THE INTERCEPT HAS OBTAINED a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies. The document, thick with previously undisclosed information, also offers rare insight into the spying capabilities of federal law enforcement and local police inside the United States.
The catalogue includes details on the Stingray, a well-known brand of surveillance gear, as well as Boeing “dirt boxes” and dozens of more obscure devices that can be mounted on vehicles, drones, and piloted aircraft. Some are designed to be used at static locations, while others can be discreetly carried by an individual. They have names like Cyberhawk, Yellowstone, Blackfin, Maximus, Cyclone, and Spartacus. Within the catalogue, the NSA is listed as the vendor of one device, while another was developed for use by the CIA, and another was developed for a special forces requirement. Nearly a third of the entries focus on equipment that seems to have never been described in public before.
The Intercept obtained the catalogue from a source within the intelligence community concerned about the militarization of domestic law enforcement. (The original is here.)
A few of the devices can house a “target list” of as many as 10,000 unique phone identifiers. Most can be used to geolocate people, but the documents indicate that some have more advanced capabilities, like eavesdropping on calls and spying on SMS messages. Two systems, apparently designed for use on captured phones, are touted as having the ability to extract media files, address books, and notes, and one can retrieve deleted text messages.
Above all, the catalogue represents a trove of details on surveillance devices developed for military and intelligence purposes but increasingly used by law enforcement agencies to spy on people and convict them of crimes. The mass shooting earlier this month in San Bernardino, California, which President Barack Obama has called “an act of terrorism,” prompted calls for state and local police forces to beef up their counterterrorism capabilities, a process that has historically involved adapting military technologies to civilian use. Meanwhile, civil liberties advocates and others are increasingly alarmed about how cellphone surveillance devices are used domestically and have called for a more open and informed debate about the trade-off between security and privacy — despite a virtual blackout by the federal government on any information about the specific capabilities of the gear.
“We’ve seen a trend in the years since 9/11 to bring sophisticated surveillance technologies that were originally designed for military use — like Stingrays or drones or biometrics — back home to the United States,” said Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has waged a legal battle challenging the use of cellphone surveillance devices domestically. “But using these technologies for domestic law enforcement purposes raises a host of issues that are different from a military context.”
MANY OF THE DEVICES in the catalogue, including the Stingrays and dirt boxes, are cell-site simulators, which operate by mimicking the towers of major telecom companies like Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. When someone’s phone connects to the spoofed network, it transmits a unique identification code and, through the characteristics of its radio signals when they reach the receiver, information about the phone’s location. There are also indications that cell-site simulators may be able to monitor calls and text messages.
In the catalogue, each device is listed with guidelines about how its use must be approved; the answer is usually via the “Ground Force Commander” or under one of two titles in the U.S. code governing military and intelligence operations, including covert action.
But domestically the devices have been used in a way that violates the constitutional rights of citizens, including the Fourth Amendment prohibition on illegal search and seizure, critics like Lynch say. They have regularly been used without warrants, or with warrants that critics call overly broad. Judges and civil liberties groups alike have complained that the devices are used without full disclosure of how they work, even within court proceedings.
“Every time police drive the streets with a Stingray, these dragnet devices can identify and locate dozens or hundreds of innocent bystanders’ phones,” said Nathan Wessler, a staff attorney with the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The controversy around cellphone surveillance illustrates the friction that comes with redeploying military combat gear into civilian life. The U.S. government has been using cell-site simulators for at least 20 years, but their use by local law enforcement is a more recent development.
The archetypical cell-site simulator, the Stingray, was trademarked by Harris Corp. in 2003 and initially used by the military, intelligence agencies, and federal law enforcement. Another company, Digital Receiver Technology, now owned by Boeing, developed dirt boxes — more powerful cell-site simulators — which gained favor among the NSA, CIA, and U.S. military as good tools for hunting down suspected terrorists. The devices can reportedly track more than 200 phones over a wider range than the Stingray.
Amid the war on terror, companies selling cell-site simulators to the federal government thrived. In addition to large corporations like Boeing and Harris, which clocked more than $2.6 billion in federal contracts last year, the catalogue obtained by The Intercept includes products from little-known outfits like Nevada-based Ventis, which appears to have been dissolved, and SR Technologies of Davie, Florida, which has a website that warns: “Due to the sensitive nature of this business, we require that all visitors be registered before accessing further information.” (The catalogue obtained by The Intercept is not dated, but includes information about an event that occurred in 2012.)
The U.S. government eventually used cell-site simulators to target people for assassination in drone strikes, The Intercept has reported. But the CIA helped use the technology at home, too. For more than a decade, the agency worked with the U.S. Marshals Service to deploy planes with dirt boxes attached to track mobile phones across the U.S., the Wall Street Journal revealed.
After being used by federal agencies for years, cellular surveillance devices began to make their way into the arsenals of a small number of local police agencies. By 2007, Harris sought a license from the Federal Communications Commission to widely sell its devices to local law enforcement, and police flooded the FCC with letters of support. “The text of every letter was the same. The only difference was the law enforcement logo at the top,” said Chris Soghoian, the principal technologist at the ACLU, who obtained copies of the letters from the FCC through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The lobbying campaign was a success. Today nearly 60 law enforcement agencies in 23 states are known to possess a Stingray or some form of cell-site simulator, though experts believe that number likely underrepresents the real total. In some jurisdictions, police use cell-site simulators regularly. The Baltimore Police Department, for example, has used Stingrays more than 4,300 times since 2007.
Police often cite the war on terror in acquiring such systems. Michigan State Police claimed their Stingrays would “allow the State to track the physical location of a suspected terrorist,” although the ACLU later found that in 128 uses of the devices last year, none were related to terrorism. In Tacoma, Washington, police claimed Stingrays could prevent attacks using improvised explosive devices — the roadside bombs that plagued soldiers in Iraq. “I am not aware of any case in which a police agency has used a cell-site simulator to find a terrorist,” said Lynch. Instead, “law enforcement agencies have been using cell-site simulators to solve even the most minor domestic crimes.”
The Intercept is not publishing information on devices in the catalogue where the disclosure is not relevant to the debate over the extent of domestic surveillance.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment for this article. The FBI, NSA, and U.S. military did not offer any comment after acknowledging The Intercept’s written requests. The Department of Justice “uses technology in a manner that is consistent with the requirements and protections of the Constitution, including the Fourth Amendment, and applicable statutory authorities,” said Marc Raimondi, a Justice Department spokesperson who, for six years prior to working for the DOJ, worked for Harris Corp., the manufacturer of the Stingray.
WHILE INTEREST FROM local cops helped fuel the spread of cell-site simulators, funding from the federal government also played a role, incentivizing municipalities to buy more of the technology. In the years since 9/11, the U.S. has expanded its funding to provide military hardware to state and local law enforcement agencies via grants awarded by the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department. There’s been a similar pattern with Stingray-like devices.
“The same grant programs that paid for local law enforcement agencies across the country to buy armored personnel carriers and drones have paid for Stingrays,” said Soghoian. “Like drones, license plate readers, and biometric scanners, the Stingrays are yet another surveillance technology created by defense contractors for the military, and after years of use in war zones, it eventually trickles down to local and state agencies, paid for with DOJ and DHS money.”
In 2013, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported the purchase of two HEATR long-range surveillance devices as well as $3 million worth of Stingray devices since 2008. In California, Alameda County and police departments in Oakland and Fremont are using $180,000 in Homeland Security grant money to buy Harris’ Hailstorm cell-site simulator and the hand-held Thoracic surveillance device, made by Maryland security and intelligence company Keyw. As part of Project Archangel, which is described in government contract documents as a “border radio intercept program,” the Drug Enforcement Administration has contracted with Digital Receiver Technology for over $1 million in DRT surveillance box equipment. The Department of the Interior contracted with Keyw for more than half a million dollars of “reduced signature cellular precision geolocation.”
Information on such purchases, like so much about cell-site simulators, has trickled out through freedom of information requests and public records. The capabilities of the devices are kept under lock and key — a secrecy that hearkens back to their military origins. When state or local police purchase the cell-site simulators, they are routinely required to sign non-disclosure agreements with the FBI that they may not reveal the “existence of and the capabilities provided by” the surveillance devices, or share “any information” about the equipment with the public.
Indeed, while several of the devices in the military catalogue obtained by The Intercept are actively deployed by federal and local law enforcement agencies, according to public records, judges have struggled to obtain details of how they work. Other products in the secret catalogue have never been publicly acknowledged and any use by state, local, and federal agencies inside the U.S. is, therefore, difficult to challenge.
“It can take decades for the public to learn what our police departments are doing, by which point constitutional violations may be widespread,” Wessler said. “By showing what new surveillance capabilities are coming down the pike, these documents will help lawmakers, judges, and the public know what to look out for as police departments seek ever-more powerful electronic surveillance tools.”
Sometimes it’s not even clear how much police are spending on Stingray-like devices because they are bought with proceeds from assets seized under federal civil forfeiture law, in drug busts and other operations. Illinois, Michigan, and Maryland police forces have all used asset forfeiture funds to pay for Stingray-type equipment.
“The full extent of the secrecy surrounding cell-site simulators is completely unjustified and unlawful,” said EFF’s Lynch. “No police officer or detective should be allowed to withhold information from a court or criminal defendant about how the officer conducted an investigation.”
JUDGES HAVE BEEN among the foremost advocates for ending the secrecy around cell-site simulators, including by pushing back on warrant requests. At times, police have attempted to hide their use of Stingrays in criminal cases, prompting at least one judge to throw out evidence obtained by the device. In 2012, a U.S. magistrate judge in Texas rejected an application by the Drug Enforcement Administration to use a cell-site simulator in an operation, saying that the agency had failed to explain “what the government would do with” the data collected from innocent people.
Law enforcement has responded with some limited forms of transparency. In September, the Justice Department issued new guidelines for the use of Stingrays and similar devices, including that federal law enforcement agencies using them must obtain a warrant based on probable cause and must delete any data intercepted from individuals not under investigation.
Contained within the guidelines, however, is a clause stipulating vague “exceptional circumstances” under which agents could be exempt from the requirement to get a probable cause warrant.
“Cell-site simulator technology has been instrumental in aiding law enforcement in a broad array of investigations, including kidnappings, fugitive investigations, and complicated narcotics cases,” said Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates.
Meanwhile, parallel guidelines issued by the Department of Homeland Security in October do not require warrants for operations on the U.S. border, nor do the warrant requirements apply to state and local officials who purchased their Stingrays through grants from the federal government, such as those in Wisconsin, Maryland, and Florida.
The ACLU, EFF, and several prominent members of Congress have said the federal government’s exceptions are too broad and leave the door open for abuses.
“Because cell-site simulators can collect so much information from innocent people, a simple warrant for their use is not enough,” said Lynch, the EFF attorney. “Police officers should be required to limit their use of the device to a short and defined period of time. Officers also need to be clear in the probable cause affidavit supporting the warrant about the device’s capabilities.”
In November, a federal judge in Illinois published a legal memorandum about the government’s application to use a cell-tower spoofing technology in a drug-trafficking investigation. In his memo, Judge Iain Johnston sharply criticized the secrecy surrounding Stingrays and other surveillance devices, suggesting that it made weighing the constitutional implications of their use extremely difficult. “A cell-site simulator is simply too powerful of a device to be used and the information captured by it too vast to allow its use without specific authorization from a fully informed court,” he wrote.
He added that Harris Corp. “is extremely protective about information regarding its device. In fact, Harris is so protective that it has been widely reported that prosecutors are negotiating plea deals far below what they could obtain so as to not disclose cell-site simulator information. … So where is one, including a federal judge, able to learn about cell-site simulators? A judge can ask a requesting Assistant United States Attorney or a federal agent, but they are tight-lipped about the device, too.”
The ACLU and EFF believe that the public has a right to review the types of devices being used to encourage an informed debate on the potentially far-reaching implications of the technology. The catalogue obtained by The Intercept, said Wessler, “fills an important gap in our knowledge, but it is incumbent on law enforcement agencies to proactively disclose information about what surveillance equipment they use and what steps they take to protect Fourth Amendment privacy rights.”
Research: Josh Begley
QUOTE: “The Intercept is not publishing information on devices in the catalogue where the disclosure is not relevant to the debate over the extent of domestic surveillance.”
To my mind you are just as amoral as the civil authorities who abuse citizens rights.
If The Intercept wants to be recognised as a force for good, it has to have the guts of Snowden and to get off the fence. By pandering to the government you are only encouraging them to increase surveillance, and illegal surveillance at that.
Stand up and be counted.
I agree with you. Moreover, to TI making a true change should not be that hard. Definitely, easier than to the “Yes men” (the two comedians who did make USG change in substantial ways with their satire).
There was that bold thinker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theses_on_Feuerbach
who has been accused of the most horrendous human fiasco ever who said that: “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.”
TI has a “descriptive” approach to reality. At the very least they should try to reach out to “we the people” out there, as the Yes men and John Oliver have demonstrated.
// __ The Yes Men Fix The World, P2P Edition FULL MOVIE (2009) (w/subtitles)
youtube.com/watch?v=OazUh0Ym8rc
// __ Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (HBO)
youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
// __ Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: General Keith Alexander Extended Interview (HBO)
youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
If they are not talking to “we the people” out there, whom are they talking to? To TI it is more important the 3rd party tracking business and the look of the site, it seems
RCL
// __ Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: General Keith Alexander Extended Interview (HBO)
youtube.com/watch?v=k8lJ85pfb_E
RCL
Really want to fix this? Don’t use a cell phone. Period!
// __ Germany ‘may revert to typewriters’ to counter hi-tech espionage. NSA inquiry head Patrick Sensburg claims communications technology mistrusted in wake of US spying allegations
theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/germany-typewriters-espionage-nsa-spying-surveillance#comment-38219215
We silly Physicists and Mathematicians invented networking and the Internet with something totally different in mind, making the Internet the greatest case in point of Murphy’s law. I remember Linus Torvalds putting a mocking face while saying he never connects his own work computer to the Internet ;-)
In addition to that those who own the towers are the same ones who own the device and its operating system, which “authorized” apps developers must “register”, upload and people download from their sites … Of course, this is a script for control and abuse.
There are ways to make things much much better and way harder to break into, but computing would have to be redesigned from scratch. I proposed a RFE to the Linux kernel developers:
~
// __ RFE: moving networking out of the kernel and into to user land …
~
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/12/476
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but no one seemed to see the importance or urgency of that first step or they saw that making things harder for the NSA would bring them into problems.
Not long ago the NYPD went public announcing harsh punishment to those using someone else’s or stealing phones!?C Hmm! Why would police care about you losing your tennis racket? ;-) They have been giving cell phones for free. I don’t see as so far fetched that USG makes it mandatory for people to carry a cell phone.
Currently, if you don’t use a cell phone USG may either bug your wears or use microscopic radio emitters spread over you which beam your location 24×7
RCL
The way I perceive our differences is that you are of the kind of people who complain about -the players-, while I am of the kind that complains about -the game itself-.
I don’t think that either side is less or more ‘real’, ‘objective’ or ‘honest’, ‘truthful’. It is just a matter of how different people see things from their own points of view and given their own ways to understand things and, yes, ‘your background’ influences (but doesn’t totally condition/determine) the ways you understand “reality” and, no, I don’t know who George Carlin is, but you may not know who Fidel Castro is and what living in a police state and fighting it is like. 1984-like? Ach, down right boring!
Quite honestly, I can’t understand why the preposterous f#ck people put up with politicians of any kind. I find quite amusingly stupid how people reacted to the NSA revelations as if they were teens who discovered their parents had been reading their journals all along. As if they expected some sort of moral, principled behavior from politicians!
In fact, in an important sense I think it is us the ones abusing politicians, buy trusting them a job and responsibilities that are way above what they can actually handle, that ritual process called “representative democracy” doesn’t make mere human beings better in any sense. That is a farce just a little better than the believe that kings were appointed as “God representatives on earth”. Yes, as preposterous as it may sound we used to believe that kind of cr@p!
About Donal Trump, I think after Bush and Obama he will nicely complete a trilogy and give a bit more closure to the idea that politicians are just a bunch of b#llsh!tters living on our collective idiocy and stupidity. It may be at this point I am hopeless, but I think that we people would not reason unless we are forced to by their circumstances.
As I have explained we should go back to the old Germanic form of democracy that they still use in Switzerland today somewhat. We should get rid of politicians and use the ways technology has availed to us to -truly democratically- make decisions as directly as we pay taxes.
RCL
How come people do offsite betting all the time without a technical glitch, but there are always “problems” with voting booths
RLC
Want to fix this? Require phones and towers to provide a proprietery signature that id’s the tower or das as a real tower. If the certs don’t match, the phone wont connect.
Phones can increase your privacy if you use them as your own personal server. For example, ShazzleMail is a free app that allows you to send your own email from your phone – bypassing the web. Direct, private, and secure. Don’t wait for politicians and government spies to agree to leave you alone. Take control of your privacy now.
This is why cell phones have been pushed so hard in the last 15 years. It’s easy to spy on everything and everyone you see and say and think. Stop using them.
The problem is way gone past sensible already. If you own an android phone, you best throw it in the bin and just attach a voice recording bug and video to your forehead and leave another next to your bed.
The apps on these phones are just updated with permissions you would never dream could be allowed by law. Oh yes, and who owns and operates the bogus apps ?? Try finding out that one…. Once a number is linked to a “POI”, your gone.
…get hard wired, period…throw away the cell, period…Faraday Cage everything, period…I have years of screen shots and logs on being spied on, who cares?, nobody I’ve contacted…went off line for the last few daze, unplugged everything, came back up today, router shows wifi on, ISP tried to disable it for over a 1/2 hour, it kept coming back on due to my Mac and Apple being part of this…I ripped out the wifi board outta my mac mini weeks ago, apple doesn’t like that, can’t find the script they use to control my router, damn…it’s not just the gov. or the ISP’s, it’s also the tech co’s…I just put my router in a Faraday Cage, it will get hot in there, I check my logs to see how my apple product works it out…questions?, go to gilbertwsatchell.com for your answers…if you don’t feed the beast it will starve…hardwared & caged in Phx…Gilbert…yes, they most certainly know who I am so I use my real name, this is a deadly child’s game…check, your move…
Go Gilbert !
I am another innocent bystander being “raped” constantly by phone apps and root kit hijacking script. No one wants to know or believe it’s happening. The more you complain, the more authorities laugh, why ?, because you ain’ done anything wrong so why would this be happening ? Well the answer is simple, I don’t live in the USA, The laws therefore don’t apply on my soil and I undertake work some government wants to steal without permission. So simple as that.
All hail the “source within the intelligence community’!
The one thing I notice is my cell phone reception gets much better when the alert goes up. I live near an airport and an area with a large Muslim community. Think it’s connected?
How much further into police-state tyranny are Americans going to let this country descend? It’s only going to get worse and worse with each passing minute until the people of this land hit the RESET button.
Try telling that to the jellyfish Ricardo Camilo López (an organism without a brain), that advocates ignoring elections like Belgium.
“…people should start getting smart about it and quitting politicians altogether.
I heard Belgium was without a political system for a year and a half. They seemed
to have forgotten about it all and had to be “reminded” by the EU ;-)
// __589 days with no elected government: What happened in Belgium”
What is he? The Cuban Donald Trump? He can keep wishing he finds a genie with at least one wish left.
Well, it turns out Ricky jellyfish brain, Cuban Donald Trump Ricardo had another conversation with girlfriend (whose heart I trust even if not that much her judgment) about such matters. She threatened me with with a sex embargo ;-) if I didn’t change my mind: “I should think of someone I could vote for. Democracy leaves to the people to do the search … I could write on my ballot the name of any candidate or applicable individual … (blah, blah, blah …)”
I thought hard about it and I found someone I would vote for (partially for the no-sex threat ;-)) and I found:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig
but he: … was a candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[2]
[2] http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/2/lawrence-lessig-drops-presidential-bid.html
Finance reformer Lawrence Lessig drops bid for Democratic presidential nod
Harvard law professor blames Democratic party for abandoned campaign, saying he was ‘just shut out’ of debates
November 2, 2015 1:02PM ET
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So, again, no game for me, and, hmm! girlfriend is now even getting political too?!?
RCL
It looks more like the recycling catalogue of surveillance caliphate for spying on inhabitants. And as long as they can find a worldwide market for that, we don’t need to ask them, how military and contractors are encouraged to “short” the stock of Waste Management.
Obama
“isis will be defeated”
Starwars
San Berdo
Hawaii Vacation
all in 1 day.
Yeah, right! What is the big deal? They themselves not even hide their exhibitors (from which you could do great analysis and glean important info) or corrupt their shiny brochures:
http://en.milipol.com/
http://en.milipolqatar.com/
http://en.milipolqatar.com/index.php/Milipol-Qatar/Exhibitors-list-MILIPOL-QATAR-2014
http://en.milipolqatar.com/index.php/content/download/204631/2169569/file/MILIPOL-QUATAR-2016-A3-BD.pdf
The thing is that this is not how TI likes it. They find blow jobs from whistle blowers more erotic and more journalistic to “protect their sources”, it seems.
Once again, il Duce was the sharpest of all of us.
RCL
Happy holidays to all.
;-) no offense taken. I use my full name because I find privacy, hiding illusions silly, not because I am claiming a celebrity status. However, I do respect , don’t care about those who feel comfortable using notorious names
Well, yes, and that minimal difference does not make a difference that matters anyway, so people should start getting smart about it and quitting politicians altogether.
I heard Belgium was without a political system for a year and a half. They seemed to have forgotten about it all and had to be “reminded” by the EU ;-)
// __589 days with no elected government: What happened in Belgium
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/01/589-days-with-no-elected-government-what-happened-in-belgium/
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RCL
If in fact you are a ‘real’ person Ricardo, and not some creation of the NSA, you are very ignorant of the reality of the Coke & Pepsi (republican & democratic parties) in this country. They both want to make sure that one or the other of them is the raider of the cookie jar! No one else! They are both on board as the fear mongers of ‘terrorism’. They are both for the status quo of more, more, more for the police state, they are both for the invasion of privacy on the minute chance that they will stop even one act of terrorism. They are both for protection of ‘the club’. Maybe someone like you -from Cuba (if in fact you are ‘real’) is not aware of a great American named George Carlin… Both the GOP elephants & the jackasses are for protecting only those in power: the politicians, the military, the intelligence community, and the police (otherwise known as ‘the club’ SEE George Carlin). If you are part of the club, you can break any law Ricardo. Ref: Petraeus. If you betray the club, (Ref: Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning) you are screwed! Wake up & smell the bullshit by the club Ricardo! If in fact you are even ‘real’. I’m glad you have set aside this part of the internet to humiliate yourself in public!
The only way there will be change in this country, will be for a strong third party to emerge and say all the things that need to be said. It’s too bad you are sooooo ignorant. If in fact you are even ‘real’.
And how do you think the population of the U.S. will somehow improve by being ignorant of the elections in the country somehow like Belgium?
No Ricardo, don’t even start.
The tools at the disposal of the surveillance networks appear to have tremendous capabilities, and judging by many commenters on this website, many of these tools may be used to track targeted individuals, especially.
A few years back, I took a cheap cell phone I had just bought to an University Hospital library, to an area designated for computer use by the general public. I had turned the cell phone off and had placed it next to the desktop as I navigated the internet.
To my surprise, when I turned on the cell phone later that day, every detail of my usage of that desktop that day, was in the cell phone. The ‘History'; the ‘Cookies’. The ‘Location’ which I had turned off, had mysteriously turned itself on. And at least four of the planes that have followed me 24/7 for 6 years now, stood stationary up in the blue skies.
Those same planes followed me home from work yesterday, where the torture, which continues even at work, was revved up overnight.
Because my body is now saturated with nanodevices ( read my documentation ) which are constantly infused into my body, the torturers can manipulate them bidirectionally – into the body and out.
And last night, as in every night, nanodevices and fibers spewed into the air from every facial pore. The nasolabialis. The pores on the delicate edges of the eyelashes. The cheeks. The left eyebrow, on the skin that directly above the superficial course of the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve.
Those on the nasolabialis, cause a chronic panic from a sensation of being suffocated by particulate matter as they promptly enter the nose. Constant snots often forcibly ejects thousands of fibers that fly into the immediate air space.
Those that get inevitably inhaled, go on to clog the nasophyranx or throat, where they are programmed to interact with the sound-producing apparatus (vocal box, etc) there, to generate sound. The deranged torturer then bitched all night, using phonations that bear an unmistakable human speech pattern although no distinct words could be heard.
Those on the edges of the eyelashes, are remotely guided to scroll the closed eyelids up and down and diagonally, like thousands of baby spiders darting up and down, with some guided to gnaw at the margins of the eyelids.
Constantly wiping the devices off my scalp and face and eyes and ears, especially on the eyelids, causes injury through the sheer mechanical action of a hand swipe. This is what mind control torturers call “Self-inflicted injury” ( McCoy ), whereby they vainly seek to transfer the guilt of injuring the persons they torture, from themselves and onto the victims. Of course, it is an imbecile’s fantasy as the buck stops at the torturer’s door always.
On the scalp, the vibrations are done with such severe pressure as to effect maximal pain. Protection of the scalp has no effect, as the nanodevices appear to penetrate virtually every object used – metal or not.
I believe I pass out at about 0200 each night as this is done daily. When I awake to relieve myself, usually about two hours later, the torturers continue the torture until the alarm rings for me to go to work. And then they accompany me to work where they continue on, with everyone at work noticing the constant wipes, especially the clients.
This evil makes ISIS look like a picnic in Central Park. The world needs a savior. From ISIS. And from American torturers who torture, maim and kill innocent people; and all their proxy torturers around the world ( McCoy ).
Yawn:-( Any visit to the all year round happenings of military/police/spy-conventions can give you this information. As a journalist you can even officially go and visit those companies exhibiting and demonstrating their tools of the trade at conventions like milipol in Paris or Qatar and the many lesser known ones happening regularly. This story has a white beard and the equipment is old. Active and passive IMSI catchers are freely avilable in many countries and there is even an open source project online for DIY if you did proper research.
Sad how we have become more like the former Soviet Union and Russia more like the former United States.
This appears to be one of those new viral marketing techniques. I wonder if we’ll see a spike in sales corresponding with this story, as police departments with money left in their budgets for 2015 go on a year end shopping spree.
I also wonder just how many people in local police departments have the security clearance necessary to read the classified catalog. It might be a problem with obtaining approvals to buy the equipment, if various persons involved in the approval process didn’t know what was being purchased. They’d have to sign off on a requisition: “$0.5M for secret electronic equipment, recommended by the NSA”. But police budgets are tight, and other groups in the department would be agitating for missile launchers, land mines, tanks and other military gear which wasn’t classified, and therefore more easily promoted. So the spying division might lose out, even though their success in gathering information on the politicians who approve police funding would result in returns far greater than the capital expended.
So if this article restores that balance, and allows police departments to more fully understand the choices available to them, it will certainly be worthwhile.
Not even! That kind of technical capability was not even imaginable in those times.
Another important aspect that hasn’t been aired much is that, even though they use so much technology, in their the wildest and wettest dreams the KGB, Stasi and Schutzstaffel couldn’t have thought of a ratio of snitches to general population as high as they have it in “‘the’ land of ‘the’ free …”
At least someone has a biologically working and respectable sense of memory.
It turns out I grew up as part of a family of high profile political dissidents in Cuba and went to school in Stasiland ((1982-1986) TU Dresden: Fachrichtung Physik) and for reasons that are not quite clear to me (and my family and friends cr@ck jokes about) USG has included me in the FBI criminal index.
Not long ago, people would ask me (some of them as a way to crack jokes, some others seemingly out of genuine curiosity) how it was like living in Cuba, Stasiland … “how is that about one family being ‘responsible’ for the other families in the neighborhood”, “how could even a dictatorial government factually control, own the whole country”, “Cuban people must be all clinically crazy, right?”, “how could they even survive for so long under such stringent embargo and manage to keep a life expectancy and educational levels in par with the ‘developed’ world”, …
// __ Cuba’s Secret Side
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Something that I invariably noticed is that gringos, actually and naturally indeed, believe that they are morally superior to other people and by its “logical” definition: “freedom”, “business”, “justice”, … let along “truth” … must smell like their very sh!t. They would even ask those questions as if they were purely logical issues, not even moral or human ones.
Now when they discovered that the level of surveillance and moral corruption of their own government is order of magnitude greater than anyone had ever imagined, that what many “tin-hat”, “conspiracy theories” kind of people were saying was true, they “simply” and rather amazingly quietly blacked out the side of their individual and societal minds worrying about such issues. They were told it is all about “metadata” and that was that.
// __ Obama: ‘Nobody Is Listening to Your Phone Calls’
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I am not being sarcastic. I encourage you to check this out for yourself (after checking your emotions not that you go LOL to their faces), but gringos actually believe that because they use funny names to call things and/or because they don’t do it in the open, they are not doing them. Now, how stupid is that? How could a “free” and “brave” people buy into that?
The Cuban government, like the Catholic Church, is very proactive politically speaking in a very open and explicit way. They had some sort of official diet schedule about “imperialistic propaganda” even though in Cuba, as people living in other communist countries amazingly and very confusingly found out, everybody listens to music and watches movies from “the enemy” through their very strong black market and social networks. The government would play two “capitalistic” movies weekly. Some of them were not that bad and even enthusiastic people could notice their not that subliminal cr@p, but I still wonder about how much more good art was I being deprived from by those sons of the communistic b!tch3s.
Then when I came to live in the states I found out firsthand that there is no art whatsoever in almost none of those movies, that they are just time wasting b#llsh!t. I don’t even own a TV set, nor do I read or pay any attention whatsoever to “‘the’ free media”. I would not even if I am paid to do so. I was and angry with my people for not fighting the government, but then I am truly amazed that gringos spend (1/3) of the waking time of their entire lives watching TV!!!
Well, I would recommend to Joshua H and our hopefully smarter, braver relay to spend his youthful years instead of yet, trying to start another party, help people understand that so-called “representative democracy” has stopped being a functional illusion a long time ago. Politicians are as corrupt and senseless as tribal, ritual leaders, magical doctors because politics, as voodoo doesn’t make any factual sense. We should all, young and old, benefit from collectively teaming up.
As they do in Switzerland and some areas in Brazil, people should be able to vote as directly as they pay taxes.
Politicians -all of them-: “it depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”, “Mission accomplished”, “Yes we can”, … are all b#llsh!tters living out of our collective stupidity.
Since at least 2011? Well, I arrived in the U.S. 1995 and in 1997 then NYNEX offered me as a land line telephone which in those times was a cell-phone number with area code (917). Job hunters would call me and tell me I was not answering their calls (thinking it was a cell phone) Even tech support at NYNEX would not believe it was a land line phone.
Were they trying to motivate me to get a cell phone in order to make me more manageable?
truth and peace and love,
RCL
Look Ricky Ricardo, there is very little difference between the republican party and the democratic party in this country. And the fact that the American (Gringo) politicians are gravitating to the same assholes that you (que dice?) were forced to endure, means that something has to change in the country that is below Canada & above Mehico. Comprende?
Stingray use is the key element in Organized Stalking.
FBI STASI are scum!
“Operation recoverable” doesn’t seem to be doing well lately
if you don’t set up your “Internet access users” as having a RAM home dir and use some bash script to save your current configurations and sessions and create, restart as new user with another RAM home dir …
Wait! That is really confusing aren’t all “telecom companies” part of the NSA anyway?
“may be”?
and TI is “responsibly” deciding what is “relevant” or not. They are also “responsibly” corrupting their own evidence
https://theintercept.com/document/2015/12/17/government-cellphone-surveillance-catalogue/
by downgrading the resolution of the device’s images and making that page image-based, unsearchable
That Constitution! How any times will it lose its cherry to the same gang rapists!?!
“Police officers should be required” …
Yeah, sure! and politicians should be required not to lie
truth and peace and love,
RCL
I am quite certain that people who charge their iphones using laptop or desktop run the risk of compromising either or both their devices. My laptop hangs up on me when charging my iphone unless I specifically unmount the iphone drive while it is charging. I still haven’t been able to figure out which device tries out the mischief, but it’s pretty certain that one of them does. My friends in NSA were a bit hassled when I mentioned this to them, but wouldn’t comment.
As long as both have power, Wireless & Bluetooth together or alone will keep everything chatting together happily.
Typos and grammatical errors will always accompany my writings. I am in severe pain. Always. I hope you can easily and accurately discern the content of this, and of future comments.
Bellow, the word ‘masters’ was meant to mean ‘masers’, for example.
Thanks.
Is this the effect of the directed nano-energy atomicity in your case too? It’s been known to cause this kind of problems with some of the folks I met at Bernie Sander’s rally.
“… the folks I met at Bernie Sander’s rally. ”
So, perp, how many attendees of Bernie Sander’s rallies have you tagged for torture for daring to support his proposed programs? Submitted the names and pictures to NSA I guess?
And I suppose you are here at TI for the same purpose? With patriots like you, America will never need enemies in a million years.
And yes I make the typos because I use a cheap phone with a low-quality keyboard, on top of the torture.
Now go torture another pregnant woman somewhere and celebrate your patriotism while watching her scream in pain in the middle of the night.
The United States’ psyche is nourished by perpetual warfare.
Information warfare is perhaps the most significant to war planners and war management teams. This is where these tools come in. Except that the enemy now is as ubiquitous as it is today. It is at home and everywhere else.
Abroad, anyone owning natural resources is automatically the enemy except for when they willingly submit the goods to us. Otherwise they will be invaded, occupied, bombed, tortured and held indefinitely in mind control installations, including Gitmo. And killed.
At home, everything everyone does or say must be known, as insistence on against erosion of civil liberties constitutes an obstacle to war goals.
Some will be tortured severely as I am right this minute, long with thousands of innocent Americans, on American soil and by American hands.
The tortures are a search for a perfect tool to implement mind control remotely and scalable, hence some are tortured with Voice To Skull technologies. Others with masters. Scalar tech and in my case, nanotechnology.
All are weaponized versions or variants. Many have died under these programs. Others have gone insane. All are illegally classified.
I am not afraid if exposing these crimes in defense of my freedoms. Because complicity through acquiescence is not worth living for.
And so they will kill me when they realize finally, that their 24/7 torture of my body and mind failed to yield the desired results. And subsequently, a gigantic fool’s adventure lasting for 6 years now at the cost of hundreds of millions.
http://freedomfchs.lefora.com/topic/7442322/nanodevices-in-sensory-overload-mind-control-torture
“The Intercept is not publishing information on devices in the catalogue where the disclosure is not relevant to the debate over the extent of domestic surveillance.”
So, nothing on the LFM tasers this time ? Pity…
You could’ve at least told us to which activities these other devices pertain …
Hey, say hi to Jake for me, will ya…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy3-QZLTpbQ#t=16m01s
Beaurocracies always tend to underestimate the opposition. It is silly to think that other countries do not have the mentality to figure out how these things work and to create their own. It happens repeatedly in history. High explosives, better guns like assault weapons, nuclear technology, etc. are always figured out by others sooner or later.
The real reason for the mass of secrecy by a government is to keep things hidden from their own populations. The majority of spying by NSA, FBI, Police, etc is done upon WE the People, not at foreign enemies.
Enhancements in the capabilities of spying equipment have enabled enhancements in the capability to manufacture “evidence” that the media present to the gullible us to persuade us that those in possession of the spying equipment can/will protect us.
It’s just all to spooky for me. I believe NONE of it. The threat to us comes from those in possession of the equipment.
We’re toast – if we believe any of it, anyway.
Intriguing, for we cannot distinguish between the mob, the government and the foreign nationals that all do the same invasive spook trade craft.
Just an interesting aside: When Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Correction fly drones above their prisons to detect unauthorized cell phones, it puts affected phones into “Emergency Mode”, as if the phone had called 911.
“The Intercept is not publishing information on devices in the catalogue where the disclosure is not relevant to the debate over the extent of domestic surveillance.”
The Intercept presumes to know best; does public teat sucking stalk & torture goon squads a favor. Again.
“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment for this article. The FBI, NSA, and U.S. military did not offer any comment after acknowledging The Intercept’s written requests.”
The Intercept immediately attempts to cover its arse; fawning readers continue lapping up fake civil courage of the comfortable and well paid.
“The ACLU, EFF, and several prominent members of Congress have said the federal government’s exceptions are too broad and leave the door open for abuses.”
Meanwhile, civil cowards in the ACLU and Congress lift no pinkies for stalked and tortured innocents.
@John:
Scared? No.
Pissed off at goons like you? Absolutely.
Makes you want to commit murder, doesn’t it?
@Mike:
Silly Person,
Some of this stuff is used on innocent people fuckwits like you mistakenly branded terrorists — people who simply resist the crude brainwashing you’ve gulped down every day of your frightened life. And those who think the “require a warrant” fig leaf of an argument are just as naive and/or disingenuous as you.
You sound plenty scared to me, just from reading your post.
Now I can reply directly from a computer and browser that supports TI reply hyperlinks.
Far more than a dozen assorted American chicken-shits and goons warned me that my life was in danger if I ever stepped foot in your totalitarian banana republic again. Some of them told me of very explicit plans to murder me. I just spent three years there, and during my stay, one of your Stasi rental-goons told me, verbatim: “You’ve got a lot of balls coming here.”
And here you are, hoping against hope, that I must be scared by now.
Speak for yourself, American Coward in Hiding.
@torturestan-you are one of the few that has me laughing. What page of the script did that come from? Wait, inspired by Snowden a CIA operative gone rogue against the elit puppet masters called the American Politician has made his way back into the US and has been spotted in D.C. to infect legislators with his bodily fluids and blow the whistle on the operation to globally infect those with male pattern balding…….. Is that your script?
Hollywood script? No. Life, asshole. Life lived long before Snowden finally figured out he was working for Fascist goons.
And the joke is on you, despised American tool.
It’s my shift now stan, have a rest now.
Aren’t you concerned that you are posting classified information? It is clear people on here are missing the point of classified material; it isn’t to hide it from the American Public but from foreign governments and terrorist organizations.
And as other people have commented, these require a warrant to use…they just aren’t using them with approval from a judge.
I have concerns about what our government is doing but it is reckless and irresponsible providing national security secrets to our enemies for headlines.
Admiral Rogers?
Your concerns probably seem reasonable to other Big Brother machine inhabitants and msm zombies. But OUR country doesn’t have to rule the world to keep others from ruling us, you know, and trying anyway is really why we keep experiencing blowback terrorism. You can wear your blinkers and claim it’s all about that terrorism – or take a wider view and comprehend an Orwellian future is here because of American blinkers and an ambition who’s blindness is highly questionable.
@nfjtakfa, Mike makes a valid point and your entitled to this valid counter argument as well but I don’t think he’s trying to be an antagonist. Civilians unfortunately are on a need to know basis for various case by case reasons but he’s pointing out the gap in our cyber terrorism defenses which simply dwindles down to the inability to regulate public domain media outlets, here’say internet blogs. 15 years ago while undertaking the shackles of college education, I studied mass comm and had a media law professor whom I believe was under no peer influence of our big brother stripped down text books. We learned about the transformation of yellow journalism, libel, civil rights in the media, and all the media vehicles that caused civilians who were involuntarily subjected as public figures with limited free speech rights because of their decision to participate in regulated media outlets. Then came the indoctrination of the public internet which media experts classified as a “grey” area since day one. Google it and chock up a little toilet time for reading about it. I believe Mike’s point is, blog authors should consider who is reading their intel and know the government can’t possibly invent any state of the art program to track the leaking of classified information. As it stands today, a significant amount of power regarding national security discretion resides in the hands of internet content authors. The best American civilians and/or government agencies can do is “ask” what patriotic folks are left to bare this concept in mind when we inform a wide unknown audience.
I didn’t consider his comment antagonistic, and while you claim I’m entitled to what you called a “valid counter argument” it seems to have struck a nerve. So much so you even seem to be rationalizing the government should be able to control and crack down on the freedom of the press and “gray” area Internet conversations. Then I guess the completely corrupt government and ONLY that government would decide what’s in national security interests – no matter how infringing upon constitutional liberties it may be.
Sorry, first off, any gap in cybersecurity defenses gets laid squarely at the doorstep of that same Big Brother claiming it needs intentionally weak encryption standards, intentional backdoors and also the ability to hack any devices at will. Overkill hiding incompetence or something more nefarious? Also, you took his plea for reasonableness right off the rails, sonny, especially claiming Google’s help during your extra toilet time was somehow the path to your personal “need to know” enlightenment. Between that and your yellow journalism anecdote I’m forced to surmise some fixation with controlling how “everything” – comes out. As I’ve reminded a fellow commenter once or twice here – that’s not due process, that’s a due-due process.
Finally, I trust and respect the patriotism of those willing to question the abuse of authority when they see it – far more than I do those sitting on the can arguing their fear’s more important than my liberty from Big Brother intrusiveness. Piss on your own leg and claim it’s raining, again, since you seem to like that.
@nfjtakfa, you didn’t strike a nerve at all. In fact, I really liked your last response even though you seem to patronize me towards the end. No matter, I realize it’s hard to expect open minds when most people are so blinded by their own beliefs they can’t see through the crap on CNN (Liberal), Fox News (Right Wingers), etc… All combined. Anyway, I see your point and perhaps took you for brainwashed liberal. Thanks for offering intelligent feedback. You seem like someone who could actually do some good in our truly ignorant society. Carry on and don’t mind me!
Classified is relative. The US government treats its own information policy as a subjective matter by scared bureaucrats, who get threatened by other more terrified bureaucrats,saying things like “you’ll be fired!” or “you’ll lose your pension!”. A few bold assholes threaten personal harm to family members as collateral on the anchor of their corruption, because that’s military training toward civil servants.
That only works on the ignorant. When you can’t be scared into stupidity because you have the law and codes in front of you, you can walk in, unencumbered and get “classified” information because it’s no longer really classified.
Classified has an expiration date. Reporters know that. The really good ones know when the “best by” date has passed and time to chuck it to the wild animals.
You better get out of their way. They bite. Don’t expect immunization records on these carrion feeders
So how many 911 calls have gone to a stingray rather than the 911 operator?
911 calls are handled very differently than regular calls.
The stingray would likely be programmed to pass this to the special equipment at the cell site.
In his review of the Blackfin I/II survey equipment, Nathan Wessler says: “Wiretapping calls and text messages requires a special ‘superwarrant’ signed by a judge.”
What’s a “superwarrant”?
Thank you for your work on this, it’s so important yet so few people think it matters. G.C.H.Q. always listening to our customers.
If the U.S. have it I , guess we have too.
Thanks for writing this article. I may have said this before, but I’m glad there’s still a source of adversarial and informative journalism in this era of mainstream propagandists posing as journalists.
What really makes me frustrated about the state of our country and the world (more so than I already am) is this tidbit:
“Sometimes it’s not even clear how much police are spending on Stingray-like devices because they are bought with proceeds from assets seized under federal civil forfeiture law, in drug busts and other operations. Illinois, Michigan, and Maryland police forces have all used asset forfeiture funds to pay for Stingray-type equipment.”
They use civil forfeiture to steal the funds to purchase spying equipment that they can then use to go after people and steal even more funds that they can use to get even more spying equipment…it’s a potentially endless cycle. I don’t know if Orwell could have even dreamed something like this up. Geez…
In a tiny, wealthy town in New England, a single mother who had ended a relationship with a local police officer found this cop showing up in his cruiser wherever she went at any time of day.
At first she suspected that he’d GPS’ed her car, though a sweep by a private investigator found nothing. Only when she pulled the battery out of her phone did it stop.
At around the same time, another local officer inadvertently opened his trunk in front of a bystander, displaying a military-grade assault rifle. The officer confessed that the force had recently purchased these and required all cops to carry them in their cruisers. In other words, the force was apparently gearing up for invasion, so it’s not impossible they had also acquired Stingray.
In the last 15 years, the only times this town has made the wider media for crime was when a sexual abuser was found on public school staff, and yet another local cop pulled a gun on his wife. That was long before Stingray though. These days he’d have more tech at his disposal to keep a nice death grip on his marriage.
It’s so reassuring to know that our tax dollars are hard at work aiding the lovelorn fetishes of demented public servants.
Back in 2003, sometime just after AT&T acquired Cingular, I received an itemized $1,300 phone bill saying I had called over 20 different countries. All of whom I’d rather glow in the dark or sink to the bottom of the ocean (i.e. Russia, China, Korea, etc…). The point is, I argued w AT&T that I didn’t even know a single cockroach oversees and hijacking technology like this has existed well over ten years ago. I was a freshman in college and refused to pay for it but their managers never budged and tried to sue me. I had to settle on $700 because it was cheaper than a defense lawyer. Now I work for the IT industry and know darn well this was possible. Thanks jerks!!
Sol local policing is no longer about protecting and serving, or being one with the community. It’s all about toys.
And great job on the article. It read beautifully.
Look, if we don’t buy thousands of these and distribute them to unaccountable police agencies across the country, literally tens of people could be at risk of knowing someone whose cousin’s boss barely survived Ballghazi.
Another industry that is awash in the lower end devices in that catalog is the “e-discovery” industry, which handles the geekier aspects of civil litigation.
How did all you people get talked into smartphones(what a laugh) twitter,Facebook and the internet(even though I do use it sometimes) my father use to say “are you kids watching the idiot box” now we have several sizes of” idiot boxes” Did you see Gloria Stienem on Charlie Rose saying that you need to be using all five senses to trigger empathy in the brain maybe that is why everyone is not screaming about this horror as most communicate by email text or phone.Talk and touch put the idiot boxes away.
It is funny. I have a huge Sony Bravia on the wall with a nice Bose sound system and it is off all day long. I only turn it on maybe before I go to bed to watch some obscure Turner Classic Movie I DVR’d days ago.
My kids walk in and actually say, “Why isn’t the TV on?!” as if that is the only mode for it.
I say, “It is off because I have a life to live.” Ha!
Our great grandchildren and their great grandchildren..will spit on our graves for not having the courage, let alone the moral decency, to form an insurrection front line to bring these motherfucking collectivist tyrant wannabe’s to their knees..and then hang them from every lamp post from coast to coast.
Good stuff. Thanks all.
Xposed installer with donkeyguard module you can spoof all of your phone data and IDs. it works well on my android. Of coursemost people can’t root their phone or install anything not on the App store.
“They can track me I’m not doing anything wrong I don’t care”. Communist governments and totalitarian dictators track all their citizens. If you’re okay with your government tracking you then you’re just fine with the CommunisT and all the other despots in the world
there exists outside the US a thing called the ‘rest of the world’.
… YOUR government and your citizens seem to think it’s OK to treat this area (yes, the rest of the world) however you want … with no regard to the rights, sovereignty, laws, customs etc … of this seemingly insignificant demographic.
i’m not OK with your government tracking me.
… and in case you dont realise, we – the rest of the world – think of our US masters as a totalitarian dictatorship … just like you described above.
… i hope this news is not too shocking for y’all !!
I was not clear. What I was saying is that many Americans make the comment about the NSA surveillance “I don’t care if they track me I’m not doing anything wrong”. I was saying countries like Russia, dictators like Tito, Mussolini and other totalitarian despots track their people. I do not believe in the NSA tracking I do not believe in the mass surveillance worldwide either. I do believe it is the foreign policy of the United States that has made the rest of the world or at least the Middle East and South America hate us. I believe Edward Snowden did the world a favor and if anybody is deserving of a Nobel Prize it is him
On ya mate! Keep the bastards honest is what I say.
America exists as if it were the sole protector of order and justice. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
A choice between Communism and American Foreign policy is so easy as to be laughable.
Only a fool or an American would choose to be American, or live under American rule.
Death to America is what I say, and the sooner the better.
Who elected America the world power? It is the manifest destiny and American exceptionalism that sees it fuck the world over and then it wonders why the world hates it so and wishes to destroy it.
Yea that helps asshole. We’re not perfect but we keep trying and we the people are not always represented well. I can tell you for sure that your shit attitude towards “Americans” just makes you part of the problem. So fuck you too.
If I want to know the truth it was the London bankers and the German bankers who elected as the leaders when they created are incredibly corrupt and controlling federal banking system. If you think you Europeans are innocent and all this you better start reading your history. And you Irish sure don’t seem to have any problem taking our corporate tax revenue by hiding money in your fake corporations.
It looks to me like the best we can hope for is that President Trump will appoint Carly Fiorina to head the NSA and she’ll run it into the ground.
All smartphones can be programmed to poll the surrounding area and talk to other smartphones without the owners knowing it. Once another phone is detected you can transfer anything you want off of it or on to it. All of these features can be programmed into any smartphone. The govt is actually getting scammed by the defense contractors into buying another device.
So the stingrays I have a hunch also play a role in microchips implanted in people so it goes with the so call electrical meters(they have their clandestine programs for this too) And i would not be surprise the ziomasonstanist governance along with the usa-entire law enforcement is placing or implanting microships through peoples ears when they are in jail as it is easy to drugged them before they go to sleep with the food and drinks they provide as a form of RFID(radio frequency identification devices) I would not be surprise they are already doing it with the civilians unaware not just in jail, but in surgeries, in dental procedures on their teeth. If anyone know how to detect them and reder these usa-microchips implanted without the consent of the persons let me know as this ziomasonsatanist governance has been involved in macabre human ginny pigs experiments without the public being aware like when the people were sent to psychiatrist hospitals and were uses as human ginipigs without their consent also to such hitlerian experiments. This is how the usa-governance locate their alice in wonderland operatives when they want to escape their corrupt clutches or just anyone they want to impplant microchips without peoples consent nor the knowledge of it by the people being implanted on
Hold on now!
This is to stop the Boston Marathon bombing, and the Times Square bombing and to prevent the CIA from overriding French airport security and putting the underwear bomber on a flight to Detroit.
Yup, and no doubt to clean up the godawful visa vetting process which allows for jihadis like Malik, wife of Farook, to be vetted by five government agencies and still be allowed in for mass murder.
Obviously, this is what this catalogue is for.
Funny you should mention the “Underwear Bomber”.
Just the other day I read all about the lawyer and his wife who watched the “Underwear Bomber” being escorted onto their flight with NO PASSPORT by “a man in a smart suit and tie”:
http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2011/09/colossal-deceit-known-as-underwear.html
I vaguely remember the DOJ issuing a murky-hole filled guidance that does not compell States to restrict their police on warrants for use of cell site sims. There are 48 federal agencies who have access and would use IMSI. > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-24/state-laws-start-catching-up-to-police-phone-spying
There are a few states who have laws set against IMSI tower use & regulations requiring a warrant. So there are at least some limits in the US. This may be a problem for citizens who think they have federal protections when they are not necessarily protected. Local law enforcement are trained to enter much of the local information they get into a Fusion Center ISE or sharing environment which goes directly to the federal government (48 agencies). They do this “voluntarily” as a cooperative action or convenient threat of regulatory function. The IMSI information local police gather still is available to the federal police. So if you don’t want the local police to conduct arbitrary mass surveillance on your phone, find out your State laws & policies on IMSI.
If your state doesn’t have standards or laws that support your individual right to basic privacy, get a Blackphone, stickyour smartphone in a Black Hole bag, or take the battery out of your dumb phone when you’re roaming around until your State get’s their act together. That’s all you can do, other than install a Stingray tracking app … and there are so many.
Does the warrantless use of the devices on “the border” by DHS include the coasts?
If so, that’s most of the U.S. population.
Yes.
https://www.aclu.org/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
I watched several videos awhile back taken by one person or another who were not only aware of their right not to be harassed by border patrol well away from any border, but they stood by those rights in spite of being harangued by the officers. One in particular was of a guy who, every time the officer asked him to either allow a search, step out of vehicle or pull over to the secondary area for a more thorough harassment, kept saying, “No thank you.” Eventually they told him he was ‘free to go’.
This is a link to a search bringing up a bunch of those video on youtube.
Great article. Thanks. And kudos to the source of the catalog.
Great reporting Jeremy & Margot. However you forgot or omitted San Diego Police Dept.
San Diego PD has been using their Stingrays since at least 2011.
This is all just more destruction of the constitution.
The KGB and Stasi could have only fantasized about such a domestic spying capability. All the years -MAKE THAT DECADES that the American public was told how horrible the Russians (Soviets) and the KGB were (by the CIA & various U.S. agencies) because they would routinely spy & tap the phones of dissidents in their country, now the truth is told that the United Secret Police State of America (USPSoA) is several magnitudes worse!
The equation is:
KGB x STASI x GESTAPO x SS x Germany’s secret police = USA (USPSoA)
That ought to make the American police real proud and send a shiver down the spine of all who live in “the land of the free & home of the brave”.
Most people have no idea just how bad things really are. Tell them the truth and they’ll tell you you’re crazy.
How much longer before someone leaks it?
Anonymous, are you the only one who agrees with me? Today’s youths are in for a hard lesson in secret police in the near future. Edward Snowden is 29, maybe 31. He has sacrificed his ability to live in the country where he was born, and you know most people under 40 don’t know who he is?
Yeah, that’s what I heard. And most people under 32 can’t read or write
Apparently, Thomas J., but I know this: We’re in terrible trouble.
Very grateful for what Snowden’s done. And sick about the “under 40″ problem. I ran into a spoiled trust-fund kid recently who didn’t recognize his name. “Oh, I don’t read the news,” she said. And then she laughed.
While many people in my age group unfortunately share some or all of those characteristics (you guys are pretty much describing all of my co-workers who are under 40), not all of us are like that. It’s just that too few of us aren’t like that.
I’m 26 years old. Not only do I know quite well who Edward Snowden is and what he did (I read TI quite frequently, you might have seen a few of my comments before on here), but I’m also quite politically active in a party other than the Democrats and Republicans (I’m a member of the Green Party). I’m even running for precinct committeeman in an attempt to try to drum up some support in my area for things such as civil liberties and rights and a humane foreign policy.
While I agree that too many of my generation simply don’t care, I would ask that you help those of us who DO care try to change their minds instead of simply writing us all off as lost. Thank you.
Joshua H., My apologies. You’re absolutely right and I should have added something more to my comment.
Thanks, too, for your comment. It gives one hope.
Also, sometimes that broad-brush comes out and it was good of you to remind me to get rid of it.
Joshua H.
Thanks, too, for your comment. It gives one hope.
Also, sometimes that broad-brush comes out and it was good of you to remind me to get rid of it.
(I see that I inadvertently replied to myself. : ) )
Well Joshua H, you are a tiny ray of hope for your age group!
A few years ago, the democratic party started a campaign to influence young people to vote for their party. Their catchphrase was “friends don’t let friends vote republican”.
Maybe (since you seem to be an enlightened individual) you can do all of us TI readers (and all the unenlightened masses) a favor by influencing your age group to vote INDEPENDENT not just for President but also for ALL congressional races!
Only when the dumb bull headed elephants and jackasses do not hold a majority will the U.S. have a chance at any meaningful change. Not just a sloganeering community organizer from Illinois who tricked the liberal party with the phrase “change, change, change”. Only to be in support of the status quo, and worse.
Can I ask this of you Joshua H?
I get the frustration about the youngsters not comprehending what they’re in for, but let’s keep in mind, (if you’re like me–old enough to have kids in their twenties) it’s our generation and even our parents’ generation that got us where we are today.
“The Intercept obtained the catalogue from a source within the intelligence community concerned about the militarization of domestic law enforcement.”
A bit off topic but:
Apparently, Obama may be concerned too? Isn’t he ending the 1033program or is that just a game or baiting tactic to get more Federal control over police dept?
Does anyone think this sounds bad: a federally-equipped, militarized, local police department?
I am waiting for a news report when some local department deploys crew served weapons and grenade launchers (not w/ CS gas) in a terrorist attack that involves a civilian background. Will people care, either way, if their loved ones were killed (torn limb from limb or decapitated) by automatic rifle and machine gun fire from terrorists or police. I propose it will matter not. Yet I’ve read local police advocates blast Obama for proposing to take the equipment away, saying the people would be screaming their heads off if police couldn’t respond to a terror attack with that equipment.
The oath, for them, is to keep the peace; and that seems incompatible with federal military oath. The days are long gone when Andy Griffith would show up on scene and talk someone down.
What a shame.
You want to pick a new fight ContinuousDeception?
In the wake of the San Bernardino massacre, Obama starts flapping his gums about limiting or removing weapons of war in the U.S. However in his zeal he forgets all about giving automatic weapons, armored personnel carriers, and grenade launchers (yes grenade launchers to the Los Angeles School District) to “civilian” police agencies. How the snake (Obama) speak with forked tongue. One half of his tongues says remove surplus military equipment, and the other half of his tongue says to pour more unnecessary “equipment” against the public.
So much for “change, change, change”, more like ‘the same, the same, worse!”
Support your local status quo -Obama.
Bring on more Fergusons, more Baltimores, more LAPDs.
I found it a bit disconcerting to see that at least two witnesses of the San Bernardino shooting said this:
http://yournewswire.com/two-witnesses-describe-san-bernardino-shooters-as-three-white-men/
Great read. As technology advances and the fact that law enforcement agency use these devices surreptitiously, why have not the 4th Amendment been expanded to protect the American people civil liberties and rights to privacy.
I’m afraid that the overwhelming trends and tendencies of recent judicial and legislative actions have been to limit and dismantle the 4th Amendment, WRT modern technology, not to expand it.
Got a robot boss?
Got a skull cavity full of jello?
Just grape, thanks. You?
Mr. Scahill and Ms. Williams,
Great journalism! Keep up the good work. And a big thank you to your source in the intelligence community–at least a few of them appear to have a conscience, and respect for the Constitution and an individual’s right not to be subjected to unreasonable warrantless searches.