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The Mad Emporer Underestimates The Americsn People: OBAMA UNLEASHED: MONTH OF DEFIANT FURY…
OBAMA UNLEASHED: MONTH OF DEFIANT FURY… http://www.mcclatchydc.com/201.4/11/26/248268_obama-unleashed-defies-gop-election.html?sp=/99/104/244/106/&rh=1
Missouri Lt. Governor: Obama Ordered National Guard to Stand Down in Ferguson –
Missouri Lt. Governor: Obama Ordered National Guard to Stand Down in Ferguson –.
Missouri Lt. Governor: Obama Ordered National Guard to Stand Down in Ferguson
Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder makes stunning claim
National Guard and police failed to protect businesses targeted by rioters during last night’s chaos, leading to charges that the Obama administration issued a stand down order.
Earlier this morning, Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder made the stunning claim, telling Fox News, “Is the reason that the National Guard was not in there because the Obama Administration and the Holder Justice Department leaned on you to keep them out? I cannot imagine any other reason why the governor who mobilized the National Guard would not have them in there to stop this.”
His comments followed Ferguson Mayor James Knowles’ complaint that his request for National Guard assistance was repeatedly ignored by Democrat Governor Jay Nixon last night.
Watch the video above to see Kinder and Knowles’ remarks.
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Rand Paul: Politicians are to blame for Ferguson
Rand Paul: Politicians are to blame for Ferguson http://www.infowars.com/rand-paul-politicians-are-to-blame-for-ferguson/
BREAKING! Ferguson Grand Jury Announces Verdict …but wait there’s more…- YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smzbBzVATo
Defeat of USA FREEDOM Act is a Victory for Freedom
By Ron Paul
It will not shock readers to hear that quite often legislation on Capitol Hill is not as advertised. When Congress wants to do something particularly objectionable, they tend give it a fine-sounding name. The PATRIOT Act is perhaps the best-known example. The legislation had been drafted well before 9/11 but was going nowhere. Then the 9/11 attacks gave it a new lease on life. Politicians exploited the surge in patriotism following the attack to reintroduce the bill and call it the PATRIOT Act. To oppose it at that time was, by design, to seem unpatriotic.
At the time, 62 Democrats voted against the Act. On the Republican side there were only three no votes: former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), former Rep. Butch Otter (R-ID), and myself.
The abuses of the Constitution in the PATRIOT Act do not need to be fully recounted here, but Presidents Bush and Obama both claimed authority based on it to gut the Fourth Amendment. The PATRIOT Act ushered in the era of warrantless wiretapping, monitoring of our Internet behavior, watering down of probable cause, and much more. After the revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden, we know how the NSA viewed constitutional restraints on surveillance of American people during the PATRIOT Act period.
After several re-authorizations of the PATRIOT Act, including some cosmetic reforms, Congress last October unveiled the USA FREEDOM Act. This was advertised as the first wholesale PATRIOT Act Reform bill. In fact, the House version was watered down to the point of meaninglessness and the Senate version was not much better. The final straw was the bill’s extension of key elements of the PATRIOT Act until 2017.
Fortunately, last week the USA FREEDOM Act was blocked from further consideration in the US Senate. The procedural vote was significant and important, but it caused some confusion as well. While some well-meaning pro-privacy groups endorsed the FREEDOM Act as a first step to reform, some anti-liberty neoconservatives opposed the legislation because even its anemic reforms were unacceptable. The truth is, Americans should not accept one more extension of the PATRIOT Act and should not endorse its continued dismemberment of our constitutional liberties. If that means some Senators vote with anti-liberty colleagues to kill the extension, we should still consider it a victory.
As the PATRIOT Act first faced a sunset in 2005, I had this to say in the debate over whether it should be re-authorized:
“When Congress passed the Patriot Act in the emotional aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, a sunset provision was inserted in the bill that causes certain sections to expire at the end of 2005. But this begs the question: If these provisions are critical tools in the fight against terrorism, why revoke them after five years? Conversely, if these provisions violate civil liberties, why is it acceptable to suspend the Constitution for any amount of time?”
Reform is often meant to preserve, not repeal bad legislation. When the public is strongly opposed to a particular policy you will almost never hear politicians say “let’s repeal the law.” It is always a pledge to reform the policy or law. The USA FREEDOM Act was no different.
With the failure of the FREEDOM Act to move ahead in the Senate last week, several of the most egregious sections of the PATRIOT Act are set to sunset next June absent a new authorization. Congress will no doubt be under great pressure to extend these measures. We must do our very best to make sure they are unsuccessful!
You can see more of Dr. Ron Paul’s work at RonPaulInstitute.org where this article first appeared.
Defeat of USA FREEDOM Act is a Victory for Freedom
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Mon, 24 Nov 2014 03:08:00 GMT
Shocker: Up to 30,000 Lois Lerner Emails “Recovered” “Does anyone else find it funny that suddenly – shortly after midterm elections – these emails have been recovered”
Lily Dane
Activist PostWell, well, well…what have we here?
Here’s what the Washington Examiner reported today:Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.
The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.
Does anyone else find it funny that suddenly – shortly after midterm elections – these emails have been recovered?
Is this timing a coincidence? I doubt it.
Remember, back in June, the IRS told us that they could not locate most of Lois Lerner’s emails. Lerner is a key figure in the Tea Party targeting scandal. The agency said that a computer crash in 2011 caused an untold number of emails to be wiped out.
Then the Watchdog organization Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request for the documents, and naturally, the IRS refused to provide them. It was only after the group filed a lawsuit that they were able to obtain the documents – which were quite damning:
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton explained the implications of the new information:
“These new documents show that officials in the IRS headquarters were responsible for the illegal delays of Tea Party applications. It is disturbing to see Lois Lerner mislead the IRS’ internal investigators about her office’s Tea Party targeting. These documents also confirm the unprecedented pressure from congressional Democrats to go after President Obama’s political opponents. The IRS scandal has now ensnared Congress.”The IRS claimed to have gone to great lengths to try to recover data from Lerner’s computer in 2011:
In emails provided by the IRS, technicians said they sent the computer to a forensic lab run by the agency’s criminal investigations unit. But to no avail.
The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from the 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. The agency said it pieced together the emails from the computers of 82 other IRS employees.
But an untold number are gone. Camp’s office said the missing emails are mainly ones to and from people outside the IRS, “such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices.”
Anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist called the episode “the worst attempt to blame technology in service of a cover-up since the infamous 18-minute gap” in former President Richard Nixon’s Watergate tapes.
In July, two US District Court judges ordered the IRS to start coughing up some answers. One judge gave IRS officials an August 10 deadline to provide a declaration – signed by an IRS official, under oath – explaining exactly how the agency managed to “lose” two years’ worth of Lerner’s emails. Another judge gave the IRS until July 18 to find out what happened to the crashed hard drive responsible for erasing two years worth of Lerner’s emails. He also wanted to know if the hard drive is traceable through a serial number. If the information was truly gone, that judge said he wanted an affidavit written under penalty of perjury by an IRS IT professional with “firsthand knowledge” of the situation.
Then, surprise! In August, Department of Justice attorneys for the IRS admitted that Lois Lerner’s emails DO exist on a backup server, but said they would be hard to find.Department of Justice attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service told Judicial Watch on Friday that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government-wide catastrophe. The Obama administration attorneys said that this back-up system would be too onerous to search.
The DOJ attorneys also acknowledged that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) is investigating this back-up system.And now, here’s what a Congressional aide told the Washington Examiner:
“They just said it took them several weeks and some forensic effort to get these emails off these tapes.”
TIGTA said it will take a few weeks to sort through the emails. Private taxpayer information will need to be redacted before the emails are presented to Congress.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said late Friday that his committee is ready to examine those emails, and said he was hopeful they might shed light on how Lerner operated:“Though it is unclear whether TIGTA has found all of the missing Lois Lerner emails, there may be significant information in this discovery,” he said. “The Oversight Committee will be looking for information about her mindset and who she was communicating with outside the IRS during a critical period of time when the IRS was targeting conservative groups.”
So much for a “phony” scandal. Looks like this is about to become more real than ever.
Lily Dane is a staff writer for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared. Her goal is to help people to “Wake the Flock Up!”
Shocker: Up to 30,000 Lois Lerner Emails “Recovered”
Activist
Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:36:00 GMT
Here we go Ladies & Gents –everybody is crazy so off to the camps with you! CT Report Lays Groundwork for Nationwide Psychiatric Surveillance
Image Credit: New York Daily News
Vivien Leigh and James F. Tracy
Activist Post
On November 21, 2014 the State of Connecticut’s Office of the Child Advocate issued a 114-page report, Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School: Report of the Office of the Child Advocate (PDF), focusing on the ambiguous profile of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza that may become the basis for mental health practices throughout the United States.
With contributors including psychiatrists and academicians from education and social work departments, the publication comes just two months after the US Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Education announced over $160 million in funding for widescale research and deployment of mental health initiatives in the nation’s public schools.[1]“OCA began a comprehensive collection and review of records related to the life of AL,” the document’s preamble reads, “including his medical, mental health and education records, as well as un-redacted state police and law enforcement records.”(p. 6).
Among 37 “key findings,” the statement expresses concern over “siloed systems of education, physical health, and mental health care for children” that “strongly implicate the need to assist parents with understanding and addressing the needs of children with complex developmental and mental health disorders” (p. 9).
Mandatory mental health “screenings” and “evaluations” are recommended to remedy the potential threat of further “Adam Lanzas.”
The following is a summary overview of the OCA report’s key recommendations, many of which will likely be recommended or mandated by federal education and public health authorities for adoption throughout the US.
- Universal screening for behavioral health and developmental impairments for children ages birth to 21.
- Referral for thorough evaluation and assessment by outside experts for a child “displaying the types of multidisciplinary developmental challenges AL presented…”
- Access to “quality care coordination” for children and their families.
- Access to training and information concerning mental health issues for teachers, administrators, service personnel, pediatricians, and parents.
- Staffing and financial supports for providers.
- Effective and sustained family engagement work as part of mental health treatment for children.
- Addressing of the “role of denial in illness.”
- Access to therapeutic services, psycho-education, and peer support for families.
- Readiness of “systems” to respond when a parent appears unwilling or unable to meet the needs of their child [aka refuses to medicate].
- Better outreach to parents who have difficulties “reaching out” or feel “mistrust in the medical and educational systems…”
- Active participation of schools concerning the mental health and wellness of their students.
- Support to schools to enable them to “retain or import therapeutic and other related services…”
- Evaluation of children by schools “in all areas of suspected disability, including conducting social-emotional evaluations…”
- A more “holistic approach to identification for special education eligibility that encourages attention to multiple aspects of disability…”
- State consideration of “an audit of existing homebound practices and procedures…”
- More attention paid to “post-secondary readiness for disabled youth and young adults…”
- “State and local educational and mental health and developmental services agencies must work together to identify current capacity and service delivery needs, training opportunities, and must create capacity-building services at all levels.”
- Increased workforce, technical support and expertise to help meet the needs of “children with complex developmental or mental health disorders, and their families.”
- Support for schools to provide and import “comprehensive health or developmental supports” to children with “highly specialized needs.”
In reality, the OCA report lays the groundwork for implementation of a nationwide program similar to the one presently being beta tested in Scotland, “Getting it Right for Every Child,” or GIRFEC. The GIRFEC project mandates assignment of a “Named Person for every child and young person, and a Lead Professional (where necessary) to co-ordinate and monitor multi-agency activity” that renders the traditional family to the role of a distant caretaker.
Using verbiage and notions remarkably similar to the the Harvard-affiliated and Newtown area psychiatrist John Woodall,[2] GIRFEC emphasizes the development of “resilient” young people who are capable of developing emotional detachment from instances of profound loss–such as natural disasters and active shooter events and evident in the recent promotion of slogans such as “Newtown Strong,” “Boston Strong,” and, most recently, “FSU United.”
Indeed, GIRFEC advocates maintain the program “enables children and young people to get the help they need when they need it” and overall “supports a positive shift in culture, systems and practice … to improve life chances for children, young people and families.”
Such a project increasingly lays bare the opportunistic use and perhaps true intent of the Sandy Hook massacre event: dramatically intensified bureaucratic and quasi-scientific control over the everyday lives of children alongside the continued erosion of the family itself.
[Image Credit: New York Daily News]Notes
[1] James F. Tracy, “Protecting Our Children in the Wake of Sandy Hook: Psychiatric Surveillance of US Public School Children,” GlobalResearch.ca, November 4, 2014.
[2] James F. Tracy, “Global Governance and the New World Order Religion,” GlobalResearch.ca, April 14, 2013.
Vivien Leigh is the nom de plume of a tenured professor at a US east coast university.
This article first appeared at MemoryHoleBlog.com, the official blog of Dr. James Tracy.
CT Report Lays Groundwork for Nationwide Psychiatric Surveillance
Activist
Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:08:00 GMT
Flood of illegal immigrants pour into NYC public schools
Flood of illegal immigrants pour into NYC public schools http://www.infowars.com/flood-of-illegal-immigrants-pour-into-nyc-public-schools/
Twelve-year-old Cleveland boy dies after being shot by police
Twelve-year-old Cleveland boy dies after being shot by police http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/BiePBis6c8c/story01.htm
Congressman: Obama Has “Gone Rogue”
Congressman: Obama Has “Gone Rogue” http://www.infowars.com/congressman-obama-has-gone-rogue/
In the wake of announced executive action, more elected representatives have come forward to warn of an unprecedented power grab by the president.
Appearing on Fox News Friday, Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) said Obama has “gone rogue” and that the only way to stop the subversion of the Constitutional process is to pursue legal action.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHTelz8UBhM]“I would prefer not to hire an attorney. Nobody wants to do this, but what do you do when you have a chief executive who has gone rogue?” Schock said, referring to the change in federal law regarding employer mandates as part of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.
Republicans announced the initiation of a lawsuit Friday, with House speaker John Boehner saying “Time after time, the president has chosen to ignore the will of the American people and rewrite federal law on his own without a vote of Congress.”
“There is a lot of the things that the Democrats when they passed it, they gave great leniency to the president and the administration to change the rules, and come up with the rules and have the latitude to change them…,” Congressman Schock added Friday, explaining that the aim of the lawsuit is to show that Congress has “standing,” rather than trying to repeal Obamacare.
Schock also indicated that the action on Obamacare will likely be followed by similar action regarding the amnesty executive order, announced Friday.
“It will play into what we do on immigration with what he has just done illegally with an executive order, pushing on him trying to do legislation,” he said.
Republican Senator David Vitter echoed those sentiments Friday, saying that the executive order “is illegitimate, unconstitutional, and flat out horrible policy.” In an appearance on CNN, Vitter further noted that Obama’s immigration policies make it “exceedingly difficult” for people to legally go through the immigration system.
Vitter added that there are “virtually unguarded borders in some areas” which is “encouraging implicitly illegal immigration.”
The Senator added that it is “absolutely crazy” that non citizens can currently be represented by Congress.
“This is the only country where just because an individual is born here physically, he or she is a citizen. That’s an outlier rule. No other industrialized country has that rule,” he said Saturday. “I don’t know why we have that rule.”
The White House has responded to the GOP lawsuit by calling it “unfortunate”.
“At a time where I think the American people want Washington focused on jobs and the economy, the House Republicans choose to sue us, sue the president for doing his job,” spokesman Eric Schultz said.
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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
The Best Political Cartoons About King Obama’s Amnesty
» Newsletter Content Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!
The Best Political Cartoons About King Obama’s Amnesty
Obama admitted several times that executive amnesty is unconstitutional and lawless
Here are the best political cartoons that sum up King Obama’s amnesty for
millions of illegals and Obama’s own statements admitting that executive
amnesty is unconstitutional and lawless.
Michael Ramirez cartoon: President Obama has the Constitution on his mind http://ow.ly/EDraA #amnesty #tcot
Nov. 25, 2013, Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center, San Francisco, Cali.:
Now, what you need to know, when I’m speaking as President of the United
States and I come to this community, is that if, in fact, I could solve
all these problems without passing laws in Congress, then I would do so.
But we’re also a nation of laws. That’s part of our tradition. And so
the easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something
by violating our laws. And what I’m proposing is the harder path, which
is to use our democratic processes to achieve the same goal that you
want to achieve. But it won’t be as easy as just shouting. It requires
us lobbying and getting it done.
MT @betbell3: I’m not….. pic.twitter.com/NNFpVhsNNd Don’t believe the cartoon? 22 reasons it’s true: http://ow.ly/EFz2L #TCOT #immigration
July 25, 2011, President Obama’s speech to La Raza:
Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my
own. And believe me, right now dealing with Congress — believe me —
believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I
promise you. Not just on immigration reform. But that’s not how — that’s
not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions.
That’s not how our Constitution is written.
Obama Welcome Mat (Cartoon) #tcot http://buff.ly/1BU1GjW via @RightWingNews
March 28, 2011, Univision interview:
With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through
executive order, that’s just not the case…. There are enough laws on the
books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to
enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive
order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my
appropriate role as president.
Let’s Politick @LetsPolitick Follow
Perhaps the most accurate cartoon ever! “@Speeder_14: So you voted my party out of office? Take this…Obama pic.twitter.com/ddbGkT3DC0” #USA
Sept. 28, 2011, Hispanic Roundtable at the White House:
I just have to continue to say this notion that somehow I can just change
the laws unilaterally is just not true. We are doing everything we can
administratively. But the fact of the matter is there are laws on the
books that I have to enforce. And I think there’s been a great
disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting
comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that
somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It’s just not true….
We live in a democracy. You have to pass bills through the legislature,
and then I can sign it.
Lame duck session may bring in amnesty by Obama against the will of the people. Cartoon by A.F.Branco ©2014.
This cartoon succinctly caputures Obama’s immigration policy |
Obama’s executive action completely disregards Constitutional separations of power: http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/21/cartoon-obama-constitution-immigration/ … #tcot
GOP Suing Obama For “Rewriting Federal Law On His Own”
GOP Suing Obama For “Rewriting Federal Law On His Own” http://www.infowars.com/gop-suing-obama-for-rewriting-federal-law-on-his-own/
Police Wrestle With Protestors In Ferguson *Explicit Content* – YouTube
Police Wrestle With Protestors In Ferguson *Explicit Content* – YouTube.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSQVMOk2dx4]Ferguson Protestors Standoff With Police
Ferguson Protestors Standoff With Police http://www.infowars.com/ferguson-protestors-standoff-with-police/
CLAIM: Potential Cases Still ‘Covered Up By CDC’…
CLAIM: Potential Cases Still ‘Covered Up By CDC’… http://www.infowars.com/doctors-potential-ebola-cases-still-covered-up-by-cdc/
Watch “Obama To Balkanize Country Through Executive Acti…” on YouTube
Obama To Balkanize Country Through Executive Acti…: http://youtu.be/XxbqbVtn4Aw
Watch “If men were angels, no government would be necess…” on YouTube
If men were angels, no government would be necess…: http://youtu.be/nblRzw1wo6o
FACEBOOK broadens gun ban to include vaults, safes…
FACEBOOK broadens gun ban to include vaults, safes…
Facebook’s ban on gun ads has been extended to include efforts to keep arms safe and out of the hands of children, such as trigger locks and safes.
In a move that appeared to contradict Facebook’s bid to promote safety, the Internet giant refused to let the nation’s largest gun dealer advertise safes or vaults over Veterans Day.
RELATED: A record-high number of Americans say guns make homes safer
“We are on the forefront of educating gun buyers about gun safety and we take this issue very seriously,” Hyatt Guns Director of Marketing Justin Anderson told Secrets.
“It cannot be stressed strongly enough: Guns need to be secured from unauthorized use. We cannot understand why Facebook would deny us the ability to promote this sale and help gun owners to secure their firearms,” he added.
EXCLUSIVE: Such Critical Infrastructures: FBI feeds Anonymous IRC channels to CIA, Pentagon intel, NSA, NORTHCOM in 2012 Intel memo
An FBI “IIR” intelligence report, dated April 12 2012 entitled “Identification of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Channels Used by Anonymous Members, as of 12 April 2012” surfaces a dicey realm between US military & intelligence and electronic activists. The full report is at scribd.com/doc/246922867/FBI-FOIA-IRC-Chat-Channels-used-by-Anonymous // (Mobile)
FBI FOIA IRC Chat Channels used by Anonymous by Smiley Hill
A tiny peek into a huge deal: the potential fracas between assorted would-be American military cyberwar commandoes and international (and domestic!) computer activists. This lower-level report (Unclassified//For Official Use Only) (U//FOUO) perhaps is more interesting for its “metadata” rather than thoroughly censored content. Below I also included some other domestic military operations documents below to draw a wider context than just this “cyberwar” stuff, as Ferguson has prompted Gov. Nixon in Missouri to activate the state militia, it’s good to read up on what federal legal doctrine for “civil disturbances” is.
Such recipients: In order, it says it is from “DIRECTOR FBI” to:
All FBI field offices
INFO AFOSI DET 331 Andrews AFB Maryland, Headquarters Air Force Office of Special Investigations (also cited in this case http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/homeland_defense/intelligence/EFF_vs_DOD_Bates_997_1096.pdf )
CDR USSTRATCOM Offutt AFB Nebraska, Strategic Command commander
CDR USTRANSCOM Scott AFB Illinois, United States Transportation Command commander
CDR1STIO Ft Belvoir Virginia, First Information Operations Command commander – https://www.1stiocmd.army.mil/ (wat? “CDR1STIO” pops in a bunch of other FOIA’d IIRs as well if you googlize it)
CIA WASHINGTON DC – always down for a good time
DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHINGTON DC – yes, this hot info wasn’t stovepiped away from rivals
DEPT OF JUSTICE WASHINGTON DC – fetching banhammer
DEPT OF STATE WASHINGTON DC
DIA WASHINGTON DC – Defense Intelligence Agency which is huge and low profile – http://www.dia.mil/
DIRNAVCRIMINVSERV – Probably HEADQUARTERS. NAVAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE.
DNI WASHINGTON DC – Director of National Intelligence. (Clapper at the time)
HQ AFOSI Andrews AFB Maryland – Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Tip, if you have some message for them, use their unencrypted contact form to let them know about fraud or etc. What could possibly go wrong? > http://www.osi.af.mil/main/contactus.asp
HQ NORAD USNORTHCOM INTEL PETERSON AFB – US Northern Command located near Colorado Springs was created as Dept of Homeland Security’s military counterpart for “Homeland Defense”, an elastic concept extending Pentagon involvement with “critical infrastructure,” namely the machinery of major corporations. They also revised “GARDEN PLOT” into CONPLAN 3502 Civil Disturbance Operations,” relevant in a Ferguson type context under federal mobilization. (see 2010 story) They were also written into Superman’s plot.
JOINT STAFF Washington DC – J2 – Director for Intelligence (J2) on the Joint Chiefs of Staff (now this guy)
JWAC DAHLGREN Virginia – Joint Warfare Analysis Center a “premier science and engineering institution” under Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), which also hosts Cyber Command. see http://www.stratcom.mil/functional_components/
NGA HQ Bethesda Maryland. The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, like DIA, is up to a lot of things off the radar. They have domestic satellite spying (GEO INT) responsibilities at National Special Security Events which require a special domestic military intel privacy waiver. http://www.stratcom.mil/functional_components/ . Big spenders.
NSA FT GEORGE G MEADE Maryland – National Security Agency at the oddly spelled out Ft Meade. I wonder how many land in this inbox – and how many times “George G” is stored in their databases.
US SECRET SERVICE WASHINGTON DC
USCYBERCOM FT GEORGE G MEADE Maryland – Cyber Command in ur router, sniffin ur packets
WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM WASHINGTON DC.
BT . … I am fairly sure this is a closing list tag like </UL>
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Serial IIR 4 213 4003 12, “WARNING (U): This is an information report, not finally evaluated intelligence. It is being shared for informational purposes but has not been fully evaluated, integrated with other information, interpreted or analyzed. Receiving agencies are requested not to take action based on this raw reporting without prior coordination with the FBI. Unless a conviction in a criminal proceeding occurs, a presumption of innocence exists for any person being reported on in this IIR.” Declassification date appears 20370607, as this hot stuff needs to lay low for a couple more decades.
What is an IIR? It is pretty low level stuff for the FBI. For a bit of info see FBI Intelligence Information Report Handbook | Electronic Frontier Foundation. That document interestingly, at the very end includes a statutory info pipeline from Grand Jury operations to various feds. Patriot Act Section 203(a)(1)( C )(i)(V) certainly makes for an industrious star chamber circuit, but they don’t want grand jury info going out in IIRs without asking the HQ attorney.
This document was obtained by Smiley Hill via FOIA. Please follow https://twitter.com/smilyus for more smileable FOIAs on a regular basis.
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The use of the military – and these contractors in the game now – to police corporate systems labeled as Critical Infrastructure is significant. After all, Missouri Gov Nixon just activated the state militia because of Ferguson.
In the recent FBI writeup freeking out about Ferguson protesters, I took the “critical infrastructure” references to allude to authorizing military activity around corporate electronic assets that might get poked at by angry activists.
“The announcement of the grand jury’s decision … will likely be exploited by some individuals to justify threats and attacks against law enforcement and critical infrastructure,” the FBI says in an intelligence bulletin issued in recent days. “This also poses a threat to those civilians engaged in lawful or otherwise constitutionally protected activities.”
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Background on Executive Order 13636:
Feb 2013: Executive Order — Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity | The White House
CRS analysis on Executive Order: http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42984.pdf
Feb 2013: Pentagon will require security standards for critical infrastructure networks – Nextgov.com
This is actually a word? Cyberinfrastructure – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USA TODAY: Feb 2013: Cybersecurity executive order fosters information sharing for greater good
As for the legal ramifications of domestic military operations and targeting electronic activists with tools like STRATCOM / CYBERCOM retain for battling Al Qaeda servers or whatever, most people say “But, Posse Comitatus!” In reality a vast area of domestic military operations has been expanded and operated by JAGs. See : www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/operational-law-handbook_2012.pdf
This Domestic Operational Law Cyber Realm has a Handbook, People!
The domestic version of this JAG manual is extremely recommended reading for everyone. See Domestic Operational Law Handbook for Judge Advocates 2011 | Public Intelligence.
Also the newer 248 page Domestic Operational Law Handbook for Judge Advocates 2013 | Public Intelligence is available. You will definitely know moar about WTF is up with weird meshes of civilian/military authority in the US by skimming over this.
PI highlighted a bunch of good 2011 stuff, since we are talking Ferguson anyway, it’s worth noting again:
G. The Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plans
Formerly, DoD’s Civil Disturbance Operations (CDO) plan was known as “GARDEN PLOT.” Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and USNORTHCOM however, DoD has delegated to geographic combatant commanders responsibility for developing CDO Contingency Plans (CONPLANs). These geographic commanders’ CONPLANs provide guidance and direction for planning, coordinating, and executing military operations during domestic civil disturbances.
1. Civil Disturbance Operations Mission
Broadly stated, the CDO mission assists civil authorities in restoring law and order in the United States and its territories.58 This mission statement, while not duplicating the language in the Insurrection Act allowing for the use of federal forces to “suppress” insurrection, provides wide latitude to the President to use federal forces to assist civil law enforcement in “restoring” law and order.
The restoration of law and order must be distinguished from the preservation of law and order. CDO mission statements do not allow the joint civil disturbance task force commander to undertake preservation missions. It is generally agreed that missions to restore law and order include dispersing unauthorized assemblages, patrolling disturbed areas, maintaining essential transportation and communications systems, setting up roadblocks, and cordoning off areas. Care should be taken before a military commander accepts missions that are routine maintenance of civil order.
2. Combatant Commanders’ CONPLANs
The CONPLANs provide the basis for all preparation, deployment, employment, and redeployment of Department of Defense component forces, including National Guard forces called to active federal service, for use in domestic civil disturbance operations, in support of civil authorities as directed by the President. The concept of a civil disturbance operation is multi-phased: Phase 0, Shape; Phase I, Anticipate; Phase II, Respond (deployment can occur in either Phase I or Phase II); Phase III, Operate; Phase IV, Stabilize; and Phase V, Transition (redeployment). Prior to deployment, military forces maintain five preparedness postures, called Civil Disturbance Conditions (CIDCONS) in order to alert and react to potential civil disturbance operations. Changes in the CIDCON level are directed by the JDOMS.
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3. The Standing Rules for the Use of Force for U.S. Forces
Civil disturbance operations are conducted in accordance with Appendix L of the Standing Rules of Engagement/Standing Rules for the Use of Force for U.S. Forces (SRUF). Guidance on how and when forces can use force in a CDO mission are detailed in that annex. Although the CJCSI is classified, Annex L is not and can be shared with our mission partners.
a. Custody and Detention
All apprehensions should be made by the civil police force unless they are not available or require assistance. Military forces have the authority to detain rioters, looters, or other civilians committing criminal offenses. Civilians taken into custody should be transferred to civilian law enforcement authorities as soon as possible.
All members of the force must remember that state and federal criminal law and procedure govern apprehension. Apprehension is justified only on the basis of probable cause to believe that an offense has been committed and that the person to be apprehended committed the offense. Soldiers should not question detainees beyond basic pedigree such as name and address. If formal questioning of an offender is necessary, civilian police should conduct the interview. If civilian police are not available, CID agents or military police may conduct interviews only if the interview is essential to the civil disturbance mission. Actions taken by Soldiers that do not conform to criminal law constitutional standards could jeopardize future prosecution and subject Soldiers and their Commanders to criminal and/or civil liability.
b. Search and Seizure
CDO CONPLANs anticipate that military forces will generally not be involved in searches unless there is “an immediate danger of violence, destruction of evidence, or escape of violent persons unless the search is conducted without delay.” In all other cases, local authorities should conduct searches. When required to perform searches, federal armed forces may conduct warrantless searches under the same constitutional parameters imposed upon law enforcement officials. Joint Civil Disturbance Task Force forces conducting a warrantless search will fully document the reasons for the search as soon as is reasonably convenient.69 Generally these searches are limited to the following incidents.
(1) Stop and Frisk
If there is a reasonable suspicion based upon articulable facts that a person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime, that person may be temporarily stopped and questioned about his activities. The stop must be limited in duration to that which is reasonably necessary to investigate the suspicion. If there is a reasonable suspicion based on articulable facts that a person is armed or is carrying instruments of violence and that the individual presents an immediate risk of harm, members of the armed force may conduct a “frisk” (an external “patdown” of the clothing) for weapons. Any weapons found during a frisk may be removed from the individual and seized.
(2) Search Incident to Lawful Apprehension
A person lawfully detained may be searched for weapons or destructible evidence. A search for weapons or destructible evidence may also be conducted in the area where the detained person could reach with a sudden movement to obtain a weapon or destroy evidence.
(3) Exigent circumstances
Military forces assisting law enforcement may make a search without a warrant when they have reason to believe (probable cause) that weapons, objects related to criminal activity, or persons believed to have committed an offense, are in the place to be searched; and they have reason to believe that the delay necessary to obtain a search warrant would result in removal of the weapons or destruction of the objects related to criminal activity. For example, Joint Civil Disturbance Task Force forces may stop and search an automobile without a warrant when there is reason to believe that the automobile contains weapons or instruments of violence and/or contains an individual reasonably believed to have committed violence.
(4) Emergency
Military forces in a civil disturbance operation may make an immediate entry into a building when there is reason to believe that entry is necessary to prevent injury to persons, serious damage to property, loss of evidence, to protect public safety, or to render aid to someone who is in danger.
(5) Hot pursuit
Military forces pursuing a person who they have reason to believe has just committed a serious crime, may enter a vehicle or building believed to be entered by the suspect and search the building or vehicle for the person or any weapons that might be used to further his escape.
(6) Plain View
During the course of otherwise lawful activity, military forces may seize any unlawful weapons or objects related to criminal activity which they observe in plain view. When conducting warrantless searches that require a probable cause determination, military forces can obtain advice from a judge advocate; however, the probable cause determination must be made personally by the individual desiring to conduct the search.
If a search warrant is required, local civil authorities should obtain judicially issued search warrants. If local civilian authorities are not available, judge advocates need to be prepared to provide advice on probable cause to military authorities before they approach a local judge or magistrate for a search warrant.
When feasible, all searches conducted by military personnel will be conducted by two personnel with the actual search performed by someone of the same sex.76 A hand receipt or some similar document should be prepared when items of personal property are seized from an individual.
c. Confinement Facilities
The Joint Civil Disturbance Task Force should not operate a detention facility. Any person apprehended should be turned over to the police for detention. Military correctional facilities cannot be used to detain civilians. If available civilian detention facilities cannot accommodate the number of detained persons who are awaiting arraignment, the Joint Civil Disturbance Task Force commander must seek the approval of the SCRAG and Combatant Commander to set up a temporary detention facility.
Should the Task Force be required to operate a detention facility, the detention facility standards and operations should conform, to the maximum extent possible, to current DoD confinement facility operations and will be under the professional supervision and control of Military Police personnel. The establishment and operation of military detention facilities is a temporary expedient and is authorized only until such time as the custody of detained persons can be transferred to civil authorities.
d. Riot Control Agents
Normally, for CDO the deployment and use of riot control agents is allowed as a matter of U.S. policy. However, initial approval authority for its deployment and use may be retained at a level higher than the Joint Civil Disturbance Task Force Commander and may require a specific request.
This is not the same as a state-level activation, but it is the doctrine that is crafted at the federal level these days so I think it’s pretty relevant to Ferguson.
The federal government hasn’t taken kindly to people that expose these types of relationships. Barrett Brown’s sentencing just got delayed again – but at least the Barrett Brown Review of Arts and Letters and Jail is awesome. For more info FreeBarrettBrown.org.
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