In other news, the Jews have banned you from using money.

European Conservative:

The European Parliament has approved a directive that will severely limit the use of cash.

Under the directive, ostensibly aimed at curbing money laundering and the funding of terrorism, anonymous cash payments over €3,000 will be banned in commercial transactions. In business transactions, cash payments over €10,000 will be completely banned. Anonymous payments in cryptocurrencies will also be completely banned.

“Under the guise of combating money laundering, you are actually waging a war against cash which has protected our financial privacy since time immemorial,” said German Pirate Party MEP Partick Breyer.

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Breyer points out that cryptocurrency is already traceable when necessary as it operates through a blockchain peer-to-peer computer network. He adds that law enforcement has already effectively traced and caught criminals committing financial crimes or laundering money from illegal activities through cryptocurrencies. He also notes that during the public consultation period on the directive, it proved highly unpopular among citizens in EU member states, with 90% of respondents weighing in against the measure, citing the use of cash as an essential personal freedom.

Experts have also warned that it will do little to prevent crime while harming ordinary citizens, particularly the most vulnerable.

“On the other hand, [cash payment limitations] may bring about higher transaction costs, undermined privacy, weakened trust to institutions, basic rights violations, bank-runs and bail-in regulations that place citizens’ savings at risk of devastating losses,” Nikos Passas, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, stated in a blog post.

This is one of the top government programs that no one requested at all.

Nobody wants this, but they’re gonna do it anyway

“🎃 Former CIA officer Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks. 🥷 Allegedly responsible for the Vault 7 release, which exposed CIA hacking capabilities, including spying via phones, browsers, cars, and TVs. #Vault7 #WikiLeaks” pic.twitter.com/PgWKQTQgYW

— SilencedSirs◼️ (@SilentlySirs) February 2, 2024

So the guy who did the leaks had child pornography?

Is this actually true? Pretty easy to set someone up for that after you grab their computers.

If it is true that he had the images on his computer, who was doing the abusing? If he’s a spy, doing an investigation into the CIA, it would make sense he would come across that imagery, no?

This whole case took place in the dark, so none of the obvious questions were ever asked, let alone answered.

The Guardian:

A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer who was convicted for carrying out the largest theft of classified information in the agency’s history and of charges related to child abuse imagery was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday.

The 40-year sentence by US district judge Jesse Furman was for “crimes of espionage, computer hacking, contempt of court, making false statements to the FBI, and child pornography”, federal prosecutors said in a statement. The judge did not impose a life sentence as sought by prosecutors.

Yeah, it’s pretty incredible to have that list of crimes of opposing the government and then have child porn tacked on.

Should that at least have been a totally different case, as it’s a totally different crime?

Joshua Schulte was convicted in July 2022 on four counts each of espionage and computer hacking and one count of lying to FBI agents, after giving classified materials to the whistleblowing agency WikiLeaks in the so-called Vault 7 leak. Last August, a judge mostly upheld the conviction.

Joshua Schulte

WikiLeaks in March 2017 began publishing the materials, which concerned how the CIA surveilled foreign governments, alleged extremists and others by compromising their electronics and computer networks.

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Prosecutors also said Schulte received thousands of images and videos of child sexual abuse, and that they found the material in Schulte’s New York apartment, in an encrypted container beneath three layers of password protection, during the CIA leaks investigation.

He received them from who? And to what end? What was the context?

You might be thinking “well, just read the court documents.”

It’s not there. No one was charged with sending the images. No “child porn network” went down, as is generally the case in these cases.

They can put this sex stuff out against people, and everyone will distance themselves. They did it to Assange, remember? They said he “raped” a girl by taking a condom off during sex. Recently, they did it to Russell Brand. They always attach this sex stuff to people.

Maybe some of it’s true. “Child porn on a secret encrypted drive” sounds untrue to me, frankly, but even if some of the stuff is true, it’s always used as a tactic (maybe Julian took the condom off, who knows – that isn’t a serious allegation, because who doesn’t take the condom off? It’s only illegal in Sweden).

They always isolate people and make them indefensible, always through sexual allegations.

This law is Unconstitutional.

But no one cares, so they just keep doing in.

No Fatmerican is going to complain, so they just keep doing it.

Axios:

A key group of bipartisan lawmakers Tuesday introduced their blueprint for renewing a controversial surveillance tool before it expires at the end of the year.

The bill marks the first piece of legislation that lawmakers have introduced in the year-long battle to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

The program’s expiration, intelligence officials have warned, would impede investigations into ransomware, terrorism and other online crimes.

FISA Section 702 allows intelligence agencies to conduct warrantless surveillance of non-American citizens outside the U.S. during investigations.

But some privacy hawks, progressives and conservatives have expressed concerns about how the program inadvertently collects texts, emails and other communications from U.S. citizens who are talking to foreigners abroad.

The information collected through Section 702 requests is stored for several years in a searchable database that intelligence agencies can later access in other investigations.

Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), along with Reps. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), introduced the Government Surveillance Reform Act on Tuesday.

Separately, the NSA and CIA are still spying on everything you do. In theory, that doesn’t matter because it can’t be used it court, while this FISA bullshit can be used in court and was used against a bunch of members of the Trump Administration.

The NSA/CIA mass data collection, which is separate and can’t currently be used in court, must have some purpose. They are probably using it for blackmail, and then also using it in their AI models of human behavior, as well as for other intelligence purposes.

However, I expect they will use it for some other purpose in the future. Probably, they will start allowing it to be used in court.

Regardless, as a totally separate issue, the “legal” spying by the FBI is out of control. It’s incredible that no one blinks when both parties say they “need” to do this to you.

They didn’t cancel this program.

I can tell you that.

It’s just not public.

Because “national security.”

RT:

The US Department of Homeland Security operated a program that sought to automate the designation of social media users as “pro-terrorist” based on their use of certain keywords and interaction with other targeted users, according to documents obtained by the Brennan Center for Justice and published on Tuesday.

Project Night Fury, a partnership between the DHS and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, sought to assign potentially “pro-terrorist” accounts a “risk score” that would then affect other accounts they interacted with. The university had agreed to develop automated methods to determine whether an account linked to one already under surveillance was itself “pro-terrorist,” using criteria like “keyword set comparisons.” The algorithm, not a human, would determine whether a user could be labeled “pro-terrorist” for simply clicking “like” on a Facebook post or retweeting an account that had already received that label.

Despite the known limits of artificial intelligence when this system was being formulated in 2018, the entire process would have been automated, according to the documents. The university was assigned to build models to “identify key influencers of pro-terrorist thought” and create an automated system to uncover bots “programmatically generated to exert influence” to spread both “terrorist propaganda” and “foreign influence campaigns.” They would then compile a list of suspect accounts and turn them over to the DHS, along with their names, emails, phone numbers, pictures, and posts.

You see that heel turn?

It goes from “terrorists” – which we think of as a synonym for “Moslems” – to “foreign influencers” – which basically means “MAGA,” given that the security services determined that the only reason anyone would support Donald Trump is if they are a Russian agent or under the influence of Russian agents.

Just look at the cartoons in Jew/CIA media.

Still one of the top five most popular posts I ever wrote was a satire piece about how every person who voted for Trump in 2016 was being controlled by a Russian mind-control beam from space.

See: Breaking: FBI Uncovers Evidence That 62 Million Trump Voters are All Russian Agents

That obvious joke article got “fact checked,” because leftists saw it and thought it was real.

Missing from the contracts were definitions for important concepts like what “pro-terrorist” actually meant – or what a “risk score” would measure, whether it was the risk of becoming a terrorist or merely sympathizing with one – or an explanation of how an automated process could make such distinctions absent clear-cut definitions. 

It’s also not clear how the program would have distinguished between terrorism-adjacent content and material related to drug trafficking and “disinformation,” which it also sought to track. As of the date of the contracts seen by the Brennan Center, the DHS hadn’t figured out how to quantify terrorist sympathies and was seeking assistance from university researchers to “identify relevant attributes.”

There is very little difference between the way the US government operates and the way the North Korean government operates, in terms of dealing with dissidents. The methods are different, but every dissident is neutralized.

The difference is that North Korea is based and redpilled and their dissents are pro-American scum who deserve to be put up against the wall.

If we compare the US to China, China is actually much more lenient on dissidents than the United States. That is just an absolute matter of fact.

People very rarely go to jail for dissident thought, unlike in the United States which has a special political prison for Trump supporters. On the internet, it is extremely difficult to get banned in China. And if you do get banned, you can just get a new account, and then the government has to go through a whole new arduous process of filing all the papers to ban you again.

In recent years, Chinese Incels have been mass-reporting feminists to the internet police for anti-social behavior, and though some of their sites and social media accounts have been shut down, they’ve been able to pop back up.

I think Americans have a really hard time processing this fact, but it is a fact that America’s war on dissent simply is not in the same category as China’s controls, and can only really be compared to “closed states” like North Korea or Cuba.

That’s real. It doesn’t matter what you think. It’s the truth.

It’s very concerning that the CEO of TikTok can’t be honest and admit what we already know to be true—China has access to TikTok user data.

The House will be moving forward with legislation to protect Americans from the technological tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party.

— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) March 26, 2023

Every app has the same data access. If Apple is secretly giving special access to TikTok, that is a crime that people at Apple could go to prison over.

But of course, no one is alleging that Apple is doing that. Instead, Kevin McCarthy and the Democrats are relying on the fact that the overwhelming majority of people do not know how an app works or what permissions are.

This is how America works: everything the leaders say could be disproved with a 30 second Google search, but Americans are simply too fat and stupid to do these searches.

Reuters:

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Sunday lawmakers will move forward with legislation to address national security worries about TikTok, alleging China’s government had access to the short video app’s user data.

In the United States, there are growing calls to ban TikTok, owned by China-based company ByteDance, or to pass bipartisan legislation to give President Joe Biden’s administration legal authority to seek a ban. Devices owned by the U.S. government were recently banned from having the app installed.

“The House will be moving forward with legislation to protect Americans from the technological tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party,” McCarthy said on Twitter.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before a U.S. House Committee for about five hours on Thursday, and lawmakers from both parties grilled him about national security and other concerns involving the app, which has 150 million American users.

In Thursday’s hearing, the TikTok CEO was asked if of the app, has spied on Americans at Beijing’s request. Chew answered, “No.”

Republican Representative Neal Dunn then referenced the company’s disclosure in December that some China-based employees at ByteDance improperly accessed TikTok user data of two journalists and were no longer employed by the company. He repeated his question about whether ByteDance was spying.

“I don’t think that spying is the right way to describe it,” Chew said. He went on to describe the reports as involving an “internal investigation” before being cut off.

McCarthy, a Republican, said in a tweet on Sunday, “It’s very concerning that the CEO of TikTok can’t be honest and admit what we already know to be true — China has access to TikTok user data.”

This data is not even valuable. It’s the same data that every app has.

The only potentially invasive permission is the GPS, and you can obviously turn that off. But what are the Chinese going to do with that data?

If it was so super valuable then, well – they can just buy it off the open market where every app sells that data.

Buying the data would be much more efficient, because the data you buy is packaged with a user profile much more significant than anything that can be gleaned from TikTok.

TikTok spying is another mass delusion like virus pandemic, black oppression, Ukraine democracy, etc.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s response when questioned over US user data.

Google, FB, IG and YT have all been lobbying the US government to ban TikTok because their platforms and algorithm just can’t compete with that of TikTok. TikTok is just killin’ it in Silicone Valley. pic.twitter.com/zO3YngFwNa

— Yes, it’s me (@ElysiusThor) March 23, 2023

MR SHOU ZI CHEW DOES A WIFI BASED APP USE MY WIFI pic.twitter.com/kfWBeibpVT

— mikki⁷ 🔔 (@koomornin_) March 24, 2023

I talked about this back in early 2020 and was dismissed as paranoid—as is our tradition when someone points to the predictable outcome of a dangerous but popular new trend. Stopping this will be harder, now.

You can watch the original interview here:https://t.co/RtRQRVEaUb https://t.co/LOCWXxlcBs

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 23, 2022

How can there even be “more extreme spying”?

RT:

Former CIA and National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has claimed vindication after a media report exposed how surveillance tools deployed to fight Covid-19 are now being abused by law enforcement and other authorities – as he predicted over two years ago.

“I talked about this back in early 2020 and was dismissed as paranoid, as is our tradition when someone points to the predictable outcome of a dangerous but popular new trend,” Snowden said in a Twitter post on Friday. The former US intelligence contractor cited this week’s Associated Press article on how Covid-19 had “accelerated and normalized” use of state surveillance and tracking tools against ordinary citizens and activists.

Snowden linked to an April 2020 interview with Vice founder Shane Smith in which he predicted that emergency measures used to deal with the Covid-19 crisis would become permanent and be used to infringe civil liberties. At the time, pandemic fears were at their height, and many governments across the globe were being lauded for using cutting-edge surveillance applications to track infections and quarantine people who had possibly been exposed to the virus.

“When any of us looks at where this is heading, we need to think about where we’ve been,” Snowden told Smith. “And sadly, these kinds of emergency powers that are born out of crises have a perfect history of abuse. I mean, down the board, whenever you look at these things, the funniest part about it, in a dark way, is that the emergency never ends and becomes normalized.”

The AP article cited mobile-phone tracking and other technology being used to accuse people of crimes, block citizens from traveling, harass “marginalized communities” and link personal health data to surveillance and law enforcement systems.

“Marginalized communities,” lol.

It gets me every time.

Anyway…

They were already doing stuff like this.

Really, the coronavirus hoax normalized the idea of a control grid where you have to show internal passports to travel. That’s part of the WEF/Jew agenda – they want you to live in “15 minute cities” and need special permission to travel.

I’ve said that these will be like Hudson Yards in New York City. It’s a full complex with apartments, offices, and retail – complete with ugly ass soul-crushing modern art monstrosity – linked to an underground train system.

They will line cities with these, and you will live and work (or not work) there, and be required to get special permission to move between them.

The elite will be able to move across the world in an underground train system that links all of these cities across the world.

Or rather: all of this is literally “the plan,” but it doesn’t look like it’s going to work out for them.

We sort of already knew this, but it’s good to have it confirmed.

Life Site News:

A recent investigative report from MintPressNews revealed that hundreds of former military intelligence agents from “the notorious Israeli spying organization” Unit 8200 have acquired positions of influence in several big tech corporations, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon.

According to professional profiles on LinkedIn, the outlet reported that Google currently employs, at a minimum, 99 former Unit 8200 agents and Microsoft retains the services of 166 such veterans.

And as journalist Alan MacLeod explained, these numbers certainly underestimate the collaboration between these big tech corporations and this Israeli intelligence unit as these numbers do not include former employees or those without LinkedIn accounts, or those who maintain such profiles but have obeyed Israeli military law that requires them to conceal their affiliation with this special unit.

Such a significant association is relevant because Unit 8200 has been described as “Israel’s NSA,” and has been linked to the development of repressive surveillance methods, first against the indigenous Palestinian people and then for cutting-edge technologies that have been used to spy on tens of thousands of notable individuals across the globe.

Though often overlooked in the West, there exists an overwhelming world consensus of international law that favors the Palestinian cause for a free and sovereign state “within internationally agreed borders” (source). The Catholic Bishops of the Holy Land, along with the Holy See, have unanimously and consistently joined their voices to this cause demanding the Israeli government “put an end to the [illegal military] occupation” of Palestinian territory, including their ongoing confiscation of land, the demolition of homes, the building of illegal settlements, and the detention of political prisoners.

With regard to specific acts of oppression being committed by Unit 8200, a group of 43 reservists from the Israeli unit issued an open letter in 2014 to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu notifying him and other military superiors that they would no longer serve in this regiment due to its “political persecution” of the Palestinian people.

“We refuse to take part in actions against Palestinians and refuse to continue serving as tools in deepening the military control over the Occupied Territories,” the reservists wrote. “Our military service has taught us that intelligence is an integral part of Israel’s military occupation over the territories.”

Like Jeffrey Epstein, who was allegedly also an Israeli spy who collected incriminating information on powerful men for the purpose of extortion, MacLeod explains that Unit 8200 used “big data to compile dossiers on huge numbers of the indigenous domestic population, including their medical history, sex lives, and search histories, in order that it could be used for extortion later.”

Remember the Media called Jeffrey Epstein a 'disgraced financier'.

In reality he was a Mossad agent running a honeypot operation to gain leverage over politicians, celebrities and scientists in the Western world.

They control the Media. The Information flow is not ours.

— McKenna (@Crypto_McKenna) November 17, 2022

“If a certain individual needed to travel across checkpoints for crucial medical treatment, permission could be suspended until they complied,” MacLeod wrote. “Information, such as if a person was cheating on their spouse or was homosexual, is also used as bait for blackmail.”

Perhaps most relevant, these dissenting reservists objected to treating the entire Palestinian population as enemies. “There’s no distinction between Palestinians who are, and are not, involved in violence,” the letter charged.

Such aggressive and comprehensive surveillance by the Israeli army “harms innocent people,” the reservists said. “It is used for political persecution and to create divisions within Palestinian society by recruiting collaborators and driving parts of Palestinian society against itself.”

Thus, MacLeod summarizes that “Unit 8200 is partially a spying and extortion organization that uses its access to data to blackmail and extort opponents of the apartheid state” (note).

“That this organization has so many operatives (literally hundreds) in key positions in big tech companies that the world trusts with our most sensitive data (medical, financial, etc.) should be of serious concern. This is especially true as they do not appear to distinguish between ‘bad guys’ and the rest of us. To Unit 8200, it seems, anyone is fair game,” he said.

Unit 8200 spies on Americans as well, receives virtually all data from NSAAccording to whistleblower Edward Snowden, this overreaching surveillance by Unit 8200 applies to Americans and other internationals as well. In 2013, Snowden, who worked as a contractor for the CIA, leaked highly classified government documents from the National Security Agency (NSA) revealing how the federal government was hyper-collecting the metadata of millions of Americans with no connection to terrorism.

According to Elizabeth Goitein, “The NSA shares [this] raw data with multiple other agencies — including the FBI and the CIA — and all of them retain the data for a functional minimum of five years.” Yet, in addition to these American agencies, Snowden’s leaks revealed that the NSA also passes along this unfiltered raw data to Israel’s Unit 8200, which means this foreign military agency also spies on American citizens as well.

“I think that’s amazing,” Snowden told reporter James Bamford. “It’s one of the biggest abuses we’ve seen.”

In an interview on the topic, MacLeod expressed how this arrangement demonstrates the certain intimacy shared between the U.S. deep state and the Israeli government that he observes is “really treated like … a very trusted ally of the U.S. national security state. It’s basically the United States’ lieutenant in the Middle East.”

Regiment veterans take Israel’s surveillance experiment in Palestine to the broader worldWhile three years of military service is required for all Jewish citizens of Israel, the best and brightest of the nation’s young people compete to be admitted into Unit 8200, which has been called “Israel’s Harvard.”

Based on the skills they receive from this high-tech military training, many veterans go on to enjoy lucrative careers in tech fields designing popular apps such as the map service Waze and communication service Viber.

Yet, according to one commentator, they also found companies that take “Israel’s ‘surveillance’ experiment in Palestine” to the broader world. One reason Palestinians are subjected to such oppressive surveillance is “because they are the unwitting participants of a very profitable Israeli experiment,” author and journalist Ramzy Baroud wrote.

Such experiments include implementation of facial recognition “Blue Wolf” technology that The Washington Post reported last year is “among the most elaborate deployments of such technology by a country seeking to control a subject population.”

A whistleblower veteran of Unit 8200, who had been recently discharged, told the outlet, “People worry about fingerprinting, but this is that several times over.” She said she was motivated to speak out since these surveillance systems are a “total violation of privacy of an entire people.”

Baroud observes that such experiments allow Israeli firms to promote their “sinister ‘security technology’ to the rest of the world as ‘field-proven,’ meaning that they have been used against occupied Palestinians.”

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Big Tech ‘actively recruits’ Unite 8200 members, may help explain online manipulation, censorshipUnit 8200 veterans hired by Google include Gavriel Goidel, the head of Strategy and Operations, Research who served in the intelligence unit from 2010 to 2016; Jonathan Cohen, Head of Insights, Data and Measurement, (2000-2003); and product partnership manager Ben Bariach, who focused on “controversial content, disinformation and cyber-security” for the big tech organization from 2018 through 2020 and served in the unit as a cyber intelligence officer between 2007 and 2011.

MacLeod also highlights how Google appears to “actively recruit current members of the controversial organization,” noticing how “Gai Gutherz left his job as a project leader at Unit 8200 and walked into a full-time job at Google as a software engineer” in 2020. Another example includes “Lior Liberman, who seems to have done the same in 2018 “taking a position as a program manager at Google after 4 years in military intelligence. Earlier this year, she left Google and now works at Microsoft.”

The researcher also looked to see if “former spies from adversary countries such Russia, Venezuela or Iran” could be identified as also being hired by these big tech firms and he could find none in his search.

MacLeod has also documented how “big tech companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, TikTok and Reddit have hired hundreds of spooks from the CIA, NSA, FBI, Secret Service, NATO, and other intelligence agencies” in recent years.

I think it’s good they’re running our tech companies directly from Israel.

After all, the Jews are our greatest ally.

And it was going to be Jews running tech either way, so they might as well be in Israel.

We interviewed six Iranians who had worked with the CIA as spies and informants and got caught. A Reuters investigation found CIA negligence likely led to their capture. https://t.co/r7FdkkxSF4

— Joel Schectman (@joel_schectman) September 29, 2022

2/ One spy recounted receiving the covert messaging system first reported by @JennaMC_Laugh & @zachsdorfman. We found his soccer news site in an internet archive and asked two cyberanalysts review the system. @bozorgmehr pic.twitter.com/fjLu0OqW12

— Joel Schectman (@joel_schectman) September 29, 2022

3/ @billmarczak & @thezedwards easily discovered the messaging element and links to hundreds of other CIA sites, which had been easy for the Iranians. pic.twitter.com/qfObV5qTTm

— Joel Schectman (@joel_schectman) September 29, 2022

4/ Reuters found that the system wasn’t given to full-fledged high-valued assets but to lower level sources, or “developmentals”, who the CIA viewed “as not worth the investment of advanced tradecraft,” one former CIA officer told me. @bozorgmehr

— Joel Schectman (@joel_schectman) September 29, 2022

We found the CIA uses the visa process in consulates/embassies to pressure Iranians into providing info. One source described being asked to come to the embassy in UAE for repeated visa interviews in which he was pressured for military data. Iran found out and he went to jail. pic.twitter.com/rsDjUb9vzI

— Joel Schectman (@joel_schectman) September 29, 2022

6/ CIA goes to “hell and back” to protect its high-level sources. But Reuters found that when it comes to lower-level informants like the guys we talked to- “non-registered sources”- CIA does little to protect them and often does nothing to help if they get caught.

— Joel Schectman (@joel_schectman) September 29, 2022

7/ Even years after their release from jail for espionage these men continue to hope the United States will do something to compensate for the grave price they paid to help America. Some of them have become refugees, others live in Iran in daily fear of rearrest.

— Joel Schectman (@joel_schectman) September 29, 2022

Where do people get the idea that helping a foreign intelligence agency will benefit them personally? I can understand if you’ve been blackmailed, but otherwise, why would anyone get involved in something like this?

The CIA probably offers a lot of money – but do they actually pay out?

Reuters:

The spy was minutes from leaving Iran when he was nabbed.

Gholamreza Hosseini was at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran in late 2010, preparing for a flight to Bangkok. There, the Iranian industrial engineer would meet his Central Intelligence Agency handlers. But before he could pay his exit tax to leave the country, the airport ATM machine rejected his card as invalid. Moments later, a security officer asked to see Hosseini’s passport before escorting him away.

Hosseini said he was brought to an empty VIP lounge and told to sit on a couch that had been turned to face a wall. Left alone for a dizzying few moments and not seeing any security cameras, Hosseini thrust his hand into his trouser pocket, fishing out a memory card full of state secrets that could now get him hanged. He shoved the card into his mouth, chewed it to pieces and swallowed.

Not long after, Ministry of Intelligence agents entered the room and the interrogation began, punctuated by beatings, Hosseini recounted. His denials and the destruction of the data were worthless; they seemed to know everything already. But how?

“These are things I never told anyone in the world,” Hosseini told Reuters. As his mind raced, Hosseini even wondered whether the CIA itself had sold him out.

Gholamreza Hosseini

Rather than betrayal, Hosseini was the victim of CIA negligence, a year-long Reuters investigation into the agency’s handling of its informants found. A faulty CIA covert communications system made it easy for Iranian intelligence to identify and capture him. Jailed for nearly a decade and speaking out for the first time, Hosseini said he never heard from the agency again, even after he was released in 2019.

The CIA declined to comment on Hosseini’s account.

Hosseini’s experience of sloppy handling and abandonment was not unique. In interviews with six Iranian former CIA informants, Reuters found that the agency was careless in other ways amid its intense drive to gather intelligence in Iran, putting in peril those risking their lives to help the United States.

One informant said the CIA instructed him to make his information drops in Turkey at a location the agency knew was under surveillance by Iran. Another man, a former government worker who traveled to Abu Dhabi to seek a U.S. visa, claims a CIA officer there tried unsuccessfully to push him into spying for the United States, leading to his arrest when he returned to Iran.

Such aggressive steps by the CIA sometimes put average Iranians in danger with little prospect of gaining critical intelligence. When these men were caught, the agency provided no assistance to the informants or their families, even years later, the six Iranians said.

James Olson, former chief of CIA counterintelligence, said he was unaware of these specific cases. But he said any unnecessary compromise of sources by the agency would represent both a professional and ethical failure.

“If we’re careless, if we’re reckless and we’ve been penetrated, then shame on us,” Olson said. “If people paid the price of trusting us enough to share information and they paid a penalty, then we have failed morally.”

The men were jailed as part of an aggressive counterintelligence purge by Iran that began in 2009, a campaign partly enabled by a series of CIA blunders, according to news reports and three former U.S. national security officials. Tehran has claimed in state media reports that its mole hunt ultimately netted dozens of CIA informants.

To tell this story, Reuters conducted dozens of hours of interviews with the six Iranians who were convicted of espionage by their government between 2009 and 2015.

To vet their accounts, Reuters interviewed 10 former U.S. intelligence officials with knowledge of Iran operations; reviewed Iranian government records and news reports; and interviewed people who knew the spies.

None of the former or current U.S. officials who spoke with Reuters confirmed or disclosed the identities of any CIA sources.

The CIA declined to comment specifically on Reuters’ findings or on the intelligence agency’s operations in Iran. A spokeswoman said the CIA does its utmost to safeguard people who work with the agency.

Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Mission to the United Nations in New York did not respond to requests for comment.

Hosseini was the only one of the six men Reuters interviewed who said he was assigned the vulnerable messaging tool. But an analysis by two independent cybersecurity specialists found that the now-defunct covert online communication system that Hosseini used – located by Reuters in an internet archive – may have exposed at least 20 other Iranian spies and potentially hundreds of other informants operating in other countries around the world.

This messaging platform, which operated until 2013, was hidden within rudimentary news and hobby websites where spies could go to connect with the CIA. Reuters confirmed its existence with four former U.S. officials.

These failures continue to haunt the agency years later. In a series of internal cables last year, CIA leadership warned that it had lost most of its network of spies in Iran and that sloppy tradecraft continues to endanger the agency’s mission worldwide, the New York Times reported.

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The six Iranians served prison terms ranging from five to 10 years. Four of them, including Hosseini, stayed in Iran after their release and remain vulnerable to rearrest. Two fled the country and have become stateless refugees.

The six men acknowledged that their CIA handlers never made firm promises to help if they were caught. Still, all had believed that U.S. assistance would one day come.

This also speaks to a fall in the prestige of the American intelligence services, frankly.

There is a time when they definitely would not have wanted a report about how they’re very incompetent and just abandon their informants and leave them to die published in Reuters.

Probably, these people have totally lost sight of whatever their mission was supposed to be.

It’s shocking because no one could have predicted it.

RT:

Multiple branches of the US military have bought access to “petabytes” of American citizens’ private online data via a tool called Augury, giving them access to an almost omniscient set of data points, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) claimed in a letter to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on Wednesday.

The alleged data trove includes an individual’s email communications, browsing history, and other behavioral information, all on demand and without a warrant,

The senator asked the OIG to investigate the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department’s purchase and use of any such records. He cited a report his office received from a military whistleblower regarding the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) buying and using netflow data from data broker Team Cymru.

Netflow data includes proprietary information normally available only to internet service providers, and is likely being provided without the informed consent of those providers – let alone judicial authorization.

Wyden’s own investigation of the whistleblower’s claim appeared to reveal that US Cyber Command, the Army, FBI, and Secret Service had also purchased the company’s data sets. An investigation by Motherboard found they paid a total of $3.5 million to use Team Cymru’s tool Augury, which allegedly can access 93% of internet traffic. It uses a technology called packet capture data (PCAP), which one cybersecurity technology professional referred to as “everything… there’s nothing else to capture except the smell of electricity.”

It was always obvious that domestic spying organizations would be capturing all of this information to use against the population. We have all these records of them doing this already. They were supposed to stop doing it after the Edward Snowden reveals, then they just said they were going to keep doing it.

However, it is quite interesting that the military would be buying the data of US citizens. The FBI doing it is one thing. But why would the military use that data, unless the military is preparing to get involved in domestic operations against the US population?

What we’re seeing now is all of the Edward Snowden and Julian Assange stuff about domestic spying coming into the forefront and being normalized.

We here at Daily Stormer – which was known at the time as Hoax Watch – were very vocal about the FBI saying publicly that they were buying cellphone GPS data from “private companies” and using it to track the January 6 patriots.

That is not exactly the same thing as NSA/CIA spying, but it’s what you would be talking about if you were doing a thing where you were trying to normalize illegal domestic spying. Because the NSA was cooperating with Google and Microsoft and Apple and everyone else to install backdoors on devices and programs so they could bulk collect everyone’s data.

Recently, they’ve run with this libertarian narrative of “private companies can do anything to anyone,” with regards to censorship. Now, we’ve found out that the government was telling these companies what to censor, but if you follow this hardline libertarian ideology being pushed by the socialists, the companies can choose to cooperate with the government, because private companies can do whatever they want.

Censorship and domestic spying are both pretty interlinked “ethical dilemmas” of the digital age, so these narratives are going to crisscross with one another. The government is cooperating on both, using the same libertarian ideological principles.

Libertarianism has always been communism with extra steps.

This is a long article, but we’re going to quote from it at length – as always, you can read it or not (a lot of people say they just read our commentary and then skim the articles – you’ll get the general idea).

But this is important information, so it is worth quoting at length. This is the emergence of a total control grid.

AP:

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press.

Police have used “Fog Reveal” to search hundreds of billions of records from 250 million mobile devices, and harnessed the data to create location analyses known among law enforcement as “patterns of life,” according to thousands of pages of records about the company.

Sold by Virginia-based Fog Data Science LLC, Fog Reveal has been used since at least 2018 in criminal investigations ranging from the murder of a nurse in Arkansas to tracing the movements of a potential participant in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The tool is rarely, if ever, mentioned in court records, something that defense attorneys say makes it harder for them to properly defend their clients in cases in which the technology was used.

The company was developed by two former high-ranking Department of Homeland Security officials under former President George W. Bush. It relies on advertising identification numbers, which Fog officials say are culled from popular cellphone apps such as Waze, Starbucks and hundreds of others that target ads based on a person’s movements and interests, according to police emails. That information is then sold to companies like Fog.

“It’s sort of a mass surveillance program on a budget,” said Bennett Cyphers, a special adviser at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy rights advocacy group.

By the way, EFF is run by Jews.

Andrew Anglin contacted that Jew woman who runs it when we were on the ropes in 2017, and she was like “oh sorry, there’s nothing I can do, goy.” She did say “yes we’re against this” and Anglin was like “well, I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to give me money for a lawsuit – no one has ever been censored like this in all of history.” She was just like “oh, yes, we will look into it, but there is nothing we can do.” Then it was like “so what is the purpose of your organization?” and she was like “we’ll get back to you.”

We’re still waiting.

This story, supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, is part of an ongoing Associated Press series, “Tracked,” that investigates the power and consequences of decisions driven by algorithms on people’s everyday lives.

The documents and emails were obtained by EFF through Freedom of Information Act requests. The group shared the files with The AP, which independently found that Fog sold its software in about 40 contracts to nearly two dozen agencies, according to GovSpend, a company that keeps tabs on government spending. The records and AP’s reporting provide the first public account of the extensive use of Fog Reveal by local police, according to analysts and legal experts who scrutinize such technologies.

Federal oversight of companies like Fog is an evolving legal landscape. On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission sued a data broker called Kochava that, like Fog, provides its clients with advertising IDs that authorities say can easily be used to find where a mobile device user lives, which violates rules the commission enforces. And there are bills before Congress now that, if passed, would regulate the industry.

“Local law enforcement is at the front lines of trafficking and missing persons cases, yet these departments are often behind in technology adoption,” Matthew Broderick, a Fog managing partner, said in an email. “We fill a gap for underfunded and understaffed departments.”

Because of the secrecy surrounding Fog, however, there are scant details about its use and most law enforcement agencies won’t discuss it, raising concerns among privacy advocates that it violates the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.

What distinguishes Fog Reveal from other cellphone location technologies used by police is that it follows the devices through their advertising IDs, unique numbers assigned to each device. These numbers do not contain the name of the phone’s user, but can be traced to homes and workplaces to help police establish pattern-of-life analyses.

“The capability that it had for bringing up just anybody in an area whether they were in public or at home seemed to me to be a very clear violation of the Fourth Amendment,” said Davin Hall, a former crime data analysis supervisor for the Greensboro, North Carolina, Police Department. “I just feel angry and betrayed and lied to.”

Hall resigned in late 2020 after months of voicing concerns about the department’s use of Fog to police attorneys and the city council.

While Greensboro officials acknowledged Fog’s use and initially defended it, the police department said it allowed its subscription to expire earlier this year because it didn’t “independently benefit investigations.”

But federal, state and local police agencies around the U.S. continue to use Fog with very little public accountability. Local police agencies have been enticed by Fog’s affordable price: It can start as low as $7,500 a year. And some departments that license it have shared access with other nearby law enforcement agencies, the emails show.

Police departments also like how quickly they can access detailed location information from Fog. Geofence warrants, which tap into GPS and other sources to track a device, are accessed by obtaining such data from companies, like Google or Apple. This requires police to obtain a warrant and ask the tech companies for the specific data they want, which can take days or weeks.

Using Fog’s data, which the company claims is anonymized, police can geofence an area or search by a specific device’s ad ID numbers, according to a user agreement obtained by AP. But, Fog maintains that “we have no way of linking signals back to a specific device or owner,” according to a sales representative who emailed the California Highway Patrol in 2018, after a lieutenant asked whether the tool could be legally used.

Despite such privacy assurances, the records show that law enforcement can use Fog’s data as a clue to find identifying information. “There is no (personal information) linked to the (ad ID),” wrote a Missouri official about Fog in 2019. “But if we are good at what we do, we should be able to figure out the owner.”

Fog’s Broderick said in an email that the company does not have access to people’s personal information, and draws from “commercially available data without restrictions to use,” from data brokers “that legitimately purchase data from apps in accordance with their legal agreements.” The company refused to share information about how many police agencies it works with.

“We are confident Law Enforcement has the responsible leadership, constraints, and political guidance at the municipal, state, and federal level to ensure that any law enforcement tool and method is appropriately used in accordance with the laws in their respective jurisdictions,” Broderick said in the email.

“Search warrants are not required for the use of the public data,” he added Thursday, saying that the data his product offers law enforcement is “lead data” and should not be used to establish probable cause.

Kevin Metcalf, a prosecutor in Washington County, Arkansas, said he has used Fog Reveal without a warrant, especially in “exigent circumstances.” In these cases, the law provides a warrant exemption when a crime-in-process endangers people or an officer.

Metcalf also leads the National Child Protection Task Force, a nonprofit that combats child exploitation and trafficking. Fog is listed on its website as a task force sponsor and a company executive chairs the nonprofit’s board. Metcalf said Fog has been invaluable to cracking missing children cases and homicides.

“We push the limits, but we do them in a way that we target the bad guys,” he said. “Time is of the essence in those situations. We can’t wait on the traditional search warrant route.”

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Fog has aggressively marketed its tool to police, even beta testing it with law enforcement, records show. The Dallas Police Department bought a Fog license in February after getting a free trial and “seeing a demonstration and hearing of success stories from the company,” Senior Cpl. Melinda Gutierrez, a department spokeswoman, said in an email.

Fog’s tool is accessed through a web portal. Investigators can enter a crime scene’s coordinates into the database, which brings back search results showing a device’s Fog ID, which is based on its unique ad ID number.

Police can see which device IDs were found near the location of the crime. Detectives or other officers can also search the location for IDs going forward from the time of the crime and back at least 180 days, according to the company’s user license agreement.

The emails and Fog’s Broderick contend the tool can actually search back years, however. Emails from a Fog representative to Florida and California law enforcement agencies said the tool’s data stretched back as far as June 2017. On Thursday Broderick, who had previously refused to address the question, said it “only has a three year reach back.”

While the data does not directly identify who owns a device, the company often gives law enforcement information it needs to connect it to addresses and other clues that help detectives figure out people’s identities, according to company representatives’ emails.

It is unclear how Fog makes these connections, but a company it refers to as its “data partner” called Venntel, Inc. has access to an even greater trove of users’ mobile data.

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Fog Data Science LLC is headquartered in a nondescript brick building in Leesburg, Virginia. It also has related entities in New Jersey, Ohio and Texas.

It was founded in 2016 by Robert Liscouski, who led the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division in the George W. Bush adminstration. His colleague, Broderick, is a former U.S. Marine brigadier general who ran DHS’ tech hub, the Homeland Security Operations Center, during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A House bipartisan committee report cited Broderick among others for failing to coordinate a swift federal response to the deadly hurricane. Broderick resigned from DHS shortly thereafter.

In marketing materials, Fog also has touted its ability to offer police “predictive analytics,” a buzzword often used to describe high-tech policing tools that purport to predict crime hotspots. Liscouski and another Fog official have worked at companies focused on predictive analytics, machine learning and software platforms supporting artificial intelligence.

“It is capable of delivering both forensic and predictive analytics and near real-time insights on the daily movements of the people identified with those mobile devices,” reads an email announcing a Fog training last year for members of the National Fusion Center Association, which represents a network of intelligence-sharing partnerships created after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Fog’s Broderick said the company had not invested in predictive applications, and provided no details about any uses the tool had for predicting crime.

Despite privacy advocates’ concerns about warrantless surveillance, Fog Reveal has caught on with local and state police forces. It’s been used in a number of high-profile criminal cases, including one that was the subject of the television program “48 Hours.”

In 2017, a world-renowned exotic snake breeder was found dead, lying in a pool of blood in his reptile breeding facility in rural Missouri. Police initially thought the breeder, Ben Renick, might have died from a poisonous snake bite. But the evidence soon pointed to murder.

During its investigation, emails show the Missouri State Highway Patrol used Fog’s portal to search for cellphones at Renick’s home and breeding facility and zeroed in on a mobile device. Working with Fog, investigators used the data to identify the phone owner’s identity: it was the Renicks’ babysitter.

Police were able to log the babysitter’s whereabouts over time to create a pattern of life analysis.

It turned out to be a dead-end lead. Renick’s wife, Lynlee, later was charged and convicted of the murder.

Prosecutors did not cite Fog in a list of other tools they used in the investigation, according to trial exhibits examined by the AP.

But Missouri officials seemed pleased with Fog’s capabilities, even though it didn’t directly lead to an arrest. “It was interesting to see that the system did pick up a device that was absolutely in the area that day. Too bad it did not belong to a suspect!” a Missouri State Highway Patrol analyst wrote in an email to Fog.

In another high-profile criminal probe, records show the FBI asked state intelligence officials in Iowa for help with Fog as it investigated potential participants in the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

As you may have noticed, there are also implications here about an emerging federalization of local law enforcement, as they are all becoming interlinked through computer systems which use third party “private companies” as relay points.

It’s a Matrix type technological control grid that the establishment is building. Whether an organization is a part of the government or a part of the private sector is totally irrelevant, aside from the way it is organized within the establishment structure.

The people who work for the government are constantly going in and out of these private companies, and the government does all kinds of contracting on all different levels, and with most of these spying companies, they’re run by “former” intelligence officials who, one would think, are still working for the intelligence agencies and simply “retire” (often in their 40s) to start these companies as part of a government network.

Hopefully, Glenn Greenwald will do some of the legwork on this soon. There recent revelations about the government communicating with social media on censorship were totally narrative breaking.

Remember when they were telling us that “it’s not the government”? It turns out it actually was the government the whole time.

But as I say, they are now saying that private companies are allowed to work with the government. So the government isn’t allowed to censor you or spy on you, but they are allowed to tell a private company to do that, and pay them to do it through awarding contracts or buying data.

It’s all so ridiculously Jewish, it will make your head spin.

There you go. Finally, a good piece of journalism. Bravo.

— known (@BaezBaezrogelio) September 4, 2022

Yeah. Noone has ever had charges drummed up on them.

— Jeremy Crockett (@jcrock1711) September 4, 2022

The surveillance state is slowly revealing itself. The data should be shared with Defense attorneys under Brady. According to SCOTUS they don’t have as of this year. 🤦🏾‍️🤦🏾‍️

— Elva Carter No DM’s please (@CarterElva) September 4, 2022

Privacy is an illusion, regrettably. Beyond that, at minimum, law enforcement should follow the laws that they are constitutionally required to enforce.

— Olivia P. Walker (@olivia_p_walker) September 4, 2022

WTH?

— Grey Fox (@yesitismine) September 4, 2022