NSA Expands, Centralizes Domestic Spying

[swag]

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/01/nsa_expands_its.html#more

The National Security Agency is in the process of building a new warning hub and data warehouse in the Denver area, realigning much of its workforce from Ft. Meade, Maryland to Colorado.

The Denver Post reported last week that NSA was moving some of its operations to the Denver suburb of Aurora.

On the surface, the NSA move seems to be a management and cost cutting measure, part of a post-9/11 decentralization. "This strategy better aligns support to national decision makers and combatant commanders," an NSA spokesman told the Denver paper.

In truth, NSA is aligning its growing domestic eavesdropping operations -- what the administration calls "terrorist warning" in its current PR campaign -- with military homeland defense organizations, as well as the CIA's new domestic operations Colorado.

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According to Government Executive Magazine -- thanks DP -- "NSA is building a massive data storage facility in Colorado, which will be able to hold the electronic equivalent of the Library of Congress every two days." This new NSA data warehouse is the hub of "data mining" and analysis development, allowing the eavesdropping agency to develop and make better use of the unbelievabytes of data it collects but does not exploit.

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on edit: via http://www.warandpiece.com

[izzie]

1. Brave New World

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[Zhade]

2. K/R

NT!

[Mithras61]

3. This at the same time...

that they keep insisting that they aren't spying on us unless we're talking to "al qaida"

I guess they forgot that there IS no "al qaida" as a coherent organization, only a collection of terror cells scattered across the globe...

Remember, "al qaida" is what our "incompetant" intelligence analysts called the loose collection of terror cells as a sort of catch-all name for them. To the best of my knowledge, Osama bin Laden doesn't call them anything except "we" or "us" in the tapes "he" keeps making and sending to Al Jazeera.

[LincolnMcGrath]

4. K & R Front Page Stuff

[VegasWolf]

5. NSA = SS ( old Soviet Union ). How long before we have the Political

Police squadrons?

:sarcasm:

[kurth]

10. A political commissar on every street to monitor unpatriotic activitie

[bobthedrummer]

23. Neighborhood Watch Groups, local police ridealong programs,

agent provocateurs, informants-the infrastrucure has been here for awhile.

It's one thing to apprehend criminals, but quite another to feed into the "war on terror" based on politics.

Domestic surveillance programs aren't tin foil theory.

[BR_Parkway]

21. There's already a provision in the Patriot Act that provides for that

type of police - through the Secret Service, at least the initials will stay the same.

[sattahipdeep]

22. Sec. 605 of the New Patriot Act:

(a) There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to
be known as the `United States Secret Service Uniformed Division'.

(b)(1) Under the direction of the Director of the Secret Service, members
of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division are authorized to--

(B) make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States
committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of
the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person
to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony;

http://www.hootatthedark.org/

[tom_paine]

26. The SSS

Plus a change, plus a la meme chose

(the more things change, the more they stay the same)

[Marie26]

6. That's where the "Northern Command" is, isn't it? nt

[CabalPowered]

7. 6/6/05 CIA moves HQ for "domestic activities" to Denver

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/05/AR2005050501860.html

[EVDebs]

20. Domestic operations, like Operation CHAOS etc = illegal

""Last week, the CIA and FBI agreed to a new "memorandum of understanding" on domestic and foreign operations, the first change in decades. The negotiations surrounding the memo were highly contentious, with the FBI saying that it should control and approve the CIA's domestic activities, including its pool of U.S.-based assets that have been invaluable in the past to understanding the intentions of foreign nations and groups.""

The truth being a mere formality to the grand illusion of legality, let's go back in time to Watergate and Robert F. Bennett, shall we ?

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/07.03.97/scoop-9727.html

"""I have told Woodward everything I know about the Watergate case, except the Mullen Company's tie to the CIA."--Robert F. Bennett, testifying before House Special Committee on Intelligence, July 2, 1974.

Robert Bennett was the head of Robert R. Mullen and Co., a CIA front headquartered in the very same building as the CIA's Domestic Operations Division. The Mullen Co. did legitimate PR work; it also did PR for other CIA fronts and provided cover abroad for CIA operations. Bennett's most notable employee was Howard Hunt, a former chief of covert actions for the Domestic Operations Division of the CIA.""

Today, Bennett is SENATOR Robert F. Bennett of Utah. And I'm sure everything the CIA's Domestic Operations unit was doing during Watergate was 'perfectly legal' too. When pigs fly.

[leveymg]

8. CO: Right ontop of the Sprint-ATT-MCI-Verizon backbone hub.

[Mithras61]

9. Well, golly, if they are after international traffic...

wouldn't they want to be on top of one of the GATEWAY NODES (aren't THEY the ones going to international destinations)? I wouldn't expect to only get international traffic in DENVER since all its connections are to domestic destinations (unless, of course, what I REALLY wanted was DOMESTIC traffic)...

[bobthedrummer]

11. The satellites and US Space Command have a lot to do with it, imo.

[leveymg]

12. Gov't Run from Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs, & Buckley AFB

The New Senate Chamber and Capitol Dome

[formercia]

13. Makes me think of the book 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000CSXSW2/qid=1138664214/sr=8-7/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i7_xgl14/002-5089653-0244067?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[thefool_wa]

14. This makes some sense

Considering the military assets in Colorado and Wyoming and considering their purpose, it makes a least a degree of sense that they would want this type of thing relocated there.

My question is, where exactly are they putting this facility. Some day many of us are going to need to know to stop them from doing what they are doing.

[K-W]

16. It makes sense if you are constructing a more efficient police state.

Which is indeed the problem.

[Auntie Bush]

19. It'll be the building with the missile silos all around. nt

[Canuckistanian]

15. Not even subtle, is it?

Next, we'll hear about the disbanding of the FISA court.

[cyberpj]

17. Why wouldn't they? They ot polls saying most Americans don't care.

[EVDebs]

18. NCISP story in Project Censored

Refers to Denver PD's illegal domestic spying and the Quakers (again ?). This is an ongoing project with NSA/CIA/DIA and local PD's intelligence liason units. BTW, the TIA system has already been 'offshored' and sanitized thru a private company Global Information Group Ltd. in the Bahamas under Ben H. Bell, III.

The ultimate culmination of all of this is the REX 84 / FEMA system, now with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement wing of the Dept of Homeland Security providing the intelligence wing of DHS, and taking much of the FEMA role away after the alternative media became too aware of the FEMA role in 'suspension of the Constitution'

see
(#16) Law Enforcement Agencies Spy on Innocent Citizens
http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/16.html

and

FEMA
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/fema.html

which lists the Executive Orders which enable the government to 'suspend the Constitution'.

[Supersedeas]

24. De-centralization??

[bobthedrummer]

25. Domestic spying links (from Crisis Papers)

http://www.crisispapers.org/topics/spyscandal.htm