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Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you (and they include 'pork', 'cloud' and 'Mexico')
By Daniel Miller PUBLISHED: 04:32 EST, 26 May 2012

The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'.

Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats.

The words are included in the department's 2011 'Analyst's Desktop Binder' used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify 'media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities'.

Department chiefs were forced to release the manual following a House hearing over documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit which revealed how analysts monitor social networks and media organisations for comments that 'reflect adversely' on the government.

However they insisted the practice was aimed not at policing the internet for disparaging remarks about the government and signs of general dissent, but to provide awareness of any potential threats.

As well as terrorism, analysts are instructed to search for evidence of unfolding natural disasters, public health threats and serious crimes such as mall/school shootings, major drug busts, illegal immigrant busts.

The list has been posted online by the Electronic Privacy Information Center - a privacy watchdog group who filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act before suing to obtain the release of the documents.

In a letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, the centre described the choice of words as 'broad, vague and ambiguous'.

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They point out that it includes 'vast amounts of First Amendment protected speech that is entirely unrelated to the Department of Homeland Security mission to protect the public against terrorism and disasters.'

A senior Homeland Security official told the Huffington Post that the manual 'is a starting point, not the endgame' in maintaining situational awareness of natural and man-made threats and denied that the government was monitoring signs of dissent.

However the agency admitted that the language used was vague and in need of updating.

Spokesman Matthew Chandler told website: 'To ensure clarity, as part of ... routine compliance review, DHS will review the language contained in all materials to clearly and accurately convey the parameters and intention of the program.'

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We've been taken over by "Communists" which have no freedom of anything!

Criminals are always "Paranoid" freaks, always looking over their shoulders!

I'm safe. I didn't see the two words "ILLEGAL ALIEN"

Illegal Immigrants hmmmm and if you Google Illegal Immigrants we come back as result #7 on page 1.

I believe it is time for the Department of Homeland Security to be disbanded. They promised us this new law enforcement agency was supposed to be to make sure all our other agencies shared information to prevent another 9/11 attack, but instead we are seeing the department run by non law enforcement politicians like Janet Napolitano who's main qualifications for her position as head of DHS is that she is a liberal.

We are seeing a steady stream of intense warning signs that DHS is 1. Invading the privacy of all Americans and 2. Trying to politicize DHS and local police to consider political enemies of the Obama administration as domestic terrorists.


The reason Illegal Immigrants and so man other terms related to the border and illegal immigration are on their "WATCH LIST" is because the Department of Homeland Security knows they are not doing their jobs, they are giving amnesty to illegal aliens, and rarely removing illegals until AFTER they rape or murder on US soil!

Illegal Immigrants take American jobs and taxpayer resources by the millions while voting felonious in US elections coast to coast and DHS is more focused on protecting illegal immigrants from Americans that want them gone than enforcing the existing immigration laws as the US Constitution would require.

There should be no watch words, there should be no monitoring of social media by federal law enforcement, and our private communications should not be monitored unless these totalitarian freaks could prove to a judge that they have strong reason to believe that an electronic wire tap is needed for the safety of the nation.

I want to personally thank EFF for what they have done here getting their hands on this list.

We should all applaud their bravery and efforts and we should work to make this count while we still can.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

I believe it is time for the Department of Homeland Security to be disbanded. They promised us this new law enforcement agency was supposed to be to make sure all our other agencies shared information to prevent another 9/11 attack, but instead we are seeing the department run by non law enforcement politicians like Janet Napolitano whose main qualification for her position as head of DHS is that she is a liberal.

We are seeing a steady stream of intense warning signs that DHS is
1. Invading the privacy of all Americans and
2. Trying to politicize DHS and local police to consider political enemies of the Obama administration as domestic terrorists.

W, I agree with everything you said here, BUT . . .

We are no longer in a geographically isolated, ideal world in the United States. There are tεrrºrists no further away from you than the Hezbollah cell in Charlotte and Holy Is|amville in York Co., S.C.. I expect them to do something murderous and tragic within the next six months, or as retaliation whenever Israel αttαcks Iran's uranium enrichment sites and missile silos.

Given the interdepartmental rivalry, distrust, and competition for funding that are hardcoded into the various intelligence and law enforcement agencies, how else do we get cooperation, oversight, and battlefield coordination among nonmilitary agencies, foreign embassies and emissaries, financial and information warfare analysts, the Coast Guard, NASA, FEMA, even neighborhood watches on the border? Someone has to be responsible for coordination, supervision, tactics, and administration over all of the above, even if Homeland Security is dismantled by bipartisan consent for having lost its way and turned on its masters - which dismantling is probably a good idea, along with the Dept. of Education, the Dept. of Energy, the EPA, both chambers of Congress, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the various Czars, while you're doing a makeover of federal government.

So, after abolishing DHS, how would the U.S. do Homeland Security without reestablishing DHS under a different name? Not that we would have any say in how Homeland Security would be deconstructed and rebuilt without Big Sis.