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    OBAMA'S BAT CAVE: $1.9 BILLION DATA CENTER SET TO OPEN IN OCTOBER

    OBAMA'S BAT CAVE: $1.9 BILLION DATA CENTER SET TO OPEN IN OCTOBER



    by JOHN NOLTE 8 Jun 2013, 8:52 AM PDT 301POST A COMMENT

    There is no question that the big winners from last week were George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, two men vilified for years by the left, the media, and Barack Obama as eager to use the War on Terror as an excuse to violate the Constitutional rights of everyday Americans. Obama ran for president as the anti-Bush in many respects, but especially on the issue of surveillance and snooping.

    Well, we now know -- no thanks to the American mainstream media -- that Obama's hypocrisy on this issue is as vast and wide as the dragnet he is using to snoop into our computers and phone calls (and those of the media during those rare times they don't play White House stenographer). Moreover, Obama not only embraced his predecessors anti-terror surveillance policies; he has gone a step further in declaring the War on Terror pretty much over, even as he expands on those policies.

    For instance… this:
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    The Daily Mail:

    The personal data and private online conversations that the National Security Administration is accused of mining could be stashed in a one million square-foot, $1.9 billion facility in the Utah Valley.

    Concerns over what the government will store at the Utah Data Center have been reinvigorated by the revelation that U.S. intelligence agencies have been extracting audio, video, photos, e-mails, documents and other information to track people's movements and contacts. …

    Plans released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is handling the construction, show the center will have four 'data halls' to store information and two substations to power the facility.

    Sure sounds like the Bat Cave to me; and it sure sounds like, at the very least, President Obama owes George W. Bush a very public apology.

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    This is the Product of the Never Ending "Fake War on Terror"

    YOU, America IS and WAS the Intended Victom
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    SENATE DEMOCRAT: OBAMA'S NSA SNOOPING VIOLATES 'PLAIN LANGUAGE OF THE LAW'

    Video at the Page Link: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-T...ard-of-The-Law

    Senator Jeff Merkley discusses his displeasure with Obama's NSA surveillance program on MSNBC's "NOW with Alex Wagner."

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    This is where our tax dollars go? To spy on people in the US?
    This is all part of our huge Debt.
    Kind of makes me wonder what else they are spending our money on and not telling us.
    Now that this is out in the open...Are suppose to accept it?

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    Lawmakers rebut Obama's data defense

    There’s no public record of who has attended any of the briefing sessions. | Reuters
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    By REID J. EPSTEIN | 6/7/13 9:40 PM EDT

    President Barack Obama’s chief defense of his administration’s wide-ranging data-gathering programs Friday: Congress authorized them, with “every member” well aware of the details.
    Not so, say many members of Congress — Democrats and Republicans alike.

    Feinstein, Chambliss defend NSA




    Typically, members of Congress “don’t receive this kind of briefing,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told POLITICO Friday. They wouldn’t have known about the programs unless they were on an intelligence committee, attended special sessions last held in 2011 or specifically asked to be briefed – something they would only know to do if they were clued in by an colleague who was already aware.

    (WATCH: NSA reactions in under 60 seconds)

    Durbin said he learned about the two programs himself only after requesting a briefing under “classified circumstances” after being urged to do so by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).

    Congressional leadership and intelligence committees had access to information about the programs, he said — but the “average member” of Congress likely wouldn’t have been aware of the breadth of the telephone and Internet surveillance.

    There’s no public record of who has attended any of these sessions — and even the Obama administration couldn’t confirm the president’s claim that “every member of Congress” had been briefed.

    (PHOTOS: Pols, pundits weigh in on NSA report)

    The White House declined to comment for this story.

    And Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) told POLITICO that the classified intelligence briefing sessions he’s attended haven’t disclosed details on the two data-gathering programs as were unveiled this week.

    Schock, in Congress since 2009, said he had “no idea” about the phone data gathering, or any briefings for House members to discuss it, until news reports this week.

    Like other members who said they learned of the data-gathering efforts when they were revealed in the Guardian and the Washington Post, Schock said the administration classified briefings he’s attended have revealed very little information.

    (See also: Full coverage of NSA phone tracking)

    “I can assure you the phone number tracking of non-criminal, non-terrorist suspects was not discussed,” he said. “Most members have stopped going to their classified briefings because they rarely tell us anything we don’t already know in the news. It really has become a charade.”

    President Obama’s explanation allows him to sound a nothing-to-see-here note that paints the programs as both prosaic and innocuous. After all, if all 535 members of Congress knew about them, how bad could they really be?

    “These are the folks you all vote for as your representatives in Congress, and they’re being fully briefed on these programs,” said Obama. “And if, in fact … there were abuses taking place, presumably those members of Congress could raise those issues very aggressively. They’re empowered to do so.”

    But as Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) complained to Attorney General Eric Holder during a Thursday hearing, the idea that Congress has been “fully briefed” on these programs is coming as news to many of the lawmakers themselves.

    “This ‘fully briefed’ is something that drives us up the wall, because often ‘fully briefed’ means a group of eight leadership; it does not necessarily mean relevant committees,” Mikulski said.

    In theory, briefings on the electronic surveillance programs were available — and offered — to every member of Congress. In practice, they were regularly given to those on the House and Senate Intelligence committees — and haven’t been offered all members of Congress for the past two years, except by request.Justice and intelligence officials conducted a dozen briefings for congressional committees and leadership between May 2009 and October 2011, and FBI Director Robert Mueller briefed the House GOP conference and House Democratic caucus in May 2011 ahead of the last the Patriot Act reauthorization. The administration also asked that classified white papers be made available to all members of the House and Senate in 2011, when the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was last re-authorized.

    So senators not on the intelligence committee would only have learned of the program had they attended one of those classified briefings in 2010 or 2011. Then, the committee invited all 100 senators to read a classified report on “roving authority for electronic surveillance” in a secure location in the Hart Senate Office Building.

    Asked Thursday if she knew how many senators had taken the time to read the report, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) responded: “I do not, certainly the Intelligence Committee should have.”

    Congress last reauthorized the FISA provision of the Patriot Act in in May 2011, with the Senate voting 72-23 in favor, and the House approving the measure by a 250-153 count.

    It is not known how many members reviewed the intelligence papers prior to those votes. And it’s not clear how many members of Congress have pursued classified briefings on their own. But it’s not hard to find members of Congress this week who say the latest reports are the first they’ve heard of these programs.

    There are now nine senators and 61 congressmen who were not in office during the 2010 and 2011 briefing sessions — new members of Congress like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who have never been personally informed of either program unless they asked about it.

    “Americans trusted President Obama when he came to office promising the most transparent administration in history,” Cruz said Friday. “But that trust has been broken and the only way to earn it back is to tell the truth.”

    Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) wrote “not quite” on Twitter in response to a reporter’s tweet about Obama’s remark that “every member” was aware of the data-gathering programs. Long wasn’t made available to explain his tweet Friday.

    And Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) told MSNBC Friday that he received a briefing only because he “sought it out,” not because the Obama administration had offered it to him.

    “I had to get special permission to find out about the program,” Merkley said. “It raised concerns for me. … When I saw what was being done, I felt it was so out of sync with the plain language of the law and that it merited full public examination, and that’s why I called for the declassification.”

    - Burgess Everett and Jake Sherman contributed to this report.


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    MORE DOCUMENTS LEAKED: OBAMA COLLECTING LIST OF POLITICAL DISSIDENTS

    09:24 Susanne Posel
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    According to a Department of Homeland Security
    (DHS) informant “this administration is collecting names of sources, whistle blowers and their families, names of media sources and everybody they talk to and have talked to, and they already have a huge list. If you’re not working for MSNBC or CNN, you’re probably on that list. If you are a website owner with a brisk readership and a conservative bent, you’re on that list. It’s a political dissident list, not an enemy threat list.”

    The hacktivist group Anonymous has released 13 documents related to PRISM that are classified from federal agencies like the Department of Defense (DoD).

    The documents show that the DoD and the National Security Agency (NSA) have been collecting data on Americans for years.

    Under the NetOps Strategic Vision , the federal government has been monitoring the internet through corporations such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and others.

    According to Anonymous: “NetOps will transform along with the Global Information Grid to dynamically support new warfighting, intelligence, and business processes and enable users to access and share trusted information in a timely manner. The future Global Information Grid will result in a richer Net-Centric information environment comprised of shared services and capabilities based on advanced technologies.”

    The document goes to say: “It will be heavily reliant on end-to-end virtual networks to interconnect anyone, anywhere, at any time with any type of information through voice, video, images, or text. It will also be faced with greater security threats that NetOps must help address.”

    The DoD is expanding the control over a division referred to as the Global Information Grid (GiG).

    GiG is tasked with providing “a supportive information environment wherein every user can obtain the information needed, when and where it is needed, even in unanticipated situations.”

    Indeed, it is clear that the NSA has had direct access to Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and other internet giants for years; amassing a gigantic database of information on the American public.

    The NSA describes GiG to the public as an apparatus that provides “the National Command Authority (NCA), warfighters, DoD personnel, Intelligence Community, business, policy-makers, and non-DoD users with information superiority, decision superiority, and full-spectrum dominance.”

    The leaked document provides more detailed information about GiG’s purpose: “The GIG includes all owned and leased communications and computing systems and services, software (including applications), data, security services, and other associated services necessary to achieve Information Superiority. It also includes National Security Systems as defined in section 5142 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. The GIG supports all Department of Defense, National Security, and related Intelligence Community missions and functions (strategic, operational, tactical, and business), in war and in peace. The GIG provides capabilities from all operating locations (bases, posts, camps, stations, facilities, mobile platforms, and deployed sites). The GIG provides interfaces to coalition, allied, and non-DoD users and systems.”

    Internet users have their every move on the internet traced. This includes search history, emails, file transfers, [COLOR=#5656FF !important]live chats[/COLOR], etc . . .

    In 2007, PRISM began data mining. Some sources say that PRISM actually extends as far back as 2003.

    Their first collaboration was with Microsoft and conducted surveillance operations under the guise of searching for terrorist activity or cyber espionage.

    Using automated algorithms , the NSA or other federal agencies can search for clues as to the next possible terrorist plot.

    The NSA and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) have been acquiring“extracting audio, video, photographs, emails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.”

    All of the tech corporations that have been used by the NSA, FBI and DoD in conjunction with sharing private user information to create the surveillance network grid are denying that they knew why the information was being requested of them.

    Larry Page, co-founder of Google said that “we have not joined any program that would give the US government – or any other government – direct access to our servers. Indeed, the US government does not have direct access or a ‘back door’ to the information stored in our data centers. We had not heard of a program called Prism until yesterday.”

    Page goes on to explain: “We provide user data to governments only in accordance with the law. Our legal team reviews each and every request, and frequently pushes back when requests are overly broad or don’t follow the correct process.”

    Mark Zuckerberg replied: “Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers. We have never received a blanket request or court order from any government agency asking for information or metadata in bulk, like the one Verizon reportedly received. And if we did, we would fight it aggressively. We hadn’t even heard of Prism before yesterday.”

    Interestingly, upon close inspection of the denials from tech corporations, it appears that they do not deny that it is possible that the information they provided to the federal government may have been used in surveillance programs or for such purposes.

    Under PRISM, these same corporations that deny knowledge or involvement in surveillance operations on the American public are listed with their entry date into the program as outlined in the leaked documents.

    • 2008 – Yahoo
    • 2009 – Google, Facebook, Paltalk
    • 2010 – Youtube
    • 2011 – Skype, AOL
    • 2012 – Apple

    In response to the leak, President Obama came out to publically endorse PRISM because it promotes public safety and protects of civil liberties.

    Obama said that this “modest encroachment on privacy . . . helps us prevent terrorist attacks.”

    According to the president Americans must accept this “trade-off” that creates balance between privacy and safety. He said: “Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That’s not what this program is about. In the abstract you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details, I think we’ve struck the right balance. There are trade-offs involved.

    In defense of unnecessary government surveillance on all Americans, Obama said: “You can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We’re going to have to make some choices as a society.

    Simply put, Obama explained that “if the intelligence community actually wants to listen to a phone call, they’ve got to go back to a federal judge.”

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