SOoooO…shit.
The cows are coming home to roost, finally. And, they are taking huge craps on journalism AGAIN.
It really suX to be “that one guy” or gal in Marcy Wheeler’s case, who is “way the [email protected] ahead of ‘the game,’ because then, you get totally gang stalked for decades as the NSA/FBI/CIA/FiveEyes/Israel backdoor butt buddies cornhole all of your communications, and send hidden subverter’s of law and justice into your every relationships in what is called colloquially “organized gang stalking.”
UPDATE: Marcy Wheeler turned into an FBI informant, as soon as she became targeted by the deep state, and even wrote about it.
Or, as some have noted, “being accosted, assaulted, delayed, redirected, or robbed outright by the ‘Are You Jewish’ guys.”
All of these subversions are what the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals calls “the colliding parallel investigation, ”as they discuss in their crisis narrative formation, aka “advising law enforcement ” how to discuss this NSA-Israel spying on citizens, and the accompanying psychological operations waged covertly on yargeted persons across America who have no idea what hit them; and, that are causing mass homicides across America.
Fifth column indeed- and talk about burying the lede! Pierre Omidyar has shown his fur, and the Intercept has been invaded by the Sterns Gang!
Ask James Risen about that-he’d probably disagree, but at least organized stalking is coming out of the woodwork finally, and then, use my search feature to find posts about how Tor is subverted and “captured” and “entrapped” directly, and always, BY THE NSA, which technically, gives every single Tor user ‘legal standing’ to sue for section 702 spying on American’s abuses, because the Tor user can ‘prove’ that they are spied on PERSONALLY by the NSA Data Theft Pipeline Bandits.
Yup-privacy rape is a real thing, and emptywheel covers it like John Ashcroft on the statue of Lady Justice, but in a “good touch” way.
Unlike all of those vagina hat wearing morons that have taken over the Democratic Party everywhere for the sake of weeping vahjayjay’s, Marcy Wheeler focuses on “civil liberties for EVERYONE” instead of those who have a mysterious sacred Isis Temple where they get together and talk about “safe spaces and the sense of belonging when being used like “a Liberty Torch,” and then, march about the worlld in an endless killing spree, to the tune of the bankster’s as hey light the Constitution on fire, and then look around and cry “But there’s nothing to put the fire out!” havng burned down the Barn.
I myself prefer the analogy of being a Maxi-Pad for freedom, because I feel less cramped, and more free, but each to their own.
Here’s Marcy on the “Tor Exception,”which helps every single American to begin to wage a case where they can prove beyond any reasonable doubt that they have been personally targeted, and spied on:
THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE 702 BILL IS A DOMESTIC SPYING BILL
Contrary to what you’re reading about it not “reforming” 702, the SSCI bill makes dramatic changes to 702. Effectively, it makes 702 a domestic spying program.
THE SSCI EXPANDS THE KINDS OF CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS WITH WHICH IT CAN USE SECTION 702 DATA
It does so in Section 5, in what is cynically called “End Use Restriction,” but which is in reality a vast expansion of the uses to which Section 702 data may be used (affirmatively codifying, effectively, a move the IC made in 2015). It permits the use of 702 data in any criminal proceeding that “Affects, involves, or is related to” the national security of the United States (which will include proceedings used to flip informants on top of whatever terrorism, proliferation, or espionage and hacking crimes that would more directly fall under national security) or involves,
- Death
- Kidnapping
- Serious bodily injury
- Specified offense against a minor
- Incapacitation or destruction of critical infrastructure (critical infrastructure can include even campgrounds!)
- Cybersecurity, including violations of CFAA
- Transnational crime, including transnational narcotics trafficking
- Human trafficking (which, especially dissociated from transnational crime, is often used as a ploy to prosecute prostitution; the government also includes assisting undocumented migration to be human trafficking)
This effectively gives affirmative approval to the list of crimes for which the IC can use 702 information laid out by Bob Litt in 2015 (in the wake of the 2014 approval).
Importantly, the bill does not permit judicial review on whether the determination that something “affects, involves, or is related to” national security. Meaning Attorney General Jeff Sessions could decide tomorrow that it can collect the Tor traffic of BLM or BDS activists, and no judge can rule that’s an inappropriate use of a foreign intelligence program.
“So what?” you might ask, this is a foreign surveillance program. So what if they find evidence of child porn in the course of spying on designated foreign targets, and in the process turn it over to the FBI?
The reason this is a domestic spying program is because of two obscure parts of 702 precedent.
THE 2014 EXCEPTION PERMITS NSA TO COLLECT TOR TRAFFIC — INCLUDING THE TRAFFIC OF 430,000 AMERICANS
First, there’s the 2014 exception.
In 2014, the FISC approved an exception to the rule that the NSA must detask from a facility when it discovers that a US person was using it. I laid out the case that the facilities in question were VPNs (collected in the same way PRISM would be) and Tor (probably collected via upstream collection). I suggested then that it was informed speculation, but it was more than that: the 2014 exception is about Tor (though I haven’t been able to confirm the technical details of it).
NSA is collecting Tor traffic, including the traffic of the 430,000 Americans each day who use Tor.
One way to understand how NSA gets away with this is to consider how the use of upstream surveillance with cybersecurity works. As was reported in 2015, NSA can use upstream for cybersecurity purposes, but only if that use is tied to known indicators of compromise of a foreign government hacking group.
On December 29 of last year, the Intelligence Community released a Joint Analysis Report on the hack of the DNC that was considered — for cybersecurity purposes — an utter shitshow. Most confusing at the time was why the IC labeled 367 Tor exit nodes as Russian state hacker indicators of compromise.
But once you realize the NSA can collect on indicators of compromise that it has associated with a nation-state hacking group, and once you realize NSA can collect on Tor traffic under that 2014 exception, then it all begins to make sense. By declaring those nodes indicators of compromise of Russian state hackers, NSA got the ability to collect off of them.
NSA’S MINIMIZATION PROCEDURES PERMIT IT TO RETAIN DOMESTIC COMMUNICATIONS THAT ARE EVIDENCE OF A CRIME
The FISC approved the 2014 exception based on the understanding that NSA would purge any domestic communications collected via the exception in post-tasking process. But NSA’s minimization procedurespermit the retention of domestic communications if the communication was properly targeted (under targeting procedures that include the 2014 exception) and the communication 1) includes significant foreign intelligence information, 2) the communication includes technical database information (which includes the use of encryption), 3) contains information pertaining to an imminent threat of serious harm to life or property OR….[follow this link to read more about how the Fabulous Empty Wheel is one of like, ten journalists around the world who has her head screwed on right]
UPDATE: As of today, the Congress has extended the FISA bill, and section 702, which is, and has been, collecting data on American’s since 2001, and through “back door searches” using the data they gain on Americans to further target individuals with many un-Constitutional practices ranging from opening ‘investigations’ and then, hiding the fact that these investigations were started at the NSA; to outright “mind control and influence operations,” and much more as yet disclosed in public.
Or-what actual targeted individuals have been telling us ALL ALONG (as opposed to well financed disinformation and misinformation campaigns like these here.)
The good news however, is that we know with certainty that due to the “Tor exception” any and every American who uses Tor now has de minimis legal standing to challenge this collection. See this post, this one and this one for evidence and suggestions for lawyers and others who wish to build a case of that.
Then, have a look at the Guide to Government Hacking, at the top of ROGS, which was written by the ACLU, the EFF, and the NACDL for civil litigators and criminal defense lawyers in cases where government hacking is likely-which is every and any case, retroactive to 2001, now that we know with certainty that we are indeed being spied on every day.
Lastly-some 420,000 people in the US are spied on EVERY DAY, and we know this with empirical certainty because the NSA targets Tor users in the US, specifically. Here are those statistics from Tor, the Onion Browser-and another metric whereby we can gauge the veracity of the stories of those who claim they are “targeted indviduals:”
| Country | Mean daily users |
|---|---|
| Germany | 781652 (24.11 %) |
| United States | 453691 (13.99 %) |
| United Arab Emirates | 321495 (9.92 %) |
| Russia | 263943 (8.14 %) |
| Ukraine | 173581 (5.35 %) |
| France | 172858 (5.33 %) |
| Netherlands | 152686 (4.71 %) |
| Indonesia | 80343 (2.48 %) |
| United Kingdom | 74555 (2.30 %) |
| Canada | 44465 (1.37 %) |
This table shows the top-10 countries by estimated number of directly-connecting clients. These numbers are derived from directory requests counted on directory authorities and mirrors. Relays resolve client IP addresses to country codes, so that numbers are available for most countries. For further details see these questions and answers about user statistics.