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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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Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:56 | 3635365 NuYawkFrankie
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Re American "Intelligence" Source:

We hack Everyone Everywhere.

 

Oh Yeah? Methinks this American "Intelligence" Source Doth Self-Aggrandize Too Much.

Or, in the vernacular: He/She/It's full of sh!t.

Even having to use the craven MSM  to back-handedly - under the guise of protesting Privacy Intrusions - spread the meme of their All Seeing & Hearing Omnipotence

Must be getting very nervous at the thought of the peasants "wising up".

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:19 | 3635330 Rustysilver
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This explains the voting pattern of my fellow citizens.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:19 | 3635327 mofreedom
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they got ctrl p, coomin soon.. delete key us people they will

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:16 | 3635316 cpzimmon
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We're fucked. Period.

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 09:55 | 3636915 spinone
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No one ever got out of here alive, no matter how careful they were.  Let your beliefs guide your actions.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 19:59 | 3635753 El Oregonian
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"The full classified directive repeatedly emphasizes that all cyber-operations must be conducted in accordance with US law"

What Bullshit. These criminals don't give a shit about fricking laws! If they did they wouldn't be embroiled in 6 fricking scandals at the same time.

Then these pricks are using secret emails and names in order to conceal their identities and they're going to conduct operations in accordance with US Law!?!

Lying, cheating Stupid-asses are nothing more than criminal thugs. Fire ALL of them.

 

 

oh wait... is that a drone above me?

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 22:22 | 3636194 TheFourthStooge-ing
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conduct operations in accordance with US Law

That means no constitution, no rules, anything goes.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:11 | 3635808 kchrisc
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The "law" is for serving us to them.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:20 | 3635333 George Washington
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Yes, but TRUE hope (as opposed to Obummer's fake hopium) is an act of will ...

Several long-time activists have told me recently they are overwhelmed, worried, and think that we may be losing the struggle ….

One very smart friend asked me if there is any basis for hope.

But hope is an act of will, not a passive mood. Admittedly, things are easier when circumstances bring hope to us, and we can just receive the hopeful and inspiring news.

But if we care about winning, we have to be able to decide to have hope even when outer circumstances aren’t so positive.

I have children who are counting on me to leave them with a
reasonably safe and sane planet. As I’ve said elsewhere, “I care too
much about my kids and my freedom to be afraid. I care enough about them
that it gets my heart beating, connects me to something bigger than
myself, and that gives me courage, even when the chips are down.”

If I allowed myself to lose hope about exposing falsehoods, about
protecting our freedom and building a hopeful future, I would be
dropping the ball for my kids. I would be condemning them to a
potentially very grey world where bigger and worse things may happen,
where their liberties and joys are wholly stripped away, where every
ounce of vitality is beholden to joyless and useless tasks.

Many of us may be motivated by other things besides kids …. Only you can know what that is. But we each must dig down deep, and connect with our most powerful motivations to win the struggle for freedom and truth.

I don’t know about you . . . but I don’t have the luxury of giving up
hope. When I get depressed, overwhelmed or exhausted by the stunning
acts of savagery, treason, and disinformation carried out by the
imperialists, or the willful ignorance of many Americans, I will myself into finding some reason to have hope.

Because the struggle for liberty is too important for me to give up.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose
the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that
quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still
have a dream.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by
irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the
not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul
perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never
been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The
world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it
is yours.
- Ayn Rand

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
- Lin Yutang

Hope is passion for what is possible.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
- Maori Proverb

I steer my bark with hope in the
head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not
oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

- Thomas Jefferson

He who does not hope to win has already lost.
- Jose Joaquin Olmedo

When you do nothing, you feel
overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense
of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to
make things better.

- Pauline R. Kezer

Hope is a state of mind, not of the
world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy
that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that
are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for
something because it is good.

– Unknown

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations
are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds,
above the storms, if you only let them.

– William James

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
– Helen Keller

The
capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides
human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

– Norman Cousins

When I despair, I remember that all
through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have
been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in
the end, they always fall — think of it, ALWAYS.

– Mahatma Gandhi

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
- Orison Marden

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow by conflict.
- William Ellery Channing

Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired.
- Eric Swensson

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their
names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to
see that they do not remain the way they are.
- Augustine of Hippo

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
– Emil Brunner

The very least you can do in your life
is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live
inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it,
under its roof.
- Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is not the conviction that something
will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense
regardless of how it turns out.
- Vaclav Havel

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
- Samuel Smiles

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
– Abraham Cowley

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr

Develop sincere desire for the goal. Out of fire of desire comes success.
- Unknown

You must not lose faith in
humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.

- Mohandas Gandhi

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don’t lose hope. When it gets darkest the stars come out.
- Unknown

Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all.

- Dale Carnegie

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

The test of a first-rate
intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the
same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for
example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined
to make them otherwise.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is from numberless diverse
acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man
stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or
strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and
crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and
daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest
walls of oppression and resistance.

- Robert F . Kennedy

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:37 | 3635387 NotApplicable
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All of this awareness of evil, yet you still support it every time you vote to condone it, or claim ownership of it (e.g. "our government").

Stop feeding the beast and it will die on its own.

There is no other way, as true peace is never an outcome of war. Any harmonious society must stop empowering the criminal element.

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 00:30 | 3636492 hootowl
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+++++++

STARVE THE BEAST!!!

It is the only thing that will kill it!!!

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 21:32 | 3636047 Dick Buttkiss
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I meant to begin by quoting Nancy Reagan (for no other reason than that it's attributable to her):

"Just say no."

Meaning just say no to voting or otherwise supporting the statist quo, paying as much tribute to it as you feel you must but no more.

In other words . . . 

Get out of it. Get away from it. And get on with it.

There's a whole new world on the other side, for those who can get there.

Else there's no world at all.

 

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 19:32 | 3635679 Dick Buttkiss
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Here's the good news: You don't have to fight the beast; you just have to prepare for the aftermath of its self-destruction.  Yes, it'll take countless millions down with it, but you and yours don't have to be among them.

America is dead.  Long live America.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:29 | 3635363 DaveyJones
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It is indeed a battle of wills. Funny thing, they tend to be bigger wimps than most regular folk.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:12 | 3635306 falak pema
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High level oil lobby source : we frack everyone, everywhere.

What's new in this Oligarchy world, full of poisonous guns.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 18:19 | 3635504 Umh
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You sure are behind the times. I don't think anyone has used poisonous ammunition in decades, but that just goes to show how far off topic you are.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:33 | 3635875 Disenchanted
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Depleted uranium

Nope not poisonous at all...

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 01:32 | 3636570 Joe A
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Used in Iraq -bothe wars- and in Kosovo. People there are getting sick and are dying.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:03 | 3635270 diogeneslaertius
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EVERYONE.

EVERYWHERE.

you dont build a data center like that and not use it folks.

inb4 NORTHCOM

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 20:17 | 3635832 Buck Johnson
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Is that the one in Utah, thats supposed to be using quantum processing?  Also this will come back to burn the US govt., trust me.

Fri, 06/07/2013 - 22:10 | 3636165 Zer0head
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Meanwhile the wife (Samantha Power) of one of the  lead architects, Cass Sunstein. is the new UN Ambass for Amerika

Sat, 06/08/2013 - 08:56 | 3636847 economics9698
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When the fiat dies Washington DC and NYC will have a foul stench of death emanating from those shit holes.  The older I get the more I understand why old empire cities were 100% destroyed by conquering armies. 

 

I fucking despise our fascist leaders and followers.

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