Weve seen the government go after myriad less-than-willing companies for data. How will it go with the much more compliant unions - whom the government wishes to help?
Behold the latest tack of the foundering floundering Barack Obama administration. Mired in the myriad scandals engulfing it the President his Press Secretary and his Treasury Secretary were among the officials this week trying to dismiss their wide world of malfeasance as phony scandals."
Let us look at just one - the federal governments multi-department multitudinous-program effort to vacuum up as much of our data as possible. And let us consider the news that broke just this past week - and make a determination of just how phony this scandal is.
In a July 24 Best Practices" blog post the governments Chief Information Office (CIO) claims the Leviathan has the authority to monitor social media. That is when its not asking Americans to monitor each other and report back - Attack Watch" and If You See Something Say Something" ring any bells?
The National Security Administration (NSA) has collected the metadata of trillions of our phone calls. Thousands of NSA analysts can listen to domestic phone calls" said an ashen Democrat Congressman Jerrold Nadler - a charge first leveled by groundbreaking whistleblower Edward Snowden. And they can read our emails texts and Instant Messages (IMs) and watch our video chats.
And this week on ABCs This Week Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald said these low-level NSA analysts have a powerful and invasive" data-search tool:
These (search) programs are...(designed so that) all an analyst has to do is enter an email address or an IP address and it does two things. It searches that database and lets them listen to the calls or read the emails of everything that the NSA has stored or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms that youve entered and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future."
Is that enough for you?
It certainly isnt for the Leviathan. The government is tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies extracting audio and video chats photographs e-mails documents and connection logs. And this week we learned:
The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users stored passwords according to two industry sources familiar with these orders which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed."
This week we learned the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has used drones for warrantless surveillance in the U.S. in (at least) ten different cases. But were sure that number wont end up being much bigger - arent we?
Last week we learned of the gi-normity of the governments ObamaCare database. This week we learned that the NSAs new spy facilities are seven times bigger than the Pentagon.
But ask (top NSA official Harvey Davis) why the facility is so big and whats inside and he is less forthcoming. I think were crossing into content. Its big because its required to be big...(T)he systems inside will warehouse...millions of Americans phone logs for five years...."
With all of this Administration data grabbing going on - is it any surprise that some Obama allies are beginning to follow suit? As we know - unions love President Obama and his Democrats. The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union really loves Democrats - nearly $6 million in 2012 political contributions nearly all to Donkeys and their ilk. And the CWA has been taking data grab notes.
The CWA was just recently caught demanding via a recorded message that its Local 1126 provide the parent with copies of all trouble tickets and install orders involving Voice Link - Verizons Internet Protocol (IP) phone system. Why? Because the old-school dilapidated land-line phone system work is unionized work - and the cutting-edge IP system work is not. So the CWA is illegally stealing and collecting customers personal data in an effort to prop up their dinosaur gigs.
Weve seen the government go after myriad less-than-willing companies for data. How will it go with the much more compliant unions - whom the government wishes to help? With the unions having collected our data to help the government? Helps put the whole illegal union-election Card Check imposition and unlawful National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) appointments into better perspective yes?
Now does all of this sound like a phony scandal" to you? Me either.