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Lawless NSA Global S

By Stephen Lendman

6-17-13

NSA is one of 16 known US spy agencies. Perhaps others operate secr

spent. Amounts are enormous. They're unconscionable.

Used responsibly, they'd relieve hunger, shelter the homeless, heal the

hungry for knowledge.

Out-of-control, unregulated, unmonitored practices operate lawlessly. E

operate that way.

On June 1 1952 Harry Truman authorized NSA On October 24 revis


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supervisory control to ensure compliance with the regulations."

On July 31, 2008, EO 12333 was amended to:

"Align (it) with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Preventi

Implement additional recommendations of the 9/11 and WMD C

Further integrate the Intelligence Community and clarify and str

of the Community; Maintain or strengthen privacy and civil libe

By law,NSAs mission is limited to monitoring, collecting and analyzi

missions include:

the Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID). It relates to foreign in

the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD). It protects US inf


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NSA does more than spy. It lawlessly hacks computer and telecommun

It focuses heavily on strategically important countries.

Mathhew Aid's a US intelligence expert. On June 10, his Foreign Polic

NSA's Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group."

It "actively engage(s) in cyber-espionage." It does so covertly and lawl

America's by far the worst.

Obama officials point fingers the wrong way. They accuse China of ac

America. Beijing hit back publicly. Senior Chinese officials accused W

Beijing's top Internet official, Huang Chengquing, said China has "mou

US hacking. It's designed to steal government secrets.

According to Aid NSA's Office of Tailored Access Operations (TAO)


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It suggests operating domestically the same way. Keith Alexander head

He's authorized to conduct these attacks.

TAO personnel are responsible for developing information needed to d

compromise targeted sites.

According to Aid, TAO "is the now the largest and arguably the most i

huge Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) Directorate|."

"(O)ver 1,000 military and civilian computer hackers, intelligence anal

hardware and software designers, and electrical engineers."

Their job is identifying computer systems and supporting telecommun

TAO is "an industry unto itself." It's a virtual "wunderkind" of US inte

(and do what) nobody else in the IC (intelligence community) can "


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Real danger, says Keller, exists without "rigorous, independent regulat

potential abuses of power from becoming a real menace to our freedom

He's more out of touch than he admits. Democracy's more illusion than

balances. They eroded long ago. They're nonexistent.

Diktat power runs America. Congress and federal courts are complicit.

state statutes eroded most freedoms. Anyone can be targeted for any re

Thousands of political prisoners rot in America's gulag. It's the world's

longstanding policy. So is torture, neoliberal harshness, out-of-control

interests say goes.

America's social contract is being destroyed. It's happening in plain sig

policy. A race to the bottom reflects it. Reality for most people is night

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Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstep

His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on

http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanII.html

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