U.S. Collecting Information About Americans To Strengthen FBI Investigations

The Washington Post:

Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.

Read the whole story: The Washington Post

Comments

[SitandStay]

08:49 AM on 12/21/2010

Girl! You are too far behind. My insurance company sends me letters telling me I'm not taking my medication often enough because they are watching my refills. My insurance company tells the government what I can have and what I can't, not my doctor. They routinely give me a hard time getting my prescripti­ons for life sustaining medication­s, not opiates or anything like that, just my daily insulins and blood pressure medicines. All this data collecting was done stateside by a company based in Brussels and Geneva, not even a U.S. company, but one that also developed the drone technology­. The same company that was fined $50,000 for breaking U.S. labor laws at their location in Atlanta in their use of temporarie­s they failed to raise to permanent, while they were bringing in H2B's.

[Nasberry]

08:20 AM on 12/21/2010

Press TV reports that
'US hires Israeli firms to spy on folks'

http://www.presstv.com/detail/156452.html

[FreeAmerican7]

12:33 PM on 12/21/2010

Israel is the BOSS of the USA!
Those who don't like a FOREIGN COUNTRY to be the BOSS
MUST stop voting for the POLITICIANS (Elected or Defeated) (Democrats or Republicans) and
WRITE the following on the BALLOT:

"NONE of the ABOVE Agents of Israel"

OR vote simply and DIRECTLY for the

"PM of Israel"

thus removing the Middlemen/Middlewomen masquerading as US Representatives!

[Nasberry]

04:20 PM on 12/21/2010

I would not agree that any nation is the boss of the US. But foreign companies operating in highly sensitive areas could potentially harm our security as well as our liberty.

[SitandStay]

08:12 AM on 12/21/2010

Probably all to be maintained in some outsourced database in Iraq or Afghanistan, a short hop from the current database of India. lol

[thomashusted]

08:07 AM on 12/21/2010

There looking in all the wrong places they do not need to go any farther then the Washington DC to find all the real crooks and threat to USA national security! If this is not big Brother and heading toward a police state I do not know what is! I will probably be under surveillance now for saying this!

[Nasberry]

08:23 AM on 12/21/2010

Bingo!

Dual loyalties of our law makers in Congress is one of the biggest threats to our national security. Additional PressTV reports that 'US hires Israeli firms to spy on folks'
See the video here http://www.presstv.com/detail/156452.html

[Nasberry]

07:22 AM on 12/21/2010

"Seeking to learn more about Islam and terrorism"

I would suggest that the activity of many other groups should be of concern particularly legislators with dual loyalties.

Dont like the idea and I get no comfort from the allegation that Britain and Israel have such programs. The latter is a state that discriminates against its citizens on the basis of ethnicity as a matter of law and for that is hardly a democracy that we should be seeking to emulate.

[Sans Octavian]

05:43 AM on 12/21/2010

The government needs to start selling that information to various companies and organizations so that it can start to pay down its debt.

[WierdWookie]

03:01 AM on 12/21/2010

Can you imagine wasting money on a venture like this? Unless valid reasoning would hold up in court then it's just a Bush policy continuation. Most of us are so boring.

[lisakaz2]

12:33 AM on 12/21/2010

Kinda makes it pretty clear that "fighting terrorism" is merely a pretext for controlling one's own population. Thanks for starting us down this road, Bushie.

[GlackBOP]

10:16 PM on 12/20/2010

Of course they are. More and more of them are figuring out the TEA Party is right.

[kcin]

06:50 AM on 12/21/2010

About what?

Why would the government not collection information about the people inside it's borders?

[ralbol]

10:03 PM on 12/20/2010

be clear on this

the iron rule of history: once they pick out one group, yours is next

so, you either fight this one, or go to the slaughter next

[TonkaTruck]

09:08 PM on 12/20/2010

Watch what you say; they are watching.

Just be glad if you are not black, muslim American, a political activist, or deemed suspicious by anyone at all; then you should be fine. . . for now. . . until they expand the "list".

[realitytrumpsbull]

09:23 PM on 12/20/2010

Santa might not be watching you, but The Government is...

[SitandStay]

08:13 AM on 12/21/2010

better not pout. he sees you when your sleeping. he knows when you're awake.

[punchmonkey]

09:52 PM on 12/20/2010

Yeah, Indeed... Really makes a guy wonder about posting anything here???? Thanks Arianna!!!

[bynddrvn5]

08:52 PM on 12/20/2010

Will they be hiring for the American Stasi soon?

So what steps are these government agencies doing to safe guard this information, so there isn't a wikileaks of every American's address to the Taliban?

[FatherDannanTavonaDD]

12:39 AM on 12/21/2010

Wrong form of government. Fas.cism. Think brown shirts and Ges.tap.o. Over the last ten years there has been a chilling effect on the political environment. The right to dissent on issues is more often equated with civil unrest and criminal activity.
As can be seen in the Post article, groups that advocate for human rights issues are "terr.or.ists." Even here, the software censors will purge a comment if the right flag words are used. Like Germany during the 1930s, we are quietly losing our rights, and no one, not our political parties nor nearly all of our press are saying a word about it. The FCC will now allowing the corporations to offer "premiere" service -- for a fee of course, while elections, iffy things with hack.able results, can also be manipulated by lob.by.ists with deep pockets, even if their interests adhere more closely to those external to the US.
Water.gate was not that long ago. Use of technology to maintain power is ever a tempting tool, even if the targets are no more than the "loyal opposition."

[TonkaTruck]

08:38 PM on 12/20/2010

Live in fear people; be very, very scared and paranoid.

No longer feel safe, but believe it is for your own safety and national security.

Tell; tell on anyone and everyone you personally find suspicious. Do it, and do it now. Snitch while you are shopping at Walmart; get some innocent citizen on a list; do it today. Get each other in trouble for being "suspicious".

Go ahead, make Hitler proud.

[realitytrumpsbull]

09:30 PM on 12/20/2010

With all the liveblogging, and cellphone cams, do you even need spies, anymore?

[Mikeeee]

08:37 PM on 12/20/2010

Just one more reason to think 9/11 was an excuse to collect data domestically.

[SitandStay]

08:31 AM on 12/21/2010

Short time after 9-11. My brother, 747 pilot for govt contract air carrier, had his flight bag (pilot id, mechanics lic w/access to tarmac, drivers license, passport, etc) stolen in front of a hotel in Louisville KY. The local police called the federal authorities w/the information and turned ashen when he was on the phone with them as my brother was watching him. It became all too apparent when they had no zero cause for alarm. The policeman couldn't believe they had no directives. Same brother that was in Kuala Lumpur during 9-11 and told to "stay put" for his safety for over a week.

[TonkaTruck]

08:20 PM on 12/20/2010

Hitler would be proud!!!!!!!!!!!!