The real story here is likely much, much bigger than being reported. Is it tin-foil hat to assert that this entire story seems likely to be a large scale psychological operation to give a Syriana due diligence appearance to a story that was going to break anyway.
Basically, someone was probably going to break this story or it was broken and suppressed. What we are seeing now is a white-washed version of the reality of spying in the 21st century. It's possible for a few reasons:
1) Most people don't understand how electronic communications work. A false sense of security regarding telephone calls, email communiques and snail mail allows for big yarns, like the current one about Bush not getting a warrant(haha), to be spun. Most US citizens seem to be of the mind that there communications are relatively secure from theft or eavesdropping. And that's not true.
2) Prosecutor's Management Information System (PROMIS) PROMIS has been around since the 80's.
3) Echelon was reported long ago to have the ability to intercept upwards of 3 billion communications daily. That's "b" as boy. And that spec is based on years old processor technology. PROMIS came to be in the 90's. Perhaps 10 years ago.
Unlike the news stories being run on the Bush administrations legal usurptions, none of these things are new developments. I might have missed it but I haven't heard any of the corporate media mentioning either PROMIS or Echelon in their nooz reports. Hopefully, 'progressive' news sites won't be so worried about the respectability factor and will begin a public discussion on the real story. Otherwise, it will be left to the tin-foilers over at Wired, InformationClearingHouse , the Village Voice and the BBC to be dismissed by some but mostly just ignored.
Domestic spying is much bigger than we're seeing in the current snooz reports. With little to no accountability, who can say what the true scale is? Analyzing the reported capabilities of PROMIS and Echelon provide clues. But these programs aren't new and they both faaaaar exceed anything that's being 'uncovered' by the Bush administration.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Bush Spy Scandal Is A PsyOp
posted by Marc Garvey at 2:17 PM
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I agree, Bob. The lack of information in the poular public sphere is alarming. I'm advancing on the campaign to bring Taking Aim to WRFG. Makes me kinda insane reading the corporate nooz stories. Each story validating the false pretense of the preceding story. All the more reason to push for the airing of syndicated programs like Taking Aim.
I see this NSA wiretapping as a continuation of policies that date back at least to Nixon, and J.Edgar Hoover, etc. The fact that the FISA court, since its inception, has only disallowed a hand full of wiretaps means the White House, regardless of who has occupied it, has had carte blanche to spy on whoever it damn well pleased. I don't know if you's caught the most recent TAKING AIM, but Ralph and Mya brought out the fact that the NSA went to the major players in the telecommunications industry (in early 2001 so pre 911) and "asked them" to "voluntarily to cooperate" with wiretaps and email intersepts of all communication both here and abroad. As far I know, none refused. That's literally billions of messages aday and trillions per year.
They also brought out another interesting red herring; that is the reautorization of the PATRIOT ACT. If all this eavesdropping is, has, and will go on regardless of the status of the reauthorization of the PATRIOT ACT, then all this posturing about it is just political theatre, designed to make us think that civil liberties still exist in America, while marching us headlong into Fascist dicatorship.