Pervasive Surveillance Under Obama: The DHS-NSA-AT&T "Cybersecurity" Partnership


	Pervasive Surveillance Under Obama: The DHS-NSA-AT&T "Cybersecurity" Partnership

nuttyriv3r

7-9-2009 1:53 AM

59 views

tags:

at&t, cybersecurity, dhs, domestic spying, nsa, obamination, project einstein, stellar wind

nuttyriv3r says:

Now YOU are the terrorist! This whole thing is like a bad cliché or . . . history repeating itself on a truly technically enriched global scale. Curse that Ben Franklin and his kite! We had a chance with torches and pitchforks!

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

More clips from nuttyriv3r

SANTA CLAUS: The Great Imposter

The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Decep...

Ryan Ferguson Hebrews 9 and 10

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from July 9, 2009

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a2bf989a-804e-4606-a239-c68871072cfb/82AFB7BC-4E0B-4B65-ADB7-0ECD823ED473/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14249" href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14249" style="font-size: 11px;">www.globalresearch.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14249">July 6, 2009</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14249">Tom  Burghardt</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14249"><DIV>Under the rubric of cybersecurity, the Obama administration is moving forward with a Bush regime program to screen state computer traffic on private-sector networks, including those connecting people to the Internet, <SPAN>The Washington Post</SPAN> <A href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070202771.html">revealed</A> July 3.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14249"><DIV>That project, code-named "Einstein," may very well be related to the much-larger, ongoing and highly illegal National Security Agency (NSA) communications intercept program known as "Stellar Wind," <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html">disclosed</A> in 2005 by <SPAN>The New York Times</SPAN>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14249">Under the current program, Einstein will be tied directly into giant NSA data bases</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14249">streamed to the agency by the nation's telecommunications providers.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14249">As <SPAN>USA Today</SPAN> <A href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm">revealed</A> in 2006, the "National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth." </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14249">This contradicts President Obama's <A href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-on-Securing-Our-Nations-Cyber-Infrastructure/">pledge</A> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14249">that the government will not continue Bush-era surveillance practices</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/82AFB7BC-4E0B-4B65-ADB7-0ECD823ED473/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>