Catherine Bleish Testifying in Missouri House Committee on Missouri Information Analysis Center

Interim Committee on State Intelligence Analysis Oversight met on 6/10/2009 to discuss the practices of the Missouri Information Analysis Center and how they obtain, filter, and spread intel through State, Local and Federal law enforcement agencies.

Obama Administration Targets Environmental and Animal Rights Activists as Eco-Terrorists

by Stephen Lendman

What began under George Bush continues under Barack Obama – targeting dedicated activists with “one of today’s most serious domestic terrorism threats,” according former FBI Deputy Assistant Director of Counterterrorism John Lewis before a Senate panel in May 2005. Called “eco-terrorism,” it grew out of the 2001 USA Patriot Act that created the federal crime of “domestic terrorism” and applied it to US citizens as well as aliens.

In his February 2002 testimony before the House Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, the FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Section Chief, Counterterrorism Division, James Jarboe defined eco-terrorism as:

“the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature.”

As a result, innocent people are targeted, accused, convicted and sentenced to hard time for constitutionally protected non-violent environmental activism or supporting animal rights. The so-called AETA 4 are four recent ones and face prosecution under U.S.A. v. Buddenberg for conspiracy to commit animal enterprise terrorism.

On February 19 and 20, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Joseph Buddenberg, Maryam Khajavi, Nathan Pope, and Adriana Stumpo and charged them with conduct relating to protesting, chalking the sidewalk, chanting, and leafleting – constitutionally protected rights under the First Amendment, but no matter.

more… http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?Info=0058928

The Pentagon is planning to establish a cybercommand to manage its future offensive and defensive conduct in the cyberspace.

The cybercommand will combine its efforts with already-in-place civilian attempts to better protect US computer networks against cyber attacks, allegedly posed by hackers and sometimes by governments.

The US President Barack Obama on Friday informed both the National Security Council and the National Economic Council of the White House’s plans for the creation of a cyber office.

“Cyberspace is real and so are the risks that come with it,” Obama said. He is expected to name a cybersecurity official soon.

Plans are under review to bring together the National Security Agency and the US defense department to jointly set cyberstandards that would ward off thousands of cyberattacks mounted against the United States.

The US president, however, also said that his administration would not impose cybersecurity standards for private companies.

Despite claims made by the US about cyberattacks on its networks, officials decline to describe the potential offensive response they have against these alleged threats, but say they now view cyberspace as comparable to more traditional battlefields.

“We are not comfortable discussing the question of offensive cyberoperations, but we consider cyberspace a war-fighting domain,” said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, according to The New York Times.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96398&sectionid=3510203

US military recruiting ‘hacker soldiers’
Military companies in the US are considering plans to employ cyber soldiers as the Pentagon moves to establish a cybercommand to manage future cyberwars.

House Demands Full Disclosure On DHS “Right-wing Extremism” Report

Rare legislative move guarantees resolution within two weeks

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, May 7, 2009

Republican Representatives have demanded answers from the Department of Homeland Security over the origins of the leaked security intelligence assessmentwhich equates veterans and gun owners with violent terrorists.

HOMELAND INSECURITY
Mother claims teen jailed by Patriot Act
FBI holds 10th-grader for months with little contact from family

Ashton Lundeby, a 16-year-old homeschooled boy from North Carolina was taken away from his home in handcuffs two months ago and has been held by the FBI in Indiana ever since, a victim, his mother claims, of the Patriot Act spun out of control.

According to Annette Lundeby of Oxford, N.C., armed FBI agents and local police stormed her home around 10 p.m. on March 5, looking for her son, Ashton. The officers presented a federal search warrant and seized the tenth-grader’s computer, cell phone and bank statements.

Ashton was then taken to a juvenile facility in South Bend, Ind., charged with making a bomb threat in Indiana from his home computer.

His mother, however, told Raleigh’s WRAL-TV that she argued with the authorities, claiming someone must have hacked into her son’s IP address and used it to make crank calls. The agents’ search, she claims, also failed to uncover any trace of bomb-making materials.

“Undoubtedly, they were given false information,” Lundeby told the station, “or they would not have had 12 agents in my house with a widow and two children and three cats.”

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97099

HOMELAND INSECURITY
Guess how DHS defines who is a terrorist now 2nd ‘domestic extremism’ report includes ‘alternative media,’ ‘tax resisters’ in lexicon

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Two weeks before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security penned its controversial report warning against “right-wing extremists” in the United States, it generated a memo defining dozens of additional groups – animal rights activists, black separatists, tax protesters, even worshippers of the Norse god Odin – as potential “threats.”

Veteran Intelligence Officers on Torture

Torture is one of those accumulated evils.  Violating domestic laws like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 is another.  You were right to unceremoniously jettison former CIA director Michael Hayden, who betrayed the thousands of NSA professionals who, until he directed that domestic law could be ignored, had adhered scrupulously to the 1978 FISA law as NSA’s “First Commandment”—Thou Shalt Not Eavesdrop on Americans Without a Court Warrant.

Sadly, President Bush was not the first chief executive to find a small cabal of superpatriots, amateur thugs, and contractors to do his administration’s bidding.  But never before in this country were lawless thugs given such free rein.  The congressional “oversight” committees looked the other way.

(signatories are listed alphabetically with former intelligence affiliations) Gene Betit, US Army, DIA, Arlington, VA Ray Close, National Clandestine Service (CIA), Princeton, NJ Phil Giraldi, National Clandestine Service (CIA), Purcellville, VA Larry Johnson, CIA & Department of State, Bethesda, MD Pat Lang, US Army (Special Forces), DIA, Alexandria, VA David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council, Linden, VA Tom Maertens, Department of State, Mankato, MN Ray McGovern, US Army, CIA, Arlington, VA Sam Provance, US Army (Abu Ghraib), Greenville, SC Coleen Rowley, FBI, Apple Valley, MN Greg Theilmann, Department of State & Senate Intel. Committee staff, Arlington, VA Ann Wright, US Army, Department of State, Honolulu, HI

2009/03/28: Luke Rudkowski Arrested
for Attempting to Question Mayor Bloomberg

WeAreChange founder and activist Luke Rudkowski was arrested at the Hilton Hotel on Manhattan today for attempting to question New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about his refusal to pay for the health care of 9/11 first responders. Rudkowski had Infowars press credentials and a video camera when he was singled out by Bloomberg’s security in the lobby of the hotel located at West 53rd Street and Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue).

2009/03/11: Secret State Police MIAC Report:
Ron Paul Stickers, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin,
Gadsden Flag, Libertarians are Terrorists?

Exclusive: Three police officers beat up handcuffed Iraq war veteran

29/11/2008

The pictures of police brutality that will shock all of Britain.

These shameful and inexcusable scenes show a war hero who served his country in Iraq and Afghanistan fearing for his life amid a violent and unprovoked assault by police.

Lance Corporal Mark Aspinall – highly praised by his commanding officer for bravery against the Taliban in Afghanistan – was set upon by three uniformed officers on his home town High Street.