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Killing Democracy One File at a Time: Justice Department Loosens FBI Domestic Spy Guidelines
By Tom Burghardt
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25335
Global Research, June 21, 2011
Antifascist Calling... - 2011-06-19
While the Justice Department is criminally inept, or worse, when it comes to prosecuting corporate thieves who looted, and continue to loot, trillions of dollars as capitalism's economic crisis accelerates, they are extremely adept at waging war on dissent.
Last week, The New York Times
disclosed that the FBI "is giving significant new powers to its roughly
14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go
through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the
lives of people who have attracted their attention."
Under "constitutional scholar" Barack
Obama's regime, the Bureau will revise its "Domestic Investigations and
Operations Guide." The "new rules," Charlie Savage writes, will give
agents "more latitude" to investigate citizens even when there is no
evidence they have exhibited "signs of criminal or terrorist activity."
As the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC)
recently pointed out, "When presented with opportunities to protect
constitutional rights, our federal government has consistently failed
us, with Congress repeatedly rubber-stamping the executive authority to
violate civil liberties long protected by the Constitution."
While true as far it goes, it should be apparent by this late date that no
branch of the federal government, certainly not Congress or the
Judiciary, has any interest in limiting Executive Branch power to
operate lawlessly, in secret, and without any oversight or
accountability whatsoever.
Just last week, The New York Times revealed that the Bush White House used the CIA "to get" academic critic Juan Cole, whose Informed Comment blog was highly critical of U.S. imperial adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The former CIA officer and
counterterrorism official who blew the whistle and exposed the existence
of a Bush White House "enemies list,", Glenn L. Carle, told the Times, "I couldn't believe this was happening. People were accepting it, like you had to be part of the team."
Ironically enough, the journalist who
broke that story, James Risen, is himself a target of an Obama
administration witchhunt against whistleblowers. Last month, Risen was
issued a grand jury subpoena that would force him to reveal the sources
of his 2006 book, State of War.
These latest "revisions" will expand the
already formidable investigative powers granted the Bureau by former
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey.
Three years ago, The Washington Post
informed us that the FBI's new "road map" permits agents "to recruit
informants, employ physical surveillance and conduct interviews in which
agents disguise their identities" and can pursue "each of those steps
without any single fact indicating a person has ties to a terrorist
organization."
Accordingly, FBI "assessments" (the
precursor to a full-blown investigation) already lowered by the previous
administration will, under Obama, be lowered still further in a bid to
"keep us safe"--from our constitutional rights.
The Mukasey guidelines, which created the
"assessment" fishing license handed agents the power to probe people and
organizations "proactively" without a shred of evidence that an
individual or group engaged in unlawful activity.
In fact, rather than relying on a
reasonable suspicion or allegations that a person is engaged in criminal
activity, racial, religious or political profiling based on who one is
or on one's views, are the basis for secretive "assessments."
Needless to say, the presumption of
innocence, the bedrock of a republican system of governance based on the
rule of law, like the right to privacy, becomes one more "quaint"
notion in a National Security State. In its infinite wisdom, the
Executive Branch has cobbled together an investigative regime that
transforms anyone, and everyone, into a suspect; a Kafkaesque system
from which there is no hope of escape.
Under Bushist rules, snoops were required
to open an inquiry "before they can search for information about a
person in a commercial or law enforcement database," the Times
reported. In other words, somewhere in the dank, dark bowels of the
surveillance bureaucracy a paper trail exists that just might allow you
to find out your rights had been trampled.
But our "transparency" regime intends to
set the bar even lower. Securocrats will now be allowed to rummage
through commercial databases "without making a record about their
decision."
The ACLU's Michael German, a former FBI whistleblower, told the Times that "claiming additional authorities to investigate people only further raises the potential for abuse."
Such abuses are already widespread. In 2009 for example, the ACLU
pointed out that "Anti-terrorism training materials currently being
used by the Department of Defense (DoD) teach its personnel that free
expression in the form of public protests should be regarded as 'low
level terrorism'."
As I reported in 2009, citing a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
the Bureau's massive Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW), is a
data-mining Frankenstein that contains more "searchable records" than
the Library of Congress.
EFF researchers discovered that "In
addition to storing vast quantities of data, the IDW provides a content
management and data mining system that is designed to permit a wide
range of FBI personnel (investigative, analytical, administrative, and
intelligence) to access and analyze aggregated data from over fifty
previously separate datasets included in the warehouse."
Accordingly, "the FBI intends to increase
its use of the IDW for 'link analysis' (looking for links between
suspects and other people--i.e. the Kevin Bacon game) and to start
'pattern analysis' (defining a 'predictive pattern of behavior' and
searching for that pattern in the IDW's datasets before any criminal
offence is committed--i.e. pre-crime)."
Once new FBI guidelines are in place, and
congressional grifters have little stomach to challenge government
snoops as last month's disgraceful "debate" over renewing three
repressive provisions of the USA Patriot Act attest, "low-level"
inquiries will be all but impossible to track, let alone contest.
Despite a dearth of evidence that
dissident groups or religious minorities, e.g., Muslim-Americans have
organized violent attacks in the heimat, the new guidelines will permit the unlimited deployment of "surveillance squads" that "surreptitiously follow targets."
In keeping with the Bureau's long-standing history of employing paid informants and agents provocateurs such as Brandon Darby
and a host of others, to infiltrate and disrupt organizations and
foment violence, rules governing "'undisclosed participation' in an
organization by an F.B.I. agent or informant" will also be loosened.
The Times reports that the revised
manual "clarifies a description of what qualifies as a "sensitive
investigative matter"--investigations, at any level, that require
greater oversight from supervisors because they involve public
officials, members of the news media or academic scholars."
According to the Times, the manual
"clarifies the definition of who qualifies for extra protection as a
legitimate member of the news media in the Internet era: prominent
bloggers would count, but not people who have low-profile blogs."
In other words, if you don't have the deep
pockets of a corporate media organization to defend you from a
government attack, you're low-hanging fruit and fair game, which of
course, makes a mockery of guarantees provided by the First Amendment.
As I reported
last month, with requests for "National Security Letters" and other
opaque administrative tools on the rise, the Obama administration has
greatly expanded already-repressive spy programs put in place by the
previous government.
Will data extracted by the Bureau's
Investigative Data Warehouse or its new Data Integration and
Visualization System retain a wealth of private information gleaned from
commercial and government databases on politically "suspect"
individuals for future reference? Without a paper trail linking a person
to a specific inquiry you'd have no way of knowing.
Even should an individual file a Freedom
of Information Act request demanding the government turn over
information and records pertaining to suspected wrongdoing by federal
agents, as Austin anarchist Scott Crow
did, since the FBI will not retain a record of preliminary inquiries,
FOIA will be hollowed-out and become, yet another, futile and
meaningless exercise.
And with the FBI relying on secret legal memos
issued by the White House Office of Legal Counsel justifying everything
from unchecked access to internet and telephone records to the
deployment of government-sanctioned malware on private computers during "national security" investigations, political and privacy rights are slowly being strangled.
Tom Burghardt is a researcher and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to publishing in Covert Action Quarterly and Global Research,
an independent research and media group of writers, scholars,
journalists and activists based in Montreal, he is a Contributing Editor
with Cyrano's Journal Today. His articles can be read on Dissident Voice, The Intelligence Daily, Pacific Free Press, Uncommon Thought Journal, and the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. He is the editor of Police State America: U.S. Military "Civil Disturbance" Planning, distributed by AK Press and has contributed to the new book from Global Research, The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century.
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en Libye
Les récentes
guerres majeures des États-Unis ont toutes été accompagnées par des mensonges
mémorables
par
Peter Dale Scott
Libye : les
preuves en images du bombardement par l’OTAN de l’université Nasser de
Tripoli
par
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Fil
diplomatique
Veille
documentaire
« Tendances »
La cohésion
de la Syrie face à l’offensive turco-occidentale
Partenaires, 13 juin 2011
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