Snowden Warns Americans To Fear The Military-Intelligence Complex
By Chriss Street
Unburdened by the Constitutional requirement to get a search warrant, those nice people at the National Security Agency (NSA) have teamed with Apple, Google and Microsoft to take time out of their busy day to capture all your party pictures from college, intimate letters with your lover and financial activities of your business in order to build a “permanent file” for leverage against you at a later date.
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This is just the latest depressing revelations about the rise of the military-industrial complex from whistleblower/traitor Edward Snowden as he accepted political asylum in Russia today
Snowden’s latest bombshell is the outing of the NSA’s XKeyscore software that is vacuuming up “nearly everything a typical user does on the internet.” The top secret program allows civilian contractors in the U.S. to troll vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals around the world. The NSA boasts in training materials that XKeyscore is its “widest-reaching” system for developing intelligence from the internet.
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Snowden was already the “most wanted person on earth”, but
after today’s disclosures, he must be on the Obama Administration’s secret
double most wanted man in the universe list. With his newly-awarded legal
status in Russia, Snowden cannot be legally handed over or kidnapped by the CIA.
Snowden remains a very “marked man” and will need to stay in the public
eye to avoid accidentally being assassinated in some lonely hideout.
Consequently, I believe that he will continue to talk to the
international press and has lots more nefarious undermining of American’s
personal liberty.
Snowden’s latest revelations will add fuel to the intense
political revulsion to Obama’s 18-29 years old voting bloc that was the key to
miraculous reelection in the face of the worst economic performance since
President Herbert Hoover. This group has already dropped support for
Obama by a stunning 17% over the last seven weeks as Snowden informed them that
when they look at their cell phone, Big Brother is looking at them.
The timing of the Snowden release came the morning after
senior intelligence officials testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee on
Wednesday and released formally classified documents in response to earlier
Snowden interviews by the Guardian Newspaper in London. The testimony
essentially admitted that the infamous FISA Surveillance Court that supposedly
assures Constitutional Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable
searches and seizures without “probable cause” does not apply to cell phones,
computers and all on-line activity.
The Obama Administration, Congressional Intelligence
Committee members and the NSA yesterday continued to vehemently deny Snowden’s
most controversial statement that: ”I, sitting at my desk could wiretap
anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president,
if I had a personal email”. But Snowden’s disclosures this morning seem
to prove he and thousands of other NSA contractors could wiretap any American.
But the training materials for XKeyscore detail how analysts
can use it to mine enormous agency databases by filling in a short “on-screen
form giving only a broad justification for the search”, without obtaining a
warrant from a judge. XKeyscore then provides the technological
capability if the NSA has the “metadata” of email or IP address to perform
Digital Network Intelligence (DNI) covering all forms of electronic
communications. In a 30 day period in 2012, XKeyscore collected and
stored at least 41 billion total records.
The most sophisticated aspect of XKeyscore turns out to not
be its impressive use of technology, but rather its clandestine
crony-cooperation from corporate fat cats at Apple, Google, Microsoft and the
other American based corporation. These corporatists have struck the
“grand bargain” to surreptitiously leak all their clients’ e-mail and IP
addresses to the NSA, in return for being allowed to offshore workers and tax
liability.
In defense of indefensible spying on Americans, the NSA
states: “These types of programs allow us to collect the information that
enables us to perform our missions successfully – to defend the nation and to
protect US and allied troops abroad.” Some of this may be true, but the
Boston Bombing happened despite direct Russian intelligence agency warnings
about the militant activities of Chechen born Tamerlan Tsarnaev went unheeded.
Daniel Guerin warned in his 1936 book Fascism and Big
Business warned to be vigilant against ”an informal and changing coalition
of groups with vested psychological, moral, and material interests in the
continuous development and maintenance of high levels of weaponry, in
preservation of colonial markets and in military-strategic conceptions of
internal affairs.” President Eisenhower updated this message with a
similar warning to fear the rise of the “military-industrial complex.”
Edward Snowden has updated the message that Americans must fear the rise
of the “military-intelligence complex.”
CHRISS STREET & PAUL PRESTON
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