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All Phone Calls Recorded By U.S. Government?

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A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case

 

Former FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente, on CNN, discussing government’s surveillance capabilities Photograph: CNN screegrab

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The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done by the US government, it operates behind an impenetrable wall of secrecy. But a seemingly spontaneous admission this week by a former FBI counterterrorism agent provides a rather startling acknowledgment of just how vast and invasive these surveillance activities are.

Over the past couple days, cable news tabloid shows such as CNN’s Out Front with Erin Burnett have been excitingly focused on the possible involvement in the Boston Marathon attack of Katherine Russell, the 24-year-old American widow of the deceased suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. As part of their relentless stream of leaks uncritically disseminated by our Adversarial Press Corps, anonymous government officials are claiming that they are now focused on telephone calls between Russell and Tsarnaev that took place both before and after the attack to determine if she had prior knowledge of the plot or participated in any way.

On Wednesday night, Burnett interviewed Tim Clemente, a former FBI counterterrorism agent, about whether the FBI would be able to discover the contents of past telephone conversations between the two. He quite clearly insisted that they could:

BURNETT: Tim, is there any way, obviously, there is a voice mail they can try to get the phone companies to give that up at this point. It’s not a voice mail. It’s just a conversation. There’s no way they actually can find out what happened, right, unless she tells them?

CLEMENTE: “No, there is a way. We certainly have ways in national security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. It’s not necessarily something that the FBI is going to want to present in court, but it may help lead the investigation and/or lead to questioning of her. We certainly can find that out.

BURNETT: “So they can actually get that? People are saying, look, that is incredible.

CLEMENTE: “No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not.”

“All of that stuff” – meaning every telephone conversation Americans have with one another on US soil, with or without a search warrant – “is being captured as we speak”. 

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    • steven

      Are we bothered, the technology is out there for everyone to purchase. But who wants to be a peeping Tom.

    • voiceofreason

      Who needs the mark of the beast? Why implant chips? We already carry the tool everyday that tracks us and monitors us to be used by the powers that be anytime they wish. Everyday people can purchase software that will allow them to monitor every aspect of your phone by turning on your microphone to listen, turning on your camera to watch, tracking your GPS, and monitoring your calls, text, voice messages and internet usage. If the everyday person can do this, what do you think your local police are doing? I see new listening stations being set up right next to the redlight cameras everyday, creating a network of listening stations to monitor all cell phones, all the time. Nothing that you say is private, everything you do is known, every where you go is logged and stored. You should act like you are being taped all of the time because you are.

      • Anonymous

        There is much more to this that is NOT being discussed! Many people proclaim that if you have nothing to hide then you shouldn’t care about being under surveillance all the time, but this is not the issue. What should be of concern is how human beings are being manipulated and controlled by these “cognitive systems” that increasingly monitor all human activity. The reality is that these systems are used to exploit human nature in order to provide carnal human beings with the material “worldly” things that carnal human beings have always desired, i.e., the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and most importantly, to satisfy the pride of carnal human life. The ad to the right of this comment box inviting people to participate in a survey at “RewardSurvey.com” is a perfect illustration of this!

    • fuzzy696

      I want to be a retard listen to me……code words like we used in the 70,s would screw them right up……hehehehehe.

    • Anonymous

      Known about this for a long time. There is more though, much more. The social superorganism, that being the collective carnal minds of humanity linked together in the “Hive Mind” will be controlled by a cognitive intelligence system acting in a godlike fashion, only ITS NOT GOD! Anthropomorphic AI, or cognitive intelligence, already remembers various things for humans like phone numbers, addresses, personal likes and dislikes, passwords, etc., etc.. It is increasingly being relied upon to “regulate” human activities such as traffic on roadways and air traffic. In some ways it is already acting in a “governmental” role. It is not only formulating objectives to satisfy the desires and needs of humanity, but to form objectives FOR humanity. Could it cause people to do things? It already does!

    • worldglobalwarming

      Happening all over in Britain
      Best Wishes
      stevetheblogger

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