Posted on 05/03/2021 7:42:16 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
The Biden administration is considering using outside firms to track extremist chatter by Americans online, an effort that would expand the government's ability to gather intelligence but could draw criticism over surveillance of US citizens.
The Department of Homeland Security is limited in how it can monitor citizens online without justification and is banned from activities like assuming false identities to gain access to private messaging apps used by extremist groups such as the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers.
Instead, federal authorities can only browse through unprotected information on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook and other open online platforms.
The plan being discussed inside DHS, according to multiple sources, would, in effect, allow the department to circumvent those limits. A source familiar with the effort said it is not about decrypting data but rather using outside entities who can legally access these private groups to gather large amounts of information that could help DHS identify key narratives as they emerge.
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I have a friend who was raised in Russia and been a US citizen for over 20 years. She is politically astute, well educated and the parallels she draws about the direction our County is headed in are frightening.
I’m pretty sure he is thinking of us . . .
Bump
Has anyone seen their definition of “domestic terrorist”?
“anyone who voted for Trump.”
Even worse...ever uttered any defense of the Constitution, freedom and liberty.
Just keep pushing. Keep pushing.
F/N Commies.
NSA, FBI, Google, Facebook...
He doesn’t need any more.
Where is our buddy with the handle extremely extreme extremist. ?
So they will “partner” with private firms to circumvent the law? It’s no different that Fauci’s NIH “partnering” with private firms to send money to the Wuhan Virology Institution to conduct research on virus gain of function that had been outlawed in the USA.
We have Federal employees actively partnering with private firms to circumvent laws passed by the very organization they work for. I’m shocked.
Their plan is BS.
Hiring outside entities to do something that they legally can't do shouldn't be legal, and I believe isn't legal.
If they are paying for the service, then they are involved.
The GOP is complicit.
Most of the elected GOP are Assistant Democrats.
No kidding.
The USPS is also a surveillance arm of the deep state. Takes photos of ALL package labels and knows exactly what people purchase through their delivery system.
> “private firms” ... not subject to FIFA requests <
In the old days those firms would have been classified as “agents of the government”, and thus subject to the same rules as the government itself.
But like I said, that was in the old days. I would not expect any judge to see it that way now. Because terrorism.
It’s kinda like with the old Soviet Union. Purge after purge was carried out against imaginary “counter-revolutionary behavior”.
...because it is a felony to use the FBI or CIA to do it.
The spying on Americans continues because key members of the GOP-e were involved in spying on Trump.
Romney, McCain, Flake for sure.
Anything right of Marx.
extremist groups such as the Proud Boys
The same “White Supremacists” group led by a POC and an FBI informant? Seems they have already been discredited. But, hey, keep the Big Lie alive, MSM.
Yup.
Just like when the Obama administration got foreign intelligence services to spy on American citizens.
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