Source: RT.com
According to the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community report, Al-Qaeda and its associated forces remain a threat, especially in Iraq. But the report says that the terrorist organization isn't the only threat the US faces from abroad. RT's Liz Wahl talks to former CIA analyst Ray McGovern about the details of the report from the heads of US intelligence agencies to see if the report is fearmongering or realistic. -RT.com
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Showing posts with label FBI. Show all posts
New World Next Week | Black Sites, Designer Babies, FDA Shutdown, October 10, 2013
Source: NewWorldNextWeek.com, corbettreport.com, mediamonarchy.com
Story #1: FBI Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and Makes Arrest
Feds Raid Online Drug Market Silk Road
Agorism: Revolutionary market anarchism
Flashback Video: How to buy drugs like DMT and CHANGA on the Silk Road - Adam Kokesh
Story #2: Popular Fast Food Chain Yoshinoya To Grow Food 60 Miles From Fukushima Plant
Former Japanese PM Koizumi Calls for End to Nuclear Power
Story #3: Exercise 'Can Be As Good As Pills'
Story #1: FBI Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and Makes Arrest
Feds Raid Online Drug Market Silk Road
Agorism: Revolutionary market anarchism
Flashback Video: How to buy drugs like DMT and CHANGA on the Silk Road - Adam Kokesh
Story #2: Popular Fast Food Chain Yoshinoya To Grow Food 60 Miles From Fukushima Plant
Former Japanese PM Koizumi Calls for End to Nuclear Power
Story #3: Exercise 'Can Be As Good As Pills'
New World Next Week | Silk Road Shutdown, Fukushima Fast Food, Exercise Pills, October 3, 2013
Source: NewWorldNextWeek.com, corbettreport.com, mediamonarchy.com
Story #1: FBI Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and Makes Arrest
Feds Raid Online Drug Market Silk Road
Agorism: Revolutionary market anarchism
Flashback Video: How to buy drugs like DMT and CHANGA on the Silk Road - Adam Kokesh
Story #2: Popular Fast Food Chain Yoshinoya To Grow Food 60 Miles From Fukushima Plant Former Japanese PM Koizumi Calls for End to Nuclear Power
Story #3: Exercise 'Can Be As Good As Pills'
Story #1: FBI Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and Makes Arrest
Feds Raid Online Drug Market Silk Road
Agorism: Revolutionary market anarchism
Flashback Video: How to buy drugs like DMT and CHANGA on the Silk Road - Adam Kokesh
Story #2: Popular Fast Food Chain Yoshinoya To Grow Food 60 Miles From Fukushima Plant Former Japanese PM Koizumi Calls for End to Nuclear Power
Story #3: Exercise 'Can Be As Good As Pills'
FBI Sued For Access to Facial-Recognition Records, June 26, 2013
Source: activistpost.com
Lawsuit Seeks Transparency Before Implementation of a 'Bigger, Faster and Better' Biometrics System
As the FBI is rushing to build a "bigger, faster and better" biometrics database, it's also dragging its feet in releasing information related to the program's impact on the American public. In response, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a lawsuit to compel the FBI to produce records to satisfy three outstanding Freedom of Information Act requests that EFF submitted one year ago to shine light on the program and its face-recognition components.
Since early 2011, EFF has been closely following the FBI's work to build out its Next Generation Identification (NGI) biometrics database, which would replace and expand upon the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). The new program will include multiple biometric identifiers, such as iris scans, palm prints, face-recognition-ready photos, and voice data, and that information will be shared with other agencies at the local, state, federal and international levels. The face recognition component is set to launch in 2014.
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Lawsuit Seeks Transparency Before Implementation of a 'Bigger, Faster and Better' Biometrics System
As the FBI is rushing to build a "bigger, faster and better" biometrics database, it's also dragging its feet in releasing information related to the program's impact on the American public. In response, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a lawsuit to compel the FBI to produce records to satisfy three outstanding Freedom of Information Act requests that EFF submitted one year ago to shine light on the program and its face-recognition components.Since early 2011, EFF has been closely following the FBI's work to build out its Next Generation Identification (NGI) biometrics database, which would replace and expand upon the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS). The new program will include multiple biometric identifiers, such as iris scans, palm prints, face-recognition-ready photos, and voice data, and that information will be shared with other agencies at the local, state, federal and international levels. The face recognition component is set to launch in 2014.
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FBI To Internet Providers: Spy For Us Or Face A $25,000 Fine, May 8, 2013
Source: popsci.com
Existing wiretap law is almost 20 years old and doesn't capture the nuances of modern internet use. Here's how the FBI plans to get around it.
By Kelsey D. Atherton
Existing wiretap law is almost 20 years old and doesn't capture the nuances of modern internet use. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was first authorized in 1994, and it ordered "telecommunications carriers" to comply with court orders to assist in intercepting communication. Since then, communication online has taken off, while the landscape of what we know has telecommunications carriers has drastically changed. In 2006, the FCC expanded the act to include Internet access providers, but there's a tricky caveat: court orders under existing law only instruct internet communications providers to offer technical assistance to law enforcement. That gives the tech companies some leeway if they're uncomfortable handing over information; they can just say they were unable to make the technology work the way the FBI wants.
Under the new proposal, that wiggle room disappears. FBI officials can notify a company (with a wiretap order, say) that they need the tech to be surveillance-ready in 30 days. If not? Fines, starting at $25,000/day that the capability isn't there. Of course, complying isn't exactly free, either. Over at Lawfare, >Susan Landau writes:
The FBI plan is really about cost shifting. When wiretapping was about alligator clips, law enforcement paid the full costs of a tap. With CALEA, the government reimbursed the service providers $500 million for retrofitting old switches to be CALEA compliant, but the companies had to pay the costs of doing so for new infrastructure (law enforcement does pay for the work involved in executing a particular tap, but not the cost of creating the infrastructure). What the FBI wants to do now is have communications services wiretap compliant with private industry footing the bill.
The plan allows the FBI to adapt quickly as new media emerge, and more and more private information is in the hands of internet-based tech companies. But it's still a far cry from law. Right now, the Obama administration is considering the proposal. If White House officials choose to push it forward, it would still need to pass in Congress.
Existing wiretap law is almost 20 years old and doesn't capture the nuances of modern internet use. Here's how the FBI plans to get around it.
By Kelsey D. Atherton
Existing wiretap law is almost 20 years old and doesn't capture the nuances of modern internet use. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was first authorized in 1994, and it ordered "telecommunications carriers" to comply with court orders to assist in intercepting communication. Since then, communication online has taken off, while the landscape of what we know has telecommunications carriers has drastically changed. In 2006, the FCC expanded the act to include Internet access providers, but there's a tricky caveat: court orders under existing law only instruct internet communications providers to offer technical assistance to law enforcement. That gives the tech companies some leeway if they're uncomfortable handing over information; they can just say they were unable to make the technology work the way the FBI wants.
Under the new proposal, that wiggle room disappears. FBI officials can notify a company (with a wiretap order, say) that they need the tech to be surveillance-ready in 30 days. If not? Fines, starting at $25,000/day that the capability isn't there. Of course, complying isn't exactly free, either. Over at Lawfare, >Susan Landau writes:
The FBI plan is really about cost shifting. When wiretapping was about alligator clips, law enforcement paid the full costs of a tap. With CALEA, the government reimbursed the service providers $500 million for retrofitting old switches to be CALEA compliant, but the companies had to pay the costs of doing so for new infrastructure (law enforcement does pay for the work involved in executing a particular tap, but not the cost of creating the infrastructure). What the FBI wants to do now is have communications services wiretap compliant with private industry footing the bill.
The plan allows the FBI to adapt quickly as new media emerge, and more and more private information is in the hands of internet-based tech companies. But it's still a far cry from law. Right now, the Obama administration is considering the proposal. If White House officials choose to push it forward, it would still need to pass in Congress.
GRTV | The FBI Fosters, Funds and Equips American Terrorists, April 17, 2013
Source: GRTV.ca, corbettreport.com
The Boston Marathon bombing has provoked shock, grief and outrage from around the world. After decades of conditioning, the public automatically equates such terrorism with Muslim radicals. But the evidence shows that every major terror plot on American soil in the past 10 years has been fostered, funded and equipped by one organization: the FBI. -GRTV.ca
Transcript & Sources
The Boston Marathon bombing has provoked shock, grief and outrage from around the world. After decades of conditioning, the public automatically equates such terrorism with Muslim radicals. But the evidence shows that every major terror plot on American soil in the past 10 years has been fostered, funded and equipped by one organization: the FBI. -GRTV.ca
Transcript & Sources
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