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The number of court-approved federal wiretaps rose 30% during Donald Trump’s first year in office,
the latest indicator sign of how his administration is shifting our government from facilitating a healthy society into something closer to a police state.
Not a single wiretap request, federal or state, was rejected by any judge,
an annual disclosure report from the federal courts released on Wednesday.
Nearly all the taps were of mobile phones.
The report does not include national security intercepts–where, according to a separate report, judges rejected more requests last year than they had, in total, over the 38 years before that.
When the late reports are counted and disclosed next year it is likely that the increase in wiretaps will be not 30% but well more than 40%.
The biggest increase was in wiretaps categorized as “other or unspecified.”
That explained 595 of the 645 additional wiretaps in 2017.
The report showed that
the share of wiretaps in drug cases is falling, from 81% of wiretaps in 2007 to 61% in 2016 to just 53% in 2017.
These figures point to major shifts in law enforcement priorities.
Based on wiretap evidence authorities arrested 9,565 people. That’s 23% fewer than in 2016. However, the number of convictions rose by more than half.
FISA Court. It was asked to approve 1,514 intercepts warrants, an April federal courts report showed.
FISA judges rejected 26 of those applications outright and limited 50 others.
That is an astonishing shift from the prior 38 years, in which just 21 requests were rejected or limited.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/federal-and-state-wiretaps-skyrocketed-in-trumps-first-year/
Last edited by boutons_deux; 06-30-2018 at 10:13 AM.
Deep state!
Court approved so it's okay amirite
Trump is probably personally responsible for all these wiretaps.
THE WIRETAP ROOMS
The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
THE SECRETS ARE hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers and fortress-like concrete structures that were built to withstand earthquakes and even nuclear attack.
They are an integral part of one of the world’s largest telecommunications networks – and they are also linked to a controversial National Security Agency surveillance program.
Atlanta,
Chicago,
Dallas,
Los Angeles,
New York City,
San Francisco,
Seattle, and
Washington, D.C.
the buildings are central to an NSA spying initiative that has for years monitored billions of emails, phone calls, and online chats passing across U.S. territory.
The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.”
It is a collaboration that dates back decades.
Little known, however, is that its scope is not restricted to AT&T’s customers.
According to the NSA’s do ents, it values AT&T not only because it “has access to information that transits the nation,” but also because it maintains unique relationships with other phone and internet providers.
The NSA exploits these relationships for surveillance purposes, commandeering AT&T’s massive infrastructure and using it as a platform to covertly tap into communications processed by other companies.
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/...-nsa-spy-hubs/
And the govt approves ATT swallowing Comcast.
and remember this NSA project?
Utah Data Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
Trash has incited his base against the "deep state", but the assholes his base elected totally support the "deep staste", won't do anything to protect Americans' privacy from massive govt snooping.
Then add in all the highly detailed personal "Big Data" that Amazon,Google, Facebook, Twitter, BigCorp, etc have, and you have the foundation of an authoritarian fascism
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Fascism
Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism,[1][2]
characterized by dictatorial power,
forcible suppression of opposition and
control of industry and commerce
Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete and
they regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties.[12]
Such a state is led by a strong leader—
such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party—
to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society.[12] Fascism rejects assertions that violence is automatically negative in nature and views political violence, war and imperialism as means that can achieve national rejuvenation.[13][14][15][16]
Fascists advocate a mixed economy, with the principal goal of achieving autarky through
protectionist and interventionist economic policies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Is this a deep state bad thread or deep state good thread? It's confusing these days.
Government intrusiveness bad now?
Privacy good now?
But illegal spying on everyone as a whole has dropped dramtically...
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