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Mikhael Firaz : Patrick Kennedy Admits Unnamed US Intelligence Agency Got Underwear Bomber On Flight 253 http://topin... Patrick Kennedy Admits Unnamed US Intelligence Agency Got Underwear Bomber On Flight 253 http://topinfopost.com/2013/06/13/patrick-kennedy-admits-unnamed-us-intelligence-agency-got-underwear-bomber-on-flight-253-video Patrick Kennedy Admits Unnamed US Intelligence Agency Got Underwear Bomber On Flight 253 - Video 4 days ago - Via Reshared Post - View - Pamela Zuppo : We Were Vaguely Warned... U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens December 13, 2012... We Were Vaguely Warned... U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens December 13, 2012 "It's breathtaking" in its scope, said a former senior administration official familiar with the White House debate. Top U.S. intelligence officials gathered in the White House Situation Room in March to debate a controversial proposal. Counterterrorism officials wanted to create a government dragnet, sweeping up millions of records about U.S. citizens—even people suspected of no crime. Not everyone was on board. "This is a sea change in the way that the government interacts with the general public," Mary Ellen Callahan, chief privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security, argued in the meeting, according to people familiar with the discussions. A week later, the attorney general signed the changes into effect. Through Freedom of Information Act requests and interviews with officials at numerous agencies, The Wall Street Journal has reconstructed the clash over the counterterrorism program within the administration of President Barack Obama. The debate was a confrontation between some who viewed it as a matter of efficiency—how long to keep data, for instance, or where it should be stored—and others who saw it as granting authority for unprecedented government surveillance of U.S. citizens. The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to examine the government files of U.S. citizens for possible criminal behavior, even if there is no reason to suspect them. That is a departure from past practice, which barred the agency from storing information about ordinary Americans unless a person was a terror suspect or related to an investigation. Now, NCTC can copy entire government databases— flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others. The agency has new authority to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. Previously, both were prohibited. Data about Americans "reasonably believed to constitute terrorism information" may be permanently retained The changes also allow databases of U.S. civilian information to be given to foreign governments for analysis of their own. In effect, U.S. and foreign governments would be using the information to look for clues that people might commit future crimes. The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution says that searches of "persons, houses, papers and effects" shouldn't be conducted without "probable cause" that a crime has been committed. But that doesn't cover records the government creates in the normal course of business with citizens. Congress specifically sought to prevent government agents from rifling through government files indiscriminately when it passed the Federal Privacy Act in 1974. The act prohibits government agencies from sharing data with each other for purposes that aren't "compatible" with the reason the data were originally collected. But the Federal Privacy Act allows agencies to exempt themselves from many requirements by placing notices in the Federal Register, the government's daily publication of proposed rules. In practice, these privacy-act notices are rarely contested by government watchdogs or members of the public. "All you have to do is publish a notice in the Federal Register and you can do whatever you want," says Robert Gellman, a privacy consultant who advises agencies on how to comply with the Privacy Act. Under the new rules issued in March, the National Counterterrorism Center, known as NCTC, can obtain almost any database the government collects that it says is "reasonably believed" to contain "terrorism information." The list could potentially include almost any government database, from financial forms submitted by people seeking federally backed mortgages to the health records of people who sought treatment at Veterans Administration hospitals, to those applying for college financial aid. Previous government proposals to scrutinize massive amounts of data about innocent people have caused an uproar. In 2002, the Pentagon's research arm proposed a program called Total Information Awareness that sought to analyze both public and private databases for terror clues. It would have been far broader than the NCTC's current program, examining many nongovernmental pools of data as well. "If terrorist organizations are going to plan and execute attacks against the United States, their people must engage in transactions and they will leave signatures," the program's promoter, Admiral John Poindexter, said at the time. "We must be able to pick this signal out of the noise." Adm. Poindexter's plans drew fire from across the political spectrum over the privacy implications of sorting through every single document available about U.S. citizens. Conservative columnist William Safire called the plan a "supersnoop's dream." Liberal columnist Molly Ivins suggested it could be akin to fascism. Congress eventually defunded that particular program. The National Counterterrorism Center's ideas faced no similar public resistance. *For one thing, the debate happened behind closed doors. In addition, unlike the Pentagon, the NCTC was created in 2004 specifically to use data to connect the dots in the fight against terrorism. Even after eight years in existence, the agency isn't well known. "We're still a bit of a startup and still having to prove ourselves," said director Matthew Olsen in a rare public appearance this summer at the Aspen Institute, an elite leadership think tank. The agency's offices are tucked away in an unmarked building set back from the road in the woodsy suburban neighborhood of McLean, Va. Many employees are on loan from other agencies and private companies, and they don't conduct surveillance or gather clues directly. Instead, they analyze data provided by others. The agency's best-known product is a database called TIDE, which stands for the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment. TIDE contains more than 500,000 identities suspected of terror links. Some names are known or suspected terrorists; others are terrorists' friends and families; still more are people with some loose affiliation to a terrorist. At the Department of Justice, Chief Privacy Officer Nancy Libin raised concerns about whether the guidelines could unfairly target innocent people, these people said. Some research suggests that, statistically speaking, there are too few terror attacks for predictive patterns to emerge. The risk, then, is that innocent behavior gets misunderstood—say, a man buying chemicals (for a child's science fair) and a timer (for the sprinkler) sets off false alarms. An August government report indicates that, as of last year, NCTC wasn't doing predictive pattern-matching. They and Ms. Libin at the Justice Department argued that the failure to catch Mr. Abdulmutallab (2009 failed underwear bomber) wasn't caused by the lack of a suspect—he had already been flagged—but by a failure to investigate him fully. So amassing more data about innocent people wasn't necessarily the right solution. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324478304578171623040640006.html A Comparison of the 2008 and 2012 NCTC Guidelines In March, the Director of National Intelligence announced new rules that would allow millions of U.S. citizens’ government files to be copied and analyzed for terrorism clues. Here is a comparison of the key differences between two memos • Dropping the focus on terrorism information. • Data about U.S. persons must be “reasonably believed” to contain terrorism information. • Dropping the requirement to remove innocent U.S. person information. • Adding the ability to do “pattern-based queries” of entire datasets. • Adding the ability to share data with foreign governments. • Disputes over data directed to the National Security Council. • Adding internal oversight provisions. • Adding license to depart from the guidelines.  http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/12/12/a-comparison-of-the-2008-and-2012-nctc-guidelines/ 6 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Dean Barnett : He may want to explain why Christian leaders aren't held to the same complicit-by-silence standard when... He may want to explain why Christian leaders aren't held to the same complicit-by-silence standard when clinics are bombed or OBGYNs are assassinated in church GOP Rep. Mike Pompeo: US Islamic Leaders Are ‘Potentially Complicit’ In Terrorist Acts | Mediaite Republican congressman Mike Pompeo took to the House floor Tuesday afternoon to call on Islamic leaders in the United States to be more outspoken in their condemnation of terrorist attacks on American soil. During a speech that was flagged by ThinkProgress, he cited Fort Hood, the Times Square bomber, and the underwear bomber as just a few examples, accusing American Islamic leaders of being silent when such terrorist attacks occur. Pompeo declar... 6 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Veronica Cawelti : Rand Paul Slams Obama On NSA Surveillance: ‘Utter Rank Hypocrisy’ Is Why People Hate Gov’t | Mediaite Senator Rand Paul sat down with Sean Hannity tonight to continue piling on NSA surveillance as a threat to Americans' civil liberties. Both he and Hannity tore into President Obama for his complicity on this issue that he spoke out against and decried for years. And on top of everything else, Paul told Hannity that the surveillance isn't even good at looking for terrorists, citing the Boston bombings and the underwear bomber as two examples where... 7 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Sean Finnerty : If the intelligence community from nearly it's inception has nothing but failures: handpicking brutal... If the intelligence community from nearly it's inception has nothing but failures: handpicking brutal dictators such as the Shah of Iran, Pinochet, Sukarno, Nicaraguan Contras, etc;  failing to foresee the fall of Communism, and Indian, Pakistani nor North Korean Nuclear tests; siding with mujahideen that brought the rise of Al-Qaeda; despite rolling back constitutional rights failed to protect the American public from the underwear bomber, Times Square failed bombing, Boston Marathon bombing and the events of 9/11 all occurred under the nose of America's much vaunted intelligence community. So I ask, if the choice is that Americans have to give up civil liberties without any benefits or continue to have Constitutional civil liberties and not have these bumbling "masters of the universe" shouldn't the American public chose the latter? If we are not able to chose the nature of own protection then why bother pretend we are a democracy? "The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings." John F. Kennedy 8 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Scott Shafer : Allen West-As I ponder the NSA records data mining episode here are my thoughts. This is like carpet ... Allen West-As I ponder the NSA records data mining episode here are my thoughts. This is like carpet bombing vs. precision attack. Can someone explain why we weren’t listening to Anwar-al-Awlaki and his conversations with Major Nidal Hasan? Why weren’t we able to track Carlos Bledsoe's travel to Somalia and Yemen to receive terrorist training? Why didn’t we pay attention to warning signs of Abdul Mutallab (underwear bomber) with a one-way ticket and little baggage traveling from Nigeria to America? Why weren’t we paying attention to the Tsarnaev brothers’ travels and connections to Chechen Islamic terrorism -- heck Russia warned us? Why is it that in October 2011, 57 Islamic organizations -- several with ties to Muslim Brotherhood -- sent a letter to then counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan demanding we purge training materials and punish instructors they deemed "offensive" and we didn’t say “shove it” and target THEIR records? We’d rather carpet bomb Americans to cover our cowardice in confronting Islamic extremism. Benjamin Franklin said, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” 8 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Steven Sweat : Dutch airline excused from 'underwear bomber' suit By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed claims against KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in a lawsuit holding it liable for injuries a New York man says he sustained while helping to stop the so-called "underwear bomber" from blowing up a plane in 2009. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon ruled that the federal court in New York lacked jurisdiction to rule on KLM, in part because the company is based in the Netherlands. ... 14 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Airnation.net : KLM excused from 'underwear bomber' suit - http://ow.ly/lGcCj KLM excused from 'underwear bomber' suit - http://ow.ly/lGcCj KLM excused from 'underwear bomber' suit | Airline and Aviation Forums | Airnation.net Social Hangar 14 days ago - Via HootSuite - View - SMS SECURITY INC : Passports Often Hold Clues to Terrorism Detroit Free Press (06/03/13) Baldas, Tresa U.S. Customs and... Passports Often Hold Clues to Terrorism Detroit Free Press (06/03/13) Baldas, Tresa U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have been paying closer attention to the passports and other documents provided by travelers from overseas ever since the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas 2009 by so-called underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Law enforcement officials say there is good reason why security personnel are scrutinizing passports more closely, including the fact that passport fraud is often used to conceal terrorist activity and other crimes. Law enforcement officials also point out that passports can provide clues that could be useful when investigating terrorists, particularly when passports have been changed or when they appear to be fraudulent. U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, the top federal prosecutor in Detroit, says that a passport is useful to Customs and Border Protection officers in looking for signs of terrorist activity because it serves as an identifying document as well as a history of where the passport holder has been. She added that individuals who intentionally alter their passports may be trying to conceal the fact that they have traveled to a particular country as well as their activities there. 15 days ago - Via HootSuite - View - Mwaura Kinuthia : 20 days ago - Via Google+ - View - R Hughes : "Cognitive Dissonance: People tend to seek consistency in their beliefs and perceptions. The term cognitive... "Cognitive Dissonance: People tend to seek consistency in their beliefs and perceptions. The term cognitive dissonance is used to describe the feeling of discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs. When there is a discrepancy between beliefs and behaviors, something must change in order to eliminate or reduce the dissonance." THIS ladies & gents is why when really bad things happen people refuse to believe it. 9/11 so huge that our own government couldn't be involved is what most people will think. In the 12 years following 9/11 there has been an a shoe bomber. Then underwear bomber. Watch the video: 9/11 Firefighters Reveal Bombs Destroyed WTC lobby Newly obtained video that was reluctantly released by NIST after a lawsuit by the International Center for 9/11 Studies shows two firefighters on 9/11 discus... 27 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Dr Gripe : Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration It wasn't the substance of the AP story that has exasperated the government, but that the AP found a source or sources that spilled information about an ongoing intelligence operation and that even grander leaks might surge into the press corpsâ�™ rain barrels. 28 days ago - Via Google+ - View - Gary Green : Muslim ≠ Terrorist Muslim ≠ Terrorist 29 days ago - Via Reshared Post - View - RONALD MORLA : The World Stands On A Precipice The collapse of American power under Obama has increased attacks on ... The World Stands On A Precipice The collapse of American power under Obama has increased attacks on America, but it also really increased Muslim attacks on each other, as the jackals of Islam fight over the Middle East. Similarly the collapse of European power has led to Islamic incursions, but more jackals fighting over power. Westerners must understand that Muslims do not think in terms of soundbites and yesterday's news. Nope. They are in it for the long haul, even if they have to murder millions of their rivals in the process.  "Not only did the original “underwear bomber” Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri hide explosives in his rectum to assassinate Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Nayef—they met in 2009 after the 22-year-old Asiri “feigned repentance for his jihadi views“—but this “holy-warrior” apparently had fellow jihadists repeatedly sodomize him to “widen” his anus to fit the explosives—and all in accordance with the fatwas of Islamic clerics." http://tinyurl.com/7pndgkp "A 2010 Arabic news video that aired on Fadak TV gives the details. Apparently a cleric, one Abu al-Dema al-Qasab, informed al-Asiri and other jihadis of an “innovative and unprecedented way to execute martyrdom operations: place explosive capsules in your anus. However, to undertake this jihadi approach you must agree to be sodomized for a while to widen your anus so it can hold the explosives.” ibid Hank Roth 29 days ago - Via Reshared Post - View -