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originally posted by: NightFlight
a reply to: infolurker
OK, The alphabet agencies are spying on American Citizens.
Just who are they spying for? China? Russia? Communists AKA Democrats?
I don't believe we are in America anymore, Toto...
originally posted by: crayzeed
I really, really think you all have to use your mote of intelligence. Listen very closely. This has been going on for years, I did say years. Please look up 5 eyes. This mechanism was set up to do just this. Any and I mean ALL the alphabet agencies in the US can honestly say "we do not spy on our citizens". Correct. But they have got the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada to do it for them and that mechanism is mutual. IE. they other 4 can spy on the other country so they can say the same "it's not us".
We can both (maybe a lot of folks) rest easy that the CIA and NSA aren't digging through our stuff on ATS (that we are aware of anyway)!
originally posted by: nugget1
a reply to: jerryznv
We can both (maybe a lot of folks) rest easy that the CIA and NSA aren't digging through our stuff on ATS (that we are aware of anyway)!
I'm of the firm belief that they ARE monitoring sites like this to gauge the political/social climate and adjust their next plan of attack, with more than a few member plants.
Say the right words and you're on the Top Secret list; there's a copy in Biden's closet and another in his garage.
Oops! I just got another black check mark.
Cato Institute senior fellow Patrick Eddington said the updated rule book shows that the FBI is confident that it will not face consequences for its conduct.
“The bureau is continuing to hide the fact that 1) they can and clearly do use informants to penetrate domestic civil society organizations where those informants may, either on their own or at FBI direction, attempt to influence the organization’s actions,” Mr. Eddington said in an email. “And 2) [they] employ searches of CIA and NSA data streams on U.S. persons or civil society organizations absent a criminal predicate via assessments.”
The words CIA and NSA are unredacted in section 20.2 of the 2021 rule book, while the full details of the section remain hidden from public view.
FBI reveals it uses CIA and NSA to spy on Americans
originally posted by: olaru12
FBI reveals it uses CIA and NSA to spy on Americans
Knowing that, I amazed at what some people post on chats, forums, social media etc. There is no anonymity and the feds data mine with other agencies other than the 3 letters. Besides the inhouse operations, they use contractors as well.
Deny Ignorance
originally posted by: 1947boomer
a reply to: infolurker
Did you catch the part where it said this was authored during the Trump administration?
originally posted by: IndieA
The ridiculous amount of money being spent on informants and the crimes that they are being authorized to commit should be investigated and scrutinized.
FBI And Other Agencies Paid Informants $548 Million In Recent Years With Many Committing Authorized Crimes