What is the connection between Echelon, CIFA, and the Exec. Order to spy?

[BurtWorm]

Anyone know? Patcox?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/18/AR2005121801006.html


Pentagon's Intelligence Authority Widens
Fact Sheet Details Secretive Agency's Growth From Focus on Policy to Counterterrorism

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 19, 2005; A10

The Pentagon's newest counterterrorism agency, charged with protecting military facilities and personnel wherever they are, is carrying out intelligence collection, analysis and operations within the United States and abroad, according to a Pentagon fact sheet on the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, provided to The Washington Post.

CIFA is a three-year-old agency whose size and budget remain secret. It has grown from an agency that coordinated policy and oversaw the counterintelligence activities of units within the military services and Pentagon agencies to an analytic and operational organization with nine directorates and ever-widening authority.

Its Directorate of Field Activities (DX) "assists in preserving the most critical defense assets, disrupting adversaries and helping control the intelligence domain," the fact sheet said. Those roles can range from running roving patrols around military bases and facilities to surveillance of potentially threatening people or organizations inside the United States. The DX also provides "on-site, real time . . . support in hostile areas worldwide to protect both U.S. and host nation personnel from a variety of threats," the fact sheet said.

This is just one illustration of the growth of Pentagon activities in the United States and abroad as part of the terrorism fight. Last week, news accounts revealed that President Bush authorized secret eavesdropping on Americans with suspected ties to terrorist groups.

[EVDebs]

1. Stock the agencies with conservatives and stir.....

How easy to infiltrate the organization, stock it with ultra-conservatives -- I note Time magazines' Aug. 4, 1997, article Kingdom Come by David Van Biema, page 52: "The FBI and CIA, drawn by a seemingly incorruptible rectitude, have instituted Mormon-recruitment plans".

What ? No liberals allowed ? A Mormon preference due to conservative values ?

Naw, can't happen in America. We'd need a 7 Days in May scenario and a New Pearl Harbor ...

Remember, it took a Delta Force secretary Linda Tripp (a holdover from the prior Bush admin.) to leak the Clinton information ... plus tip off any and all about phone converstations etc., dates, data.

Also, the Defense Security Service was supposed to already be doing this stuff. This is sheer duplication and an unnecessarily ADDED layer of bureaucracy. Oh, the better to hide the juicy info !