"Domestic Surveillance Directorate" website -- great info in satire-tastic form.

[nashville_brook]

http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/


About the Domestic Surveillance Directorate
The men and women of the Domestic Surveillance Directorate, together and individually, act for one thing and one thing alone ... WE ACT FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION. Each employee takes a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Our Vision
Domestic Information Dominance through Responsive Presence and Network Advantage.

Our Values
For us, collaboration is built into the very fabric of who we are. A component of both the U.S. Defense Department and the U.S. Intelligence Community, we also partner with other Federal Agencies to safeguard our national security. Domestic Surveillance is a team sport. No one organization has the resources to do the job alone.


Surveillance Strategies

PRISM Data Collection Program: Our #1 Source of Raw Intelligence
Using the PRISM program, our analysts can extract information directly from the servers of nine major American internet companies: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. This important partnership gives us direct access to audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs for each of these systems.

Established in 2007, the PRISM program has allowed us to closely track targeted individuals over time. Our ability to conduct live surveillance of search terms has given us important insights into their thoughts and intentions. Below are some slides from a recent presentation describing the extent of our abilities:
















more information about this map: http://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/eavesdropping101.pdf

[Octafish]

1. Sick! TIA has the hallmarks of a nationwide prison built from bytes.

It should, because it was designed by a pardoned Iran-Contra felon, Adm. Poindexter.

Thanks for the heads up on the scary reality, Nashville Brook.

The nation is spied on by traitors, gangsters and warmongers.

We need to build files on Them.

[nashville_brook]

3. remember Promis? this is that on radioactive steroids.

they've protected these programs for decades -- even before they were fully deployed.

the power of "total information awareness" is crack to these spooks.


While this website is satire...I'm amazed at the quality of information contained. Goes to show, the best to communicate, sometimes, is thru humor.

[Aerows]

2. And some folks are just fine with this

Kind of makes you wonder why, doesn't it?

[nashville_brook]

6. not just OK with it -- arguing vigorously for it.

had one poster tell me that since they "knew this was going on" it was totally okay.

so, if you *know* that innocent people are being rounded up...you'll be okay with that too, b/c you *know* about it?

the lengths people are going to, to make this OK if a Dem does it, is embarrassing.

[Aerows]

7. Agreed

it's disgusting.

[niyad]

4. that is a most impressive site-- I liked the "secure the citizens' bit.

[nashville_brook]

5. LOVE the "view our patent" feature -- Biomimetic voice identifier

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=www.google.com/patents/US7805291.pdf

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,442,825.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,825&RS=PN/8,442,825



For security reasons, it is unrealistic to expect a complete list of information we collect for our national citizen database. In the spirit of openness and transparency however, here is a partial list:

internet searches
websites visited
emails sent and received
social media activity (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
blogging activity including posts read, written, and commented on - View our patent
videos watched and/or uploaded online
photos viewed and/or uploaded online
music downloads
mobile phone GPS-location data
mobile phone apps downloaded
phone call records - [link:patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,442,825.PN.&OS=PN/8,442,825&RS=PN/8,442,825|View our patent]
text messages sent and received
online purchases and auction transactions
bookstore receipts
credit card/ debit card transactions
bank statements
cable television shows watched and recorded
commuter toll records
parking receipts
electronic bus and subway passes / Smartpasses
travel itineraries
border crossings
surveillance cameras
medical information including diagnoses and treatments
prescription drug purchases
guns and ammunition sales
educational records
arrest records
driver license information

[RobertEarl]

8. Wondering out loud...

Where are the so-called conservatives?

Why aren't all the leading con-sites leading this situation?

Why does it seem just we Liberals are upset?

[nashville_brook]

9. my blood pressure is high enough w/o trolling RW sites...

so i'm not entirely sure that's true. maybe Media Matters will do a survey on this.

but, one could say there's the "room to talk" problem. RW'ers have no problem with trashing the constitution on everything except guns, so there's not much room for them to talk.

[RobertEarl]

10. We are in a box

We should call the violation of the constitution a communist endeavor.

But we are socialist and socialist means communist.

If the conservatives complain they are called America haters, which is what they call us.

Poor conservatives really are the ones boxed up. While we Lefties can rightly call for limits on the government spying, they can't.

Liberals, for what it is worth, own the correct political position, again.

[nashville_brook]

11. "if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless"

we own the discourse on this, and the responsibility falls squarely on us.

i'd be surprised -- very surprised -- if a "bi-partisan" effort is launched to fix this.

[RobertEarl]

12. There is the political arena and then...

There is what we might call the moral arena.

We struggle mightily in the political, what with the lions with which we reside.

Morally, Lefties stand alone, a guiding light of peace and tolerance. Real Freedom. Live and let live.

The political conundrum is that the Left is right and the Right is wrong. It is a divide that were it not cleaving us, such things as constitutional perversions would never see the light of day. United we stand, divided we fall, and all that jazz.

[nashville_brook]

13. i've been calling this the "partisan and policy" divide

As a person interested in principles and principled government, I choose to focus on policy rather than extreme partisanship.

Good dems must stand up and get these intelligence hoarders/secrecy bingers in line.