The National Security Agency (NSA) didn’t follow some of its own required procedures meant to protect the privacy of U.S. citizens, a new report by the NSA’s Inspector General revealed Monday.
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A Stealth Industry: The Quiet Expansion of Chinese Private Security Companies
While mercenaries have long played a role in warfare, the prevalence of private companies in modern combat has grown more pronounced than ever. Private military companies (PMCs) and private security companies (PSCs) provide policymakers with attractive ways to project power, including low-profile alternatives to uniformed military deployment and significant cost savings. Moreover, in the current era of strategic competition among the United States, China, and Russia, the struggle for influence is playing out deliberately at a level below the threshold of armed conflict, and such companies are a useful instrument to expand regional and global influence and to create new dilemmas for competitors.
Did China Steal Its Way to Military Might?
As the People’s Republic of China (PRC) emerged from war and revolution in 1949, it became apparent that the Chinese economy lacked the capacity to compete with the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. in the production of advanced military technology. Transfers from the Soviet Union helped remedy the gap in the 1950s, as did transfers from the United States and Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. Still, the Cultural Revolution stifled technology and scientific research, leaving the Chinese even farther behind.
Thus, China has long supplemented legitimate transfers and domestic innovation with industrial espionage. In short, the PRC has a well-established habit of pilfering weapons technology from Russia and the United States. As the years have gone by, Beijing’s spies have become ever more skillful and flexible in their approach.
Be Careful What You Search: How Government and Big Tech are Covertly Spying on You
Big brother is watching. Granted, there are multiple ways government can track us. It’s no secret. Besides a super-secret FISA court that’s granted spy warrants on innocent Americans in recent years, you might want to be careful what you search for on Google. The search engine is working secretly with the government on “keyword warrants.” It’s essentially spying. The Feds have ordered them to track and disclose data on persons who search certain terms.
Ever seen Conspiracy Theory? When Mel Gibson checks out Catcher In The Rye?
Canada’s Military Is Spying on Canadian Citizens
The Canadian military has been caught using PSYOP tactics it honed in Afghanistan on domestic soil. The dirty tricks, which included a scheme to spread panic about imaginary wolf attacks in Nova Scotia, should worry anyone concerned about civil liberties.
NSA announces internal probe aimed at ‘improperly targeted’ member of ‘U.S. media’ following Carlson allegation
A report by The Wall Street Journal said that the agency’s probe does not mention Carlson by name, but added that a source familiar with the investigation said it was tied to claims Carlson made last month that the agency had intercepted his emails.
Cuba resorting to citizen spies, plainclothes cops to crush dissent
After stemming historic protests across Cuba by shutting down digital communications this week, the island’s beleaguered Communist government is now beefing up a more traditional way of stifling opposition — citizen spies.
Spying and Smearing is “Un-American,” not Tucker Carlson
On Monday, June 28th, Fox host Tucker Carlson dropped a bomb mid-show, announcing he’d been approached by a “whistleblower” who told him he was being spied on by the NSA.
“The National Security Agency is monitoring our electronic communications,” he said, “and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.”
The reaction was swift, mocking, and ferocious. “Carlson is sounding more and more like InfoWars host and notorious conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones,” chirped CNN media analyst Brian Stelter. Vox ripped Carlson as a “serial fabulist” whose claims were “evidence-free.” The Washington Post quipped that “in a testament to just how far the credibility of Tucker Carlson Tonight has cratered,” even groups like Pen America and the Reporters Committee on the Freedom of the Press were no-commenting the story, while CNN learned from its always-reliable “people familiar with the matter” that even Carlson’s bosses at Fox didn’t believe him.
None of this was surprising. A lot of media people despise Carlson. He may be Exhibit A in the n+2 epithet phenomenon that became standard math in the Trump era, i.e. if you thought he was an “asshole” in 2015 you jumped after Charlottesville straight past racist to white supremacist, and stayed there. He’s spoken of in newsrooms in hushed tones, like a mythical monster. The paranoid rumor that he’s running for president (he’s not) comes almost entirely from a handful of editors and producers who’ve convinced themselves it’s true, half out of anxiety and half subconscious desperation to find a click-generating replacement for Donald Trump.
House Republicans Send Letter To NSA Demanding Info On Tucker Carlson Spying Claims
Seventeen Republicans in the House have written a letter to the NSA demanding all information relating to claims that the spy agency has been monitoring Tucker Carlson’s private communications and leaking details to left-wing journalists.
Factoid: The Biden Admin’s NSA Unmasked Tucker Carlson
So, who exactly ordered the NSA to unmask Tucker Carlson’s emails and leak them is unclear but there is at least one common name that did the same thing against General Flynn…Susan Rice… ahhh, but read on.
How the Chinese Communist Party is infiltrating local US government
One of the more dramatic political news stories of the past year was when a young, attractive woman named Fang Fang (aka Christine Fang) was revealed to be a spy handled by the Chinese government. For years, Fang Fang targeted up-and-coming American politicians. She engaged in romantic trysts with at least two Midwestern mayors and was involved with Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat who ran for president in 2020. After being “outed,” she vanished.
The NSA Does Not Deny Reading Tucker Carlson’s Emails
Let’s be very clear about what the NSA said in its statement. It denied “targeting” Carlson, but did not deny reading his emails. The NSA also did not deny that it may have accessed Carlson’s communications through “incidental collection.”
These were huge omissions, since incidental collection is a well-known and controversial way the NSA collects vast amounts of Americans’ communications without warrants. This happens when an innocent American communicates with a legitimate NSA target, such as someone believed to be under the control of or to be collaborating with a hostile foreign power.
When this happens, the name of the innocent American is supposed to be “redacted” or masked. There are very strict rules on how incidentally collected communications of U.S citizens can be used.
Massive: Chinese Spy Defects to USA with Dirt on Hunter Biden, Intel on Wuhan Bioweapons Research
The Chinese spy who was reported earlier on Becker News to be in the hands of the Defense Intelligence Agency and kept hidden from the FBI is reportedly high-ranking Chinese counter-intelligence official Dong Jingwei.
So the head of Chinese counter intel efforts in America has defected to USA. He’s in the hands of DIA right now. His name is Dong Jingwei.
He’s provided DIA with the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
He has confirmed that a THIRD of all Chinese students in US are spies.
— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) June 18, 2021
This Twitter thread has a lot of information.
Bad News: China Is Copying More Than Stealth Fighter Jet Technology
Chinese thinking appears to closely mirror longstanding approaches used by U.S. developers to build and improve 5th-Generation aircraft such as the F-22 and F-35. Beyond that, emerging concepts for a Chinese 6th-generation stealth fighter correspond very closely to U.S. approaches now underway for years.
h/t Marvin
USPS admits it IS spying on Americans: Law enforcement arm is snooping on social media posts and ‘working with other agencies’ in covert operation – but won’t reveal details
The U.S. Postal Service admitted during a Wednesday meeting to spying on citizens with its law enforcement arm, claiming it worked with other agencies to track Americans’ social media posts.
Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale briefed lawmakers on the Oversight Committee regarding the program known as iCOP, or Internet Covert Operations Program, but could not provide a date for when it was initiated.
Why are non-law enforcement agencies spying on Americans?