The following is an excerpt from WIRED.
A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter WIRED obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality.
According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims.
Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well.
The DAS program, formerly known as Hemisphere, is run in coordination with the telecom giant AT&T, which captures and conducts analysis of US call records for law enforcement agencies, from local police and sheriffs’ departments to US customs offices and postal inspectors across the country, according to a White House memo reviewed by WIRED.
Records show that the White House has provided more than $6 million to the program, which allows the targeting of the records of any calls that use AT&T’s infrastructure—a maze of routers and switches that crisscross the United States.
In a letter to US attorney general Merrick Garland on Sunday, Wyden wrote that he had “serious concerns about the legality” of the DAS program, adding that “troubling information” he’d received “would justifiably outrage many Americans and other members of Congress.”
That information, which Wyden says the DOJ confidentially provided to him, is considered “sensitive but unclassified” by the US government, meaning that while it poses no risk to national security, federal officials, like Wyden, are forbidden from disclosing it to the public, according to the senator’s letter.
AT&T spokesperson Kim Hart Jonson declined WIRED’s request to comment on the DAS program, saying only that the company is required by law to comply with a lawful subpoena.
There is no law requiring AT&T to store decades’ worth of Americans’ call records for law enforcement purposes.
Documents reviewed by WIRED show that AT&T officials have attended law enforcement conferences in Texas as recently as 2018 to train police officials on how best to utilize AT&T’s voluntary, albeit revenue-generating, assistance.
Continue reading here.
Visit The Sharyl Attkisson Store today
Unique gifts for independent thinkers
Proceeds benefit independent journalism
Gens X and Z think government surveillance and intrusion into Americans’ lives are normal.
Gens X and Z think government surveillance and intrusion into Americans’ lives are normal.
The Feral GrubMint is Good for You, Comrades. We/Me/You are “Comfortably Numb” enjoying the Death VaXXX Jabs, and other “Benefits” while succumbing in the USSA,
Just Keep Quiet, ……… FEAR is Their/Them’s Basic Weapon.
The Feral GrubMint is Good for You, Comrades. We/Me/You are “Comfortably Numb” enjoying the Death VaXXX Jabs, and other “Benefits” while succumbing in the USSA,
Just Keep Quiet, ……… FEAR is Their/Them’s Basic Weapon.
So what?!?! let them collect all of the data and meta data they want to, but when it comes down to what they’ll do with it, namely try to punish people with it via the 100% corrupted legal system, there’s our way out! WHERE is anybody’s written guarantee that they will actually get a fair trial located, so they can read it for themselves?? Without that WRITTEN guarantee, then every “trial” is one of two things, either it is a pure gamble with no known outcome regardless of actual guilt or innocence, or, it is a scam being run on us that DOES have a known and predetermined outcome to it! There are no other options there!
Randy,
The Deep State (DS) is Marxian, and follows the
Bolshevik-Russian model—Lie / Lie / Lie / Lie,
as those folks working at DS are brain damaged !,
by what this student of Freud/Jung/NLP calls :
UTOPI-Psychosis; that is, the urge to try and build
UTOPIA is a fixation grounded in EMOTING limbic/
reptilian/autonomic brain interactions, so extremely
P O W E R F U L, that no SOUND-LOGIC-Based
premises – from extant HISTORICAL records –
(( the past informs the present to predict the future ))
are able to penetrate the Useful Idiots’ brains
(( 300-million slaughtered on that Altar-to-
Communism via every horrific imaginable
means, so far ! )) :
[[ third paragraph from bottom,
in here ought to read,
“why they put him
IN the basement.” ]]
https://sharylattkisson.com/2023/10/poll-2024-voters-say-bidens-age-is-a-serious-issue/#comment-176669
-Rick
Randy,
The Deep State (DS) is Marxian, and follows the
Bolshevik-Russian model—Lie / Lie / Lie / Lie,
as those folks working at DS are brain damaged !,
by what this student of Freud/Jung/NLP calls :
UTOPI-Psychosis; that is, the urge to try and build
UTOPIA is a fixation grounded in EMOTING limbic/
reptilian/autonomic brain interactions, so extremely
P O W E R F U L, that no SOUND-LOGIC-Based
premises – from extant HISTORICAL records –
(( the past informs the present to predict the future ))
are able to penetrate the Useful Idiots’ brains
(( 300-million slaughtered on that Altar-to-
Communism via every horrific imaginable
means, so far ! )) :
[[ third paragraph from bottom,
in here ought to read,
“why they put him
IN the basement.” ]]
https://sharylattkisson.com/2023/10/poll-2024-voters-say-bidens-age-is-a-serious-issue/#comment-176669
-Rick
So what?!?! let them collect all of the data and meta data they want to, but when it comes down to what they’ll do with it, namely try to punish people with it via the 100% corrupted legal system, there’s our way out! WHERE is anybody’s written guarantee that they will actually get a fair trial located, so they can read it for themselves?? Without that WRITTEN guarantee, then every “trial” is one of two things, either it is a pure gamble with no known outcome regardless of actual guilt or innocence, or, it is a scam being run on us that DOES have a known and predetermined outcome to it! There are no other options there!