The U.S. Treasury dept. & other agencies are spying on our banking records
The U.S. Treasury Department said it sets limits while allowing the nation’s intelligence agencies to access reports that banks file on suspicious or large money moves by customers, including information about Americans.
Sets limits? The NSA, IRS & the FBI have access to our financial records.
When FBI agents attempted to build cases against foreign nationals accused of terrorism and espionage in the early 1980s, a privacy law barred them from obtaining suspects' U.S. banking records. Congress had passed the Right to Financial Privacy Act (RFPA) in 1978, creating statutory Fourth Amendment protection for an individual's banking records, and inadvertently blocking important investigations.
Telecoms are spying on you for banks, click here to read more.
Bank of America is working with feds to spy on activists click here to read more.
The Treasury described how it provides some banking information in bulk to the National Counterterrorism Center, the hub of the government’s anti-terrorism intelligence efforts.
The 2010 memorandum of understanding between the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the NCTC requires intelligence agencies to make “best efforts” to tap information valuable only to specific cases and immediately destroy data obtained in error. Redistribution is limited.
The Obama administration has been seeking to assure the U.S. public and allies that they’re not subject to continual surveillance, while defending intelligence collection as vital to stopping terrorism. Unlike the vast data tombs unveiled by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the U.S. has publicly required financial firms for decades to report suspicious activity to the Treasury for anti-money-laundering efforts. The information can be shared with law enforcement and has been used in past terrorism cases.
SOP or Standard Operating Procedure: Our government cronies use the old B/S excuse for spying on Americans without a warrant its about possible terrorism!
Three SOP responses govt. PR people give:
There have been no abuses of power
Invading privacy is okay because it's done to prevent terrorist attacks
There's plenty of oversight from Congress, from the courts and agency watchdogs
What our govt. is really saying is FORGET ABOUT YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS, WE HAVE!
“Financial data can be some of the most relevant as to how people are connected,” NCTC Director Matthew Olsen said in an interview. “That’s why it’s vital that we have access” to the FinCEN database, he said.
While his unit also looks at travel patterns, phone records and other pertinent data when investigating potential international terrorist activity, tracking the money is key, he said. FinCEN data, for example, can help map financial flows from individuals in the U.S. to terrorist networks in Yemen or Syria, he said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-08/treasury-discloses-limits-on-sharing-bank-data-with-spy-agencies.html
DOJ thinks Americans speech & thoughts could make them a terrorist:
The Justice Department is resurrecting a program designed to thwart domestic threats to the United States, and Attorney General Eric Holder says those threats include individuals the government deems anti-government or racially prejudiced.
The Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee was created in the wake of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing but was scrapped soon after the 2001 terrorist attacks as intelligence and law enforcement officials shifted their focus to threats from outside the country. The committee will be comprised of figures from the FBI, the National Security Division of the Justice Department and the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee.
“We must also concern ourselves with the continued danger we face from individuals within our own borders who may be motivated by a variety of other causes from anti-government animus to racial prejudice,” Holder said.
According to reporting from Reuters, the American Civil Liberties Union is pushing back against the DOJ plan, fearing “it could be a sweeping mandate to monitor and collect controversial speech.”
Conservative groups are alarmed on multiple levels. First, they see themselves once again the target of an administration that disagrees with them philosophically.
“It appears there’s an attempt to marginalize people who hold views that are sharply different from those of the administration and much of the establishment, said Horace Cooper, co-chairman of the Project 21 National Advisory Board. Project 21 is a network of black conservatives.
Project 21 is a very vocal critic of what it considers administration efforts to cloak liberal policies in the guise of racial equality. Cooper said devoting resources to stop threats based on racial prejudice is a solution in search of a problem.
“We’re particularly bothered by mixing together so-called domestic insurrectionists and racists.
There is simply no anti-black or anti-minority underground movement in America that is threatening in any way the stability of our government or the stability of local governments. There is just nothing like that. That’s just a complete and total boogeyman,” said Cooper, who believes the Justice Department is fully aware of the reality.
“When we see this administration talking as if the real threat is that if you’re a young black male, you’re going to be shot, you’re going to be kidnapped or you’re going to be forced to prison without actually having any charges against you, there’s simply no evidence to show that,” he said.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/now-thought-crime-is-terror-in-u-s/ FEMA partners with DHS on PSYOPS campaign:
As if this country isn’t bad enough, FEMA and DHS have somehow found a way to make it far worse, pitting the public against each other in a push to seize total control.
“The American dream draws people from across the globe, at the same time there are individuals in the United States that seek to carry out acts of terrorism or violence against or communities or country”, warns the video propaganda piece pushed by both FEMA and the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Shockingly, the rather amateur presentation, brought to you by Big Brother, shows a man in a parking lot carefully watching a white van pull into to a parking stall. To the man’s surprise a man and a woman emerge from the vehicle managing to drop their keys, continuing on their way unknowingly. Needles to say, the man then deems what he saw a potential act of terror, going on to call the authorities.
Remember the DHS “See something say something” campaign?
The problem with all of this is the fact that the man, who was watching a little too closely, not minding his own business, had taken it upon himself to report the potential threat which may have been merely nothing more than a newly wed couple dropping their keys in a parking lot.
Moreover, instead of calling the authorities, you would think the man would have called out to the couple aloud, saying, “hey guys you forgot your keys”, or something to that effect. I mean after all, wouldn’t that be the humanly thing to do or are we all just a bunch of God damn robots man? Jesus.
“Homeland Security is a shared responsibility... When you see things that just don’t seem right” report them, the video says, going on to point out that terrorists “may need time to study their targets, gather information, test security, acquire funds and supplies and rehearse or walk through their plans.”, the narration goes on, further making it look like everyone is a terrorist.
Amazingly the video even admits that fusion center are the “focal point” for operations locally, for “addressing emerging threats”.
“State and major urban area fusion centers are focal points for the receipt, analysis, gathering and sharing of threat related information”, the narrator says, letting you know what the real deal is. And if that’s not enough, the video ends with a series of short films adding yet even more suspicion to the average person in an attempt to mind control or persuade the populace that terrorist are lurking behind every corner. However, statistics show thats simply not true as acts of terror are few and far between.
http://www.intellihub.com/fema-partners-homeland-security-psyops-campaign/