N.B.: This article was written by our site Administrator for Radio Free America .ca - Erik Rush Although the British GCHQ and other European intelligence bodies figured prominently in Greenwald’s article, remember that despite the displeasure of certain foreign governments with the Obama administration having spied on their high officials, this “Five Eyes Alliance” is a cooperative effort of inordinately comprehensive information-gathering. While the Obama administration may be using the data collected for more egregious activities than its partner nations, the fact is that the practice is invasion of privacy on a massive and global scale. As cited by Greenwald, these governments are using many of the same techniques they accuse so-called “subversive” domestic elements of using. In the case of the U.S. government’s foray into Internet counterintelligence, the “footprint” is as interesting as the “smoking gun”: The Obama administration is employing 1960s-era CoInTel-Pro (counterintelligence programs) methods that were executed with equal relish by the FBI and groups like the Weather Underground in the 1960s and 1970s. In fact, many of the methods listed above were pioneered by Obama’s old-school communist mentors and predecessors. The new twist is the technology, but when Obama has advisers like Cass Sunstein and long-time associates like former Weatherman Bill Ayers counseling him on these very issues – well, a criminal prosecutor would probably be using terms like “slam-dunk” right about now. Read more at wnd/2014/02/obamas-manipulation-of-the-internet/#z9gB2LGeWVIEwXp8.99
Posted on: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:41:40 +0000
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