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IDENTIFICATION (Orewellian )
National ID cards wanted -- October 1, 2003
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story6.htm
Biometric ID soon to be reality -- Aug 26, 2003
This is the mother of all projects --
there's no question about it," said Joseph Atick,
chief of Identix Corp., a maker of biometric systems.
The Department of Homeland Security expects to
begin taking fingerprints and digital pictures of incoming
travelers at air and seaports in January. The
biometric identifiers will be added to the bevy of data the
government maintains about international travelers.
But perhaps the most daunting deadline is
Oct. 26, 2004. All foreigners with visas or passports
issued after that date will have to carry biometric identifiers
in those documents if they want to enter the United States.
State Department spokesman Stuart Patt
acknowledged that biometric visas will present logistical
challenges. But he said the department has learned well from its
experience dispensing 6 million visa cards with fingerprint
biometrics,
made by Drexler Technology Corp.,
to Mexicans since 1998.
A report prepared this year for the White House's Office
of Science and Technology Policy was less upbeat.
Indeed, a report written in January by the departments of State
and Justice and the National Institute of Standards and
Technology predicted that Congress will have to push back its
biometric deadlines by at least one year because of the
"size and intricacy of what needs to be implemented
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/08/26/biz.trav.biometric.id.ap/
US to digitize travel documents
http://www.silicon.com/news/500013/1/1030177.html
National ID cards....England first
Compulsory by default
The cards will carry a person's personal details, a photo,
some form of biometric information such as a
fingerprint, a PIN for authorisation and national insurance,
driving licence and passport numbers.
The Home Office has said it will not be compulsory to carry the
cards around all the time, although everyone will be required to
register for one.
Critics of the scheme are worried that the
dangers of identity theft will be much greater because of the
nature of the information stored on the cards and that they will
become compulsory by default
because stores and banks could insist on them as proof of
identity.
http://www.silicon.com/news/500022-500001/1/4337.html
England: Facial recognition for immigrants and refugees seeking
asylum
England is just the next state beyond Maine
http://www.silicon.com/news/500022/1/4327.html
Citizen, Can
I see Your ID ? [ 100,000 militia deployed ]
http://www.almartinraw.com/column37.html
New Driver's
License to have embedded chip, networking registry--June18, 2002
Congress is considering two bills aimed at
boosting homeland security by giving the federal government new
powers to oversee the driver's license process. One measure would
require the driver's licenses of foreign nationals to expire
along with their visas and the other would establish a uniform
system in which computer chips with fingerprints, eye scans and
other personal data would be embedded into licenses.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is expected soon to introduce a third
measure that would require the states to link their motor vehicle
databases with one another.
A key feature would be a
standardized license, embedded with a
computer chip that would contain the
driver's personal and biometric data and history of moving
violations. The chip also would be capable of
storing financial information
for possible use as a credit card.
The legislation from Durbin would require
motor vehicle departments to link their
databases.
People are fearful
because national ID (cards) have been tools of authoritarian
governments, used to oppress people," said
Josh Bernstein of the National Immigration Law Center.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/3493051.htm
Don't call it a National ID card
Call it a National Driver's
License.... May 4-2002
WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Director Tom
Ridge for the first time has disclosed that the Bush
administration is studying ways to set national
standards for driver's licenses that would assist in
preventing fraudulent identification and expose aliens who
overstayed their visas.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/3/144130.shtml
EPIC asks Federal Court to disclose HSecurity's covert ID plan
.... April 3-2002
The group said it is seeking records the security office
might have "on technical and legislative proposals for
identification systems" in the belief that legislation has
already been drafted calling for state driver's license
records to be linked to federal agency databases.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175603.html
All 50 States to
upgrade their Driver's Licenses...Jan 14-2002
"The state officials may also seek
$70 million or more in federal funds to study issues like how
they might include data such as fingerprints
or digital photographs on the driver's
licenses, which are carried by more than 200 million
Americans."
In response, some have called for the creation of a formal national
identity card system. But that would be an
expensive undertaking and is opposed by many who fear it would
dangerously centralize too much personal information.
The proposed upgrades to the state licenses are seen as an intermediate step"
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/014/business/All_50_states_agree_to_upgrade_driver_s_licensesP.shtml
New Drivers
License to contain stored information....Jan. 8-2002
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,42438,00.html
Viisage (face-recognition) and Homeland Security--July 10-2002
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020709/netu025_1.html
ID Cards
the path to hell is paved with good intentions
http://yowusa.com/Archive/October2001/national_ID1/national_id1.htm
and at
http://yowusa.com/Archive/October2001/national_ID1/national_id1.htm
Surveillance, Tracking,
Profiling
Big Brother Gets Bigger -- August 2003 (Intelligence Sharing)
Domestic Spying & the Global Intelligence
Working Group by Michelle J. Kinnucan
With virtually no media coverage or public scrutiny, a major
reorganization of the US domestic law enforcement intelligence
apparatus is well underway and, in fact, is partially completed.
The effort to create a new national intelligence collection,
analysis, and sharing system has frightening implications
for privacy and other civil liberties. Operating under
the umbrella of John Ashcroft’s Department of Justice (DOJ),
this monster-in-the-making is now the work of the
intergovernmental Global Intelligence Working
Group (GIWG)
[it.ojp.gov/topic.jsp?topic_id=56].
Participants included Attorney General John
Ashcroft and representatives from the DOJ, INS, DEA,
FBI, Office of Homeland Security, National Reconnaissance Office,
Secret Service, and the US military.
Federal, State, Local bonding:
This element of the President’s plan is significant: non-federal
agencies (local law enforcement, state police and regional law
enforcement task forces) have both a great need for
intelligence data and a great capacity to contribute to the
process of intelligence generation.”
The envisioned reorganization is one of not only enhanced federal-state/local
integration for two-way intelligence sharing but
also a fundamental restructuring.
Participants called for a strengthening of the local
component … so that information flows along a
flattened continuum of all types of law enforcement agencies,
versus the traditional hierarchical flow.”
Neighbors
as spies
As an aside, neither the Terrorism Information
and Prevention System (TIPS) nor the Neighborhood
Watch Programs (NWP) is mentioned in the IACP
Report. Still, it is noteworthy that months before Congress
blocked funding for TIPS in late 2002, John Ashcroft announced a
closely related initiative to be managed by the same
organization--
Citizen Corps--that
would have run TIPS. The plan is to double the number
of NWPs by 2004 and, according to the DOJ, expand
their mission to make participants “a critical element in
the detection, prevention and disruption of terrorism.”
While TIPS has been derailed, perhaps temporarily, the
Neighborhood Watch expansion has proceeded apace--there
are now 10,000 programs nationwide.
The GIWG vision—all US law
enforcement agencies freely and systematically sharing all
intelligence—is virtually unprecedented and poses a great
danger to civil liberties.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/08/05/1568190
LASH and VIPER systems .... surveillance
Blimps
The demonstration featured the Littoral Airborne
Sensor Hyperspectral (LASH) system, a sensor that detects minute
color shifts that the human eye cannot see.
This year, a LASH-equipped blimp was able
to track 30 North Atlantic right whales off the northeast coast
of Florida, providing scientists with valuable data about the
highly endangered species, said Gregory Plumb, airship operations
manager for Science & Technology International, the Honolulu
company that developed the system.
Last October, Navy teams outfitted a blimp with a
sniper-detection system known as VIPER to help
find the shooters terrorizing the Washington area. "We were
doing the initial checkouts when they caught the guys,"
Huett said.
Equipped with LASH, radar and other sensors, two or three
blimps could provide constant surveillance over the Washington
area, Huett said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A31642-2003Aug7?language=printer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31642-2003Aug7.html
Centibots Project
The Centibots project, funded by the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is
aimed at developing new technology to support the coordinated
deployment of as many as 100 robots for missions such
as urban surveillance. A first team of mapping
robots (Pioneers with laser range finders)
surveyed an area while building and sharing a distributed map.
They were followed by a second wave of tracking robots
(Amigobots) that configured themselves to
efficiently search for an object of interest within that area,
sensed and tracked intruders, and shared information among
themselves and with a command center. The robots are autonomous
and independent of any network infrastructure, carrying and
deploying their own communication network (using SRI's
patent-pending PacketHop technology). Robots
communicate with each other to coordinate their effort. If one
robot fails, another takes over its task.
http://www.ai.sri.com/centibots/
Intelligence czar wanted by J Rockefeller, D Feinstein, R Graham
--- August 3, 2003
Poindexter quitting
The intelligence community needs a leader with
the clout to set common goals, establish priorities, knock heads,
and when necessary assure that the American people are
protected.''
Another goal of the legislation is a National Terrorist Watchlist Center,
with a centralized data base of suspected terrorists accessible
to border security and law enforcement
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/6431892.htm
Interpol to watch for pathogens (bioterrorism) July 15, 2003
The world's law enforcement agencies still are ill-equipped to
block a bioterrorist attack and need governments and research
institutions to keep better track of pathogens that can be turned
into weapons, according to the head of Interpol, an
international organization of police forces.
Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble told
an American Bar Association committee Tuesday that governments
should pass laws governing the use of pathogens and that
universities and researchers should make sure they know everyone
working with such potentially dangerous......
Meanwhile, the House spending bill for the fiscal year
beginning Oct. 1 included $890 million to buy
antidotes and fund other steps to counter a
bioterrorism attack.
Interpol coordinates information-sharing among police
forces in 181 countries. Noble, who became secretary
general in 2000, is a former assistant U.S. attorney, deputy
assistant attorney general and Treasury Department (news
- web
sites) chief law enforcement officer.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=6&u=/ap/20030715/ap_on_re_us/bioterrorism_threat_2
Monitoring the Internet (same as wiretapping)--March 22, 2003
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/articlle2312.htm
Federal Government news http://www.fcw.com/
Will this happen here ?
EU criminalizes net-protestors--March 3, 2003
http://www.iht.com/articles/88499.html
Skybots, Drones and GPS .... Skies full of eyes----Declan
McCullagh Jan 6, 2003
Gov't spying; What's the real threat ?
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-979293.html
Predator
Drones over American Cities--Dec 23, 2002
"eye in the sky" at 25,000 feet; 66,000 ft.
see Daniel 7:8 and 7:20
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/1711415
TIA and Genoa Software to share with FBI and CIA--Dec 19, 2002
Genoa, on which Adm. Poindexter worked in
the private sector before joining DARPA in January, is designed
to enhance the sharing and analysis of data legally
available to government agencies, Ms. Walker says.
In his speech, Adm. Poindexter said
that Genoa provides "tools for collaborative
reasoning, estimating plausible futures and creating actionable
options for the decision maker." [Ed.note: like minority report ]
The tougher road for TIA comes
when, or if, Adm. Poindexter's program managers can produce the
crown jewel — a supercomputer system that can mine
data for telltale terrorist imprints among billions of
commercial and government transactions.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20021218-37385050.htm
Darpa
and 'thought-wars' ...Brain Machine Interfaces, FutureMAP
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story7.htm
DARPA and TIA
http://thenewamerican.com/tna/2003/01-27-2003/vo19no02_watching.htm
DARPA : can identify every moving vehicle in a city -- July 2,
2003
The Pentagon is developing an urban
surveillance system that would use computers and thousands
of cameras to track, record and analyze the
movement of every vehicle in a foreign city.
Dubbed "Combat Zones That See," the project is designed
to help the U.S. military protect troops and fight in cities
overseas. Police, scientists and privacy experts say the
unclassified technology could easily be
adapted to spy on Americans.
The project's centerpiece is groundbreaking computer software
that is capable of automatically identifying vehicles by
size, color, shape and license tag, or drivers and passengers by
face.
According to interviews and contracting documents, the software
may also provide instant alerts after detecting
a vehicle with a license plate on a watchlist, or search months
of records to locate and compare vehicles spotted near terrorist
activities.
The project is being overseen by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency, [ DARPA ] which
is helping the Pentagon develop new technologies for combatting
terrorism and fighting wars in the 21st century.
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/6211959.htm
DARPA and "FALCON"
The Pentagon is planning a new generation of weapons, including
huge hypersonic drones and bombs dropped from space,
that will allow the US to strike its enemies at lightning speed
from its own territory.
Over the next 25 years, the new technology would free the US from
dependence on forward bases and the cooperation of regional
allies, part of the drive towards self-sufficiency spurred by the
difficulties of gaining international cooperation for the
invasion of Iraq.
The new weapons are being developed under a programme codenamed Falcon
(Force Application and Launch from the Continental US).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,988612,00.html
3-D
magneto-optical from DARPA - June 26, 2003
The combination of these nanoparticles may have novel
magneto-optical properties as well as properties key to the
realization of quantum computing. For example, it might be
possible to modulate the material's optical properties by
applying an external magnetic field.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/06/030626074737.htm
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0368.htm
DARPA working on
sleep-deprivation--Dec 19, 2002
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/nosleep021218.html
TIA, Back to the Future--Cato Institute--Dec 10-2002
http://www.cato.org/dailys/12-07-02.html
Big Brother is watching America--Nov 22-2002
Giant
information matrix to track movements of potential terrorists
Also dazzling is the intrusiveness that it would impose: a
level of surveillance and monitoring of ordinary Americans that
is unprecedented in peacetime, and was impossible before the
electronic age. ....
Thirty civil rights groups have written to the White House to
oppose the project as well as Mr Poindexter's return to
government, and commentators have accused the administration of
creating an Orwellian America. ....
The ultimate purpose of TIA would be to predict potential
terrorists by tracking a lifetime of seemingly innocuous
movements through electronic paper trails. [Ed.
note: as in "Minority report" ]
At its heart, TIA overturns the notion of
a presumption of innocence, civil libertarians say,
because it exercises a technique that relies on the widest
possible use of information: data mining. They
argue that all of the stored data is already available after
production of a warrant or during the course of an investigation.
The idea behind the project is that terrorists exhibit certain
patterns of behaviour that can be winnowed out by mining
gigabytes and gigabytes of seemingly mundane activities.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,845884,00.html
You Are a Suspect .....William Safire
If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before
passage, here is what will happen to you:
Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine
subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web
site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic
grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you
book and every event you attend — all these transactions and
communications will go into what the Defense Department describes
as "a virtual, centralized grand database."
To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every
piece of information that government has about you —
passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records,
judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to
the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden
camera surveillance — and you have the supersnoop's dream: a
"Total Information Awareness" about every
U.S. citizen.
This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will
happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if
John Poindexter gets the unprecedented
power he seeks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html?ex=1037854800&en=3778829e1bec3dc2&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
profile: Mr. John Poindexter
"No more Mr. Scrupulous Guy"
The agency which Poindexter will run is called
the Information Awareness Office. You want to know what that is?
Think, Big Brother is Watching You. IAO will supply federal
officials with "instant" analysis on what is being
written on email and said on phones all over the US. Domestic
espionage.
The IAO is one of two new offshoots of the
Pentagon-based Darpa - the Defence Advanced Research Projects
Agency (it's venerable ancestor, Arpa, invented the internet).
The other new agency is called the Information Exploitation
Office. Its mission is to supply similarly instant analysis about
overseas enemy targets. IEO will employ the computerised sensor
networks that have proved so successful in Afghanistan. And, from
now on, America - with IEO guiding its smart weaponry - will
launch sneak attacks. No more Mr Nice Guy. ....
At this point, things started to go wrong. He and Oliver North
were found to be up to their necks in the Iran-Contra (guns for
hostages) scam, which blew up in 1986. Poindexter was charged and
found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and the
destruction of evidence in 1990; this was overturned on appeal
the following year.
Poindexter was also accused by a Costa Rican
government commission of being involved in cocaine trafficking to
raise funds for the contras, though this was never proved (you
can find details in the Guardian, July 22 1989). ....
Poindexter is, once again, one
of the most powerful men in America. His job
description is "crisis manager". How do you put a man
with Poindexter's record back in the manager's box?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4358017,00.html
Big Brother : John Poindexter
http://www.hereinreality.com/bigbrother.html
Admiral John Poindexter : also see: http://www.hpoindexter.com/jmarlan.htm
Last Trumpet Newsletter:
Here let it be noted that while Tom Ridge is President
Bush's choice to head the Department of Homeland Security, the
spying system will be run by John Poindexter. Poindexter is a
brilliant man, who graduated first
in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy and later became an Admiral
and earned a doctorate in physics. He became
former President Reagan's security advisor. Poindexter
was the man in charge of selling missiles and high-tech weapons
to Iran. Poindexter was convicted by a jury in 1990 on
five felony counts of misleading Congress and making false
statements, but an appeals court overturned the verdict because
Congress had given him immunity for his testimony. (4) This felon
of five counts is the choice of President Bush to head the
"Information Awareness Office" of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency. William Safire refers to Admiral Doctor
Poindexter as "A ring-knocking master of deceit."
(5) A ring knocker refers, of course, to a member of a secret
society, such as the Freemasons, Skull and Bones, or others of
that ilk. Poindexter has now been given 200 million
dollars to create computer dossiers on 300 million Americans.
--Last Trumpet Newsletter,
Dec 2002
Making illegal searches legal ..... illegal eagle
Pentagon plans super-snoop computer Nov 9-2002
As the director of the effort, Vice Adm. John M.
Poindexter, has described the system in Pentagon documents and in
speeches, it will provide intelligence analysts and law
enforcement officials with instant access to information from
Internet mail and calling records to credit card and banking
transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/politics/09COMP.html
Please see Big Brother www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/bigbro.html
Ulterior motives for buying tissue paper ?????
"Suspicious consumer purchases" being tracked, analyzed
by DARPA
Edward Aldridge
A massive database that the government will
use to monitor every purchase made by every American citizen is a
necessary tool in the war on terror, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Edward Aldridge, undersecretary of Acquisitions and Technology,
told reporters that the Pentagon is developing a prototype
database to seek "patterns indicative of terrorist
activity." Aldridge said the database would collect and use
software to analyze consumer purchases in hopes of catching
terrorists before it's too late.
Aldridge said the database, which he called another
"tool" in the war on terror, would look for telltale
signs of suspicious consumer behavior.
Examples he cited were: sudden and large cash
withdrawals, one-way air or rail travel, rental car transactions
and purchases of firearms, chemicals or agents that
could be used to produce biological or chemical weapons.
It would also combine consumer information with visa
records, passports, arrest records or reports of suspicious
activity given to law enforcement or intelligence
services.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is home to the
Pentagon's brightest thinkers -- the ones who built the Internet.
DARPA will be in charge of trying to make the system work
technically.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,70992,00.html
Pentagon's
powerful Dragnet-- Nov 8-2002
As the director of the effort, Vice Adm. John M.
Poindexter, has described the system in Pentagon
documents and in speeches, it will provide intelligence analysts
and law enforcement officials with instant access to
information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card
and banking transactions and travel documents, without a search
warrant.
Historically, military and intelligence agencies have not
been permitted to spy on Americans without extraordinary
legal authorization. But Admiral Poindexter, the former national
security adviser in the Reagan administration, has argued that
the government needs broad new powers to
process, store and mine billions of minute details of electronic
life in the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/politics/09COMP.htm?pagewanted=all&position=top
Ridge
wants ID tags on all commercial livestock--May 3, 2003
Ridge's support is the latest, vivid signal of
progress toward a national animal identification plan.
Frost is president of the U.S. Animal Health
Association, which has been intimately involved with animal
identification planning. Proponents speak of a
"gate-to-plate" system tagging individual swine, cattle
and dairy cows from their birth to their ultimate culinary
destination.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/6536696p-7487331c.html
Today
livestock...tomorrow people
T Ridge
announces U.S. VISIT system for non-citizens -- May 1, 2003
The new system, U.S. Visitor and
Immigration Status Indication Technology system, or U.S. VISIT,
will make it easier for legitimate tourists, students and
business travelers to enter the United States using
biometric identifiers. It is expected to be
in place at air- and seaports by the end of this year, according
to Ridge.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0428/web-ridge-04-29-03.asp
Secretary of
Homeland Security and Defense , Tom Ridge
and Assistants ... Yevgeni Primakov
Yevgeni Primakov (KGB) teams up with Homeland Security
"Former Russian Premier (ex KGB Head) To Work for
Homeland Security!"
So, should we be surprised
at the news covered in the American Free Press, April 21, 2002,
entitled "Get Ready for the Sovietization of America"
by Al Martin, author of The Conspirators: Secrets of an
Iran-Contra Insider"? Martin's article reveals that the
former Russian Premier and head of the KGB (the secret police of
the former Soviet Union), Gen. Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the Department of Homeland Security.
Of interest also, according to an article in the April 21, 2003
issue of The New American entitled "Our enemy, Our
Ally" by William Norman Grigg, is fact that Primakov is a
close friend of Saddam Hussein.
http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbyt6.htm
by Charlotte Iserbyt
Primakov
Doctrine behind Mideast Peace Process
To placate the Arab regimes, Primakov has
called for the multilateralization of mediation efforts in the
Arab-Israeli peace process, and he is demanding the participation
of Russia and the European Union. In a recent interview, he
stated that "The process of political settlement has come to
a point in time when the monopolization of peacemaking
efforts by any single side does not create favorable conditions
for progress."
The Primakov doctrine is designed primarily to dilute
America's strength and influence while increasing
Russia's influence and position in the Middle East and Eurasia.
To achieve this goal, Russia is also attempting to capitalize on
China's quest to become a regional superpower and force
reunification with Taiwan.
link no longer working
MORE UNSAVORY
CHARACTERS IN HOMELAND SECURITY
The US Department of Homeland Security is busy shelling out
thousands of US taxpayer dollars to a host of
“former” Russian KGB agents to “advise” them
on security issues.
The latest addition to the list of consultants is General Yevgeni Primakov, former head of the KGB, who
was hired as a consultant
to CAPPS II, a surveillance program for
accessing people’s credit data.
Al Martin recently reported on a public media interview featuring
Primokov’s very candid reaction to this new gravy train for
Russian spies coming “in from the cold.”
“Primakov was laughing about [becoming a
consultant] because he's getting paid a big fee to do it.
…When he was asked what is this CAPPS II program really
about, because obviously even ‘terrorists’ could
have credit ratings, Primakov said that this is one of the
steps now being employed along with NICA and new identity
upgrade features which are coming to your drivers license.
It is being used to get the people used to new types of
documentation and carrying new types of identity cards
pursuant to the United States instituting a formal
policy internal passport. And he actually used the words
‘internal passports.’
“Primakov continued by saying that he had been
hired as a consultant and he was consulting on other
‘security’ matters, an ongoing policy in various
agencies of government (some of these offices haven’t even
been created yet) to consistently narrow the rights
of the American people and to expand the power of
government. He professed not to know [what] the reason for all
this was, other than he admitted that, ‘it doesn’t have
much to do with fighting terrorism.’” [End of Martin
quote.]
Joel Skousen World Affairs Brief www.joelskousen.com
FBI Domestic Spying
sought for Homeland Security--Nov 16-2002
National Counter
Terrorism Center
The talks among Bush's senior national security advisers come as
the administration prepares to set up a Department of Homeland
Security, which would include a division charged with
analyzing intelligence gathered by the FBI and other
agencies.
"The administration is focused on setting up the information
analysis and critical infrastructure protection division of the
new Department of Homeland Security, as well as the restructuring
of the FBI toward a counterterrorism focus,"
said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the White House Office of
Homeland Security.
But administration and congressional sources said Bush's
advisers were considering more sweeping changes
to improve counterterrorism spying once the new department is up
and running, although they denied a report in the Washington Post
that Bush was seriously considering setting up a new
domestic intelligence agency modeled after Britain's MI5 spy
agency.
A congressional advisory panel headed by former Virginia Gov.
James Gilmore has called for a separate National Counter
Terrorism Center to consolidate analysis of information
on international terrorists and to take over intelligence
gathering now done by the FBI
In a sign the administration may be interested in the idea,
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge recently met with
security officials in London about the terrorism-fighting
experience of MI5, which has the power to collect and analyze
intelligence within Britain while leaving law enforcement to
the police......
Officials noted that changes were already under way within the
FBI.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=578&ncid=578&e=8&u=/nm/20021116/ts_nm/bush_spy_dc
Domestic Spying... Mueller, Johndroe and Edwards-- Nov 16-2002
The administration is focused on setting up the
intelligence analysis and infrastructure protection division of
the Department of Homeland Security as well as focused on
restructuring the FBI," said Gordon Johndroe,
spokesman for the Office of Homeland Security.
Our immediate priorities are getting this new
department up and running, and continuing with the refocusing of
the FBI towards countering terrorism which Director
[Robert] Mueller initiated this summer" Johndroe
said.
Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.,
proposed in October that a new domestic intelligence agency be
established to replace FBI units criticized for intelligence
failures before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,70606,00.html
Homeland
Insecurity---Deconstructing the Constitution--Tom DeWeese
http://www.newswithviews.com/your_govt/your_government46.htm
Homeland Security "SuperAgency" of 22 Departments--Nov
14-2002
It also has vaguely worded
language that would make Texas A&M University eligible for
federal homeland security research — a provision inserted by
Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas,
whose district is nearby. DeLay is taking over as House majority
leader
http://www.msnbc.com/news/833668.asp
Homeland Bill to have 170,000 under one department -- Nov 16-2002
Bush cited a breakthrough in Congress to
create a Homeland Security Department on his terms, "able to
move people and resources without bureaucratic rules and lengthy
labor negotiations." The new department would put 170,000
federal workers and dozens of agencies under one umbrella....
The president also credited U.S. efforts to
enlist 90 nations in a worldwide coalition against terrorism
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=514&ncid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20021117/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
House to pass Homeland Bill--Nov 13-2002
Can hire and fire at will
It would require the
department to negotiate any workplace changes with the employees'
union and require federal mediation if no agreement was reached.
But in the end, the department could make whatever changes it
wanted — the flexibility the president has sought.
The measure would combine nearly two dozen
federal agencies into a new department. They would include the
Coast Guard, Customs Service, the Secret Service, the Federal
Emergency Management Agency , and much of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=514&ncid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20021113/ap_on_go_co/homeland_security
ISP
Servers to disclose emails without a warrant (Homeland Security
Act)
Nov 6-2002
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,56234,00.html
Secret Service Dept. moved into Homeland Security Dept.
--Aug 15-2002
But the Secret Service is evolving into more than a palace
guard. Last year's USA Patriot Act expanded its
role in investigating electronic crime, now carried out
through 135 U.S. offices and 19 abroad.
Since 1999, the service has deployed new technologies such as
chemical and biological weapon sensors, and systems
to rapidly detect similar symptoms of illness in large
crowds at presidentially designated "National
Special Security Events." Such events have included
presidential conventions, inaugurations, the 2002 Super
Bowl and the Salt Lake City Olympics.
The Secret Service is responsible for securing the events and
coordinating federal, state and local law enforcement.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14617-2002Aug13.html
Homeland Security Articles--- Berit Kjos
http://www.crossroad.to/News/homeland.htm
H. Security Strategy: use of technology
Develop chemical, biological,
radiological, and nuclear countermeasures;
Develop systems for detecting hostile intent; [ predicting...like "Minority Report" ]
Apply biometric technology to identification
devices;
Improve the technical capabilities of first responders;
[ emergency personnel..fire, ambulance, ER etc)
Coordinate research and development of the
Homeland security apparatus;
Establish a national laboratory for homeland
security; [guinea pig lab ]
Solicit independent and private analysis for
science and technology research; [no public
review ]
Establish a mechanism for rapidly producing prototypes; [ less restrictions and preventative caution ]
Conduct demonstrations and pilot deployments; [ live practice situations without warrant ]
Set standards for homeland security technology;
and
Establish a system for high-risk, high-payoff
homeland security research. http://www.industryclick.com/magnewsarticle.asp?newsarticleid=426135&magazineid=119&SiteID=12
Tom Ridge.... July 8-2002
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-350297,00.html
Lieberman wants FBI and CIA under Tom Ridge (Home-Security) July
25-2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59850-2002Jul24.html
FBI to come under Homeland Security....CIA to be
autonomous---June 13-2002
Over 22 agencies
http://www.msnbc.com/news/766145.asp?0dm=C16RN
By Executive Order
Now Elevated to Cabinet
Level ----
June 6-2002 (6-6)
The new department would assume oversight
of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Customs
Service, the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management
Agency, the Border Patrol and the Secret Service, among dozens of
other agencies.
Border and Transportation Security
Emergency Preparedness and Response
Chemical, Biological, Radiological
and Nuclear Countermeasures
Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection
[ FBI, CIA still independent bureaus]
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020607-651741.htm
Homeland Security Coordination Center
...May 10-2002
Set in the 38-acre Nebraska Avenue naval complex off Ward Circle,
the Homeland Security Coordination Center will be home to more
than 100 workers, who will be on call 24 hours a day, seven days
a week.
"By the time we get done
— this is still a work in progress — we'll be able to
connect with just about every conceivable public institution in
the country," said Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, who
led reporters on a tour of the new facility yesterday.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020509-933637.htm
"President Bush has opposed Congress
granting statutory authority to the Office of Homeland Security.
That means it operates outside the law.
That means it operates without
accountability to the people."
Joseph Farah WND-BTL Dec. 20-2001
"To those Americans who would lash out at your fellow
citizens
simply because they worship differently, or dress differently, or
look differently than you,
there is one word for such behavior:
TERRORISM"
--spoken by Tom Ridge to the
Pennsylvanis State Legislature when leaving for his new office.
Who is Tom Ridge ?
http://www.newsmax.com/commentmax/print.shtml?a=1999/7/22/070213
PROFILE of TOM RIDGE
http://politics.yahoo.com/politics/State_and_Local/Pennsylvania/9512/bio.html
Ridge refuses to explain need for 38 BILLION
dollars...uncontested power over 80 agencies
They said Ridge has more power than the
ordinary presidential adviser, coordinating spending by more than
80 federal agencies
Ridge.....accountable to no man...March 19-2002
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48166,00.html
Wes
Vernon Articles http://www.newsmax.com/pundits/archives/Wes_Vernon-archive.shtml
Ridge appoints Ret. Adm. Steve Abbot, Maj. Gen.Bruce Lawlor,
Michael Byrne, Mark Holman to Homeland Defense
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60974-2001Nov20.html
So far, Ridge has not met with terrorism experts...Oct. 31- 2001
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25143
The Overthrow of the American Republic
http://www.rense.com/general15/skol4.htm
The Skolnick Report
www.skolnicksreport.com/pkem.html
Bush creates high office of Homeland Security
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010920/ts/attack_bush_homeland_dc_2.html
HOMELAND SECURITY COUNCIL
"He will run a Homeland Security
Council -- a policymaking body -- that likely will include the
attorney general, the secretaries of defense, treasury, health
and human services and agriculture, as well as the directors of
the FBI and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Most of his
staff will be on loan from the agencies he will oversee and many
will work outside the White House complex for security reasons."
To
begin October 8- 2001...rank with Nat'l Sec. Advisor (C. Rice)
to
coordinate 46 different agencies and departments
"Lieberman said he will introduce a
bill to establish a permanent national agency that would
consolidate border security functions spread among the U.S. Coast
Guard, Customs Service and Border Patrol and more generally
oversee the government's homeland defense. Rep. William M.
"Mac" Thornberry (R-Tex.) has introduced a similar
measure in the House."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/attacked/A42930-2001Sep28.html
Gary Condit named to House
committee on homeland security
OFFICE OF CYBER SECURITY-- Richard Clarke
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/attacked/A42930-2001Sep28.html
Who are Richard Clarke and Wayne Downing ?
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20011001-68485178.htm
Wayne Downing
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/30/ret.terrorism.appointment/index.html
Attack on Power Grids could bring down internet infrastructure
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/local/center/cyber1001.htm
Ridge of H.Security to seek merger of Food and Drug Admin. (FDA)
and of AD Agriculture Dept.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-000019088mar15.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dnation March 15-2002
Homeland Security to color-code
terror-attack warnings..March
10-2002
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,216281,00.html
US
Civil-Defense Plan..... DUCK AND COVER.... see Midi below:
http://www.exedor.net/pics/DUCKANDCOVER.wav
Ridge ABOVE legal authorization (needs no approval by Congress)
"The ex-Marine and former
Pennsylvania governor predicted, however, that he would not seek
legal authority for his own office because the president's
personal support is enough for Ridge to do his job coordinating
homeland security operations."
Will re-organize government.... more connected:fed- state - local
and border controls
Will create Homeland Security Advisory System
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=07022002-032244-4392r
President signs Homeland Security Act --Nov
25-2002
The president also nominated Navy Secretary Gordon
England and Drug Enforcement Administration chief Asa
Hutchinson as Ridge's deputies....
One provision permits federal business with American
companies that have moved their operations abroad to sidestep
U.S. taxes.
Another measure legally shields drug companies already
sued over ingredients used in vaccines. Democrats
said this includes existing claims that mercury-based
preservatives have caused autism in children.
A section that helps Texas A&M University win
homeland-security research money -- a priority for DeLay --
will also be re-examined
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,71334,00.html
We'll all be Under Surveillance--Nat Hentoff --Dec 7-2002
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0250/hentoff.php
ARTICLES
:
Federal
Government claims that "Christianity is the root of all
violence"
Wes Vernon : Feds Fuel anti-Christian bigotry in Schoolchildren
By "labeling Christianity as the
root of violence,” warns the
Washington-based values organization, [Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) ]
"the federal government has attacked the very foundation of
decency…”
Programs funded by federal departments "embrace and teach an
anti-Christian message to society’s most vulnerable —
our children.”
"Hate prevention” training
turns out to be little more than what Traditional Values calls
"indoctrination of a liberal, anti-Christian, pro-homosexual
political view.” The goal is to teach children that all
"lifestyles” are equally acceptable and that believing
otherwise is "the root of hate.”
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/5/25/152246.shtml
"Ready Campaign" media blitz; citizens to prepare for
terrorist attack--Feb 20, 2003
"Terrorists seek to turn our neighborhoods
into battlefields," Homeland Security Secretary Tom
Ridge said in a speech yesterday in Cincinnati announcing the
ads. "That is why individual citizens have an important role
to play."
Ridge's agency organized the campaign with the Advertising
Council, which coordinates $1.5 billion a year in public
service announcements, and the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, which does research on civil preparedness.
Advertising industry officials said television and radio
stations, as well as newspapers, billboard companies and other
businesses likely will make available at least $80 million in
free advertising for the campaign.
The industry members of the Outdoor Advertising Association of
America will donate $18 million in free space, and the companies
that are part of the Yellow Pages Integrated Media Association
will provide $30 million worth of advertising space in 550
million telephone directories in the next year, said Ad Council
President Peggy Conlon.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32479-2003Feb19.html
For information on ready-preparedness see:
The Web site and other literature detail how
people should respond before and after various types of terrorist
strikes, with sections on such topics as "Make an Emergency
Kit," "Creating a Family Plan," "Deciding to
Stay or Go," "In a Moving Vehicle" and "In a
High-Rise Building."
www.ready.gov
HOMELAND
DEFENSE --
Northern Command ( over ALL of No. America )
Homeland defense is the protection
of U.S. territory, domestic population and critical
infrastructure against military attacks emanating from outside
the United States. In understanding the difference between HLS
and HLD, it is important to understand that NORTHCOM
is a military organization whose operations within the United
States are governed by law, including the Posse
Comitatus Act that prohibits direct military involvement in
law enforcement activities. Thus, NORTHCOM's missions are limited
to military homeland defense and civil support to lead federal
agencies. http://www.northcom.mil/index.cfm?fuseaction=s.homeland
and
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=U.S._Northern_Command
Defining "Homeland Defense"
"Nobody knows what it is"
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=SIEGE-HOMELAND-09-21-01&cat=AN
Homeland
Defense: A call to the Churches ??
Enlisting Christians to "volunteer" as law
enforcement...Jan. 8-2002
Church as local police sub-station ??
Neighbor snoops ?? Just say no !
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25961
One
wonders if our churches aren't already infiltrated with
"special agents" and spy cameras and
audio monitors. It sure aint what it used to be, that's for sure
!
50,000 Reservists called up for Homeland Defense..Sept. 14-2001
http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/article.html?s=asia/headlines/0109
15/world/afp/Bush_authorizes_a_call-up_of_50_000_reserves.html
Nov. 19-2001....Airports officially Federalized
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011119/pl/attack_aviation_security_dc.html
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/11/18/202008.shtml
Federalizing the Airports....National Guard takes over
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/27/160845.shtml
It's interesting to note that when trying to take over an enemy
country, the first priority is taking over the airports. Does our
government view our own airports as an enemy threat ?
Yes--Not only because of terrorism, but also because of freedom.
Bush gave orders to shoot down any airliners that didn't comply
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010917-86351947.htm
The
enemy is us ? New National Homeland Security Agency ( NHSA )
National Guard = Homeland Defense
The agency would
integrate responsibilities now belonging to the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (news
- web sites), the Coast Guard,
the Customs Service and the Border Patrol.
Report
of Commission on National Security / 21st Century:
Warren Rudman and Gary Hart
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/2/1/101734.shtml
The Need for
Homeland Defense....Biological Warfare
http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200110153.shtml
Salvation www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/sal.htm
Bible www.blueletterbible.org