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Eugene

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Fri Jul 5, 2013, 07:28 PM Jul 2013

U.S. defends secrecy of unique surveillance court

Source: Reuters

U.S. defends secrecy of unique surveillance court

WASHINGTON | Fri Jul 5, 2013 6:11pm EDT

(Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday urged a secret U.S. court that oversees surveillance programs to reject a request by a civil liberties group to see court opinions used to underpin a massive phone records database.

Justice Department lawyers said in papers filed in the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the court's opinions are a unique exception to the wide access the public typically has to court records in the United States.

If the public had a right to any opinion from the surveillance court, the possible harms would be "real and significant, and, quite frankly, beyond debate," the lawyers wrote, citing earlier rulings from the court.

The American Civil Liberties Union had asked the court last month to release some of its opinions after Britain's Guardian newspaper revealed a massive U.S. government database of daily telephone call data, prompting a worldwide debate about the program's legality.

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U.S. defends secrecy of unique surveillance court (Original Post) Eugene Jul 2013 OP
surveillance and emerging weapons technologies beyond Snowden's revelations jonkyo Jul 2013 #1

jonkyo

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1. surveillance and emerging weapons technologies beyond Snowden's revelations
Mon Jul 15, 2013, 02:05 PM
Jul 2013

This may fall on deaf ears.

There has been a secret weapons operation to develop weapons designed on neuro-bio-telepathy and test them.

Part of that test, has been a heinous assault on me, using family friends, and members of society, businesses etc.

The experimental operation has totally destroyed me, yet I find myself in better shape from getting out of coerced and manipulated situations.

The issue here rests in two places. The heinous assault on one person. And two, the issue of demands, that seem all too easily accepted, by individuals, businesses, landlords, police officers.

These weapon systems to my correct knowledge are able to have a seemless link to a brain's functioning, including thought.

My thoughts and plans have been used before or while they are implemented, to commit crime.

I went off to china after my MA study. I resided in a campus teachers housing apartment, where before I arrived, Americans using local operatives, moved out a retired teacher, and moved in rouge tenants, tenants with no relation to the school, aside from renting from this retired teacher. These tenants conducted harassment based on info relayed to them. That info was when to make noise to wake me, where I was above them. I was woken every time I dipped into sleep, nightly, until 6 am, after which I could sleep. The school could not removed these tenants. The school told me not to go to police, that they would handle all internal problems.

So far, the technologies (see here: http://americaruinsjohnkehoe.wordpress.com/category/emerging-weapons-technologies-cia-black-budget-money-secret-testing/), have allow for serial theft of an unheard of total over 8 years.

This technology is what some refer to as non-lethal.

I have seen cities become centers of Black Budget Operations, using businesses, and more, endlessly. That is done through these technologies. That has included a few to 100 people a day, on orders to interfere with the victim.

When we think of the invasions of privacy we see in the Snowden revelation, we think this is bad. For much of my life, these weapons systems have monitored me and the family members such as my mother and father, and twin brother. No one should have such ability. They have used them to commit heinous sadistic crimes.

“These techniques can be applied to a system of surveillance for both defense and civilian purposes, in which the U.S. Air Force can then deal more effectively with such things as terrorist groups and crowd control. However, this would be achieved by producing mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation. U.S. Air Force documents revealed that a system for interrupting and exploiting human mental processes through pulsed radio-frequency radiation over large geographical areas is feasible and desirable. By creating and directing balls of energy at lightning speeds, it could be possible to manipulate the minds of people by altering the electrical energy already present in their brains.” (Brooke Berlin, HAARP: Progress or Mind Control? Poptronics Magazine, October 2001)

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