Thread: Snowden documents could be 'worst nightmare' for U.S. - journalist

Snowden documents could be 'worst nightmare' for U.S. - journalist










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(Reuters) - Fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden controls dangerous information that could become the United States' "worst nightmare" if revealed, a journalist familiar with the data said in a newspaper interview.
Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who first published the documents Snowden leaked, said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday that the U.S. government should be careful in its pursuit of the former computer analyst.
"Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had," Greenwald said in an interview in Rio de Janeiro with the Argentinian daily La Nacion.
"The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare."
Snowden, who is sought by Washington on espionage charges after revealing details of secret surveillance programs, has been stranded at a Moscow airport since June 23 and is now seeking refuge in Russia until he can secure safe passage to Latin America, where several counties have offered him asylum.
Greenwald told Reuters on Tuesday that Snowden would likely accept asylum in Venezuela, one of three Latin American countries that have made that offer.
Snowden's leaks on U.S. spying secrets, including eavesdropping on global email traffic, have upset Washington's friends and foes alike.
Latin American leaders lashed out at the United States after Greenwald reported in a Brazilian newspaper that the U.S. targeted most of the region with spying programs that monitored Internet traffic.
Washington has urged nations not to give Snowden safe passage.
Greenwald said in his interview with La Nacion that documents Snowden has tucked away in different parts of the world detail which U.S. spy programs capture transmissions in Latin America and how they work.
"One way of intercepting communications is through a telephone company in the United States that has contracts with telecommunications companies in most Latin American countries," Greenwald said, without specifying which company.
(Writing by Mitra Taj; Editing by Sandra Maler)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...96C05520130713

Walter Block: There Is No Right to Privacy

July 14, 2013

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By Walter Block | Subscribe | Dr. Block is a professor of economics at Loyola University New Orleans, and a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is author of Ron Paul for President in 2012 Yes to Ron Paul and Liberty and Privatization Of Roads And Highways: Human And Economic Factors... and others.

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Don’t get me wrong. I am a BIG fan of Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg and all other who have undermined the legitimacy of the state apparatus. I go further; no one is a greater supporter of these heroic men than me. So when I say there is no right to privacy, this should not be interpreted as in any way a criticism of them. Rather I am attempting to call into account numerous libertarians, all of whom should know better, when they write in support of these magnificent men and say things like: “The liberty of which I write is the right to privacy: the right to be left alone. The Framers jealously and zealously guarded this right by imposing upon government agents intentionally onerous burdens before letting them invade it.”

There is no right to privacy; none at all. It is not a negative right, all of which are supported by libertarian theory; e.g., the right not to be molested, murdered, raped, etc. Rather, the so called right to privacy is a so called “positive right,” as in the “right” to food, clothing, shelter, welfare, etc. That is, it is no right at all; rather the “right” to privacy is an aspect of wealth. As Murray N. Rothbard (The Ethics of Liberty, chapter 16) made clear, there is only a right to private property, not privacy:
It might, however, be charged that Smith does not have the right to print such a statement, because Jones has a “right to privacy” (his “human” right) which Smith does not have the right to violate. But is there really such a right to privacy? How can there be? How can there be a right to prevent Smith by force from disseminating knowledge which he possesses? Surely there can be no such right. Smith owns his own body and therefore has the property right to own the knowledge he has inside his head, including his knowledge about Jones. And therefore he has the corollary right to print and disseminate that knowledge. In short, as in the case of the “human right” to free speech, there is no such thing as a right to privacy except the right to protect one’s property from invasion. The only right “to privacy” is the right to protect one’s property from being invaded by someone else. In brief, no one has the right to burgle someone else’s home, or to wiretap someone’s phone lines. Wiretapping is properly a crime not because of some vague and woolly “invasion of a ‘right to privacy’,” but because it is an invasion of the property right of the person being wiretapped.
The government, of course, has no right to invade our privacy, since it has no rights at all. It should not exist. Period. It is an illegitimate institution, since it initiates violence against innocent people. Therefore, it can have no right to do anything. Anything. A forteriori, the state has no right to privacy, either. And this for two reasons. First, is has no rights of any kind, since it is an illicit institution. Therefore, it cannot have any privacy “rights.” Second, even if it did have some rights, it could not possibly have a right to privacy, since there is and can be no such thing. As a corollary, we need pay no attention to its “secret” classifications, apart of course from pragmatic or utilitarian considerations: Edward Snowden’s personal life has been threatened by these criminals; this evil institution still has a lot of power. But as a matter of deontology, we are free to ignore statist “secret” classifications.
But suppose a private individual were to invade our privacy without violating our private property rights. Would he have a right to do that? Yes, at least insofar as I understand the libertarian perspective. The paparazzi have a right to take pictures of movie stars, professional athletes, without permission, provided only they do not violate private property rights. If the streets and sidewalks were privately owned (I make a case for that in this book, The Privatization of Roads and Highways: Human and Economic Factors; Auburn, AL: The Mises Institute; available for free here), their owners would presumably supply an environment desired by customers. If they wanted to attract famous camera-shy people to their property, it is to be expected that they would protect them from the shutterbugs. If not, not. The market would determine these sorts of things. In a forthcoming book in myDefending the Undefendable series, the first of which is available for free here, I shall be devoting a chapter to the Peeping Tom who looks at people who would prefer not to be seen. For a more scholarly treatment of this issue, I recommend the following article: Block, Walter, Stephan Kinsella and Roy Whitehead. 2006. “The duty to defend advertising injuries caused by junk faxes: an analysis of privacy, spam, detection and blackmail.” Whittier Law Review, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 925-949.
All men of good will owe a great debt of gratitude to those who told truth to power, preeminently Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange and Daniel Ellsberg. When and if the present rash of statist murder ever ceases they are the people who will have done more than pretty much anyone else to stop it. We must all take our hats off to them. However, to claim that there is a right to privacy is to misunderstand the libertarian philosophy, the last best hope for our prosperity, and even the very survival of mankind. It does us our movement no good to mischaracterize libertarianism in this very proper libertarian outpouring of appreciation for these whistle-blowers who very properly denigrated and exposed governmental attacks on our privacy. The state should not reduce our privacy. The state should not be doing much of anything at all. But private incursions into privacy, as long as achieved without private property rights violations, are licit under libertarian law.
Privacy is a benefit, not a right. It is a benefit that the market, when and if it is freed, will confer on those of us who wish it.
Source: Lew Rockwell

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

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Obama Blocks Snowden's Asylum

Stephen Lendman
Activist Post

On July 12, Russia Today (RT) headlined "US 'blocks my asylum:' Snowden human rights activists to airport meeting," saying:

Snowden remains stuck. He's in limbo. He's at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. He's in its transit area. A source told Interfax he'll meet with human rights organizations late Friday.

Airport spokeswoman Anna Zakharenkova said she "can confirm that such a meeting will take place."

Snowden invited a UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Transparency International and Poland's Krido Legal. Moscow officials weren't asked to come.

Russia's human rights commissioner Vladimir Lukin said he's willing to meet with Snowden. "I want to hear him out and then think what should be done," he said.

I think international organizations should take up this question. Snowden now is clearly in the situation of being a refugee from his country.

He "wishes to express his thoughts on the US campaign for his capture that has put other passengers heading to Latin America at risk as a result."

Snowden's letter to human rights groups said:

I have been extremely fortunate to enjoy and accept many offers of support and asylum from brave countries around the world. These nations have my gratitude.

Unfortunately, in recent weeks we have witnessed an unlawful campaign by officials in the US government to deny my right to seek and enjoy this asylum under Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The scale of threatening behavior is without precedent: never before in history have states conspired to force to the ground a sovereign President's plane to effect a search for a political refugee.

This dangerous escalation represents a threat not just to the dignity of Latin America or my own personal security, but to the basic right shared by every living person to live free from persecution.

UNHCR, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Transparency International confirmed receipt of Snowden's letter.

AI Russia head Sergei Nikitin said:

Yes, I have received a brief email. It said that he would like to meet with a representative of a human rights organisation - there was not much information there. I'm planning to go.

UNHCR's Galina Negrustuyeva said she's undecided. HRW's Tanya Lokshina was dismissive. She's uncertain about the authenticity of his email. She called it "very awkward, very strange."

Snowden confirmed Friday's meeting. It's closed to the press. He'll say more later. He'll do so publicly. He's got plenty on his mind to relate. Millions worldwide await his comments.

Human rights lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told RT:

The way that US authorities are treating the situation is cynical. How can one take away a person's passport and deprive him of citizenship?

This isolation, the impossibility to leave, could be equaled with arrest. I understand his plight as a professional lawyer, as a professional attorney.

Following Snowden's meeting with human rights groups, Russia Today headlined "Snowden wants asylum in Russia, ready to meet condition not to damage US."

He's concerned about flying to Latin America safely. He believes his job is done. He asked human rights representatives "to petition the US and European states not to interfere with his asylum process."

He asked Vladimir Putin to intervene on his behalf. According to Duma MP Vyacheslav Nokonov, he "does not intend to harm the US in the future."

He told human rights representatives "(n)o actions (he took) or plan are meant to harm the US." He "want(s) the US to succeed," he said.

He doesn't rule out heading to Latin America. Travel dangers prevent him from doing so now.

According to human rights lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, his Russian asylum request is written. Kucherena said he'll provide legal support.

Snowden met with representatives from 13 Russian and international human rights organizations. He called temporary status in airport limbo fine. He knows he can't stay there forever.

For now, he feels Russia's his safest choice. Whether others will be later remain to be seen.

Moscow's DUMA speaker Sergei Naryshkin said Snowden deserves asylum in Russia. Itar Tass quoted him saying:

"I assume that there are great risks" he'll face capital punishment. "We do not have the right to let that happen." Russia prohibits it.

An official and implicit moratorium exists. No one's been executed since 1996. Doing so inflicts cruel and unusual punishment. America executes prisoners assembly-line style.

Russia Today's given Snowden favorable coverage for weeks. Doing so shows official support.

Separately, RT headlined "Millions in US tax dollars go to Big Data for wiretap capabilities."

US telecom and Internet giants profit handsomely. They do so from spying lawlessly on customers.

Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) said AT & T charges NSA a $325 "activation fee." It does so for each separate wiretap. A daily $10 charge to maintain adds more to bottom line profits.

Verizon charges $775 for the first month per wiretap - $500 monthly fees follow.

Telecom officials claim they're not involved for profit. Human rights groups think otherwise.

According to RT, the "average wiretap" costs US taxpayers "$50,000." Telecom and Internet giants cash in handsomely. They've been doing it for years.

In 2009, former New York criminal prosecutor John Prather filed suit. He charged several telecom companies with charging exorbitant fees.

"They were monstrously more than what the telecoms could ever hope to charge for similar services in an open, competitive market, and the costs charged to the governments by telecoms did not represent reasonable prices as defined in the code of federal regulations," he said.

On July 11, London's Guardian headlined "How Microsoft handed NSA access to encrypted messages," saying:

Microsoft "collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted." It helped NSA "circumvent the company's own encryption."

Top secret documents Snowden provided the Guardian confirm it. They show:

Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal.

The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail.

The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide.

Microsoft also worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Unit to 'understand' potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases.

In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism.

Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a team sport.'

America's a total surveillance society. It's longstanding. It persists lawlessly. It's out-of-control. It threatens personal freedoms. It shows police state contempt for what's right.

Free societies don't do these things. In America, it's standard practice. Corporate giants cooperate complicitly. They profit handsomely. Who said crime doesn't pay?

Nine or more major online companies cooperate with lawless NSA spying. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, Skype, YouTube and others are involved.

They do so through NSA's Prism. It gives the agency access to search histories, emails, file transfers and live chats. It's gotten directly from US provider servers. Doing so facilitates mass surveillance.

Google denied involvement, saying:

It "cares deeply about the security of our users' data. We disclose user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such requests carefully."

From time to time, people allege that we have created a government 'back door' into our systems, but Google does not have a back door for the government to access private user data.

Google's closely allied with Bilderberg movers and shakers. CEO Eric Schmidt's a regular conference attendee. He believes privacy is quaint and out-of-date. He's got big plans. He wants Google transformed into "the ultimate Big Brother."

A Microsoft statement said:

When we upgrade or update products we aren't absolved from the need to comply with existing or future lawful demands.

Officials claim they provide customer data "only in response to government demands and we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers."

According to the Guardian, "internal NSA newsletters, marked top secret, suggest the co-operation between the intelligence community and the companies is deep and ongoing."

Snowden's new revelations "come from the NSA's Special Source Operations (SSO) division." He calls them the agency's "crown jewels."

They're "responsible for all programs aimed at US communications systems through corporate partnerships such as Prism."

Last July, Microsoft Outlook.com initiated encrypted chats. NSA "became concerned. Within five months, Microsoft and the FBI" solved the problem. Doing so lets NSA circumvent encryption.

In February, Microsoft launched Outlook.com portal. NSA "already had pre-encryption access to Outlook email."

Microsoft/NSA/FBI cooperation is longstanding. It's been ongoing "for many months." Access "means that analysts will no longer have to make a special request to SSO for this - a process step that many analysts may not have known about."

(T)his new capability will result in a much more complete and timely collection response.

This success is the result of the FBI working for many months with Microsoft to get this tasking and collection solution established.

The FBI Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU) team is working with Microsoft to understand an additional feature in Outlook.com which allows users to create email aliases, which may affect our tasking processes.

Since 2011, NSA worked closely with Microsoft. It gained easy access to Skype. Personal audio and video communications can be monitored. Skype has about 663 million global users.

NSA shares information accessed with the FBI and CIA. America has 16 known intelligence agencies. On request, they all likely get what NSA collects.

Microsoft touts its "clear principles" and guidelines. It claims respect for lawful norms and standards. It "take(s its) commitments to (its) customers" seriously, it says. Snowden documents prove otherwise.

NSA claims it complies with "legally mandated requirements." Longstanding lawless spying shows an out-of-control rogue agency.

A Final Comment

On July 11, The New York Times headlined "US Is Pressing Latin Americans to Reject Snowden," saying:

Efforts reflect "full-court press" bullying. Vice President Biden threatened Ecuador's Rafael Correa. US embassies delivered Washington's message. It did so throughout the region.

It was clear, unequivocal and menacing. Snowden showing up will have "lasting consequences." According to an unnamed senior State Department official:

"There is not a country in the hemisphere whose government does not understand our position at this point." Aiding Snowden "would put relations in a very bad place for a long time to come."

This type of bullying makes more enemies than friends. America's influence peaked years ago. It's waning.

It's long past time world leaders challenged what's intolerable to condone. Doing so would neutralize tactics no one should tolerate.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua spoke forthrightly. "The State Department and the government of the United States should know that Venezuela learned a long time ago and defeated pressures from any part of the world."

Venezuela offered Snowden asylum. It awaits his reply. US bullying complicates his plans. He remains in limbo.

He's unjustly called a traitor. America's long arm threatens him. It does so wherever he goes. He sacrificed financial security and personal freedom.

He'll live each day like his last. He deserves global support for many more.


Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://www.progressiveradionetwork.c...ive-news-hour/

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He's a "whistleblower", not a traitor
"In just three years, Americans have dramatically shifted their views on how they feel about the Obama administration's efforts to prevent another terrorist attack, and now almost half say the government is intruding on civil liberties for the sake of national security, a new poll shows."*

Cenk Uygur breaks it down:

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He's a "whistleblower", not a traitor
"In just three years, Americans have dramatically shifted their views on how they feel about the Obama administration's efforts to prevent another terrorist attack, and now almost half say the government is intruding on civil liberties for the sake of national security, a new poll shows."*

Cenk Uygur breaks it down:

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Published on Jul 13, 2013

"In just three years, Americans have dramatically shifted their views on how they feel about the Obama administration's efforts to prevent another terrorist attack, and now almost half say the government is intruding on civil liberties for the sake of national security, a new poll shows."*

It Is Now Abundantly Clear Why Edward Snowden Is The US Government's 'Worst Nightmare'

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/snowd...#ixzz2Z9LVhvQQ


REUTERS/Grigory Dukor
Police guard a door where human rights groups were taken to meet former intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden at Sheremetyevo airport July 12, 2013

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/snowd...#ixzz2Z9LexKJF

Thousands of documents that NSA whistleblower/leaker Edward Snowden stole from the NSA constitute "the instruction manual for how the NSA is built," Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald told the Associated Press. Greenwald added that particular documents "would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them to evade that surveillance or replicate it."
So now we know why Snowden could be Washington's "worst nightmare."
And in the sense that the 30-year-old ex-Booz Allen employee has "access to some of the U.S. government's most highly-classified secrets," he already is.
As we have previously reported, citing the book "Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry," the most closely held secrets by the U.S. "are what we know about everyone else's secrets and how we came to know them."
That type information is precisely what Snowden carried on four laptops while spending a month in China, and is presumably included in the 10,000 secret documents Greenwald is carrying around with him wherever he goes.
As Greenwald previously said, "Snowden has enough information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had."
Greenwald has said that the documents have been highly-encrypted so that they don't leak, but that statement — from a constitutional lawyer who didn't have encryption software before communicating with Snowden — has not allayed concerns of intelligence officials and the original NSA whistleblower.
“That stuff is gone,” a former senior U.S. intelligence official who served in Russia told The Washington Post last month. “I guarantee the Chinese intelligence service got their hands on that right away. If they imaged the hard drives and then returned them to him, well, then the Russians have that stuff now.”
Greenwald and Snowden pushed back against assertions such as that one, but the threats of Chinese and Russian intelligence remotely lifting that data are real.
Last year China expert Kenneth G. Lieberthal told The New York Times that when he travels to that country, he doesn't bring his cellphone or laptop. Instead, he brings “loaner” devices, which he erases before he leaves the U.S. and wipes clean the minute he returns.
Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who chairs of the House Intelligence Committee, also told the Times that he travels “electronically naked.”
Russ Tice, the original NSA whistleblower who recently claimed that the NSA wiretapped then-Senator Barack Obama in 2004, found it hard to believe that Snowden would carry physical data on him — because of how dumb that would be.
"It would be foolish," Tice told Business Insider. "If he went out to lunch, the Chinese authorities would be searching his hotel room … to try to see if he had any more physical goodies on the NSA. And if he did, he certainly would not have left Hong Kong with that information without the Hong Kong authorities making sure they got it from him."
Greenwald contends that "there was never any evidence that this was true," which is true — but it's also highly unlikely that Chinese or Russian intelligence would indicate that they copied the data.
Just like we don't know what Chinese and Russian officials learned from interviewing the NSA-trained hacker.
After all, the subject at hand is international espionage.
Then there is the argument that even if China got the NSA's secrets, the data itself is highly encrypted. That's most likely true, but the NSA's own supercomputers aim to crack the world's strongest encryption.
And China's top supercomputer is almost twice as powerful as any other in the world.
Ultimately no one knows who has copies of what Snowden took. Although one important point, as former intelligence analyst Joshua Foust notes, is that it appears Snowden is no longer in control of his situation.
That's why sources told Reuters that U.S. authorities are operating on a "worst case" assumption that all of the classified material in Snowden's possession has made its way to one or more adversary intelligence services.
If those countries found out what was in those files, it would be catastrophic for America's ability to spy and cause of far greater damage than Snowden ever intended.
Greenwald told the AP that Snowden insisted that the NSA "blueprints" not be made public. But it is not ridiculous to wonder if China and Russia could have bested the former CIA technician.
Nevertheless, simply by having the potential to leak the NSA's modus operandi, Snowden has the U.S. government very concerned.
SEE ALSO: How NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden May Have Botched His Getaway

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/snowd...#ixzz2Z9LIahL4

Whistle blower: Snowden is not a leaker! DHS engages in gang stalking….

On every channel of Lame Street Media, Edward Snowden is referred to as a “leaker”. This is no accident: word came down from the AP that the word leaker was to be used when talking about Snowden’s release of documents showing the unconstitutional and unlawful surveillance taking place within the NSA of every phone call, text message, Internet search and even the snail mail we send and receive. .

And every Lame Street Media outlet has dutifully complied and portrayed Snowden as not only a leaker, but as someone who has exposed dangerously sensitive “national security” secrets.
Actually, Snowden blew the whistle on the fact that what the government activity has entailed has nothing to do with national interests with regards to keeping us safe from anything, especially them.
It is imperative for the Justice Department and the federal corporation to portray Snowden as having leaked vital information and claimed he damaged national security. IF he is defined as what he actually is and the public identifies him as a whistleblower, the bogus federal felony charges they have levied against him fall apart. And they did so quickly. There is not one of us out here who does not identify Snowden as a whistleblower. Nothing of vital intelligence importance or that would damage the efforts supposedly underway to identify terrorists (that word has almost become an old joke) was exposed. What was exposed was the unwarranted and unlawful activity of a threatening federal agency against the people of the states.
As for Lame Street Media: It must be hell to be so spineless.
Snowden meets even the most simple definition of a Whistle blower:

Free Legal Dictionary:
The disclosure by a person, usually an employee in a government agency or private enterprise, to the public or to those in authority, of mismanagement, corruption, illegality, or some other wrongdoing.

What Snowden revealed was the corruption of a government so wildly out of control, so viciously paranoid, that even the people it continues to claim it is protecting have been targeted as possible enemies. The paranoia is so deep-seated, that even our returning war veterans are classified by Homeland Security Terrorism as “possible domestic terrorists”, along with photographers, protesters, journalists, citizens expressing their concern and opposition to unconstitutional and highly unlawful government actions and mandates. Included in the lists of people they are terrified of, are third-party political candidates, ministers of select religious groups, people who fly the Gadsden flag and those who have bumper stickers on their cars indicating their support for any or all of these sub-groups and suspect candidates.
Even shoppers at the ubiquitous Wal-Mart are treated to having their pictures taken when they enter and leave the store. Also included in your shopping experience are hidden microphones to record your conversations at check out, and at various high traffic isles within the stores. Wal-Mart was more than happy to help promote the “If you see something, say Something” propaganda wherein shoppers were encouraged to snitch on their neighbors….anonymously…and you could make up to $1000 per snitch!
Reading the lists prepared by Homeland Security Terrorism as to whom might be a threat to their continued existence and unlawful assumption of power, it becomes clear that absolutely anyone and everyone who does not submit and comply, anyone who thinks for them selves, anyone who might be disgusted by the idea that we can not trust government on any level, has now been targeted as a “possible domestic terrorist”.
The Real Definition of National Security

The American public is finally coming to realize that National Security is another of those weasel word swaps. For too long we assumed that National Security meant keeping the country safe from all of the enemies the federal corporation has created over many decades. Homeland Security Terrorism is not there to protect the public from harm: It is there to protect the federal state of the District of Columbia, its territories and insular possessions, from the people of the sovereign states. It is WE, the People who are feared and detested most by the federal corporation, its agencies, agents and paid assassins.

We have Fusions Centers, data mining, dna collection, iris scanning, facial imprinting, drones, spy vans, snitches and individual dossiers on every person being assembled with any and all information that can be collected about you whether true or not.

In addition:

• We now will have black boxes installed in all new vehicles so that your conversations in your vehicle can be monitored without you ever knowing it was done.
• GPS on your vehicle is not there just so you can avoid having to learn to read a map. Its purpose is to allow your vehicle to be tracked by satellite if they choose to do so or,
• to be disabled by shutting off your on-board computer.
• Your license plates can now be scanned by law enforcement so that your travel can be tracked locally, for no other reason than they can.
• Your drivers license’s will all include biometrics, thumbprints and other identifying information, all stored in national and international databases.
• You DNA will be gathered (if not already) along with,
• genetic markers and weaknesses
• Intelli-street lights will monitor your movements on local streets whether on foot or in your vehicle.
• Roving X-ray back scatter vans have been set loose on our communities, unlawfully and sereptiously scanning you as you walk down the street.
• Drones for spying have been set loose in our communities and states

NOTE: The arming of drones should be viewed as what it actually is: An act of war against the people of the states by the federal corporation.

Your picture will be taken repeatedly and immediately run through the assembled database to

• identify you,
• what you purchased,
• how you paid for it,
• who you talked to,
• what you said,
• where you were,
• what time you were there and,
• when you left.
• SMART meters, electric, water and gas, are being installed on your home to monitor and control your use of public utilities.
• These meters are military weapons redesigned to be installed on your home for in-home surveillance and,
• Are there to mount an invisible attack on the occupants using RF microwave radiation which can be ratcheted up to a weapons level, should the government decide they are really terrified of you.

No! National Security does not apply to you!

The term National Security cannot and is not applied to the public. It is an internal system of protection for the federal corporation and all its parts. When Janet Napolitano, or any of the so-called elected representatives refer to terrorists or support any of the activities that attack our constitution or the rights protected therein, they are in fact telling you that you are the terrorist, and you are the person they fear. You are the person they are targeting.
Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the covert, unlawful, unconstitutional spying and data collection by a pseudo-government entity, against the people of the states. I cannot imagine the courage it took for this young man to step out there, risk his life and tell what he knew about what was happening under the blanket lie of national security.
Neither can I imagine what it must be doing to him to know that every government employed psychopathic killer has been set loose on the globe to end his life.
The issue here is not actually whether you call him one thing or the other. The issue was and is, the underlying exposure of whole scale spying, data collection that violates every tenet of a supposedly free nation which is being used to target and stalk the people of the states. This was never about national security in the sense you might have thought about it. It is all about saving “them” from “us”, even if they have to kill us to preserve the system.

As the Secretary of Homeland Security,”
Napolitano said in a statement on Friday. “The opportunity to work with
the dedicated men and women of the Department of Homeland Security, who
serve on the frontlines of our nation’s efforts to protect our
communities and families from harm, has been the highlight of my
professional career.”

In light of Snowden’s whistle blowing……who is going to save our communities and nation from Homeland Security Terrorism?
The greatest threat we face as a nation, exemplified by Snowden’s release of documents showing the illegal and fanatic activity by an enemy inside the gates, is the ongoing threat of a government that has decided that they have caused us so much harm that we, as the people, are to be feared.
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In spite of a full court press by the bought
and sold talking head muppets of the mainstream
media and the white collar criminals in Congress
and the White House...

The majority of the American people think
Edward Snowden did the right thing.

Here's one guy who got it right from Day One.

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