{"id":219,"date":"2005-12-30T18:01:41","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T00:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=219"},"modified":"2005-12-30T23:40:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T05:40:19","slug":"donald-rumsfeld-is-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/donald-rumsfeld-is-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Rumsfeld is \r\n\r\nWatching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note that the Counterintelligence <\/p>\n

Field Activity, or CIFA, with its Talon Reports, is different from earlier reports on the National Security Agency<\/a> (which is <\/p>\n

also a Defense Department agency, by the way). And it is different from the FBI spying on PETA<\/a> and others. Or the CIA. Or your city, <\/p>\n

county and state police. A vast network looking desperately for dots to connect. Are you a dot? <\/p>\n

How much spying are we doing <\/p>\n

domestically? That’s a secret. What’s it cost? That’s a secret. How many mistakes are made? That’s a secret.<\/p>\n

Eisenhower warned <\/p>\n

us about the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex. Raygun revved up military spending ostensibly to bankrupt the Soviets (a model <\/p>\n

bin Laden is well-aware of). With the winding down of the Cold War, what was a militarist-money-maker to do? Thank god we have an endless <\/p>\n

war on a shadowy enemy who can never surrender.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that Our Savior is destroying our village to save it just because <\/p>\n

it makes lots of money for his friends. No, I’m convinced Duhbya is mentally ill with Post Traumatic Shock Syndrome and guilt for 9\/11 <\/p>\n

(perhaps coupled with prolonged oxygen deprivation after that pretzel choking incident). Perhaps Rumsfeld and Cheney are just as <\/p>\n

deranged. These guys need help, but our healing begins with their departure. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Defense Facilities Pass Along Reports of <\/p>\n

Suspicious Activity<\/a>
\nRaw Information’ From Military, Civilians Is Given to Pentagon
\nBy Walter Pincus, Washington Post Staff <\/p>\n

Writer<\/p>\n

Day after day, reports of suspicious activity filed from military bases and other defense installations throughout the <\/p>\n

United States flow into the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, a three-year-old Pentagon agency whose size and budget <\/p>\n

remain classified<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Talon [which stands for “threat and local observation notice”] reports, as they are called, are <\/p>\n

based on information from civilians and military personnel who stumble across people or information they think might be part of a <\/p>\n

terrorist plot or threat<\/strong> against defense facilities at home or abroad. …<\/p>\n

Talon reports grew out of a program called <\/p>\n

Eagle Eyes, an anti-terrorist program established by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations that “enlists the eyes and ears of <\/p>\n

Air Force members and citizens in the war on terror,” according to the program’s Web site. …<\/p>\n

A former senior CIA official with <\/p>\n

wide counterintelligence experience, who is familiar with CIFA’s growth, said the agency’s mandate is “ambiguous, but the Defense <\/p>\n

Department is using its assets in its broadest terms.” He added that efforts such as Talon “could be a well-intentioned effort and it <\/p>\n

could develop important information.” But, he said that in his view, “the Pentagon has chosen to err on the side of over-collection” of <\/p>\n

information.<\/p>\n

His concern, he said, was who does the intelligence “go to, and what do they do with it.”<\/p>\n

Infoshop News – 1-800-CALL-SPY: Military intelligence database <\/p>\n

short on threats, long on stupid<\/a> Contributed by: arch_stanton<\/p>\n

[T]he database, which contains reports such as those called in <\/p>\n

to the DOD\u2019s 1-800-CALL-SPY hotline, contains almost 50 anti-war meetings or protests, such as an anti-war meeting held by Quakers last <\/p>\n

year. …<\/p>\n

In the program\u2019s first year, the agency received more than 5,000 TALON reports<\/strong>. The database obtained <\/p>\n

by NBC News is generated by Counterintelligence Field Activity.<\/p>\n

I’m a Soldier, Not a Spy<\/a> by Grant Doty, a lieutenant colonel in <\/p>\n

the Army<\/p>\n

Yes, I took an oath to defend the United States against all enemies “foreign and domestic,” but the implication of <\/p>\n

domestic intelligence-gathering by the military, even by a limited number of soldiers, should be sufficiently disturbing for American <\/p>\n

citizens in and out of uniform that we think long and hard about crossing the line, even a little.<\/p>\n

\nclass=\"mine\">Remember right after 9\/11, when AssKraft came out in favor of folks like UPS, USPS, & FedEx delivery people, plus meter <\/p>\n

readers, et. al., keeping their eyes open and letting the government know of anything suspicious. Even in the moment of our deepest shock <\/p>\n

most people recoiled against that idea. AssKraft is gone (awaiting a Supreme Court nomination), but the ideas live on.<\/p>\n

Seeing <\/p>\n

Wolfowitz’s name throughout this report did nothing to reassure me. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note that the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, with its Talon Reports, is different from earlier reports on the National Security Agency (which is also a Defense Department agency, by the way). And it is different from the FBI spying on PETA and others. Or the CIA. Or your city, county and state police. A … Continue reading Donald Rumsfeld is <\/p>\n

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