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2021-05-04 Government Corruption

'Biden team may partner with private firms to surveil suspected domestic terrorists online

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Posted by Beavis 2021-05-04 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Hiring unaccountable mercenaries to gut the Bill of Rights?

Posted by magpie 2021-05-04 01:54|| 2021-05-04 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Unbelievable. They're openly talking about using paid agents to spy on US persons in violation of the Constitution and the laws against domestic spying without a warrant.

Why is this tolerated?

How much longer will we watch as our Constitution is gutted and trashed?

Posted by Throrong Thrusoger2342 2021-05-04 02:15|| 2021-05-04 02:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Time to go dark.

Posted by crazyhorse 2021-05-04 02:54|| 2021-05-04 02:54|| Front Page Top

I suspect a 'deep dive' into contracting for such services might reveal....nothing new is actually taking place. The prohibitions of Executive Order 12333 mean little or possibly nothing to these people.

The media has long been shaped to reflect popular political narratives. I doubt the prickly thorn of the the blogosphere has escaped scrutiny.

MAIL - FBI combed through NSA's trove of Americans' communications WITHOUT a warrant in its search for 'racially motivated violent extremists' when it was already warned the practice was unconstitutional

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-04 03:00|| 2021-05-04 03:00|| Front Page Top

#5 So when can we expect arrests and indictments of the BLM mobs?

Posted by Sneart Thromonter8301 2021-05-04 03:12|| 2021-05-04 03:12|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ So when can we expect arrests and indictments of the BLM mobs?

Soon after the release of the Durham indictments.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-04 03:20|| 2021-05-04 03:20|| Front Page Top

#7

For the few that missed it....

Your data is up for sale any day of the week.
No warrant is needed just $$$.
Guess who has had a budget for years for purchasing private citizen data?

Guess which Political Party watered down the USA's version the initial Online Privacy Act.

H.R.4978 - Online Privacy Act of 2019.
Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19]*
Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-11]
Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]
Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]

BTW: A pretty good read "U.S. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review – 2020"
https://www.gibsondunn.com/us-cybersecurity-and-data-privacy-outlook-and-review-2020/#_Toc31013935

" Other Federal Legislation

There were several other privacy-related bills introduced in 2019 and 2020 prior to the publication of this Review, including: Online Privacy Act of 2019,[49] Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight and Regulations on Data Act,[50] Do Not Track Act,[51] Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act of 2019,[52] Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019,[53] Balancing the Rights of Web Surfers Equally and Responsibly Act of 2019,[54] Privacy Bill of Rights Act,[55] Information Transparency & Personal Data Control Act,[56] the DATA Privacy Act,[57] and the Preventing Real Online Threats Endangering Children Today (“PROTECT”) Kids Act.[58] None, as of this writing, has gained significant traction."

Posted by NN2N1 2021-05-04 06:39|| 2021-05-04 06:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Palantir Is Poised to Win More Commercial Clients

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-04 08:27|| 2021-05-04 08:27|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Shunned by much of DoD for years, it remains an amazing social network and
collaborative forensic discovery tool. Analyst Notebook (AnB) to the 10th power might not be an exaggeration. I am hardly surprised at their continued marketing and fielding successes.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-04 08:30|| 2021-05-04 08:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Why not, they have the post office doing it already..

Posted by 49 Pan 2021-05-04 11:07|| 2021-05-04 11:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Contractor in government files doing what civil servants cant? Sounds familiar...
EXPLAINER

From Kate Bolduan
CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The CEO of a company whose employee is accused of improperly looking at the passport files of presidential candidates is a consultant to the Barack Obama campaign, a source said Saturday.

Analysis Corp. President John Brennan, shown here in 2004, advises Barack Obama, a source tells CNN.
John O. Brennan, president and CEO of the Analysis Corp., advises the Illinois Democrat on foreign policy and intelligence issues, the source said.

Brennan briefed the media on behalf of the campaign this month.

The executive is a former senior CIA official and former interim director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

He contributed $2,300 to the Obama campaign in January.

When asked about the contribution, a State Department official told CNN's Zain Verjee, "We ethically awarded contracts. Political affiliation is not one of the factors that we check."

On Friday, the department revealed that Obama's passport file was improperly accessed three times this year, and the security of passport files of the two other major presidential candidates -- Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain -- had also been breached. Watch the secretary of state apologize for the breach »

Three contract employees are accused in the wrongdoing, including the one who works for Analysis Corp. and who was disciplined. That contract employee accessed McCain's file in addition to Obama's. None of the contract employees was identified. Learn more about the companies involved »

The other two contract employees worked for Stanley Inc. They were fired.

The Washington Times, which broke the story Thursday night that Obama's records had been improperly accessed, reported Saturday that the State Department inquiry is focusing on the Analysis Corp. employee. Also, the investigation by the department's inspector general will include polygraph tests for supervisors in the passport section to find out whether there was any political motive.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-05-04 12:56|| 2021-05-04 12:56|| Front Page Top

#12 22 March 2008 article, so a long established MO.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-05-04 13:01|| 2021-05-04 13:01|| Front Page Top

#13 They have been doing this for years. Banks are heavily regulated and the feds pressure the banks to squeeze payday lenders, gun stores...... I suspect transaction reports are included in the requirement to keep regulators at bay

Posted by Airandee 2021-05-04 14:51|| 2021-05-04 14:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Citizens of democracies wouldn't like to accept it, but most governments besieged by antinationals and subversives already do this in some way. And it was the US that taught us how to.

Very effectively maintains deniability, is cheaper than the bloated government machinery, brings corporate efficiency to a job that could really use some efficiency. Oh... and the assets and employees of the contractor know they are expendable [literally] if they compromise secrecy.

I maintain that the domestic police state the Democrat is pushing on America should have been achieved under a Republican. The conservatives just missed that chance because GOP leaders are too 'righteous' to play dirty.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-04 15:50|| 2021-05-04 15:50|| Front Page Top

#15 So they plan to do in the open what Nixon and the plumbers got caught doing after hours. So they don't object to Watergate, only that they weren't the ones doing to others back then (but probably were).

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-04 16:05|| 2021-05-04 16:05|| Front Page Top

#16 "George W. is a war criminal for using military contractors to work outside of the law!"

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-05-04 17:26|| 2021-05-04 17:26|| Front Page Top

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