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High-Level American Intelligence Source: “We Hack Everyone Everywhere"

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Glenn Greenwald - who broke the stories on the phone and internet spying scandals this week - has a new expose ... this time on offensive cyber-warfare:

Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber-attacks, a top secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian reveals.

 

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An intelligence source with extensive knowledge of the National Security Agency’s systems told the Guardian … “We hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world.”

 

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The full classified directive repeatedly emphasizes that all cyber-operations must be conducted in accordance with US law and only as a complement to diplomatic and military options. But it also makes clear how both offensive and defensive cyber operations are central to US strategy.

 

Under the heading “Policy Reviews and Preparation”, a section marked “TS/NF” – top secret/no foreign – states: “The secretary of defense, the DNI [Director of National Intelligence], and the director of the CIA … shall prepare for approval by the president through the National Security Advisor a plan that identifies potential systems, processes and infrastructure against which the United States should establish and maintain OCEO capabilities…” The deadline for the plan is six months after the approval of the directive.

 

The directive provides that any cyber-operations “intended or likely to produce cyber effects within the United States” require the approval of the president, except in the case of an “emergency cyber action”. When such an emergency arises, several departments, including the department of defense, are authorized to conduct such domestic operations without presidential approval.

 

Obama further authorized the use of offensive cyber attacks in foreign nations without their government’s consent whenever “US national interests and equities” require such nonconsensual attacks. It expressly reserves the right to use cyber tactics as part of what it calls “anticipatory action taken against imminent threats”.

 

The directive makes multiple references to the use of offensive cyber attacks by the US military.

Greenwald and others have long reported that the Obama administration claims the right to be judge, jury and executioner in both drone assassinations and offensive cyber attacks.

Greenwald also reports that the head of the cyber command is the NSA boss … the same guy responsible for much of the spying we’ve been hearing about:

In January, the Pentagon announced a major expansion of its Cyber Command Unit, under the command of General Keith Alexander, who is also the director of the NSA. That unit is responsible for executing both offensive and defensive cyber operations.

(There are other overlaps and interconnections between spying and warfare as well.)

The War Comes Home

Offensive cyber operations are not only occurring overseas …

The Department of Defense has long waged cyber-war against Americans by censoring and manipulating social media and other websites. More proof here and here.

This is not entirely surprising, given that:

 

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Sat, 06/08/2013 - 13:14 | 3637238 RaceToTheBottom
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You always put those sort of things in places like Utah Idaho.   Stable, bright workforce....  Not questioning.  Strong military commitments....

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 09:08 | 3636859 lakecity55
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Hack This, Bit-Chez.

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 08:30 | 3636814 Hannibal
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RT interviews William Binney NSA "stellar wind" whisleblower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLa0ayrNok4

http://publicintelligence.net/binney-nsa-declaration/

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 06:19 | 3636710 orangegeek
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WW3 - drones and infrastructure attacks using the internet.

 

Remember it was the US that created and promoted the internet, not the Euros nor the Chinese.

 

Much easier to manage other countries with a keyboard rather that a rifle.  Fewer fatalities too.

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 02:02 | 3636593 Money Squid
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A few months ago I posted a simple comment about the hardware and software backdoors and how these backdoors compromised all the cryptoware on the computer, thus rendering programs/ideas like Bitcoin fully exposed. A lot of "experts" chimed with how secure their systems were. Well, let's here it "experts" how secure is your system or anonymous Bitcoin transactions now? CH1?

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 01:02 | 3636542 newengland
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O'bomba's excuse for the latest expose of NSA nazionism is to say: 'If you want 100% security...' etc.

I did not ask for 100%, nor did anyone else. His nazionist Trilateral Commission which appointed him does want depopulation, and 100% monopoly, security; the living dead; their ridiculous idea of a technocratic world.

There is no understanding the mind of mass murderers and the political pets they employ to put a smiley face on their corpse...corporatism.

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 00:39 | 3636506 q99x2
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Didn't the States get attacked by the FEDs once before or is this the first time? Maybe it has just been ongoing.

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 00:22 | 3636481 disabledvet
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People talk of the "short half life of QE" but i think what is even shorter is the half life of "stuxnet" and its after effects. i really don't think the military is impressed quite honestly with the efficacy...let alone legality of course..of this crap. But you will never hear those who have sacrificed so much in fighting this war the past 12 years say anything in public since this is op/sec so i guess we'll just have to hear they're voices "the old fashioned way" (from the American People, the media, businesses and financial people who don't want the Government hacking into their industries, and those that still hold the rule of law inside the CONUS as inviolate.) until then "nothing happens." but that's a lot of something as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnHLgxKUsEA

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 00:05 | 3636450 Bear
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If you are reading this you .gov mother-fucking-cock-sucking-whore-clutching piece of camel dung ... goto hell

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 23:27 | 3636361 Steel Magnolia
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DHS insider: It’s about to get very ugly - http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/55749

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 09:30 | 3636892 Wakanda
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Thanks for the link.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 23:10 | 3636314 Peter Pan
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The US government can hack and whack all it likes, while I stack and sit back.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 23:14 | 3636329 Aussiekiwi
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Of course the Government will collect all your emails, bank transactions, phone conversations, Internet traffic etc, it is in its nature once it has the technology. You have nothing to worry about as long as you continue to do as you are told, lot of fuss over nothing.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 22:09 | 3636164 Yes_Questions
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When I jack off in the shower, I hope some of you think twice about this career choice of yours.

 

Now, when Mrs. Questions and I sully the couch here and there well, then, can't blame ya for watchin' 

 

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 21:50 | 3636104 MorningStar
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We have to admit that the Democratic & Republican parties are two branches fm the same tree.

 

Still, there are IA (individual acts) that each of us can take to defend our freedoms.

 

Unbelievable, but there are 2 veterans (old combat Vietnam veteran & a Gulf War I) who are walking across America fm San Diego to D.C. & carrying the American flag in support/defense of the U.S. Constitution.

 

True grit!!  Finally, someone one is stepping into the street & doing something.

 

wwwWalkDaddyWalk.com

 

I support their courage just to walk the US highways, carrying an American flag.  I think they are now in New Mexico (US Hwy 70).

 

For sure, the mainstream media won't pick up this human interest story of 2 vets once again defending our freedoms.

 

 

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 10:53 | 3636979 knightowl77
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THE US i 70 does not go through New Mexico...perhaps i 40?

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 10:18 | 3636939 nobodyimportant
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Hope they carry it up-side-down

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 23:13 | 3636324 Peter Pan
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"We have to admit that the Democratic & Republican parties are two branches fm the same tree."

And here I was thinking to myself that they are the two fangs of the same dracula.

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 00:09 | 3636459 Bear
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Oh No ... can I take back my previous comment now knowing that someone has already stored my mac address on the do-kill list.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:34 | 3635872 Urban Redneck
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And you can run both Linux and Windows on a single computer, or boot Linux from a USB or SD/Flash Memory drive without changing your computer at all- WHICH EASES THE TRANSITION FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM, but still keeps an umbilical cord intact in case you feel the perverted desire to crawl back inside... (or the need/desire to use software that you have to PAY MONEY FOR and makes your computer four times as slower than it really is)

(Just be sure to back everything up before you start installing new operating systems to your hard disk)

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:06 | 3635781 kchrisc
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Step right up! Direct to you from the wilds of Chicago and via the jungle of D.C. comes the the most fantastic creature you will ever see in your entire life, a stammering cocksucker.
That's right folks, we have the one and only stammering cocksucker right here for your viewing pleasure. Give it a click, and see, if you dare.

http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/06/07/%E2%80%9Cuhhh%E2%80%A6uh%E2%80%A6uh...

Dear listening intelligence services,
Was my daughter really at her friend Shelly's house all night last Tuesday?
Thanks, and cold regards.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:02 | 3635765 lakecity55
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in two years, this place is gonna look like a cross between blade runner and mad max.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 19:25 | 3635654 IamtheREALmario
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It is obvious: IF THEY WERE NOT DOING ANYTHING IMMORAL, UNETHICAL OR ILLEGAL THEN THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO KEEP IT A SECRET, RIGHT?

Obviously just because someone idiot DECLARES something "legal" does not mean it should be legal or that it is good, moral or right. In fact when idiots DECLARE things legal, generally it means that most people would not agree with the idiot.

The trend is that the populace is slowly taking away their consent from the despots and removing active support. This means that to get anything done, the despot and his cronies will have to use more force... and the natural reaction to the use of force is that more consent and active support will be removed. It is human nature and the nature of psychopaths. At some point, the despots will not be able to get anything done without the active threat of force. This is what ahppens when the despots use fear as their motivator for the people.

One has to wonder what the psychopathic despots are so afraid of?!? Is it as simple as "no one needs them and their mindless goons anymore?"

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:03 | 3635769 Poor Grogman
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Herding sheep was easy

Now with the internet reformation they find they are in fact herding irritable hungry cats...

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 19:43 | 3635704 Chupacabra-322
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The Anonymous release.

Here's the candy.

http://thedocs.hostzi.com/

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 23:36 | 3636381 TheReplacement
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Thankfully there is an Anonymous out there fighting TPTB.

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 02:05 | 3636595 Money Squid
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they aint fighting shit. All their computers are just as vulnerable

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 19:13 | 3635622 Umh
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I know the USPS is inefficient, but this is ridiculous. No wonder this country is going broke. It's not like it's really good information since most mail put in a box will have local return addresses. What do they think; that some wacko will drive 3 states over and mail their bills at the same time.

 

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/woman-arrested-for-obama-bloomber...

 

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:05 | 3635772 lakecity55
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"They" have the mail, too:

 

(dupe)

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 19:33 | 3635682 IamtheREALmario
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Excuse me, but I still do not see how they can connect that woman unless:

1. They have photographs of every person with every piece of mail that goes into the mail box.

2. They have access to mind reading equipment.

3. They have access to time and place viewing equipment that does not require cameras.

4. There is actually no connection and they just selected a patsy ... or created their own patsy, like Boston... and all of the other recent false flags.

There comes a point where all of the 4 above are possible. It would make sense that 2 or 3 are possible since THEY are afraid of something that they will not tell us about AND they are constantly saying they have evidence that they cannot share with anyone from a source that they cannot share because it would affect national security. THINK ABOUT IT.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 23:37 | 3636383 TheReplacement
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She called the FBI.  She mailed the letters.  She was trying to frame her husband whom she is divorcing.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:19 | 3635506 Hannibal
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Now we know why Gitmo stays open for the Greenwald's of the world, lest the get "suicided" first.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:32 | 3635535 Chupacabra-322
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Why is it that whenever there is massive administration corruption involved Feinstein crawls out from underneath her slimy rock and defends it? What a good little socialist warrior she is!
I’ll bet her reward is continuing government contracts to her husband – what do you think?

The entire pool of elected “officials” needs to be purged. Thrown from office and Barred from EVER holding ANY office again. Stripped of ALL of their assets and left to rot only after being arrested, tried, found guilty of treason and executed in a public forum. Politics as a career path needs to be eradicated. It should be a hardship to serve as an elected representative not a windfall.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:09 | 3635797 kchrisc
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Senator Golum.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:38 | 3635555 TahoeBilly2012
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"Socialist warrior"? You really beleive that? How about Zionist  warrior, socialism is just the cover for the scam. Like, let's help the Iragi babies birthrate figures with some depleted uranium! That kind of socialism?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 19:27 | 3635664 Chupacabra-322
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Forget impeachment. Obama’s way too effectively evil – they like him. He serves the globalist purposes to a T. Besides, what difference would it really make? The same rotten, Criminally corrupt system that allowed him to grace the white house would still be in place to welcome the next presidential puppet. It doesn’t matter who you voting fools put in office, you’re going to get the same results. The system and the inbred control freaks that are behind, above, below and around it are the ones that need to be arrested, tried, convicted and executed.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 19:40 | 3635696 divide_by_zero
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I believe Harry Reid said it best, "Magic Negro"

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:19 | 3635500 PenGun
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 Well duh!

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:16 | 3635492 Divine Wind
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My High Level Source:

[Paraphrased]

"Get the *uck out. Leave ASAP and don't look back. The America you knew is no more. Find a nice 3rd world country and build from there."

 

[Not Paraphrased]

"It's over. Finished."

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:24 | 3635518 Hannibal
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Costa Rica and Chile comes to mind.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:38 | 3635554 Divine Wind
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Jokingly, he suggested as far South as I can go, as high as I can get and dug in as deep I am able.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:13 | 3635482 Dieselclam
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Fear not- our part in this insanity ends with Revelation 18.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:38 | 3635557 FreeMktFisherMN
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Indeed. Fear nothing but the Lord Almighty. His will will be done, and victory is already Christ's. 

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 05:07 | 3636686 boogerbently
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“‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’[a]
    She has become a dwelling for demons
and a haunt for every impure spirit,
    a haunt for every unclean bird,
    a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.
For all the nations have drunk
    the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
    and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.”

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 22:18 | 3636186 Lost Word
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I doubt that the Government believes the Book of Revelation.

If they did, history would have changed course already, knowing what they know about my interpretation of how much of Revelation up thru Revelation chapter 11 has already been fufilled in recent history.

Victory may be prophesied, but victory is not yet here.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:10 | 3635476 TahoeBilly2012
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Th whole friggin world is fastly figuring out that like .0001% or the population is buying off about 10% of the population to spy and scare the crap our of the other 89.99999%

It's actually pretty funny, I think, for now.

 

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:06 | 3635466 New_Meat
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"(There are other overlaps and interconnections between spying and warfare as well.)"

GW: who knew this?  There are?  Why SunTzu didn't have this insight and he was... er ... he did?

- Ned

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:41 | 3635397 Duc888
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By all means,  keep voting.  Ha.

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