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Libertas:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-21/whistleblower-exposes-exactly-how-government-spies-your-cell-phone

I'm almost positive CISA and Cromnibus treachery made everything oh so much worse for freedom and liberty, but hey, few are talking about that, so no big concern, eh?  I mean one of the few people with a concience who voted against Cromnibus is trying to warn people of the dangers of the E-GOP selling out the the Dem's and making the Executive more Imperial, but that is having the effect of screaming at a hurricane, so I doubt anything affecting our future prospects for liberty is even on anybody's radar...and if it is it is more likely as a target than anything worth defending.

The elites are all in lock-step, surely the direction and pace is evident to anybody with common sense...







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H/T - WRSA - https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/training-opportunities-order-of-the-white-rose/

Libertas:
H/T - WRSA

Libertas:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/28/obama-to-trash-president-reagans-restrictions-on-domestic-spying/

Law or not, legal or not...doesn't matter...as far as they are concerned all your data is theirs, period.

Freedumb, can ya feel it?!

Libertas:
Another attempt at full-view backdoor access to cellphones by the Feds...solely for the purpose of buttressing criminal cases without having to reveal other ahh, less than legal means.

http://anonhq.com/we-just-found-out-the-real-reason-the-fbi-wants-a-backdoor-into-the-iphone/

Pretty illustrative of their lust for control eh?  This is more about bullying a provate company into being a vassal of Big Govt as much as anything.  With more willing accomplices it makes the work of Big Govt going about oppressing and controlling every soul from craddle to grave that much easier.

And I reviewed the legal opinions here, the Wiki breakdown of the All Writs Act and the US vs NYTC looks accurate...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v. New York Telephone Co. 434 U.S. 159 (1977) that the act provided authority for a U.S. District Court to order a telephone company to assist law enforcement officials in installing a device on a rotary phone in order to track the phone numbers dialed on that phone, which was reasonably believed to be used in furtherance of criminal activity. The court established a three-factor test for writs issued under the All Writs Act: the party ordered to perform an action cannot be too far removed from the case, the government's request cannot impose an undue burden on that party, and the party's assistance is necessary.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Writs_Act

To my understanding I would like to see how the Feds request is not imposing an undue burden on any company the Feds are bullying into compliance, how improperly compromised citizen information is not potentially and seriously damaging to an individual first and to a companies image and net worth secondarily when they get their ass hauled into court.  I would also like to see that last point about the party's assistance being necessary nailed down.  Necessary to who, the State?  It is not a citizens problem, nor a problem of the court if the Federal government wants to avoid having to disclose its NADA/Patriot Act anything-goes hoovering license...and neither should they or any private entity be compelled to assist them in avoiding unpleasant questions!  If FedGov is only truly targeting foreign inspired criminal elements...go the fricken FISA Court route and leave us citizens the eff alone!

Libertas:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/19/house-oversight-doj-dhs-have-more-than-400-cell-si/

400 devices...oh, is that all?

With 194 cell-site simulators, the FBI has the most of any of the agencies identified as owning the devices, which often are referred to by brand names including Stingray or Hailstorm.

The U.S. Marshals Service has 70; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has 59; U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Drug Enforcement Administration each has 33; U.S. Secret Service has 32; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has 13; the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations division has two; and the Treasury inspector general has one.

The report does not indicate the specific types of devices the agencies have but lists the costs of the individual devices purchased as $41,000 to $500,000.

Yeah.

You know what I'm thinking?  Ya, why this slipped out?  Something tells me they all got upgrades and disclosing this hurts them not one bit!  In fact, they may want people to know they just upgraded to something even more nefarious!

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