So --- is the U.S. military actively spying on citizens here in the United States to see if they have any criticisms or negative thoughts about the senior military personnel and/or what they are doing ???
***** MORE IMPORTANT --- ARE THEY GEARING UP TO SPY ON EVERYBODY FOR EVERYTHING ELSE *****
Is there more domestic spying being done, because
some generals and admirals, and Biden's
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
don't like being criticized
some generals and admirals, and Biden's
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
don't like being criticized
Why aren't MSNBC, CNN and Fox News*** reporting on this ???
The U.S. military seems to have something called the "Protective Services Battalion" (PSB), which is the Department of Defense equivalent of the civilian Secret Service to protect the military higher-ups. --- And now that DOD (military [it's part of the Army] not civilian) PSB is monitoring social media to see if anyone is posting negative comments about the country’s highest-ranking military commanders.
What are these guys afraid of >>> an outbreak of "fragging" at the Pentagon ???
Or is this just another manifestation of the metastatic growth of a particular Deep State malignancy into another govermental institution
In any case, all of this kind of stuff going on at the Pentagon shows how our tax dollars are being spent in President Biden's and Sec/Def Lloyd Austin's Department of Defence >>> ie., paying for military monitors to look at your social media for any critical or mean posts about the higher paid civilians in the DOD, and the generals and admirals still nominally on "active duty" >>> while all of them try to "woke-up" the U.S. armed services --- instead of really protecting the USA against the clear and present enemies and other dangers existing and arising around the world beyond our borders, and penetrating our borders as we type these words.
This is from a recent PSB procurement document for the Protective Services Field Office/Protective Intelligence Branch (PSIFO/PIB) >>> “.... requirement to provide global protective services for senior Department of Defense (DoD) officials, adequate security in order to mitigate online threats (direct, indirect, and veiled), the identification of fraudulent accounts and positive or negative sentiment relating specifically to our senior high-risk personnel.” The report goes on to say that the Pentagon intends not just to monitor platforms for “negative sentiment,” but also to pinpoint the location(s) of those social media platforms.
As things now stand, The DOD's/ PSB's plans to go far beyond mere social media surveillance of the type offered by private contractor security/ computer firms, such as DATAMINR, which is currently being used by both the civilian police and the military to help detect perceived threats by "scraping social media timelines" and combing chatrooms for a variety of keywords. However going forward, DOD's Protective Services Battalion (organizationally still part of the U.S. Army) would have its investigators employ other programs to combine the social media surveillance data with a broad variety of other public and nonpublic information, all accessible through an integrated universal search selector. These other sources of information would include what the PSB categorizes as “signal-rich discussions from illicit threat-actor communities and access to around-the-clock conversations within threat-actor channels,” public research, CCTV feeds, radio stations, news outlets, personal records, hacked information, webcams, and — perhaps most invasive — cellular location data.....
NOW --- NONE OF THAT WOULD RING ANY ALARM BELLS FOR THE REST OF US !!!
OR SHOULD IT ???
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*** For a deep-dive article on the nuts and bolts of what the DOD/Army/PSB are doing and planning (See "PENTAGON’S SECRET SERVICE TRAWLS SOCIAL MEDIA FOR MEAN TWEETS ABOUT GENERALS" by Daniel Boguslaw, Sam Biddle, Ken Klippenstein, . 6-17-2023, The Instercept_ [https://theintercept.com/2023/06/17/army-surveillance-social-media/]).
This article from "The Intercept_" is the basis for most of what we here on this independent Republican blog for Brooklyn and Staten Island wrote in our featured post herein above.
Is the Protective services Battalion like The Blue Jackets?
ReplyDelete428, in the same way that General Mark A. Milley was like Admiral Theodore W. General, except that General was more of an admiral than Milley was a general.
ReplyDeleteOMG, I hope the Army's PSB doesn't track me down at my computer and come to get me at my home.
UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE "MEANWHILE --- HERE'S REVISED POST BOUT BIDEN & TRUMP" EDITION
ReplyDelete"FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY --- AN AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE UNDER FEDERAL INDICTMENT LEADS THE INCUMBENT U.S. PRESIDENT IN THE POLLS --- TRUMP LEADS BIDEN BY A VERY CLEAR PLURALITY IN THE SCIENTIFIC SAMPLE OF ALMOST A THOUSAND LIKELY VOTERS >>> 45% to 39% IN THE MOST RECENT POST-INDICTMENT POLL BY RASMUSSEN
When it comes to anybody's polling lately, the good news for Republicans is that there is nothing but bad news there for the expected Democrat nominee for re-election, Joe Biden. On top of his losing to Trump by six points head-to-head in the Rasmussen poll, 9n another poll, 45 percent of the sample believed that the Biden administration is more corrupt than other recent administrations, while only 37% thIhought the Biden administration is less corrupt. In addition, a clear majority (52%) believed Biden is a worse president than most recent presidents, compared to only 32% who think Biden is better than most recent presidents.
It's not too early for pro-Trump supporters to start thinking and talking about this >>> Since the Garland/Biden DOJ formally arrested and indicted Trump, billions and billions of dollars worth of corporate media time and resources were used to justify the Trump arrest and the 37 federal charges underlying that arrest, and the net result of all that has been that Trump’s numbers have improved across the board, and Joe Biden's numbers have all gone down a scosh. Even better than that, despite the best efforts of the MSM media to not only try to cover up for Biden’s corruption, and instead to try to shop it to their few remaining veiwers and readers as a right wing conspiracy theory, that pro-Biden media and their accolytes hither and thither completely failed except to hold together a very small minority of pro-Biden, pro-Democrat diehards; and the truth about Biden's corruption has already put an additional significant dent in his re-election chances with Americans as a whole.
EDITORIAL NOTE: SEVERAL OF THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS ON THIS THREAD HAD TO BE RE-PUBLISHED TO KEEP THEM ALL IN A PROPER ORDER --- THE ORIGINAL AND RE-PUBLISHED TIMES ARE AS INDICATED IN EACH OF THE SEVERAL COMMENTS BELOW.....
ReplyDeleteUPDATE & BACKFILL: THE "DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ACKNOWLEDGES MASS PURCHASES OF PRIVATE DATA ABOUT INDIVIDUALS --- MANY SOURCES URGE THAT CONGRESS NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT'S RIGHT TO SPY ON ITS CITIZENS --- AND IT MUST DO IT QUICKLY" EDITION
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IN A FEBRUARY 2021 LETTER TO SEC/DEF LLOYD AUSTIN, DEMOCRAT SENATOR RON WYDEN WARNED ABOUT THE DOD'S PURCHASE OF MASS DATA ABOUT INDIVIDUALS IN ITS VARIOUS PROGRAMS FOR THE SURVEILLANCE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS --- AND EARLIER THIS MONTH (JUNE 2023) AS A RESULT OF SENATOR WYDEN'S PRODDING, THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE RELEASED AN INTERNAL REVIEW THAT ACKNOWLEDGED >>> THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DOES PURCHASE DATA EN MASSE ON PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS FROM NON-GOVERNMENTAL SOURCES FOR A VARIETY OF VAGUELY DESCRIBED INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY PURPOSES --- AND MANY OF THE INDIVIDUALS UNDER SURVEILLANCE ARE U.S. CITIZENS WITHIN THESE UNITED STATES..... HOWEVER, SENATOR WYDEN OBSERVED >>> "... THE GOVERNMENT'S EXISTING POLICIES HAVE FAILED TO PROVIDE ESSENTIAL SAFEGUARDS FOR AMERICANS' PRIVACFY, OR OVERSIGHT OF HOW AGENCIES BUY AND USE PERSONAL DATA...."
On June 12th Senator Wyden noted that >>> "This review shows the government's existing policies have failed to provide essential safeguards for Americans' privacy, or oversight of how agencies buy and use personal data.... According to this report, the ODNI does not even know which federal intelligence agencies are buying Americans' personal data....”
As to the DOD and the military use of personal data about Americans, in a February 2021 letter to Secretary Austin, Senator Wyden said --- "I write to urge you to release to the public information about the Department of Defense's (DoD) warrantless surveillance of Americans...." Specifically, Wyden askeds Austin to share the answer to a question Wyden had asked about the military's practice of >>> buying metadata <<< from non-government providers that helped the military track private citizens based on their internet activity. Wyden initially reached out to Austin because it had been made public that U.S. military departments had made it a practice to purchase Americans' cell phone location data; and in so doing, the U.S. military avoided any regulatory and legal barriers to obtaining that data themselves. The DOD's 2021 reponse to Senator Wyden remains classified; thus, to date, there is no "public" on the record confirmation from the DOD about its electronic surveillance of Americans similar to the report recently released from the Office of National Intelligence.
However, in his letter to Austin, that had been soon-after made available to the public, Wyden noted that --- the Department of Defense was wrongfully hiding its surveillance practices, which are controversial but not actually sensitive enough to be in the category of classified information.
[[[ Continued in Part 2, following immediately below ]]]
June 20, 2023 at 1:51 PM
CONTINUATION OF >>> UPDATE & BACKFILL: THE "DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ACKNOWLEDGES MASS PURCHASES OF PRIVATE DATA ABOUT INDIVIDUALS --- MANY SOURCES URGE THAT CONGRESS NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT'S RIGHT TO SPY ON ITS CITIZENS --- AND IT MUST DO IT QUICKLY" EDITION
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Also on a related matter, according to an article published by the ALCU --- one of the most sweeping surveillance statutes ever enacted by the U.S. Congress will expire at the end of this year unless something happens to extend that law. This re-authorization will allow for a full, frank and open discussion of the need for such a law, and whether if it might be in need of significant revisions and restrictions upon its use by the government in 2024 and beyond.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act permits the U.S. government to engage in mass, warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international communications, including phone calls, texts, emails, social media messages, and web browsing. The government claims that under that law it is on guard against vaguely defined foreign intelligence “targets”..... However, those targets do not have to be spies, terrorists, or criminals of any sort. The "targets" can be virtually any foreigner abroad, including but not limited to any of the following: journalists, academic researchers, scientists, or even normal people doing business with Americans.
In the course of this surveillance, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the government to cast a wide net that can secretly gather the communications of ordinary American citizens and other legal residents on a massive scale — possibly in violation of several of our constitutionally protected rights.
Now is the time to go beyond only putting restraints upon and/or ,otherwise reforming Section 702 as part of its re-authorization, Congress should be pressed to also adopt broader safeguards that protect Americans in the face of bulk surveillance by the NSA, DOD, and/or other governmental departments, agencies, divisions and bureaus. In addition, strict court oversight needs to be asserted and strengthened in all instances where and when the government might engage in spying on it citizens, whether it might be for so-called intelligence, homeland security, or other protective purposes.
June 20, 2023 at 1:56 PM
where is Nick in all of this?
ReplyDeleteJune 20, 2023 at 4:31 PM
Nick thinks that the 2026 internship with nicole is in the bag. 2028 maybe but not 2026.
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