Congress demands answers from White House
over 'invasive' surveillance program known
as Hemisphere that has tracked TRILLIONS
of phone records for Americans each year
- even if they are not suspected of a crime
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Morgan Phillips
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
11/23/2023 9:58:19 PM
Congress is demanding answers from the Biden administration about a secret spying program that tracks more than a trillion phone records from innocent and unsuspecting Americans each year.
The under-the-radar system, known as Data Analytical Services or 'Hemisphere,' has been in operation for over a decade. It allows federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to tap into the phone records of U.S. citizens who have not been accused of any crime.
Under the Hemisphere program the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) pays phone service provider AT&T to hand over phone records as far back as 1987.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1 11/23/2023 10:40:21 PM (No. 1603948)
For ten years, eh? Who was president in 2013? Oh, that's right, Obola, the demo-commie-mooslime, that's who!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 11/23/2023 10:45:18 PM (No. 1603949)
This article comes a day or two after a story posted here about the TSA Operation Quiet Skies. That report said federal marshals are following all people who flew to WDC around January 6. A poster on that thread said, “Didn't know I lived in Communist China.” I think feds are spying on Americans 5 different ways at all times.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/23/2023 11:39:52 PM (No. 1603952)
Given the state of our southern border and an occasional baggie found in the WH, I'd bet the feds aren't snooping to find lawbreakers but to get ahead of, and protect VIPs and the Biden crime family.
12 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 11/24/2023 12:13:38 AM (No. 1603958)
Like they didnt know all along.
8 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/24/2023 12:40:47 AM (No. 1603966)
Because they can and they have willing taxpayers to fund it.
5 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
sw penn 11/24/2023 5:54:53 AM (No. 1604001)
Know Everything
Discern Nothing
3 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
petrichor 11/24/2023 6:57:18 AM (No. 1604024)
NSA has 32,000 employees and they now have openings for 3000 more. That's a lot of "investigating".
5 people like this.
Another reason I am glad I switched from AT&T to Patriot Mobile.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 11/24/2023 8:17:54 AM (No. 1604073)
Look up the FLOCK surveillance program. Local po po are scanning your plates every day and keeping the information so your daily movements are recorded and kept. Not all of course but they are in Lafayette IN and that’s not a huge city. They use ALPR cameras. Private citizens can participate too with their ring type doorbells or private security systems. It’s a big deal. The ACLU (yes they’re commies but apparently not totally useless) put out an article in Feb 2023 warning of this issue.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
red1066 11/24/2023 9:16:32 AM (No. 1604119)
Once that trillion-dollar CIA facility was built out west, they had to find some use for it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Venturer 11/24/2023 10:03:54 AM (No. 1604179)
America ----------------spying on it's own citizens.
Surprise Surprise.
Cheating on elections and spying on it's citizens, and opening the border.
How much longer will Americans put up with this?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/24/2023 10:17:50 AM (No. 1604192)
A popular saying in the old America was that if you didn't do anything wrong, you didn't have to worry about cameras, police surveillance and answering their questions. That is no longer true. If you haven't done anything wrong, they will find or make something up.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chagrined 11/24/2023 11:39:37 AM (No. 1604249)
It's not just the feds, big tech is spying/recording pretty much everything you do or say. There's been WAY too many times where I've been talking to someone about a product, even outdoors away from everything including phones, and the next thing I know I'm receiving an email about said product, or at times seeing commercials popping up on TV about the subject. Some will laugh at this, but we'll see one day. . .maybe.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 11/24/2023 11:44:28 AM (No. 1604256)
The Fifth Amendment is dead and buried.
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