WIKILEAKS:
Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network
David
Seaman, David Seaman Online|Aug. 10, 2012, 2:49 PM
The U.S. cable networks won't be covering this
one tonight (not accurately, anyway), but
Trapwire is making the rounds on social media today—it
reportedly became a Trending hashtag on Twitter earlier in the day.
Trapwire is the name of a program revealed in the
latest Wikileaks bonanza—it is the mother of all leaks, by the way. Trapwire would make something like
disclosure of UFO contact or imminent failure of a major U.S. bank fairly
boring news by comparison.
And someone out
there seems to be quite disappointed that word is getting out so swiftly; the
Wikileaks web site is reportedly sustaining 10GB worth of DDoS attacks each
second, which is massive.
Anyway, here's
what Trapwire is,
according to Russian-state owned media network RT (apologies for citing
"foreign media"... if we had a free press, I'd be citing something
published here by an American media conglomerate): "Former senior
intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more
accurate than modern facial recognition technology—and have installed it across
the U.S. under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by
Anonymous.
Every few
seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks
across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then
encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center
at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. It’s part
of a program called TrapWire
and it's the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America’s intelligence community.
The employee
roster at Arbaxas reads like a who’s who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities according
to their public LinkedIn profiles, and the corporation's ties are assumed to go
deeper than even documented. The details on Abraxas and, to an even greater
extent TrapWire, are
scarce, however, and not without reason. For a program touted as a tool to thwart
terrorism and monitor activity meant to be under wraps, its understandable that
Abraxas would want the program’s public presence to be relatively limited. But
thanks to last year’s hack of the Strategic Forecasting intelligence agency, or
Stratfor, all of that is quickly changing."
So: those spooky
new "circular" dark globe cameras installed in your neighborhood
park, town, or city—they aren't just passively monitoring. They're plugged into
Trapwire and they are
potentially monitoring every single person via facial recognition.
In related news,
the Obama administration is fighting in federal court this week for the ability
to imprison American citizens under NDAA's indefinite detention provisions—and
anyone else—without charge or trial, on suspicion alone.
So we have a
widespread network of surveillance cameras across America monitoring us and reporting suspicious
activity back to a centralized analysis center, mixed in with the ability to
imprison people via military force on the basis of suspicious activity alone. I
don't see how that could possibly go wrong. Nope, not at all. We all know the
government, and algorithmic computer programs, never make mistakes.
Here's what is
also so disturbing about this whole NDAA business, according to Tangerine
Bolen's piece in the Guardian: "This past week's hearing was even more
terrifying. Government attorneys again, in this hearing, presented no evidence
to support their position and brought forth no witnesses. Most incredibly,
Obama's attorneys refused to assure the court, when questioned, that the NDAA's
section 1021 – the provision that permits reporters and others who have not
committed crimes to be detained without trial – has not been applied by the
U.S.
government anywhere in the world after Judge Forrest's injunction. In
other words, they were telling a U.S. federal judge that they could not, or
would not, state whether Obama's government had complied with the legal
injunction that she had laid down before them. To this, Judge Forrest responded
that if the provision had indeed been applied, the United States government would be in contempt of
court."
If none of this
bothers you, please don't follow me on Twitter, because nothing I report on
will be of interest to you. Go back to watching the television news network of
your choice, where you will hear about Romney's latest campaign ads, and
whether Obamacare will increase the cost of delivery pizza by 14 to 16 cents.
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