The Surveillance State Did Not Disappear With The Trump Victory: "It Is Still Lurking And Completely Intact"
By Tyler Durden
One of the things Donald Trump has really done correctly is to assess his future arena in the areas of intelligence-gathering and operational security. Trump wants to return to a “courier” method of transmitting sensitive information and classified documents for the purpose of reducing the amount of material that can be hacked or stolen. There is a subtlety about this for a caveat, in case the compliment has bloomed flowers in your thoughts: the NSA $50 billion facility for collection and storage of data in Utah won’t be shutting down anytime soon.
As Snowden’s exposés clearly pointed out, the government has clearly followed Petraeus’ glowing “internet of things” yellow brick road to form an integrated, interconnected surveillance state. All CCTV (closed circuit television) systems, all merchants with cameras, all law enforcement cameras…all of the camera surveillance systems everywhere are either tied into data collection immediately or can be accessed for use at a later time.
The latest “Jason Bourne” movie clearly illustrates how the government can utilize devices such as cellular telephones (especially the ones with cameras) to track movements, record conversations, and be a “piggyback” to relay information to a nearby computer or a camera. This isn’t the future: this is now.
There is an older piece written by Michael Snyder in June of 2013 entitled 27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government Spying That Should Send a Chill Up Your Spine. The information in this article is directly from Edward Snowden that revealed exactly what the government has been doing regarding their total surveillance program. The surveillance did not occur overnight, and in the manner of the “frog in the cold-water kettle” by stretching out the time for putting it all into place, the stultified public’s focus was either diverted or bypassed entirely.
Here are a few other pieces worth reading over regarding the government’s total information awareness and the (ongoing) growth of the surveillance state:
- UPI: U.S. Postal Service logs all mail for law enforcement. (7/4/2013)
- Madison Ruppert, Activist Post: Suitcase sized device can remotely disable phones, intercept communications, record unique ID’s and track you in real time (11/2/2011)
- Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com: Federally-Funded Street Lights Capable of Recording Conversations (11/1/2011)
- Tom Simonite, MT Technology Review: Using a Smartphone’s Eyes and Ears to Log Your Every Move (7/4/13)
- Washington’s Blog: Is the Government also Monitoring the CONTENT of Our Phone Calls? (6/6/2013) [Note: This piece really delves into the reasons behind all of the surveillance…straight out of the mouth of the head of the NSA]
- Prison Planet: Diagram: The NSA Unchained (5/24/2012) [Excellent overview of the amendments to FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) enabling domestic agencies to spy on U.S. citizens to catch foreign “bogeymen” and the actual reach of the surveillance]
As can be seen, all of these developments require time, and …read more
