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• Anti-terrorism exercise held at CBBT
• Published : Tuesday, 27 Oct 2009
• Lori Crouch
• VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - The rail, ferries and tunnels in Hampton Roads are getting extra attention.
• On Tuesday morning, dozens of law enforcement agents greeted drivers at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.
• The substantial traffic stop included a driver's license check as well as explosive and drug sniffing dogs.
• It is part of the Transportation Security Administration's Viper Program and the agents aren't your TSA airport screeners, according to Federal Security Director Jeffrey Horowitz.
• "We do rail, we do busing, we do pipelines. We're out there for all commercial modes of transportation," he said.
• Horowitz says the government saw a need to better protect its mass transit systems after the 2004 Madrid terrorist attack. Nearly two hundred people died in the coordinated bombing of several of Madrid's commuter trains.
• Since Viper's inception in 2007, 3,500 operations have been conducted, half of those this year. Agents have nabbed drugs and illegal weapons. The larger goal is to deter terrorist activity.
• "We're going out and showing the people that we are interested in being involved in the local community and the federal government itself.
• So therefore it will prevent people from possibly wanting to come out here and cause trouble for us," says LT David Thornes with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel police department.
• It takes a combined effort of federal and local agencies to pull off a Viper operation.

  • Aptly named, I must say...
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• There were eight at the Bay Bridge, including two Coast Guard boats and a Virginia Beach police boat patrolling the bay. While Viper has been done at the James River Ferry, cruise ship terminal and rail stations, the Bay Bridge was the largest one yet.
• Most drivers welcomed the stop and appreciated the security. "Doesn't bother me at all, I'd rather be safe than sorry," said one delivery truck driver.

  • Oh yes! Yes! Beat me! Call me Hazel! Make me write bad checks!..See? I'm a dutiful subject!
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• Bridge operators plan to stay proactive and bring Viper back again soon.

  • Oh! Please do...!
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• Kaiser Sosa · 16 hours ago

  Timing could haven't anything to do with Obama visiiting could it?

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• NY Times: Afghan Opium Kingpin On CIA Payroll
• But exposé serves as little more than a whitewash because it fails to mention decades-long U.S. agenda to support lucrative Golden Crescent drug trade
• Paul Joseph Watson
   Prison Planet.com
   Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• A bombshell article in today’s edition of the New York Times lifts the lid on how the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a suspected kingpin of the country’s booming opium trade, has been on the CIA payroll for the past eight years.
• However, the article serves as little more than a whitewash because it fails to address the fact that one of the primary reasons behind the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was the agenda to reinstate the Golden Crescent drug trade.
• “The agency pays (Ahmed Wali) Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai’s home,” reports the Times.
• An October 2008 report from the Times reveals how, after security forces discovered a huge tractor-trailer full of heroin outside Kandahar in 2004, “Before long, the commander, Habibullah Jan, received a telephone call from Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai, asking him to release the vehicle and the drugs.”
• In 2006, following the discovery of another cache of heroin, “United States investigators told other American officials that they had discovered links between the drug shipment and a bodyguard believed to be an intermediary for Ahmed Wali Karzai.”
• The Times article out today also discusses how the CIA uses Karzai as a go-between between the Americans and the Taliban. He is also directly implicated in the manufacturing of phony ballots and polling stations that were attributed to the President’s disputed election victory.
• “If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck,” the American officer said of Mr. Karzai. “Our assumption is that he’s benefiting from the drug trade.”
• Officials quoted by The Times described Karzai as a Mafia-like figure who expanded his influence over the drug trade with the aid of U.S. efforts to eliminate his competitors.
• The Afghan opium trade has exploded since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, following a lull after the Taliban had imposed a crackdown.
• According to the U.N., the drug trade is now worth $65 billion. Afghanistan produces 92 per cent of the world’s opium, with the equivalent of 3,500 tonnes leaving the country each year. Other figures put the number far higher, at around 6,100 tonnes a year.
• The New York Times exposé pins the blame on Karzai, but fails to explain that one of the primary reasons behind the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was the United States’ agenda to restore, not eradicate, the drug trade.
• Before the invasion, the Taliban collaborated closely with the U.N. to reduce opium production down to just 185 tonnes, a figure at least 2000% below current levels.
• The notion that the “Taliban benefits from the drug trade” and that the U.S. is trying to stop it, as both Bush and Obama claimed, is the complete opposite of what is actually happening.
• As Professor Michel Chossudovsky has highlighted in a series of essays, the explosion of opium production after the invasion was about the CIA’s drive to restore the lucrative Golden Crescent opium trade that was in place during the time when the Agency were funding the Mujahideen rebels to fight the Soviets, and flood the streets of America and Britain with cheap heroin, destroying lives while making obscene profits.

  • There have been rumors for years and in some cases reports from investigative journalists (some who piad for their sleuthing with their lives), that the CIA was benefiting from drug imports into the USA. Even during the Vietnam War, military men, with much disgust, were reporting CIA and other high placed Americans involved in the Golden Triangle drug business.
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• The Times implies that the drug lord Karzai being on the CIA payroll is little more than an embarrassing coincidence, when in reality he is just a middle manager for the U.S. military-industrial complex’s control of the drug trade in Afghanistan which stretches back decades and was only interrupted when the Taliban came to power.
• “Heroin is a multibillion dollar business supported by powerful interests, which requires a steady and secure commodity flow.
• One of the “hidden” objectives of the war was precisely to restore the CIA sponsored drug trade to its historical levels and exert direct control over the drug routes,” writes Chossudovsky.
• “As revealed in the Iran-Contra and Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) scandals, CIA covert operations in support of the Afghan Mujahideen had been funded through the laundering of drug money.
• “Dirty money” was recycled –through a number of banking institutions (in the Middle East) as well as through anonymous CIA shell companies–, into “covert money,” used to finance various insurgent groups during the Soviet-Afghan war, and its aftermath.”
• Within two years of the CIA’s covert operation in Afghanistan, “CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade.
• As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.
• Across the border in Pakistan, Afghan leaders and local syndicates under the protection of Pakistan Intelligence operated hundreds of heroin laboratories. During this decade of wide-open drug-dealing, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency in Islamabad failed to instigate major seizures or arrests.”
• This is the history of the Afghan opium trade that the Times won’t tell you, and in failing to do so today’s article serves only to whitewash the true scale of the agenda behind the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan.

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• NSA To Build $1.5 Billion Cybersecurity Data Center
• The massive complex, comprising up to 1.5 million square feet of building space, will provide intelligence and warnings related to cybersecurity threats across government.
• By <!-- <A HREF="mailto:`request.getParameter("element.email_address")`"> --> J. Nicholas Hoover 
    <!-- remove http:// substring (if present) from the url -->  InformationWeek   
     October 29, 2009 01:07 PM  
• The National Security Agency, whose job it is to protect national security systems, will soon break ground on a data center in Utah that's budgeted to cost $1.5 billion.
• The NSA is building the facility to provide intelligence and warnings related to cybersecurity threats, cybersecurity support to defense and civilian agency networks,
• and technical assistance to the Department of Homeland Security, according to a transcript of remarks by Glenn Gaffney, deputy director of national intelligence for collection, who is responsible for oversight of cyber intelligence activities in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
• "Our country must continue to advance its national security efforts and that includes improvements in cybersecurity," Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, said in a statement.
• "As we rely more and more on our communications networks for business, government and everyday use, we must be vigilant and provide agencies with the necessary resources to protect our country from a cyber attack."
• The data center will be built at Camp Williams, a National Guard training center 26 miles south of Salt Lake City, which was chosen for its access to cheap power, communications infrastructure, and availability of space, Gaffney said.
• The complex will comprise up to 1.5 million square feet of building space on 120 to 200 acres, according to the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City.
• According to a budget document for the project, the 30-megawatt data center will be cooled by chilled water and capable of Tier 3, or near carrier-grade, reliability.
• The design calls for the highest LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standard within available resources.
• The U.S. Army Corps of engineers will host a conference in Salt Lake City to provide further detail the data center building and acquisition plans.
• The project will require between 5,000 and 10,000 workers during construction, and the data center will eventually employ between 100 and 200 workers.
• As part of its mission, NSA monitors communications "signals" for intelligence related to national security and defense.
• Gaffney gave assurances that the work going on at the data center will protect civil liberties.
• "We will accomplish this in full compliance with the U.S. Constitution and federal law and while observing strict guidelines that protect the privacy and civil liberties of the American people," Gaffney said.
• On Nov. 30, the Department of Homeland Security will formally open a new cybersecurity operations center, the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, in Arlington, Va.
• The facility will house the National Cyber Security Center, which coordinates cybersecurity operations across government, the National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications, which operates the government's telecommunications network, and the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, which works with industry and government to protect networks and alert them of malicious activity.
• myu902   

   

    commented on Nov 2, 2009 12:57:46 PM 

   

   

    Please- this is TOO simple. They're currently doing this in CA, and WHEN the next earthquake takes CA apart at the seams...
   
   Utah is not sitting atop a giant fault line. When most of CA and Seattle fall into the ocean, they'll still be OP in Utah.
   
   "National security systems" are highly secured fiber optic lines, NOT "cyber" lines. Too much Bravo Sierra here.
• This is an internet/telephone snooping center.
• More bogus statements:
• ""As we rely more and more on our communications networks for business,"
• Since WHEN does NSA montor BUSINESS comms? Does purchase of more than 14 Big Macs constitute food stock-piling and a National security threat?
• "As part of its mission, NSA monitors communications "signals" for intelligence related to national security and defense. "
• "Signals" are NOT "cyber-space" Signals are radiated RF (that IS my specialty).
• "Gaffney gave assurances that the work going on at the data center will protect civil liberties. "
• Bald-faced lie, without further comment.
• RBryson841   

   

    commented on Nov 2, 2009 10:54:58 AM 

   

   

    Come on. You believe what the article is saying? Since when does the NSA tell you everything. I don't think we'll ever know what they will really do. Can't tell the bad guys what you're doing in public, can you?

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• Top 10 Weirdest CIA Programs
• Over the years, the American Central Intelligence Agency has gained a reputation for being the most far-reaching, sophisticated, and effective government intelligence agency on the planet.
• At the same time, the CIA has also become known for its incredible paranoia and propensity to undertake costly, sometimes illegal, and often downright absurd projects in the name of gaining an edge on the competition.
• From spy cats to psychic hippies, the following are ten of the weirdest spy programs the government has proposed and funded over the years.
• 10. Acoustic Kitty
• Most people wouldn’t think of the common house cat as being a potential master of espionage, but the CIA sure did.
• In the 1960s, American intelligence is said to have spent over $20 million on “Acoustic Kitty,” a top-secret project that used cats as recording devices.
• The project took a group of specially trained cats and surgically implanted microphones, antennae and batteries into their tails, and then set them loose near the Russian embassy.
• The idea was that an unassuming cat would be able to stride right up to groups of communist officials and listen in on their conversation, which it could then beam back to agents with its sophisticated radio equipment.
• The plan was eventually put into action, but the first cat sent into the field was supposedly run over by a taxi before it could make a recording, and operation ‘Acoustic Kitty” was abandoned shortly thereafter.

• 9. Operation Mockingbird

   

  
• One of the most ambitious and downright insidious programs ever launched by the CIA was Operation Mockingbird, a propaganda project that was implemented in the early 1950s.
• It was a massive undertaking that saw as many as 3,000 CIA agents and collaborators attempt to gain some control of the free press by feeding select groups of reporters information and using newspapers at home and abroad to filter the kinds of stories that got to the public.
• At its height, the program included writers for the New York Times, Newsweek, and Time Magazine among its ranks, and was said to have a significant influence on as many as 25 major newspapers.
• The program had a major impact abroad, as well, as it served a major function in helping to sway public opinion in the run-up to the eventual overthrowing of Guatemala’s leftist president.
• Operation Mockingbird continued to have a major effect on worldwide media throughout the 50s, and it was not until the 60s that a series of reports by investigative journalists brought the program to light.

• 8. Operation Gold

   

  

  The tapped telephone wires are presented to the press.
• One of the most audacious intelligence operations of the Cold War was 1953’s Operation Gold, which was a joint effort between the CIA and the British MI6 to hack into the phone lines of the Soviet headquarters in East Berlin.
• This required the construction of a massive 450-meter long tunnel that would intersect with an underground telephone junction. Just preparing the tunnel took six months, and involved a substantial amount of risk and subterfuge.
• But when it was done, the CIA proceeded to carefully record as many as 50,000 telephone conversations over the course of nearly a year.
• The problem? A mole in British intelligence had tipped off the KGB about Operation Gold before the tunnel was even completed, and the Soviets had been feeding fake them information the entire time.
• In 1956, the Soviets raided the tunnel and shut it down, and the operation eventually caused a great deal of controversy for the American and British intelligence communities.

• 7. Operation Northwoods

   

  
• In the early 1960s, when the Cold War was in full swing and fear of communism was rampant, a plan dubbed Operation Northwoods was proposed within the American CIA.
• In short, it called for the government to perform a series of violent terrorist actions in U.S. cities including bombings, hijackings, phony riots, and sabotage, all of which could then be blamed on Cuba.
• This would drum up support for a war against the communists and lead to an eventual military operation to remove Fidel Castro from power.
• The plan was drafted and signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and presented to President John F. Kennedy, who personally rejected it, and it was subsequently abandoned.
• For years after, Operation Northwoods existed as a rumor, but it was finally revealed to be true when top-secret documents describing the plan were made public in 1997 as part of a release of government papers relating to the Kennedy assassination.

• 6. Project Pigeon

   

  
• One of the most seemingly preposterous military programs of all time occurred during WWII, when famed behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner was enlisted by the government to try and train pigeons for use in a missile guidance system.
• At the time, Skinner was known as one of the major practitioners of operant conditioning, a system that used reward and punishment as a means of controlling behavior.
• With these ideas in mind, Skinner placed a series of specially trained pigeons inside missiles. A camera on the front of the missile recorded its flight path, which was then projected on a screen for the pigeon to see. The birds were trained to recognize the missile’s intended target, and they would peck at the screen if it was drifting off course.
• This information was fed to the weapon’s flight controls, which would then be changed to reflect the new coordinates.
• Skinner was originally given $25,000 to get the project up and running, and he actually managed to make some minor progress with it. But government officials were never quite able to get past the obvious absurdity of the program, and it was eventually shut down. Image credit: http://www.psywarrior.com/

• 5. Operation Midnight Climax

   

  
• In the early 1960s, the youth culture of America was first beginning to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs like LSD, and so was the Central Intelligence Agency.
• Operation Midnight Climax was one of the government’s most ridiculous and illegal attempts to test the possible uses of drugs like acid by administering them to unsuspecting citizens.
• The program was run out of a collection of safehouses in New York and California.
• Prostitutes were used to lure young men to the houses, at which point they were given food or drink spiked with LSD and other drugs and placed in a room with a two-way mirror where their behavior could be observed.
• Midnight Climax was essentially an experimental program designed to monitor the possible tactical uses of psychotropic drugs and sexual blackmail in the field, but even within the Agency it was controversial, and it was shut down after only a few years.
• Most of the files connected to the operation were destroyed, but a few survived, and in the early 70s the files regarding Midnight Climax and many other illegal CIA programs were brought to light in a famous story by the New York Times.
• 4. The Stargate Project
• The $20 million Stargate Project was a blanket term used to describe a large number of psychic experiments and investigations undertaken by the U.S. government between the 70s and 90s.
• The biggest goal of the Stargate Project was to investigate the scientific probability of “remote viewing,” which is the psychic ability to witness events over great distances.
• The program, which also investigated psychic abilities like out of body experiences and clairvoyance, tested subjects on their ability to predict future events and read hidden documents.
• The Stargate Project usually enlisted the services of anywhere from 3 to 22 subjects at a time, many of whom managed to test with an accuracy rating as much as 15% higher than the norm.
• Still, although some participants claimed to have correctly predicted major world events like military attacks and hostage situations, the program found that remote viewers and so-called telepaths were still wrong nearly 80 percent of the time, and in 1995 the CIA cancelled the Stargate Project for good.
• 3. Operation Mongoose
• In the early 60s, communist Cuba became one of the major battlegrounds of the Cold War, and its president Fidel Castro came to be considered one of the most dangerous political figures in the world.
• After early attempts to overthrow Castro by force failed, the CIA instituted Operation Mongoose, which was a secret war of propaganda and sabotage designed to remove the Cuban leader from power.
• Operation Mongoose had a remarkably wide scope, and included plans to fake attacks on Cuban exiles, provide arms to opposition groups, and destroy Cuba’s crop of sugarcane.
• It also included several attempts to either assassinate or discredit Castro in the press, each of which was more elaborate and ridiculous than the next.
• The Agency considered, among other things, poisoning Castro’s personal supply of cigars, planting explosives disguised as seashells in his favorite swimming spots, and injecting him with a deadly chemical from a hypodermic needle disguised as a pen.
• Even more bizarre were the plans to discredit Castro in the public eye, which included a proposal to spray a TV studio with hallucinogens prior to one of the leader’s televised speeches, and even planting chemicals in his clothes that would cause his famous beard to fall out.
• The near-disaster of the Cuban Missile Crisis put Operation Mongoose on hold, and following an agreement between Kennedy and the Soviets, it was more or less abandoned.
• 2. Project MKULTRA
• One of the most downright creepy government programs and the fodder for countless conspiracy theories, Project MKULTRA was a sweeping and top-secret CIA program started in the early 1950s that included experiments in “chemical interrogation” and mind control.
• In short, MKULTRA was a plan that sought to use drugs, psychological stress, and bizarre interrogation methods to get information, control behavior, and even alter brain function.
• To this day, much of the information on the project remains classified, but what we do know is that the program involved the testing and interrogation of private citizens—often without their knowledge or consent—in the service of discovering whether or not certain drugs could be used as truth serums.
• This included giving subjects large doses of LSD, amphetamine, and mescaline, as well as shock therapy.
• In one case, subjects were supposedly dosed with acid for 77 days straight in an attempt to test the effects of long-term exposure to the drug.
• Conspiracy theories abide about the real goals of the project, with some saying it was a program to engineer zombie assassins through mind control and brainwashing.
• Some information about MKULTRA was finally brought to light in the early seventies, when news reports about CIA abuses of power led to a Congressional commission.
• The project was subsequently shut down, but many people claim that similar CIA programs still exist to this day.

• 1. The Bay of Pigs Invasion

   

  
• For sheer absurdity, wastefulness, and infamy, few CIA projects compare to 1961’s failed Bay of Pigs Invasion.
• The program was one of the first and boldest attempts to overthrow communist Cuban leader Fidel Castro, but it was also the most disastrously unsuccessful.
• It started in 1960, when the CIA, under the authorization of the President, began planning an attempted overthrow of the Cuban government.
• In order to eliminate any link to the U.S., the attack was to be perpetrated by an army of Cuban exiles specially trained by the CIA.
• After a series of diversionary air strikes, on April 17, 1961, a group of amphibious troop transports landed on a beach in the Bay of Pigs and began unloading their cargo of 1,300 exile guerillas. The plan was for them to rendezvous with a smaller band of paratroops to be dropped soon after their arrival, but from the beginning their plan was tragically mistimed.
• For starters, Cuban intelligence was already aware of the planned invasion, and this meant that when the exile troops landed they were almost immediately under attack. To add to the force’s problems, bad weather, coral reefs, and the Cuban swamps quickly claimed most of their equipment.
• All told, an estimated 2,000 Cubans died during the invasion, while over 100 members of the exile army were killed in action.
• The remaining 1,200 were captured and imprisoned, and some were later executed on the orders of Castro.
• Over a year later, the rest were freed in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine for Cuban people. The effects of the Bay of Pigs were far reaching. Several American officials resigned over their involvement in it, and many have credited it with increasing the resolve of the Cuban government and encouraging a severe distrust of American foreign policy in the years that followed.

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• December 1, 2009 3:07 PM PST
• EFF sues feds for info on social-network surveillance
• by Elinor Mills
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the CIA, the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and three other government agencies on Tuesday for allegedly refusing to release information about how they are using social networks in surveillance and investigations.
• The nonprofit Internet rights watchdog group formally asked more than a dozen agencies or departments in early October to provide records about federal guidelines on the use of sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr for investigative or data gathering purposes, according to the lawsuit.
• The requests were prompted by published news reports about how authorities are using social networks to monitor citizen activities and aid in investigations.
• For example, according to the lawsuit, government officials have: used Facebook to hunt for fugitives and search for evidence of underage drinking; researched the activities of an activist on Facebook and LinkedIn; watched YouTube to identify riot suspects; searched the home of a social worker because of Twitter messages regarding police actions he sent during the G-20 summit; and used fake identities to trick Facebook users into accepting friend requests.
• The EFF needs access to the information to "help inform Congress and the public about the effect of such uses and purposes on citizens' privacy rights and associated legal protections," the lawsuit said.
• None of the agencies contacted had complied with the EFF's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and only one, the IRS, had asked for an extension, according to the suit.
• The suit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, names the defendants as the CIA, the office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the departments of Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, and Treasury.
• The FOIA requests and the lawsuit were filed on behalf of the EFF by the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law.
• Government surveillance of citizens, particularly in areas they consider private, should have oversight, said Shane Witnov, a law student who worked on the case for the Samuelson Clinic.
• "Social-networking sites are becoming a part of the way we communicate every day and everyone thinks they are sharing information [on the sites] with just their friends," he said.
• "Governments are using the sites but not in the way [citizens] expect when they sign up."
• The government agencies could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon.
• Updated 4:55 p.m. PST with comment from Samuelson Clinic law student.
• Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor.
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• by Thad Boyd December 1, 2009 3:54 PM PST

  Well, the government's finally complied with FOIA requests for Iran-Contra, so maybe if we just give it another 20 years...
  
  It's a bit of a sticky issue, I suppose -- do privacy rights cover information that is posted publicly? At what point does government surveillance become illegal? I suppose an offline example would be that it's legal to see me leaving my house in the morning but if somebody's watching and recording every time I do it, that's surveillance, not simple observation.
• I think going so far as to send friend requests in order to access private information qualifies as entrapment, though.
• by inachu1 December 2, 2009 7:04 AM PST

  I am sure the information being used was and is still being used as it always has been. 
  To instill fear in those who speak out against war.
  I myself spoke with a govt spook online and they got my info wrong way wrong. 
   
• So the information they collect is highly suspect to me after proving my data they had as misleading. 
  After all I always put out misleading info about myself online anyway. Google and see if you can reall build a true profile about me. I bet you $100 you can't.
• by dogboi December 2, 2009 5:32 PM PST

  I'm not a lawyer, but I seem to recall that once you involve a third party (say Facebook), information is no longer private, no matter how you set your privacy controls. The "presence" of a third person negates the private communication.

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  by GeekBoy December 3, 2009 10:41 AM PST

  Not true. There is a thing about intercepting private communications, aka wire tapping.
• by gangstalking December 2, 2009 6:09 PM PST

  While the EFF is at it, maybe they could assess if the privacy of Targeted Individuals are being violated in similar ways while information is gathered. I think some of the topics the EFF cover might cross into areas of Gang Stalking and how individuals are targeted and their online privacy is accessed and invaded. I am not sure how this would be added to the lawsuit, but it would sure make it more interesting.
  
  Anyways for those who don't know what Gang Stalking is by now here is a link. http://www.GangStalkingWorld.com
• by gangstalking December 2, 2009 6:12 PM PST

  The problem with some social networking sites is that their is also speculation, that some such as Facebook, may be used as data aggregates and their is even questions about links to the CIA and other agencies, so it would be truly interesting to find out more about how these agencies are using info from these sites. Is the info ending up in Fusion Centers?

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