NSA is wrongly spinning the private information that they are obtaining without a warrant as the “probable cause” to justify getting the information in the first place.

[Riley]

Making us secure at what cost? Our constitution? Our freedom?

Exactly.

Which is the greater hazard- governmental excess or terrorism?

Governmental tyranny has slaughtered and opressed many, many times more victims than terrorism could ever dream of.

The founding dads knew what they were talking about.

Not that security is unimportant- it is, but if forced to choose I'll take liberty over security any day of the week.

[MichaelCorleone]

Nor do I.

[jboot]

Joyce gave limited details on the foiled plots. In the stock exchange plot, he said, the NSA monitored an extremist in Yemen who was in contact with an operative in the United States.

In the subway plot, he said, the NSA intercepted an email from a terrorist in Pakistan in 2009.

Bait and switch testimony. NOBODY cares that we have programs to monitor the international communications of foreign actors. This is what NSA is paid to do. The issue at hand is that the NSA has at least one program that monitors the domestic communications of AMERICAN CITIZENS. Let's hear if THAT program unmasked any terrorist plots.

Crickets...

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Guess what, I don’t believe them...why is that?

[The Right wing Infidel]

yeah right if it was true they would have made that public the same day to get mass media exposure and support for the nsa and the goverment

[null and void]

Worth re-posting for a wider audience (The N-JCT ping list):

“In the subway plot, he said, the NSA intercepted an email from a terrorist in Pakistan in 2009 who was talking with someone in the United States about perfecting a recipe for explosives.”

Ok, a fine job monitoring emails from Pakistan into the USA. Now, back to the topic of widespread trawling of emails and phone calls between US citizens.

For extra credit, explain why we brought the Afghan citizen who was the “American” end of the plot into America in the first place, and thought it natural for him to travel back and forth to Pakistan after 9/11.

Data mining did not stop this plot. This story being revealed is pure Operation Mockingbird (or whatever the current name of the program is) intelligence community propaganda, nothing more.

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...

[appalachian_dweller]

These liars will say anything to cover their asses.

I call BS.

And, F the NSA, DHS, and Obozo.