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Showing Original Post only (View all)Indefinite Surveillance: Say Hello to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 [View all]
Last edited Fri Jun 28, 2013, 03:40 AM - Edit history (1)
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17070-indefinite-surveillance-say-hello-to-the-national-defense-authorization-act-of-2014Passed in 1978, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) set the groundwork for surveillance, collection, and analysis of intelligence gathered from foreign powers and agents of foreign powers, up to and including any individual residing within the U.S., who were suspected of involvement in potential terrorist activity. On October 26, 2001, a little over a month after 9/11, President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act into law. Two provisions, Sec. 206, permitting government to obtain secret court orders allowing roving wiretaps without requiring identification of the person, organization, or facility to be surveyed, and Sec. 215 authorizing government to access and obtain any tangible thing relevant to a terrorist investigation, transformed foreign intelligence into domestic intelligence.
NDAA 2014 builds on the powers granted by both the Patriot Act and FISA by allowing unrestricted analysis and research of captured records pertaining to any organization or individual now or once hostile to the United States. Under the Patriot Act, the ability to obtain any tangible thing eliminated any expectation of privacy. Under NDAA 2014 Sec. 1061(g)(1), an overly vague definition of captured records enhances government power and guarantees indefinite surveillance.
On May 22, 2013 the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities, one of several Armed Services Committees, met to discuss the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2014. The main subject of the hearing was Sec. 1061, otherwise known as Enhancement of Capacity of the United States Government to Analyze Captured Records. This enhancement provision of NDAA 2014 would effectively create a new intelligence agency, one with the authority to analyze information gained under the Patriot Act, FISA, and known spying programs such as PRISM.
Sec. 1061(a) authorizes the Secretary of Defense to "establish a center to be known as the 'Conflict Records Research Center'" (Center). The main purpose of the center, according to the bill text, is to create a "digital research database," one with the capability to "translate" and facilitate research on "records captured from countries, organizations and individuals, now or once hostile to the United States." The authorization also says the Center will conduct research and analysis to "increase the understanding of factors related to international relations, counterterrorism and conventional and unconventional warfare, and ultimately, enhance national security."
(More at the link.)
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Update: The House passes it, 315-108.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll244.xml
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Indefinite Surveillance: Say Hello to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 [View all]
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
OP
A year from now, after it's been signed and activated, people will be screaming about it. Why not
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#12
All I know how to do is point at bullshit and shout about it to alert others. Some choose to
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#16
The story needs visibility first. I don't think most people know about it.
avaistheone1
Jun 2013
#19
+1. and they lie. 'they can't get your phone conversations without a warrant from a court'.
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#27
Yep. And the surveillance state budget is something around $1 trillion a year, with about
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#39
I for one do not welcome our new indefinite surveillance overlords. It passed the House! n/t
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#43
All Americans need to know this. The hole is being dug ever deeper. n/t
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#63