British - Reporter is a "terrorist" for telling the truth

The growing British 1984 Surveillance Police State.

"They are absolutely and explicitly equating terrorism with journalism."

Glenn Greenwald

Journalist

The Growing Police State  -  The British government and MI5 are working as the hired thugs of Comrade Obama in a joint direct attack on freedom of the press. 

Journalists are now being threatened with the crimes of terrorism and espionage if they dare try and stand up to their Masters in Big Brother Government and report the truth.

British authorities claimed the domestic partner of reporter Glenn Greenwald was involved in "terrorism" when he tried to carry documents from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden through a London airport in August, according to police and intelligence documents.

Greenwald's partner, David Miranda, was detained and questioned for nine hours by British authorities at Heathrow on August 18, when he landed there from Berlin to change planes for a flight to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

After his release and return to Rio, Miranda filed a legal action against the British government, seeking the return of materials seized from him by British authorities and a judicial review of the legality of his detention reports Reuters News.

Glenn Greenwald (R) and David Miranda
Governments around the world are frightened of their own people.  The British, acting
as agents for Comrade Obama, are directly attacking the freedom of the press as the media tries
to tell the people the truth about the 1984 Surveillance State. 

At a London court hearing this week for Miranda's lawsuit, a document called a "Ports Circulation Sheet" was read into the record. It was prepared by Scotland Yard - in consultation with the MI5 counterintelligence agency - and circulated to British border posts before Miranda's arrival. The precise date of the document is unclear.

"Intelligence indicates that Miranda is likely to be involved in espionage activity which has the potential to act against the interests of UK national security," according to the document.

"We assess that Miranda is knowingly carrying material the release of which would endanger people's lives," the document continued. "Additionally the disclosure, or threat of disclosure, is designed to influence a government and is made for the purpose of promoting a political or ideological cause. This therefore falls within the definition of terrorism..."

Miranda was not charged with any offense, although British authorities said in August they had opened a criminal investigation after initially examining materials they seized from him. They did not spell out the probe's objectives.

British authorities have said in court that items seized from Miranda included electronic media containing 58,000 documents from the U.S. National Security Agency and its British counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

Greenwald, who previously worked for Britain's Guardian newspaper, has acknowledged that Miranda was carrying material supplied by Snowden when he was detained.

In an email to Reuters, Greenwald condemned the British government for labeling his partner's actions "terrorism."

"For all the lecturing it doles out to the world about press freedoms, the UK offers virtually none...They are absolutely and explicitly equating terrorism with journalism," he said.

Obama's Police State - DHS thugs steal reporter's files

Press Intimidation

Obama's DHS confiscates investigative reporter’s

confidential files in an attack on press freedom

• The corrupt Fascist DHS uses a phony search warrant for "firearms" to conduct a SWAT team pre-dawn raid in full body armor and steal a reporters confidential notes and list of sources.
• The Bill of Rights is being viciously raped before our eyes.
• The Washington Times sues Obama over attack on the 1st Amendment.
• Obama used the Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) in a direct assault on a free press.

The American Police State  -  A veteran Washington D.C. investigative journalist says the Department of Homeland Security confiscated a stack of her confidential files during a raid of her home in August — leading her to fear that a number of her sources inside the federal government have now been exposed.

In an interview with The Daily Caller, journalist Audrey Hudson revealed that the Department of Homeland Security and Maryland State Police were involved in a predawn raid of her Shady Side, Md. home on Aug. 6. Hudson is a former Washington Times reporter and current freelance reporter.

A search warrant obtained by TheDC indicates that the August raid allowed law enforcement to search for firearms inside her home.

The New DHS Federal Police Force in Training.

The document notes that her husband, Paul Flanagan, was found guilty in 1986 to resisting arrest in Prince George’s County. The warrant called for police to search the residence they share and seize all weapons and ammunition because he is prohibited under the law from possessing firearms.

But without Hudson’s knowledge, the agents also confiscated a batch of documents that contained information about sources inside the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, she said.

Outraged over the seizure, Hudson is now speaking out. She said no subpoena for the notes was presented during the raid and argues the confiscation was outside of the search warrant’s parameter.

“They took my notes without my knowledge and without legal authority to do so,” Hudson said this week. “The search warrant they presented said nothing about walking out of here with a single sheet of paper.”

She provided TheDC with a photo showing the stack of file folders in a bag marked “evidence/property.”

On Thursday, a spokesman for the Maryland State Police declined to address any specifics about the search.

Welcome to Obama's America

At about 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 6, Hudson said officers dressed in full body armor presented a search warrant to enter the home she shares on the bay with her husband. She estimates that at least seven officers took part in the raid.

After the search began, Hudson said she was asked by an investigator with the Coast Guard Investigative Service if she was the same Audrey Hudson who had written a series of critical stories about air marshals for The Washington Times over the last decade. The Coast Guard operates under the Department of Homeland Security.

But it wasn’t until a month later, on Sept. 10, that Hudson was informed by Bosch that five files including her handwritten and typed notes from interviews with numerous confidential sources and other documents had been taken during the raid.



You will obey your DHS Masters.

“In particular, the files included notes that were used to expose how the Federal Air Marshal Service had lied to Congress about the number of airline flights there were actually protecting against another terrorist attack,” Hudson wrote in a summary about the raid provided to TheDC.

Recalling the experience during an interview this week, Hudson said: “When they called and told me about it, I just about had a heart attack.”

She said she asked Bosch why they took the files. He responded that they needed to run them by TSA to make sure it was “legitimate” for her to have them.

“‘Legitimate’ for me to have my own notes?” she said incredulously on Wednesday.

Asked how many sources she thinks may have been exposed, Hudson said: “A lot. More than one. There were a lot of names in those files.”

“This guy basically came in here and took my anonymous sources and turned them over — took my whistleblowers — and turned it over to the agency they were blowing the whistle on,” Hudson said. “And these guys still work there.”

The Daily Caller reached Bosch on his cell phone on Thursday. “Before I talk to you, I’m probably going to have to run this by our legal department,” he said.

Carlos Díaz, the chief of media relations for the Coast Guard, said in a statement that the Coast Guard Investigative Service was asked to participate in the raid because the search involved a Coast Guard employee. Flanagan is an ordinance technician for the Coast Guard in Baltimore.


Read the full story at:   The Daily Caller.

The reporter was provided with a photo showing the stack of file
folders in a bag marked “evidence/property.”

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“Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”   
V for Vendetta

Obama regime had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011

The Death of the Republic

Secret Courts making secret rulings so the Secret Police can

piss on the Constitution and secretly spy on everyone.

The regime of Dear Leader Obama secretly won permission from a secret surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to secretly search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.

In addition, the secret court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

What had not been previously acknowledged is that the court in 2008 imposed an explicit ban — at the government’s request — on those kinds of searches, that officials in 2011 got the court to lift the bar and that the search authority has been used reports the Washington Post.

Together the permission to search and to keep data longer expanded the NSA’s authority in significant ways without public debate or any specific authority from Congress.

The administration’s assurances rely on legalistic definitions of the term “target” that can be at odds with ordinary English usage. The enlarged authority is part of a fundamental shift in the government’s approach to surveillance: collecting first, and protecting Americans’ privacy later.

“The government says, ‘We’re not targeting U.S. persons,’ ” said Gregory T. Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “But then they never say, ‘We turn around and deliberately search for Americans’ records in what we took from the wire.’ That, to me, is not so different from targeting Americans at the outset.”

The secret court decision allowed the NSA “to query the vast majority” of its e-mail and phone call databases using the e-mail addresses and phone numbers of Americans and legal residents without a warrant, according to Bates’s opinion.


Governments Should Be Afraid of their People

NSA records your Facebook chats and so much more

“Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much,
much louder than they care to remember.”   V for Vendetta

NSA database tracks FACEBOOK chats

The 4th Amendment, and common decency, have no meaning

to the bi-partisan Police State funded by both parties. 

The UK Guardian reports a top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet.

The latest revelations will add to the intense public and congressional debate around the extent of NSA surveillance programs. They come as senior intelligence officials testify to the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, releasing classified documents in response to the Guardian's earlier stories on bulk collection of phone records and Fisa surveillance court oversight.

The files shed light on one of Snowden's most controversial statements, made in his first video interview published by the Guardian on June 10.


Ex-NSA official on Snowden and the U.S. spy leviathan 
Thomas Drake, who was prosecuted for allegedly disclosing National Security Agency secrets years before Edward Snowden surfaced, says the U.S. government has an "industrial-scale" surveillance system that "the Stasi in East Germany would have drooled over." Drake speaks with Reuters defense correspondent Andrea Shalal-Esa.

"I, sitting at my desk," said Snowden, could "wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email".

US officials vehemently denied this specific claim. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, said of Snowden's assertion: "He's lying. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do."

But training materials for XKeyscore detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous agency databases by filling in a simple on-screen form giving only a broad justification for the search. The request is not reviewed by a court or any NSA personnel before it is processed.

XKeyscore, the documents boast, is the NSA's "widest reaching" system developing intelligence from computer networks – what the agency calls Digital Network Intelligence (DNI). One presentation claims the program covers "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet", including the content of emails, websites visited and searches, as well as their metadata.

Analysts can also use XKeyscore and other NSA systems to obtain ongoing "real-time" interception of an individual's internet activity.


Beyond emails, the XKeyscore system allows analysts to monitor a virtually unlimited array of other internet activities, including those within social media.

An NSA tool called DNI Presenter, used to read the content of stored emails, also enables an analyst using XKeyscore to read the content of Facebook chats or private messages.

The NSA has created a multi-tiered system that allows analysts to store "interesting" content in other databases, such as one named Pinwale which can store material for up to five years.

The ACLU's deputy legal director, Jameel Jaffer, told the Guardian last month that national security officials expressly said that a primary purpose of the new law was to enable them to collect large amounts of Americans' communications without individualized warrants.

"The government doesn't need to 'target' Americans in order to collect huge volumes of their communications," said Jaffer. "The government inevitably sweeps up the communications of many Americans" when targeting foreign nationals for surveillance.

For the full article go to UK Guardian.com - NSA



Police State Checkpoint Video Goes Viral on YouTube

In an incident in Murfreesboro, a video that was said to be connected with the Libertarian Party that also involved a Deputy County Sheriff A.J. Ross went viral in YouTube. (Photo : Screen Capture from YouTube/PurpleHat1991)

 

Police DUI Checkpoint Video

a Must See, For Citizens and Cops

Over 3.7 million views on YouTube so far.

Again, where are the Democrats and Republicans hiding while our Constitutional Rights are being abused?  Oh that's right, the two big parties are the ones who have ordered, funded and have protected the growing police state in the first place.

Protecting our rights appears to fall to those "crazy" fringe Libertarians and Constitutionalists.

Another question of our constitutional rights arose in Rutherford County, Tennessee on the Fourth of July, and was captured in a video that has gone viral.

A man claims police violated his rights when he was stopped at a DUI checkpoint in Murfreesboro.

 

The checkpoint stop involved a confrontation between 21-year old college student Chris Kalbaugh, and Deputy County Sheriff A.J. Ross. Headlines and Global News reported that Ross initially asked Kalbaugh to roll down his window, but the student refused, saying he could hear the deputy just “fine.” After Ross asked him to pull over, Kalbaugh asked if he was being detained.

Newschannel 5.com reports that the video may have been recorded for political purposes. Kalbaugh is a member of the Rutherford County Libertarian Party. That party said in a statement that they had been concerned about local DUI checkpoints, and asked members to record any confrontations.

Jim Tomasik of Tennessee’s Libertarian Party said, "The Rutherford County Sheriff's deputy trashing a law abiding citizen's constitutional rights on July 4th makes it clear that the very meaning of Independence Day has become lost on the law enforcement community in Rutherford County."

Show us your papers.
Authoritarian governments love to set up random "checkpoints" to bully and intimidate the people to obey their Masters.
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Notice in story after story about the abuse of our Constitutional rights, 90% + of the so-called "leaders" of the Democrats and the Republicans are either hiding under their desks or acting as mindless cheerleaders for a Big Brother Surveillance State. 

Congressmen ask that secret surveillance court opinions be made public



“Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much,
much louder than they care to remember.” 
V for Vendetta



“Secret law is anathema to a free country.”

16 Congressman demand answers.

The rest of Congress tells the public to go fuck themselves.

Police State  -  16 Congressmen out of 535 in both houses of Congress have demanded answers about the secret FISA Court and its secret rulings. 

Say that again - - - only 16 Congressmen stood tall.  That number tells you how fucked you really are.

A bipartisan group of 16 congressmen, including Reps. Justin Amash, R-Mich., Mark Sanford, R-S.C., and Rush Holt, D-N.J., have filed an amicus brief with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court requesting the secret court release its secret opinions granting the collection of American phone records.


We are watching you.

“Secret law is anathema to a free country,” Amash said. “Congress cannot effectively legislate until it knows what the law is. The American public cannot engage in a meaningful debate about liberty and surveillance until it knows what its government is doing.”

The FISA court is behind the interpretations to Section 215 of the Patriot Act that led to the mass collection of records on the American people. Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden first brought to light the issue, exposing the National Security Agency and its spying scheme reports the Washington Examiner.

The amicus brief requests the Attorney General release “significant” opinions to the public, which is currently not the case under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., who also signed onto the amicus brief, said, “It is absolutely critical that Congress and all Americans know how the government is interpreting the law — especially when there are so many troubling signs of abuse.”

Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., added, "The right to privacy in this country is non-negotiable. While I believe that national security is essential, we must protect our most basic civil liberties and move forward in a way that does not sacrifice our American values and freedoms. We must ensure that we keep a better balance between our privacy and our national security by re-establishing and strengthening Congress' vital role of accountability and oversight of this issue."