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Codename PRISM - I Know You're Reading This - Bush's 'Illegal Wiretap' Continues Under Obama

Posted on the 07 June 2013 by Freeplanet @CUST0D1AN
Anyone remember the 'fictional' ready room in the Bourne Trilogy (created by spy-thriller-master Robert Ludlum) where a DAC or Despotic Assassin Commander in a dark room at Langley, London, Paris etc. would issue kill orders to track-my-target and action-all-comms on any unfortunate who found themselves directly or indirectly party to covert acts of pro- con- activity of our Governments?
Well....
Codename PRISM - I know you're reading this - Bush's 'Illegal Wiretap' continues under ObamaThe National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.  
The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before. Its establishment in 2007 and six years of exponential growth took place beneath the surface of a roiling debate over the boundaries of surveillance and privacy. Even late last year, when critics of the foreign intelligence statute argued for changes, the only members of Congress who know about PRISM were bound by oaths of office to hold their tongues.  
An internal presentation on the Silicon Valley operation, intended for senior analysts in the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate, described the new tool as the most prolific contributor to the President’s Daily Brief, which cited PRISM data in 1,477 articles last year. According to the briefing slides, obtained by The Washington Post, “NSA reporting increasingly relies on PRISM” as its leading source of raw material, accounting for nearly 1 in 7 intelligence reports. [source WASHINGTON POST]

In the Bourne films it was called Echelon, not PRISM. So, are we to take it that the whole Bourne ID scam is also fact? Are there ways to covertly avoid CCTV detection for example, Volker Blaz & Thomas Vetter - 3D morphable model for the synthesis of 3D faces, as reported in 2006?
You The People have been soft-trauma'd or globally mind-whacked in a drip-drip fashion - first the flash of horror at 9/11 (and other false flag atrocities) then the calming pleasing coercing message that your Government punishes you with extreme measures 'for your own good'. All this tax-payer-funded surveillance in the name of War On Terror, it's just to METER THE FLOW OF YOUR CASH through their Consumerist products. In fact, it gets more spooky the more you look at it -- have a gander at Free Planet's recent post on Bradley Manning trial transcripts post to see that the files 'Intel' put together on potential theater targets are called PRODUCTS, and they're made for Consumers. Talk about de-focussing the employees from the horror of their role.
Still convinced you live in the LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE BRAVE corporate slave?

FREE PLANET, let me hear you say this, in the streets, in the bars, in your workplaces, in your homes, at council meetings, on TV.

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