Keyword: spying
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Jack Poso đşđ¸ @JackPosobiec Bannon is going OFF on Speaker Johnson
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The FBI is at it again, going after US citizens with a little help from Speaker Johnson and the rest of Congress, who voted to extend the FBIâs 702 FISA powers. Remember, these are the same powers they used illegally against President Trump and his team without ever facing the consequences. Now, theyâre back in action, ready to crank up the wiretaps, all thanks to our âcapturedâ lawmakers. As a matter of fact, about 20 minutes before becoming Speaker, Mike Johnson was against the FBIâs warrantless wiretaps. But that stance took a quick turn after the feds got him alone...
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New technologies that will make monitoring drivers' behavior easy and comprehensive ⌠will soon also be mandatory.H.R. 3684, an âinfrastructureâ bill signed by Joe Biden in 2021 included a provision mandating expanded monitoring of folks as they drive an automobile. And henceforth the intrusive technologies will be required in all new vehicles being manufactured and sold in the U.S.New vehicles will be required to have passive monitoring systems to assess each driverâs behavior. An algorithm will determine if the driver is too impaired to operate the vehicle. If so, the vehicle will either be disabled, or some as yet unexplained...
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A whistleblower organization has initiated a court action to force the Department of Justice to disclose why it spied on congressional staff, setting up a landmark legal battle on an issue that has rankled both Republicans and Democrats.Last fall, several current and former congressional oversight staff were belatedly informed that the Justice Department seized phone and email records in 2017 in an internal investigation, raising concerns about separation of powers between two branches of government.Jason Foster, who is now the founder and chair of Empower Oversight, the group which sued in court this week to unseal the court documents in...
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Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras are becoming more and more common on American roads, thanks to one company. Flock Safety is a tech company that provides surveillance products to a wide array of clients. Its largest customer is law enforcement. Namely, governing bodies use the company's ALPR cameras to capture millions of U.S. driver plates all over the country. Many local citizens are unaware of the cameras. Chiefly, this is due to the quiet methods used to install them and utilize recorded data. Eric Fielder works in real estate. He recently noticed something unusual in his community. The resident...
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James OâKeefe last Friday warned he was about to release the most important story of his entire career. âI have evidence that exposes the CIA, and itâs on camera. I am working on releasing a story that I believe is the most important of my entire career,â OâKeefe said on Friday. âDo you think itâs a coincidence that right at this moment I am subject to an endless series of attacks?â he said. âThis is obviously a sophisticated information operation designed to stop me from releasing this story. Iâm sure you recognize they are masters of using half-truths and innuendos...
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A report in the Daily Mail says that Republicans in Congress are investigating more than ten banks âfor colluding with the federal government to spy on Americans after the January 6 protests.â The alleged witch hunt was in search of ââextremismâ indicators.â You wonât be surprised at all to learn what qualifies as an âextremism indicator.â Fox News reported on January 17: Federal investigators asked banks to search and filter customer transactions by using terms like âMAGAâ and âTrumpâ as part of an investigation into Jan. 6, warning that purchases of âreligious textsâ could indicate âextremism,â the House Judiciary Committee...
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Now We Are Supposed to Cheer Government Surveillance?They are wearing us down with shocking headlines and opinions. They come daily these days, with increasingly implausible claims that leave your jaw on the floor. The rest of the text is perfunctory. The headline is the takeaway, and the part designed to demoralize, deconstruct, and disorient. A few weeks ago, the New York Times told us that âAs It Turns Out, the Deep State Is Pretty Awesome.â These are the same people who claim that Trump is trying to get rid of democracy. The Deep State is the opposite of democracy, unelected...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a âcleanâ reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House. Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. When the FISA Act was passed, surveillance state boosters promised that 702 warrantless surveillances would never be used against American citizens. However, intelligence agencies have used a loophole in 702, allowing them to subject to warrantless surveillance any American who communicated with a non-US citizen who was a 702 target. Intelligence agencies could then also conduct warrantless surveillance on any...
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We already knew that the FBI used the Clinton-funded Steele Dossier to obtain FISA warrants and justify spying on Trump campaign officials in the hopes of thwarting his campaign and undermining his presidency. But this week we learned that the CIA under Barack Obama recruited the intelligence services of foreign allies to illegally spy on 26 associates of Donald Trump before the FBI launched its counterintelligence probe in the summer of 2016. But before we get more into that, let's take a step back. Back in December, CNN reported that a binder "containing highly classified information related to Russian election...
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Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance launched a Complaint against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) challenging the agencyâs unconstitutional âConsolidated Audit Trail.â The CAT is the largest government-mandated mass collection of personal financial data in American history. Without any statutory authority, SEC is forcing brokers, exchanges, clearing agencies and alternative trading systems to capture and send detailed information on every investorâs trades in U.S. markets to a centralized database, which SEC and private regulators can access forever. NCLA is asking the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to stop this unlawful, unprecedented seizure and mass surveillance...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is illegally collecting data of every citizen who invests in the stock market, according to a new lawsuit. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed the suit Tuesday against the SEC claiming that the agency, through its âConsolidated Audit Trail,â or âCAT,â program, is collecting mass amounts of personally identifiable data by forcing brokers, exchanges, clearing agencies and alternative trading systems to capture and send detailed information on every investorâs trades in U.S. markets to a centralized database. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is illegally collecting data of every citizen who invests in...
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President Biden signed a bill Saturday extending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Actâs (FISA) warrantless surveillance program another two years. The Senate passed the reauthorization bill early Saturday, after hours of intense debate, narrowly avoiding a key national intelligence gathering capability going dark. Senators voted 60-34 to send the bill to Bidenâs desk shortly after the midnight deadline. The program looked as if it was headed for a lapse until Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced a breakthrough on the Senate floor.
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"This bill would basically allow the government to institute a spy draft," warns head of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.Tech companies and First Amendment groups are calling attention to a provision in a domestic spying bill that they say would significantly expand the federal government's power to snoop on Americans' digital communicationsâpotentially by forcing employees of private businesses to become informants. The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), a global trade group that represents major tech companies including Google and Microsoft, is calling for last-minute changes to the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), which could get a final...
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@RonWyden As the longest serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I can say with confidence that this bill is the biggest expansion of the government's warrantless surveillance power since the PATRIOT Act. I'm still doing everything in my power to stop it passing the Senate.
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A former senior employee at TikTok said he was ordered to send American user data to Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, contradicting TikTokâs public claims of operating independently from China, according to a Fortune report published Monday. Evan Turner, a senior data scientist for TikTok from April to September in 2022, told Fortune that every two weeks TikTok had him email spreadsheets containing millions of American usersâ data to ByteDance employees in Beijing, including the usersâ names, email addresses, IP addresses, and demographics. Turner said he "literally worked on a project that gave U.S. data to China" even though TikTok had...
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Representative Anna Paulina Luna has called for a rare procedural move to delay the Senateâs consideration of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 extension, pushing for a new vote in the House of Representatives. This move comes in the wake of the Houseâs approval of a bill that further empowers the âDeep Stateâ by allowing it to surveil Americans without a warrant. On Friday, the House cast a vote of 273 to 147 in favor of extending Section 702 of FISA, a provision originally enacted in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. This legislation permits U.S. agencies to...
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@BasedMikeLee Donât fall for the hyperbole. The sky is not about to fall. We must not allow for a âcleanâreauthorization of FISA 702. We must continue to fight until we can attach a warrant requirement to FISA 702. Get a warrant!
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You might remember FISA warrants from the infamous and disgraceful Russia hoax saga. Well, theyâre making headlines again as lawmakers debate bringing back the use of the 702 FISA warrantless searches that came about after 9/11 and during the Patriot Act frenzy and were used and abused against innocent Americans. ... Everyoneâs favorite warrantless surveillance tool, FISA Section 702, returns to the US House of Representatives this week and is expected to go to a full House vote on Thursday. Or, it may all fall apart (again) in the House Rules Committee on Tuesday. This weekâs congressional action follows an...
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), along with other members of the U.S. intelligence community, are pushing for Congress to expand Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 in order to fight the ongoing fentanyl crisis.According to the Brennan Center of Justice, Section 702, âAuthorizes the government to collect the communications of non-Americans located abroad without a warrant from a court. While this surveillance is supposed to target foreigners, it inevitably sweeps in Americansâ private phone calls, emails, and text messages too.â (snip) However, CIA officials believe in its current form, Section 702 limits the intelligence community from...
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