Ron Paul blasts Obama for killing Americans

Source: RT

Presidential hopeful Ron Paul has publically attacked the Obama administration’s abolishment of due process in a new editorial, calling the move a turning point in American history.

Responding to Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent justification for the extrajudicial killings of three American citizens on foreign soil, Republican Party candidate Ron Paul has penned a scathing op-ed condemning the White House for circumventing the US Constitution. Earlier this month Holder spoke at Chicago’s Northwestern Law School to discuss last year’s execution of alleged terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki and two other US-born clerics in Yemen, a decision he says the White House still defends despite criticism from citizens and lawmakers alike. 

Although both US President Barack Obama and the CIA signed off on the airstrike that killed the American citizens, Washington has been relatively quiet on the matter until Holder spoke earlier this month. 

After Attorney General Holder justified the assassination of Americans, a congressional inquiry revealed that Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, wasn’t certain that the same laws could be applied to killing Americans on US soil. With the FBI and Oval Office both hiding behind vague verbiage to allow the assassination of their own citizens, Ron Paul is critiquing what he calls a complete disregard of the Constitution.

“It is particularly bizarre to hear the logic of the administration claiming the right to target its citizens according to some secret selection process, when we justified our attacks against Iraq and Libya because their leaders supposedly were targeting their own citizens,” writes Rep. Paul. “We also now plan a covert war against Syria for the same reason.”

FBI Creating a System for Monitoring All Conversations on Social Networking Sites

Source: Natural News
J. D. Heyes

(NaturalNews) If you're a regular reader of NaturalNews, you're already well aware of the fact that government, the courts and private industry have all essentially disregarded the intent and meaning of the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment privacy protections in the age of information technology. It seems that you give up your right to be "secure" in your "persons, houses, papers, and effects" if you dare to use a social media network or virtually any other information exchange system.

The latest onslaught comes from the FBI, which is only the most recent federal agency seeking to monitor all of your conversations on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

The bureau has placed a request from tech firms to develop a program that would enable agents to sift through waves of "publicly available" information, ostensibly to look for keywords related to terrorism, criminal activity and other threats to national security.

'Early warning' system?

The goal, according to the bureau's request, is to develop a sort of early warning system that provides real-time intelligence to improve "the FBI's overall situational awareness." The proposed program must "have the ability to rapidly assemble critical open source information and intelligence that will allow SIOC to quickly vet, identify, and geo-locate breaking events, incidents, and emerging threats."

The FBI joins DARPA - the secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in searching for a program that can "monitor" social media chatter (DARPA, ironically enough, invented the Internet, not Al Gore). The difference there, however, is that the Defense Department and the CIA focus on threats overseas; the FBI, meanwhile, is a domestic law enforcement apparatus, and as such, subject to constitutional restrictions regarding the development of its cases.

FBI Director: I Have to Check to See If Obama Has the Right to Assassinate Americans On U.S. Soil

Source: Washington's Blog

Yes, Obama Claims Power to Kill Americans on U.S. Soil

Fox News reports:

FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday said he would have to go back and check with the Department of Justice whether Attorney General Eric Holder’s “[criteria] for the targeted killing of Americans also applied to Americans inside the U.S.

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“I have to go back. Uh, I’m not certain whether that was addressed or not,” Mueller said when asked by Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., about a distinction between domestic and foreign targeting, Graves followed up asking whether “from a historical perspective,” the federal government has “the ability to kill a U.S. citizen on United States soil or just overseas.”

“I’m going to defer that to others in the Department of Justice,” Mueller replied.

Indeed, Holder’s Monday speech at Northwestern University seemed to leave the door open.

Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley writes:

One would hope that the FBI Director would have a handle on a few details guiding his responsibilities, including whether he can kill citizens without a charge or court order.

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He appeared unclear whether he had the power under the Obama Kill Doctrine or, in the very least, was unwilling to discuss that power. For civil libertarians, the answer should be easy: “Of course, I do not have that power under the Constitution.”

FBI, DHS, Pentagon, Fed Using Social Media for Spying, Propaganda

Source: Corbett Report


TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES:

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation posted a Request for Information last month calling on IT companies to demonstrate their ability to design software for monitoring, mapping and analyzing social media.

The RFI, posted to the government’s Federal Business Opportunities website in January, reveals the FBI’s desire for software capable of monitoring social media websites like Facebook and Twitter to provide alerts and analysis for publicly posted information. The software would require the ability to:

Washington DC: FBI Foils Own Terror Plot (Again)

Source: Land Destroyer Report
Tony Cartalucci

FBI's nation-wide stable of patsies can be switched "live" at any moment.

February 18. 2012 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has once again proven that the only thing Americans need fear, is their own government, with the latest "terror attack" foiled being one entirely of their own design.

USA Today reports that a suspect had been arrested by the FBI who was "en route to the U.S. Capitol allegedly to detonate a suicide bomb." While initial reports portrayed the incident as a narrowly averted terrorist attack, CBS would report that a "high ranking source told CBS News the man was "never a real threat."" The explosives the would-be bomber carried were provided to him by the FBI during what they described as a "lengthy and extensive operation." The only contact the suspect had with "Al Qaeda" was with FBI officials posing as associates of the elusive, omnipresent, bearded terror conglomerate. The FBI, much like their MI5 counterparts in England, have a propensity for recruiting likely candidates from mosques they covertly run.

This is but the latest in a string of national terror plots carried out from start to finish by the FBI, who has made a business of approaching likely candidates and grooming them to carry out terror attacks. In September 2011, another FBI terror operation targeting the Capitol was "foiled," involving a patsy who believed he was to take part in an assault that would involve multiple gunmen and even a drone bomber provided to him by the FBI.

And perhaps the most dubious of all, was the December 2010 Portland "Christmas Tree Bomber," who was also approached by the FBI, provided demolition training, including a demonstration with live explosives performed in a Lincoln County park, and a van within which the patsy believed his handlers had provided him a bomb. The van with the inert device was parked next to a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony where the patsy attempted to detonate it remotely before being arrested by FBI agents.

It would later turn out that Portland had heroically withdrew from the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, (JTTF), with the operation then being carried out behind Portland Mayor Sam Adam's back only for its conclusion to humiliatingly catch the mayor off guard. The city of Portland would eventually rejoin the JTTF after the fallout from the FBI's own terror plot.

FBI's Terror Factory Yields DC Suicide Bomber

Source: GreeneWave
Topher Morrison

On Friday, 29-year-old Morroccan, Amine El Khalifi was arrested purportedly on his way to the U.S. Capitol dawning classic terror chic – suicide vest and automatic weapon.  The explosives and gun, however, were merely innocuous props in a sting operation staged by the FBI after a nearly yearlong surveillance and investigation of Mr. Khalifi.

While many are surely applauding the gumshoe tactics of America’s favorite bureau saving us once again from would-be terrorists it is evident to many others like Toni Cartalucci of Land Destroyer Report in a sterling analysis harkening even as far back as the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing:

“That this is but the latest in a string of national terror plots carried out from start to finish by the FBI, who has made a business of approaching likely candidates and grooming them to carry out terror attacks.”

Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News’ now cancelled Freedom Watch also agrees:

Testifying to this suspicion is what is immediately lacking in the original report by the Associated Press, namely the nexus through which FBI members first contacted Mr. Khalifi.  Local police were reportedly tipped off by Frank Dynda, Mr. Khalifi’s former landlord in Arlington, VA, on the suspicion that Khalifi was making bombs, but law enforcement told Mr. Dynda to leave him alone and there is no indication that the FBI was notified.

There is, however, mention of the infamous Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, VA.  According to the AP its imam “Johari Abdul-Malik…along with other Muslim leaders meets regularly with the FBI.”  Considering the federal government has had a long relationship with Al-Hijrah, this makes sense.

From January 2001 to April of 2002, influential Al-Qaeda member and recently assassinated American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki used to preside as imam at the Falls Church mosque while also according to Fox News as a “lunch guest of military brass at the Pentagon within months of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.”

While the FBI, according to the AP, assuaged imam Abdul-Malik that Khalifi was “not a regular [my emphasis] at [his] mosque” it is interesting that two of the alleged Sept. 11 hijackers worshipped there as did the Fort Hood terrorist, Maj. Nidal Hasan.

Time and time again it looks as though the “lengthy and extensive operation” the likes of which lead to the arrest of Mr. Khalifi are in fact calculating entrapments designed to aggrandize law enforcement.  Under traditional law entrapment is illegal, however as Fox 19’s Ben Swann suggests, it is now called the War on Terror justified under legislation like the PATRIOT Act.

Keiser Report: FBI vs Gold Standard 'Extremists'

Source: RT

In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the gold standard extremism and how your dollar got to be worth just 3.8 cents. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Francine McKenna of reTheAuditors.com about the crimes and illegitimate activity of the MF Global collapse.

The State Has Declared War on the American People

Source: Infowars
Paul Joseph Watson

With the announcement that 30,000 drones are expected to fill American skies within ten years, the U.S. government has officially declared war on the American people, turning to technology normally used to hunt down insurgents abroad as the whole arsenal of the war on terror is re-focused domestically.

“The Federation Aviation Administration said up to 30,000 drones could be in airspace shared with airliners carrying passengers,” reports UPI.

Once signed by president Obama, the FAA Reauthorization Act allows for the FAA to permit the use of drones and develop regulations for testing and licensing by 2015.

Some types of surveillance drones are already being used by police departments across the country, including in Montgomery County, Texas, where the Department of Homeland Security recently gave the go-ahead for law enforcement in the United States to deploy the ShadowHawk mini drone drone helicopter that has the ability to taze suspects from above as well as carrying 12-gauge shotguns and grenade launchers.

US law enforcement bodies are already using drone technology to spy on Americans. In December, a Predator B drone was called in to conduct surveillance over a family farm in North Dakota as part of a SWAT raid on the Brossart family, who were suspects in the egregious crime of stealing six missing cows. Local police in this one area have already used the drone on two dozen occasions since June last year.

The DHS also recently announced a plan to spend up to $50 million dollars on a spy system that has been used to hunt insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan for the purposes of “emergency and non-emergency incidents” within the United States.

While preparing the use of surveillance drones against Americans, the U.S. government is also keen to characterize a myriad of behaviors and activities, no matter how normal or mundane, as potential indicators of terrorism, encouraging citizens to spy on each other in a chilling throwback to how people were hired as informants under the East German Stasi.

As part of its Communities Against Terrorism program, the FBI is encouraging business owners from across the spectrum to spy on their customers.

Everything is Terrorism: Mike Adams on Infowars Nightly News

Source: Infowars Nightly News

Mike Adams lists the innumerable different behaviors the FBI has characterized as indicators of terrorism.

National Security Letters: Eviscerating the Constitution Since 1978

Source: Boiling Frogs Post and Corbett Report
James Corbett


TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES:

The passage of the Patriot Act in October 2001 is by now an all-too-familiar story. The American people, already suffering from the trauma of 9/11, were pushed into outright panic by the anthrax attacks, a series of anthrax-laced mailings that killed five, injured 17 and shut down congress for the first time in modern history. The Act itself was introduced on a Tuesday and signed into law on Friday, before anyone had read let alone understood the sweeping changes it would introduce to American law.

One of those changes were amendments to a little-known and little-used FBI instrument called National Security Letters.

Corbett Report Radio - FBI Blackballing with Jason Leopold

Source: Corbett Report
James Corbett

James talks to Jason Leopold of truth-out.org about his recent report: “Revealed: The FBI’s Secretive Practice of ‘Blackballing’ Files.” Leopold reveals (yet another) trick the FBI has been using to hide records from FOIA requests, a practice called “blackballing” that has never been previously disclosed. We also discuss the case of former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who was recently charged by the DOJ for leaking classified information.

Climategate 2.0, Lone Wolves, Food Stamp Thanksgiving - New World Next Week

Source: Corbett Report and Media Monarchy
James Corbett and James Evan Pilato

Welcome to NewWorldNextWeek – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news and open source intelligence.

This week:
Story #1: Fresh Round of Leaked Emails Called Climategate 2.0
http://ur1.ca/611g4
Related: Background and Context
http://ur1.ca/611g8
Related: New Batch of Emails Released in Climategate 2.0
http://ur1.ca/611gd
Related: More Emails Leaked From Climate Researchers
http://ur1.ca/611gj

Story #2: NYPD Says FBI Declined to Pursue ‘Lone Wolf’ NYC Bomb Plot
http://ur1.ca/611gl
Who Is Oscar Ortega-Hernandez and Why Did He Allegedly Try To Kill Obama?
http://ur1.ca/611gp
Related: In Search of Lee Harvey Oswald with Charles Ochelli
http://ur1.ca/611gu

Story #3: Oregon Tops Nation in Food Stamp Use
http://ur1.ca/611gz
Video: News Report from KEZI 9 in Eugene, Oregon
http://ur1.ca/611h6
Related: USDA Targets Stores in Food Stamp Trafficking
http://ur1.ca/611hb