Domestic Terrorism in U.S. Linked to FBI

According to an analyst, the FBI and other departments in the US are involved in recruiting domestic terrorists and many of them consider themselves above the law.

The Homeland Security department is being sued for breach of freedom of information in relation to secret drones that are being used to spy on American citizens as well as its intrusive methods of interrogating US citizens and foreign diplomats.

Press TV has interviewed Mr. Gordon Duff, Senior Editor of Veterans Today, Ohio, who provides his views on this issue. The following is an approximate transcription of the interview.

Press TV:  As an American… we know that America uses drones in several Muslim countries, now it is being used in the United States. As an America citizen, how do you feel?

Duff:  Well, the issue with the drones in the US may be a little overblown. The project itself is run by companies that I am affiliated with in some ways.

The drone program is run on the southern border of Fort Huachuca in Arizona. The real program isn’t a drone program, it’s actually an aerostat program – these are balloons that are thousands of feet in the air that use extremely sophisticated radar. They’re designed by Lockheed Corporation and they are a thousand times more intrusive than the drones are.

The drones use very primitive cameras, very primitive electronics and the aerostats are a thousand times more serious.

The Electronic Freedom Foundation on the other hand, part of their suit involves the interception of diplomats, everyday citizens and their intrusive questioning at the border.

This last Friday, Imran Khan who is likely to be the new President of Pakistan was stopped from flying in to the US, put in detention and interrogated.

Last year, one of my own friends who was at the time employed by the State Department as the head of counter intelligence in Iraq was put in immigration security and questioned for hours though he had been in the FBI for 35 years.

I certainly get searched every time I come in. The issue is that we are put through humiliating circumstances and that often includes diplomats, it includes members of our own military and security services, means that Homeland Security believes they are above the law and I think the Electronics Freedom Foundation should be supported in their attempt to bring Homeland Security into line.

Press TV:  At this point in time, how much do Americans know about these drones and what action if they are totally informed of what these drones will be doing?

Duff:  The use of the drones has been limited primarily to the border with Mexico, thus far.

The problem is that local law enforcement groups, state governments are requesting the use of drones; that the idea that domestic terrorism is a serious problem – it is imaginary.

Each time we arrest terrorists in the United States they are found to have been recruited by our own FBI. So, we don’t believe we have a legitimate domestic terrorism problem in the US; there has never been an active terrorism here that our own government hasn’t been involved in.

The expansion of the drone problem is what we are really trying to stop and it is that we have so many levels of government and they all feel that they should be involved somehow in this violation of individual rights; and they have no respect for our laws.

SC/HGH

2012-11-04 20:40:17

Source: http://www.freepeoples5thestate.com/2012/11/domestic-terrorism-in-us-linked-to-fbi.html