- By Susanne Posel – February 11, 2015
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cybersecurity, surveillance
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | The US IndependentFebruary 11, 2015
The Obama administration has created a little brother to the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) called the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIC) to defend against cyberattacks and “fuse intelligence from around the government when a crisis occurs.”
Lisa Monaco, assistant to the present for homeland security and counterterrorism explained: “The cyber threat is one of the greatest threats we face, and policymakers and operators will benefit from having a rapid source of intelligence. It will help ensure that we have the same integrated, all-tools approach to the cyber threat that we have developed to combat terrorism.”
Conversely, Melissa Hathaway, former White House cybersecurity coordinator and president of Hathaway Global Strategies (HGS) pointed out: “We should not be creating more organizations and bureaucracy. We need to be forcing the existing organizations to become more effective — hold them accountable.”
Currently the NCTC has access to all governmental databases and stores intelligence on all citizens in the US.
The information is retained for years without review and stored in case there is ever suspicion or a US citizen is under “reasonable belief” that they are connected to terroristic activity.
By providing the US government an “indispensable source for analysis and strategic operational plans” the NCTC is considered an integral “instrument of national power” that will ensure expert perspectives are authoritatively sourced with regard to surveillance.
The NCTC is allowed to analyze and obtain copies of information on US citizens including:
• Flight records
• Americans hosting foreign-exchange students
• Casino records
• Behavior patterns
Three years ago, the NCTC published new guidelines with regard to access, retention, use and dissemination of surveillance data stored on Americans are shared under the guise of domestic terrorism.
Those “appropriate entities” that will be conferred with regarding surveillance intelligence gathered on Americans will be at the discretion of the NCTC.
Those could be local law enforcement, federal agencies or foreign intelligence communities that work with the US government to determine what “constitutes terrorism information.”
A collection of documents have been drawn up that detail how the various governmental and international agencies work in tandem with the NCTC to collect surveillance intelligence on Americans.
Obama signed an addendum to executive order 13354 that codified the “Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004” which redefined the direct line of authority for the NCTC to the executive branch of the US government; as well as the director of National Intelligence as instructed by the President and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
While the US government continues to empower itself to spy on its own citizens, the Senate has passed a bill entitled, “Location Privacy Protection Act of 2011” ( S.1223 ) that creates new rules for location privacy.
This legislation restricts online and mobile “stalking” through digital media giants such as Google Maps, Foursquare, Facebook and corporations who collect data on Americans under the guise of marketing.
It is known that this type of information is worth quite a bit of money to corporations that deal in intelligence based on surveillance.
With the assistance of Trojan cookies embedded into websites and disseminated into user’s computers when they visit that particular website, the cookie will “maliciously tracks” the movement of the user across the internet. In effect, all of your web surfing is tracked by the websites using the cookies – every other website you visit, login information, digital data.
Corporations operating within the US like the Strategic Forecasting, Inc. (Stratfor) are Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) fronts that allow the US government to conduct unfettered surveillance without overtly having to admit to governmental missions.
Stratfor claims to gather intelligence from “open-source monitoring and a global network of human contacts.”
Using real time global networks of human contacts, supplied knowledge of events worldwide, connections to geopolitical situations and developments nationally and globally Stratfor is able to “provide global awareness and guidance to individuals, governments and businesses around the world.”
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