FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit

[pokerfan]

The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications.

The establishment of the Quantico, Va.-based unit, which is also staffed by agents from the U.S. Marshals Service and the Drug Enforcement Agency, is a response to technological developments that FBI officials believe outpace law enforcement's ability to listen in on private communications.

While the FBI has been tight-lipped about the creation of its Domestic Communications Assistance Center, or DCAC -- it declined to respond to requests made two days ago about who's running it, for instance -- CNET has pieced together information about its operations through interviews and a review of internal government documents.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57439734-83/fbi-quietly-forms-secretive-net-surveillance-unit/

[villager]

1. I guess "change" meant "finish getting rid of the 4th amendment"

n/t

[2on2u]

2. Will he come here to this place??

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Thank God DU has an unbreakable firewall.

[freshwest]

9. I'll bet they can't through my NoScript with their subliminals.

[felix_numinous]

4. "Get a life, Agent Mike"

"Go get a pizza or something, there's nothing going on tonight around here"

'You guys must be really bored to be listening to us"

"You know those surveillance EM fields are dangerously carcinogenic to the operators"

"I heard there's a big meeting down at the sewage plant at midnight, next to the holding tanks"

The possibilities are endless.

[freshwest]

8. 'I heard there's a big meeting down at the sewage plant at midnight, next to the holding tanks...'

Or how about some skeet hunting at midnight...

[fascisthunter]

5. paranoids

[woo me with science]

6. This is what happens when Democrats keep pretending

that nothing is seriously wrong in our party and that the corporate corruption, destruction of civil liberties, and encroaching police state is coming only from the OTHER side.

Wake up and occupy now. Demand the money out of government and that our party oppose authoritarianism instead of growing it. Occupy now, because the one percent are moving swiftly to make occupation more difficult in the future.

[freshwest]

7. Well, hell. Nothing new, really, except we've found where Cheney's been hiding out:

But then, they've been trying to find out what's on our minds for years, the poor little control freaks:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency#Mission

But the truth of the matter was revealed back in the sixties. Long before Alex Jones came on the scene. This is who you really need to watch out for:

If you aren't scared yet, you should be... Muahaha!

[woo me with science]

10. Kick

[woo me with science]

11. Kick