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If they're reading my emails,

Michael Maiello — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:16:11 +0000

In reply to I'm not terribly concerned

If they're reading my emails, they're bored.

I'm not terribly concerned

cmaukonen — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:11:56 +0000

In reply to You'd think we lefties could

I'm not terribly concerned for myself though. I'm too unimportant and my post's generally come off as ravings of a lunatic mind.

You'd think we lefties could

Michael Maiello — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:14:26 +0000

In reply to Scarier. Fusion centers.A

You'd think we lefties could find some common ground with the right wiong extremists to shut these operations down. But, oddly, there's not much attention paid to these fusion centers. This is the first I've even read about them.

Scarier. Fusion centers.A

cmaukonen — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:11:43 +0000

In reply to Scary.

Scarier. Fusion centers.

A fusion center is a terrorism prevention and response center, many of which were created under a joint project between the Department of Homeland Security and the US Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs between 2003 and 2007. They have been criticized for Mission Creep, and linked to violating the Civil Liberties of law abiding citizens.

The fusion centers gather information not only from government sources, but also from their partners in the private sector.^[1]^[2]
. . . . . .
David Rittgers of the Cato Institute has noted

a long line of fusion center and DHS reports labeling broad swaths of the public as a threat to national security. The North Texas Fusion System labeled Muslim lobbyists as a potential threat; a DHS analyst in Wisconsin thought both pro- and anti-abortion activists were worrisome; a Pennsylvania homeland security contractor watched environmental activists, Tea Party groups, and a Second Amendment rally; the Maryland State Police put anti-death penalty and anti-war activists in a federal terrorism database; a fusion center in Missouri thought that all third-party voters and Ron Paul supporters were a threat; and the Department of Homeland Security described half of the American political spectrum as “right wing extremists.”^[6]

Well the last one might be close to the mark.

Scary.

Michael Maiello — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:08:08 +0000

In reply to If I read it correctly they

Scary.

If I read it correctly they

cmaukonen — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:48:30 +0000

In reply to Thanks for this. Can it be

If I read it correctly they are data mining all Arabs. Here and in the Middle East. Plus any group in this country that THEY determine might be a security risk. IE peace groups, ecology groups and for all I know certain boy scout troupes.

There is supposedly going to be further analysis of these emails forth coming.

Thanks for this. Can it be

Michael Maiello — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:23:36 +0000

In reply to They Know What You Did Last Summer (and Fall and Winter And...)

Thanks for this. Can it be unpacked a little more? How does this all work? Are they basically data-mining the communications of Arab Americans?

Well put C!I must have

Richard Day — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:11:14 +0000

In reply to They Know What You Did Last Summer (and Fall and Winter And...)

Well put C!

I must have included links to this video a score of times if not more.

Well done!