Re: Department of Homeland Security to spy on American journalists and bloggers

Department of Homeland Security to spy on American journalists and
bloggers
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as they should

DHS should have all the tools they need to find the bad guys.

On Jan 10, 4:09 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> *Posted:* January 10, 2012 | *Author:*
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> how only Russia Today and the right wing blogosphere seem to be reporting
> this. How long before they shut down and/or jail writers who don't tow the
> Obama Regime party line?****
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> *RUSSIA TODAY<http://rt.com/usa/news/homeland-security-journalists-monitoring-321/>
> *(H/T al-Kidya)* Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with
> a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready
> to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what.*****
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> Under the National Operations Center (NOC)'s Media Monitoring Initiative
> that came out of DHS headquarters in November, Washington has the written
> permission to retain data on users of social media and online networking
> platforms.****
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> *Specifically, the DHS announced the NCO and its Office of Operations
> Coordination and Planning (OPS) can collect personal information from news
> anchors, journalists, reporters or anyone who may use **"traditional and/or
> social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and
> informed."*****
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> According to the Department of Homeland Security's own definition of
> personal identifiable information, or PII, such data could consist of any
> intellect *"that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or
> indirectly inferred, including any information which is linked or linkable
> to that individual." *Previously established guidelines within the
> administration say that data could only be collected under authorization
> set forth by written code, but the new provisions in the NOC's write-up
> means that any reporter, whether someone along the lines of Walter Cronkite
> or a budding blogger, can be victimized by the agency.****
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> Also included in the roster of those subjected to the spying are government
> officials, domestic or not, who make public statements, private sector
> employees that do the same and *"persons known to have been involved in
> major crimes of Homeland Security interest,"* which to itself opens up the
> possibilities even wider.****
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> The department says that they will only scour publically-made info
> available while retaining data, but it doesn't help but raise suspicion as
> to why the government is going out of their way to spend time, money and
> resources on watching over those that helped bring news to the masses.****
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> The development out of the DHS comes at the same time that U.S. District
> Judge Liam O'Grady denied pleas from supporters of WikiLeaks who had tried
> to prevent account information pertaining to their Twitter accounts from
> being provided to federal prosecutors. Jacob Applebaum and others advocates
> of Julian Assange's whistleblower site were fighting to keep the government
> from subpoenaing information on their personal accounts that were collected
> from Twitter.****
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> Last month the Boston Police Department and the Suffolk Massachusetts
> District Attorney subpoenaed Twitter over details pertaining to recent
> tweets involving the Occupy Boston protests.****
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> *The website Fast Company reports that the intel collected by the
> Department of Homeland Security under the NOC Monitoring Initiative has
> been happening since as early as 2010 and the data is being shared with
> both private sector businesses and international third parties.*****
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