Americans continue to fund crime and their own destruction with their tax dollars, NSA spying, TSA, BATF; creation of weaponized super-viruses designed to kill them en masse, bankrolling next world pandemic
Wayne Madsen Report
By Wayne Madsen
03/03/2012
The National Security Agency (NSA) continues to conduct warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens at a frenetic pace, according to informed NSA sources. Much of the surveillance of American citizens and legal residents, known as "U.S. persons" in the NSA eavesdropping lexicon, is now being conducted under the aegis of the U.S. Cyber Command. NSA director General Keith Alexander doubles as the commander of the Cyber Command. Both agencies' headquarters are located at Fort Meade, Maryland.
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AT&T is the ENEMY of United States Citizens |
Warrantless wiretapping began during the George W. Bush administration in the wake of 9/11. The program was authorized by Vice President Dick Cheney's chief counsel David Addington and was never known as the so-called "Terrorist Surveillance Program," or "TSP." The Terrorist Surveillance Program moniker was a cover story developed by NSA, Justice Department, and White House officials to mask the true targets of the warrantless eavesdropping operation: U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. Primary targets include journalists, their government sources, and political office holders and other government officials. The latter includes members of Congress, state governors, senior military officers, U.S. diplomats, and Cabinet officers. Some of the intercepted communications of Americans was entered into an NSA database known as PINWALE.
WMR has learned that although NSA's acting general counsel Vito Potenza and NSA Inspector General Joel Brenner claimed they were not given access to "The Program's" key implementing documents, both individuals had worked with Addington and other members of the Bush White House, including chief of staff Andrew Card, to implement massive NSA spying on U.S. citizens. The two NSA lawyers worked closely with Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel attorney John Yoo to craft the illegal program. Yoo's actions were approved by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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NSA "counsel," spy Joel Brenner, a dangerous Nazi |
At NSA, the warrantless eavesdropping program is simply known as "The Program." The classified code word for "The Program" was STELLAR WIND before the code phrase was leaked to the media. The Bush administration used "The Program" to gain intelligence on its political enemies and friends, alike. The Obama administration maintains "The Program" to similarly engage in political surveillance within the United States.
"The Program" was largely the brainchild of then-NSA director Michael Hayden, who was later promoted to the first Deputy Director of National Intelligence and, subsequently, to Central Intelligence Agency director.
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TRAITOR: Former Bush AG Alberto Gonzales with his "god" |
Warrantless wiretapping was also instituted to ensure that critical intelligence possessed by NSA about the planned 9/11 attacks was withheld from the Congress and the public after what became known as the "second Pearl Harbor." In the aftermath of 9/11, several NSA employees knew that the agency was in possession of actionable intelligence that could have prevented the attacks. As a result, many career and military NSA personnel suffered physical ailments and severe mental stress amid a climate of absolute enforced silence about what NSA knew beforehand. As a result, a number of NSA personnel were either prevented from testifying or not invited to testify before the 9/11 Commission.
However, NSA's director of signals intelligence, Maureen Baginski, termed 9/11 as a "gift" to NSA. Hayden ensured that NSA craftily hid behind the FBI and CIA to avoid any blame for the 9/11 attacks and stay "clean."
In an unprecedented manner, the Obama administration is using the 1917 Espionage Act, with its 1950 amendment, known as the McCarran Internal Security Act -- passed during the espionage scandal involving State Department official Alger Hiss and the "Pumpkin Papers" affair -- to indict government officials who leak information to the press. The Obama administration has also stepped up NSA and other surveillance of journalists in an effort to discover their sources.
The doctrine being followed by the Obama administration comes from a 2010 book, titled Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law, authored by the neo-con Hudson Institute's senior fellow Gabe Schoenfeld. In the book, Schoenfeld called for the government to prosecute reporters and editors, particularly those at The New York Times, for revealing details of the warrantless wiretapping program. Schoenfeld is a former senior editor of the Jewish Zionist publication Commentary. He has also written for the neo-con Weekly Standard and New York Sun. NSA sources have told WMR that the Obama administration has "taken a page from Schoenfeld's book" in continuing the NSA warrantless surveillance program.
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Whistleblower destroyer, Obama Nazi William M. Welch II |
Meanwhile, the Justice Department continues to use
prosecutor William M. Welch II, the former chief of the Public Integrity Section at Main Justice, to investigate government whistleblowers and journalists. However, in a serendipitous development, WMR has learned of four run-ins with the law that Welch had in his native Massachusetts. Covered up by the Justice Department, these infractions of the law call into question Welch's suitability to hold down a job as a Justice Department prosecutor. WMR is pursuing leads in the Welch matter.
TIMELINE
- April 11-13, 2008 -- UPDATED 1X. Prosecutor malfeasance revealed in trial of NSA analyst
- December 4, 2005 -- Saudi money funded 9-11 attacks
- March 12, 2008 -- Defense Department sources confirm Israeli intelligence connection to hooker ring
- December 30, 2005 -- BREAKING NEWS. The Alberto Gonzales Justice Department is opening up a criminal investigation of the leak of classified NSA information
- December 16, 2005 -- Former NSA analyst and White House Secret Service officer found guilty in politically-motivated trial
- June 30, 2008 -- The "X Files" scene at Fort Meade
- July 9, 2007 -- Details emerge of surveillance system opposed by Ashcroft and Comey
- March 31, 2006 -- In yesterday's sentencing hearing for former NSA analyst Ken Ford, Federal Judge Peter Messitte mentioned the defense's contention that the classified NSA documents Ford was accused of removing from NSA had been planted in Ford's home
- May 4-6, 2007 -- On Wednesday, US federal Judge Peter Messitte decided not to break with the precedent set by US Judge T. S. Ellis in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Espionage Act case
- April 17, 2007 -- Our sources inform us that a possible fire today has knocked out classified communications services at the US State Department's Communications Annex facility
- June 1, 2005 NSA and selling the nation's prized secrets to contractors
- October 31-November 1, 2008 -- NSA has mental patients working as security agents
- April 20, 2006 -- Today, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte is delivering a speech at the National Press Club in which he will pat himself on the back for the great job his bureaucracy of 1500 is doing to streamline intelligence to those wh
- June 18, 2007 -- The Death of the Intelligence System
- June 5, 2008 -- Former NSA director and anti-war voice dead of sudden heart attack
- November 2-4, 2007 -- NSA signals intelligence yields clues about future nuclear war
- December 4, 2007 -- Intelligence still being cooked by neocons
- September 30, 2008 -- NSA reverses decision on WMR FOIA request
- October 31, 2007 -- NSA warns against kiosks at Columbia Mall in Maryland
- May 8, 2006 -- Bush makes Hayden nomination to be CIA Director official
- June 18, 2007 -- NSA officials deride U.S. Constitution
- June 26, 2006 -- According to U.S. intelligence sources, the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted communications prior to 9-11 tying convicted "Al Qaeda" conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to an impending terrorist attack in the United States.
- May 25, 2006 -- The most privacy-invasive technology that NSA is using to conduct vacuum cleaning of phone calls, e-mail, faxes, and Voice over IP (VOIP) calls is the use of downstream switches that disassemble and reassemble packets
- January 5, 2006 -- More details emerge on NSA spying on journalists and politicians
- May 30 - June 1, 2008 -- America's decimation of Iraq's auto mechanics
- December 31, 2007 - January 1, 2008 - No evidence of Pakistani or U.S. Sigint intercepts of "Al Qaeda" in Pak tribal regions
- August 25, 2008 -- Russia captures U.S. intelligence-collection vehicles
- April 23, 2006 -- Former National Security Agency (NSA) signals intelligence analyst Kenneth Ford Jr
- February 24, 2006 -- NSA expands surveillance of journalists
- March 1, 2006 -- Wrongfully-convicted former NSA analyst Ken Ford Jr., was due to be sentenced today
- July 8, 2008 -- US spy plane incident with China more serious than reported
- March 3, 2006 -- NSA Security emulating East German Stasi in every respect.
- March 28-30, 2008 -- NSA pulling over and detaining drivers
- March 26, 2007 -- WMR has been reporting for some time on the massive thefts of personal data by a covert U.S. intelligence “black bag” program
- December 4, 2005 - Another vicious Bush administration attack on a U.S. intelligence professional
- February 28, 2006 -- At yesterday's White House press conference, "Snotty Scotty" McClellan rejected a letter signed by 18 House Democrats that called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens
- February 3, 2006 -- Dick Cheney's and the neo-cons' other "work up."
- April 24, 2008 -- Kadish and Pollard part of larger Israeli spy ring, including sleeper cells
- September 22, 2008 -- Was there a closed circuit feed on the WTC on 9/11?
- April 18-20, 2008 -- Suppressed evidence in Ford case
- September 15, 2008 -- "Einstein" replaces "Big Brother" in Internet surveillance
- February 15, 2006 -- National security whistleblowers testify about planted classified documents and other abuses
- September 17, 2008 -- Is "Ma Bell" coming back?
- April 8, 2008 -- Where have all the Russian linguists gone?
- December 1, 2005 -- WMR will be at the US Courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland today covering the trial of former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst Kenneth Ford
- December 4, 2005 -- US intercepted communications of Congolese President Kabila during 1998 Rwandan-Ugandan invasion of Congo
- May 18, 2006 -- General Hayden's military conduct not brought up in his confirmation hearings for CIA Director
- February 4/5/6, 2006 -- Former NSA analyst Kenneth Ford was accepted into a fast track internship program at NSA in November 2002
- October 17, 2007 -- Evidence points to NSA ramping up plans for illegal wiretapping during Clinton administration
- June 26, 2006 -- NSA sources report that Executive Order 12333, which broadens the internal surveillance capabilities of the NSA, CIA, and FBI when pursuing known foreign nationals inside the U.S., has been routinely violated by the NSA and CIA
- Aug. 21, 2006 -- William Black, the Deputy Director of the National Security Agency who was hauled out of retirement by then-NSA Director (current CIA Director) Gen. Michael Hayden in a move that was unpopular with the NSA's rank and file, has been replac
- October 7-8, 2008 -- NSA press sweep
- November 30, 2005 -- Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT), chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, yesterday postponed a hearing on national security whistleblowers
- February 28, 2006 -- Tomorrow, former NSA analyst Ken Ford, Jr., is scheduled to be sentenced after his political show trial
- August 28, 2008 -- Russia confirms WMR report that it seized US intelligence equipment
- May 18-20, 2007 -- WMR's first series of articles, upon our inception in 2005, covered the misuse by the Bush administration
- August 18, 2008 -- NSA continues surveillance of journalists; WMR editor subject of espionage investigation
- November 19, 2007 -- NSA not interested in WMD proliferation by Russian-Israeli-Ukrainian Mafia
- June 25, 2007 -- U.S. intelligence remains in Uzbekistan
- December 5, 2005 -- FORT MEADE, MARYLAND -- Nothing anonymous at NSA, including AA.
- Sep. 18, 2005 -- EXCLUSIVE REPORT: THE DEMISE OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY
- April 15, 2008 -- NSA's treasure trove of financial data
- August 19, 2008 -- Journalists and bloggers under assault by Bush Gestapo
- February 5, 2007 -- This editor had a brief conversation with Governor Richardson at the Washington Hilton
- December 14, 2005 -- Prosecution and defense closing arguments in the Kenneth W. Ford case
- August 17, 2005 -- Political purges continue at the National Security Agency (NSA).
- December 17, 2005 -- Note on NSA spying story in yesterday's New York Times.
- February 28, 2008 -- Creative financing at NSA continues to enrich SAIC
- December 12, 2006 -- In a long-awaited report on the death of Princess Diana
- May 15, 2006 -- When is a "scoop" not a "scoop?" ABC News, in an "exclusive" today, is reporting that U.S. intelligence agencies, including the NSA and CIA, have been conducting surveillance on the phone calls of journalists
- October 7-8, 2008 -- Russian TV displays captured American/NATO military equipment from Georgia
- April 7, 2006 -- Class action lawsuit against AT&T in AT&T-NSA cooperation deal "big" according to NSA insiders
- February 27, 2006 -- Former NSA analyst Ken Ford, Jr., who was subjected to a joint FBI/NSA set-up and a neo-con orchestrated show trial as a result his analysis of Iraqi nuclear capabilities in 2003, is scheduled to be sentenced at 9:30 am on Mar 1
- May 27-28, 2008 -- Another confirmation that Calipari was targeted by US forces
- June 5, 2005 -- WASHINGTON, DC -- As the AIPAC/Pentagon Israeli espionage scandal grows, more news about the non-reported Israeli penetration of the NSA and U.S. Navy in the 1980s has been revealed by NSA insiders.
- January 30, 2006 -- NSA's spying on paradise and a frozen continent
- March 30, 2006 -- LATE EDITION -- US Judge Peter Messitte today sentenced former NSA "Iraqi shop" signals intelligence analyst Ken Ford Jr., to six years in prison and no fine
- December 26, 2005 -- Colin Powell says Bush's use of NSA to conduct warrantless wiretaps acceptable
- January 4-6, 2008 -- Billions budgeted by Bush administration for web surveillance
- August 5, 2008 -- Incarcerated former NSA Iraq analyst is refused appeal without a hearing
- December 28-31, 2006 -- The fairly useless FBI continues to ignore the continuing massive theft by a covert U.S. government project
- April 24, 2008 -- Wrongfully convicted ex-NSA Iraq analyst Ken Ford support campaign
- February 4, 2006 -- A sophisticated cellular phone eavesdropping system has been discovered in Greece
- June 26, 2006 -- Art Imitating Life -- NSA, Hayden, and "Enemy of the State." WMR has learned of a connection between senior NSA personnel and the producers of the movie about NSA, "Enemy of the State."
- December 22, 2005 -- He who lies most, lies worst
- April 30, 2007 -- A TALE OF TWO TRIALS: INFLUENCE PEDDLING, JUDGE SHOPPING, AND DIRTY PROSECUTORS
- August 3, 2005 -- "Clean up man" takes over NSA.
- March 30, 2006 -- Rescheduled politically-motivated sentencing of ex-NSA analyst Ken Ford this morning in Maryland
- October 31, 2007 -- NSA "Went Dark" on Caucasus Region Hours Before Beslan Attack
- January 25, 2006 -- Bush at NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland today.
- November 1, 2007 -- NSA linguists and analysts being assigned to Iraqi combat duty as “Army Augmentees”
- August 23, 2005 -- In the spirit of the Soviet "psikhushka" psychiatric hospitals where anti-regime dissidents were sent, NSA is using psychologists to eliminate independent-minded intelligence analysts and other career employees. Adverse psychiatric eval
- December 24, 2005 -- NSA snooping of web dates back to 1995
- August 31, 2005 -- A Merit System Protection Board hearing was held in Baltimore on August 30 concerning charges that former NSA intelligence officer Russ Tice
- September 4, 2005 -- The Soviet-style "psikhushka" psychiatric abuse of NSA employees continues unchecked.
- August 29-31, 2008 -- U.S. signals intelligence re-focusing on Russia
- Sept. 26, 2007 -- El Pais publishes transcript of Bush-Aznar pre-war meeting
- May 7, 2006 -- WMR reported extensively on Michael Hayden's management, scandal, and morale problems at the National Security Agency (NSA).
- February 7, 2006 -- The Bush Crime family has alienated the very people who have been at the forefront of America's intelligence efforts
- October 30, 2007 -- NSA infiltrated by hostile intelligence agents
Wayne MADSEN (USA)
Investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist, Madsen has over twenty years experience in security issues. As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy.
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Wayne Madsen |
Madsen has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and MS-NBC. He has been invited to testify as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club, Madsen is based and reports from Washington, D.C.