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Spying on Americans: The FBI’s “Quantico Circuit” — Still Spying, Still Lying
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Tom Burghardt
Global Research
April 10, 2008
Tuesday’s Washington Post reports that FBI investigators "with the click of a mouse, [can] instantly transfer key data along a computer circuit to an FBI technology office in Quantico."
Last month I wrote that evidence of the Bureau’s massive spying operations on Americans had been uncovered and "that a new FISA whistleblower has stepped forward with information about a major wireless provider apparently granting the state unrestricted access to all of their customers’ voice communications and electronic data via a so-called ‘Quantico Circuit’."
According to whistleblower Babak Pasdar, a telecom carrier he worked for as a security consultant, subsequently named as Verizon by the Post, said the company maintained a high-speed DS-3 digital line that allowed the Bureau and other security agencies "unfettered" access to the carrier’s wireless network, including billing records and customer data "transmitted wirelessly."
Verizon denied the report that the FBI has open access to its network; a denial belied by documents obtained by the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation describing the Bureau’s Digital Collection System.
When these allegations first surfaced they were stonewalled by major media. Nevertheless, the reports continued and we now have learned that electronic connections between major telecom firms and FBI personnel scattered across the country provide the Bureau with real-time access to who is speaking to whom, the time and duration of each call as well as the locations of those so targeted.
Despite half-hearted protests by Congress, the FBI’s budget for these operations have increased significantly. According to Post reporter Ellen Nakashima,
"The bureau says its budget for the collection system increased from $30 million in 2007 to $40 million in 2008. Information lawfully collected by the FBI from telecom firms can be shared with law enforcement and intelligence-gathering partners, including the National Security Agency and the CIA. Likewise, under guidelines approved by the attorney general or a court, some intercept data gathered by intelligence agencies can be shared with law enforcement agencies."(Ellen Nakashima, "FBI Transfers via Telecoms Questioned," The Washington Post, Tuesday, April 8, 2008; A03)
But who’s "watching the watchers," or in this case, the listeners?
Since 1994, under rules mandated by the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), passed by the "liberal" Clinton administration, federal rules are in place "to make clear a telecommunications carrier’s duty to cooperate in the interception of communications for Law Enforcement purposes, and for other purposes." [emphasis added]
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These rules specify that telecom carriers and manufacturers design their equipment, facilities and services so as to guarantee they have the necessary surveillance capabilities. This onerous piece of legislative flotsam specifies that common carriers, broadband internet access providers and providers of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) service are designated "telecommunications carriers" under federal law and thus, are capable of interception by the state’s "security" bureaucracies. (For an historical analysis of CALEA’s civil liberties implications see: "Big Brother in the Wires: Wiretapping in the Digital Age," ACLU, March 1, 1998)
The FBI has since created a network of links and electronic hubs for collection purposes amongst the nation’s largest telecom carriers and internet providers "and about 40 FBI offices and Quantico, according to interviews and documents describing the agency’s Digital Collection System," according to the Washington Post.
These revelations mirror those of AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein, who revealed that the super secretive National Security Agency had been given access by AT&T management to install "splitters" for the Agency hard-wired to an NSA "secure" room in the company’s central office in San Francisco. According to Klein,
"In short, an exact copy of all internet traffic that flowed through critical AT&T cables–emails, documents, pictures, web browsing, Voice over-internet phone conservations, everything–was being diverted to equipment inside the secret room. In addition the documents reveal the technological gear used in their secret project, including a highly sophisticated search component capable of quickly sifting through huge amounts of digital data (including text, voice and images) in real time according to pre-programmed criteria.
It’s important to understand that the internet links which were connected to the splitter contained not just foreign communications but vast amounts of domestic traffic, all mixed together. Furthermore, the splitter has no selective abilities–it’s just a dumb device which copies everything to the secret room. And the links going through the splitter are AT&T’s physical connections to many other internet providers (e.g., Sprint, Qwest, Global Crossing, Cable & Wireless, and the critical West Coast Internet Exchange Point known as Mae West). Since these networks are interconnected, the government surveillance affects not only AT&T customers but everyone else–millions of Americans.
I also discovered in my conversations with other technicians that other "secret rooms" were established in Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego. One of the documents I obtained also mentions Atlanta, and the clear inference in the logic of this setup, and the language of the documents, is that there are other such rooms across the country to complete the coverage–possibly 15 to 20 or more." (Mark Klein, "Reject Amnesty for Telecoms," Electronic Frontier Foundation)
As a key networking hub of the national security state’s electronic driftnet, the "Quantico circuit" enables the FBI and their CIA and NSA partners in crime to literally target any one or any group with highly-intrusive and silent monitoring of all electronic communications. Under the Bush administration’s repressive "public-private" police state architecture, privacy rights join Geneva Convention prohibitions against torture as yet another "quaint" notion, a "phantom of lost liberty," in the memorable phrase uttered by former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2001.
While the Bureau claims that the content of a phone call or e-mail must be authorized by a court order showing "probable cause," as with other abusive FBI practices such as the issuance of so-called "national security letters" to obtain financial or other private records, the legal bar undoubtedly is set very low.
These latest revelations of FBI abuse of Fourth Amendment protections, follow on the heels of new initiatives undertaken by the Department of Homeland Security to utilize U.S. spy satellites for domestic "law enforcement and counterterrorism" investigations.
According to Nick Juliano,
"DHS plans to create a new office that would expand law enforcement and other civilian agencies’ access to data gathered by powerful intelligence and military satellites orbiting the earth. The National Applications Office [NAO] will oversee who can access such satellite data, which is typically used to monitor climate change and track hurricane damage, among other uses.
DHS still has not laid out legal frameworks or standard operating procedures for the office, according to a letter from three members of the House Homeland Security Committee." (Nick Juliano, "DHS Ignores Civil Liberties in Domestic Spy Satellite Plan, Lawmakers Say," The Raw Story, Monday, April 7, 2008)
First floated last August, then delayed over civil liberties concerns, DHS is now moving full speed ahead with the project. In a letter to DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, Reps. Bennie G. Thompson, Jane Harman and Christopher P. Carney wrote, "merely mentioning Posse Comitatus and other laws in the NAO Charter does not provide needed assurances that the Department will not transform NAO into a domestic spying platform."
Tepid protests by congressional Democrats who have systematically enabled these repressive measures by granting unlimited budgetary increases to Bushist spymasters, will have virtually no effect on an administration hell-bent on turning the entire country into a "free spy zone."
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April 10th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Not one person saw a 757 either moron & what happened to all those films? shouldn’t that clear it all up
April 10th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Same thing that hapened to all that film related to the John Kennedy Assassination! Yeah,where’s the plane?? Good one part-time!
April 10th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
…Ah-bdi…I keep telling you that the…bdi… best way to deal with ordinary citizens is to stick…ah…a camera up each and every…bdi…body’s ass . Can’t you…ah-bdi… get that through your thick skulls ??? Are you retarded or what ? On the…bdi… double !!! teenhut !!! Sieg heil !!! (…ah-bdi…ah-bdi…)
April 10th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Never end up under anesthetic,you never know what they might put in ya!
April 10th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
yeah the feds place all this importance on surveillance cameras and then when we want to see footage of what hit the pentagon they won’t show us anything
April 10th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Spying on American citizens is a ‘Declaration of War’ on Americans and against this United States.
Invading the privacy of Americans destroys the country as civilized and abandons our U.S. citizens and legal residents under the rule of criminals, blood-suckers and ass-lickers, uniformed thugs, hoodlums and the terrorists today hired to work for what were American governments to terrorize Americans not only to provide our U.S. tax dollars for their non-productive salaries to call that despicable crime their job security, but to have our U.S. citizens foot their bills and humongous unpayable irresponsible deficits for them, even as these cretin encourage the scum of humanity to steal from us!
These ‘Terrorist Acts’ can not be endorsed on the Americans who provide lawful jobs for them, who protect and stand-up for them and their collaborating gremlins, as ‘Terrorism’ destroys the habitat as a republic left under the will of depraved derelicts (outlaws!) who are perched on the lowest rungs of a once great American Republic! -Al Koppel.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
just keep it up washington. just keep lying to us. one day a group of millionaires are going to get together and buy a nuclear bomb on the black market and then…BOOM!!!!
April 10th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
BLAH BLAH BLAH …same old same old Thier Spying on me wahhaaahhha
Did you stop us?NO
Will you Stop Us NO
You Asked for the Protection We Are only Doing what You Asked for
April 10th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
time 2 spy back
April 10th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
The real reason they are spying on us beside being able to predict social tendencies, I believe, is to steal our ideas. They know we are a pool of information and from our recorded daily discussions they can extract any creative thoughts we have and make it a reality or turn it against us.
April 10th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
If I may continue on the subject of why they are spying on us a bit… Everyone of us in our life will eventually have a brilliant (social or scientific or other) idea (or part of it) and often those idea come as you are speaking to someone either directly or on the phone. Can you imagine what a simple database of 300+ millions people in daily conversations represent. If spying and controlling the market for profit is their only intentions with this, they are a bunch of morons.
The conversations they are recording contains invaluable amount of information of all sort: social, artistic, Scientific, etc… This is what they want, total access to our minds and access to our creative brainstorming. Basically they have us to think for them, eventualities, inventions, philosophical concepts, etc.
Unless they think we are too dumbed down to have anything worth it, but then, why record everything?
April 10th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
American people are great people dc has the scum criminals.Impeach all 598 of them!
April 10th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I am so damn nervous now that I know spooks watch whatever I do…Wait til they get a load of me in 2010.
Im not a terrorist,,,im much worse…im a nightmarist
April 10th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Adults in the usa need to publicly draw a line in the sand. then we will all know when the time to revolt is. because i guarantee you the US government is going to cross it
April 11th, 2008 at 12:46 am
9/11 was an inside job and the Neocons are the Israeli/Americans who orchestrated it from inside our Government.
The Anthrax attacks were done by an Israeli/American Zionist who knew the WTC attacks would be done on 9/11.
Odigo, the Israeli messaging service, reported that two hours before the controlled demolitions — messages were sent to friends in NY to stay out of the Towers.
CDI, a world renowned demolition company is Israeli owned.
The Security firm for the airports used for the 9/11 attack was an Israeli company.
The security firm in charge of WTC towers security was an Israeli company.
Silversteen, the owner of the Towers is an Israeli/America citizen.
Israel attacked us on 9/11 and murdered 3,000+ Americans so we invaded IRAQ on their behalf…….
GO TEAM !!
Kool aid comes in all flavors including EXTRA FLOURIDE.
April 11th, 2008 at 4:39 am
WHAT IS THE LAST STRAW? WHEN IS YOUR LAST STRAW?
April 11th, 2008 at 7:21 am
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/usc.pdf
SEE ANY CORRELATION?
April 11th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Big Brother in the bathroom
A British pub’s clientele may going elsewhere after the establishment installed closed-circuit TV camera’s in the tavern’s toilets, a U.K. newspaper reported this week.
The cameras are supposed to catch drug users snorting cocaine off the top of the toilet tank, The Sun newspaper said.
But female customers at The Rose & Crown in York were horrified. “It made me feel uncomfortable,” Deborah Styles was quoted as saying. “I definitely wouldn’t go back.”
We knew one day that reality TV would go too far.
April 11th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
http://www.thereignofchrist.com
Antichrist “is the number of a man,
and the number of him is six hundred sixty-six” Apoc 13:18.
The number of a man is taken from the sixth day
in which God created man Gn 1:31.
CONCERNING THE 6-6-6
The first ‘six’ is Zionism.
The second ‘six’ is Freemasonry.
The third ‘six’ is the ‘Unholy Alliance,’ not yet known to the
world.
THE FIRST ‘SIX’ – ZIONISM
Zionism has for it’s god
the money and the wealth of the world
in the hands of a few.
This group consists of mostly ‘Jews’
who are not true Jews,
but atheists, along with other Zionist international atheists.
THE SECOND ‘SIX’ – FREEMASONRY
Freemasonry has for it’s god,
the power and control of the governments of the world
in the hands of a few, through the ‘Illuminati.’
The Antichrist comes from these first two ‘sixes.’
THE THIRD ‘SIX’ – THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE
The ‘Unholy Alliance’ presently consists of the core group of:
Russia, China, N. Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan, India,
Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Afghanistan, Serbia, Sudan, and
Libya. They oppose the True God, and as an alliance, are
already in existence and operating. More nations will shortly
be added.
The False Prophet comes from this ‘Unholy Alliance.’
THE FINAL SETTING
Such are the forces of the devil which are being amassed.
They are all in position and at work.
They have infiltrated into every nation on the planet,
and they fight against everyone who dares to disagree with
them.
The evil forces are opposed by the 144,000
who belong to the True God, Holy Trinity,
and our God has these in position -
as well as His heavenly army!
The victory belongs to the Lord our God.
He is Lord, Eternal, Victor.
April 11th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
THE GREAT HARLOT
The great harlot is the union of Zionism and Freemasonry.
Their objective is total dominion over the entire earth
through monetary and political government control.
The great harlot is: “A mystery: ‘Babylon the great,
the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the
earth’” (Apoc 17:5). This ‘mystery’ is the united tyranny of
Zionism and Freemasonry.
THE SEVEN KINGS AND THE EIGHTH KING
The seven kings are types of governments,
and a collage of them is the eighth.
The predominate political structures are:
1. Democracy.
2. Monarchy.
3. Imperialism.
4. Communism.
5. Theocracy.
6. Oligarchy.
7. Dictatorship.
8. ‘Unholy alliance,’ this is the eighth, it is of the seven types
of government named above.
The great harlot sets up its seven deadly sins
contradicting and opposing the seven cardinal virtues.
The devil set up his ten evil commandments
contradicting and opposing the Ten Commandments of God.
Masonry and Zionism have spread their wicked network
throughout all the earth, in every nation, in every church, and
synagogue, and language, as was written above.
Take note of an important change in Canon Law of the
Roman Catholic Church.
On 27 May 1917, just 14 days after Our Lady’s first
apparition at Fatima, the Roman Catholic Church officially
condemned the Masonic sect under Canon 2335 which reads:
“Persons joining associations of the Masonic sect or any
others of the same kind which plot against the Church and
legitimate civil authorities contract ‘ipso facto’
excommunication simply reserved to the Apostolic See.”
In 1983 this law was watered down to Canon 1374 which
states: “A person who joins an association which plots against
the Church is to be punished with a just penalty; one who
promotes or takes office in such an association, is to be
punished with an interdict.”
The churches of the world have joined forces with the
political forces of the world. All these societies are worldly, of
the world, that is of Satan.
Through their greed and suppression of innocent people,
their economic system collapses,
causing the greatest war ever waged,
which will end all wars.
Through Almighty God, the evil of 666 is defeated forever!
April 12th, 2008 at 7:09 am
I’m headed down to Virginia Beach today, I-95, I-295, Quantico, Langely, Aberdeen Proving grounds, Norfolk, and don’t forget Blackwater, and KBR. More spooks than tourists.
April 12th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Fascist, fascist, fascist scum power sucking scum!
April 12th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
#21 needs to take his deist worldview and throw it in the trash, where it belongs
April 13th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Willie says HANG THE BASTARDS!
DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER
April 13th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Wait till the F.B.I. sells your call information to the marketing megalomaniacs on Madison Avenue. Then we’ll definitly know that there is a partnership between business and the government, otherwise known as FASCISM.