Fbi's Nationwide Suspicious Activity Initiative

[trix]

Lol maybe the Mod's can fix this thread seemed it got all jacked up w/ the repost's, but here is the link and the story contained in it...

 

http://news.yahoo.co...a-investigation

 

 

The FBI is assembling a massive database on thousands of Americans, many of whom have not been accused of any crime, the Washington Post's Dana Priest and William Arkin report. The reporters' latest look at the country's ballooning national security system focuses on the role that local agencies -- often staffed by people with little to no counter-terrorism training -- have played in combating terrorism since 2001. Here are five striking revelations in their piece:

 

1. The FBI's Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, or SAR, currently contains 161,948 suspicious activity files, into which authorities can put information they've gathered about the people at the center of the files: employment history, financial documents, phone numbers, photos. In many cases, the people in the files have not been accused of any crime but have attracted the suspicions of a local cop, FBI agent or even fellow citizen. The files have led to five arrests but no convictions, the FBI says. Some of the files are unclassified so that local police agencies and even businesses can submit reports on anyone they deem suspicious.

 

 

 

2. The Department of Homeland Security does not know how much it spends in funding state fusion centers, which synthesize security information from all state agencies and feed information to SAR. But since 2001, the department has doled out $31 billion to states and localities for domestic security initiatives.

 

3. Local officials at these fusion centers are tasked with understanding terrorism, but have little or no training. To fill the void, self-styled experts with fairly extreme views on the scope of the Muslim terrorist threat are asked to come in and train local authorities, the Post reports. Professed ex-terrorist Walid Shoebat told a group at the first annual South Dakota Fusion Center Conference in Sioux Falls this year that they should monitor local Muslim student groups and mosques and try to tap their phones. "You can find out a lot of information that way," he said.

 

National intelligence officials told the Post they preferred that people with "evidence-based" approaches to Islam were lecturing instead, but that no guidelines are in place to determine the qualifications of a given speaker.

 

4. The localities are often left without guidance from the Department of Homeland Security, which can lead to confusion about the counter-terrorism actions they're supposed to be carrying out. Virginia's fusion center named historically black colleges as "potential" terrorism hubs; Maryland State Police infiltrated local groups that lobbied for bike lanes and human rights; and a contractor in Pennsylvania writing an intelligence bulletin flagged meetings of the Tea Party Patriots Coalition and environmental activists.

 

5. Many states and towns are taking the unprecedented amounts of money handed out to fight terrorists and are using it instead to fight crime. "We have our own terrorists, and they are taking lives every day," Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin said.

 

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[bobandtorey]

Your link doesn't work....

 

 

5 revelations from the Post’s ‘Monitoring America’ investigation

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By Liz Goodwin liz Goodwin – Mon Dec 20, 10:05 am ETThe FBI is assembling a massive database on thousands of Americans, many of whom have not been accused of any crime, the Washington Post's Dana Priest and William Arkin report. The reporters' latest look at the country's ballooning national security system focuses on the role that local agencies -- often staffed by people with little to no counter-terrorism training -- have played in combating terrorism since 2001.

 

Here are five striking revelations in their piece:

 

1. The FBI's Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, or SAR, currently contains 161,948 suspicious activity files, into which authorities can put information they've gathered about the people at the center of the files: employment history, financial documents, phone numbers, photos. In many cases, the people in the files have not been accused of any crime but have attracted the suspicions of a local cop, FBI agent or even fellow citizen. The files have led to five arrests but no convictions, the FBI says. Some of the files are unclassified so that local police agencies and even businesses can submit reports on anyone they deem suspicious.

 

 

 

2. The Department of Homeland Security does not know how much it spends in funding state fusion centers, which synthesize security information from all state agencies and feed information to SAR. But since 2001, the department has doled out $31 billion to states and localities for domestic security initiatives.

 

3. Local officials at these fusion centers are tasked with understanding terrorism, but have little or no training. To fill the void, self-styled experts with fairly extreme views on the scope of the Muslim terrorist threat are asked to come in and train local authorities, the Post reports. Professed ex-terrorist Walid Shoebat told a group at the first annual South Dakota Fusion Center Conference in Sioux Falls this year that they should monitor local Muslim student groups and mosques and try to tap their phones. "You can find out a lot of information that way," he said.

 

National intelligence officials told the Post they preferred that people with "evidence-based" approaches to Islam were lecturing instead, but that no guidelines are in place to determine the qualifications of a given speaker.

 

4. The localities are often left without guidance from the Department of Homeland Security, which can lead to confusion about the counter-terrorism actions they're supposed to be carrying out. Virginia's fusion center named historically black colleges as "potential" terrorism hubs; Maryland State Police infiltrated local groups that lobbied for bike lanes and human rights; and a contractor in Pennsylvania writing an intelligence bulletin flagged meetings of the Tea Party Patriots Coalition and environmental activists.

 

5. Many states and towns are taking the unprecedented amounts of money handed out to fight terrorists and are using it instead to fight crime. "We have our own terrorists, and they are taking lives every day," Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin said.

 

 

 

[bobandtorey]

Best i could do

[trix]

Thanks Bob, I dunno why I didn't even think to copy and paste the darn thing LOL I went to the page like 5x's

 

Trix

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The FBI is assembling a massive database on thousands of Americans, many of whom have not been accused of any crime..

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...-investigation

 

Trix

 

 

they pulled the link or moved it can you re-post please! bump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[trix]

they pulled the link or moved it can you re-post please! bump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol maybe the Mod's can fix this thread seemed it got all jacked up w/ the repost's, but here is the link and the story contained in it...

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101220/ts_yblog_thelookout/the-5-most-surprising-revelations-from-the-posts-monitoring-america-investigation

 

 

The FBI is assembling a massive database on thousands of Americans, many of whom have not been accused of any crime, the Washington Post's Dana Priest and William Arkin report. The reporters' latest look at the country's ballooning national security system focuses on the role that local agencies -- often staffed by people with little to no counter-terrorism training -- have played in combating terrorism since 2001. Here are five striking revelations in their piece:

 

1. The FBI's Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative, or SAR, currently contains 161,948 suspicious activity files, into which authorities can put information they've gathered about the people at the center of the files: employment history, financial documents, phone numbers, photos. In many cases, the people in the files have not been accused of any crime but have attracted the suspicions of a local cop, FBI agent or even fellow citizen. The files have led to five arrests but no convictions, the FBI says. Some of the files are unclassified so that local police agencies and even businesses can submit reports on anyone they deem suspicious.

 

 

 

2. The Department of Homeland Security does not know how much it spends in funding state fusion centers, which synthesize security information from all state agencies and feed information to SAR. But since 2001, the department has doled out $31 billion to states and localities for domestic security initiatives.

 

3. Local officials at these fusion centers are tasked with understanding terrorism, but have little or no training. To fill the void, self-styled experts with fairly extreme views on the scope of the Muslim terrorist threat are asked to come in and train local authorities, the Post reports. Professed ex-terrorist Walid Shoebat told a group at the first annual South Dakota Fusion Center Conference in Sioux Falls this year that they should monitor local Muslim student groups and mosques and try to tap their phones. "You can find out a lot of information that way," he said.

 

National intelligence officials told the Post they preferred that people with "evidence-based" approaches to Islam were lecturing instead, but that no guidelines are in place to determine the qualifications of a given speaker.

 

4. The localities are often left without guidance from the Department of Homeland Security, which can lead to confusion about the counter-terrorism actions they're supposed to be carrying out. Virginia's fusion center named historically black colleges as "potential" terrorism hubs; Maryland State Police infiltrated local groups that lobbied for bike lanes and human rights; and a contractor in Pennsylvania writing an intelligence bulletin flagged meetings of the Tea Party Patriots Coalition and environmental activists.

 

5. Many states and towns are taking the unprecedented amounts of money handed out to fight terrorists and are using it instead to fight crime. "We have our own terrorists, and they are taking lives every day," Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin said.

 

 

[kindbuds]

If you read the comments on this there is a list of detention camps that need to be looked into farther,I have been watching things that are not so obvious for years and these detention camps are a huge red flag as well as training foreign troops and moving foreign equipment into the country-heads up

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If you read the comments on this there is a list of detention camps that need to be looked into farther,I have been watching things that are not so obvious for years and these detention camps are a huge red flag as well as training foreign troops and moving foreign equipment into the country-heads up

 

 

 

been trying to keep tabs on that stuff also

[Iceman081]

If you read the comments on this there is a list of detention camps that need to be looked into farther,I have been watching things that are not so obvious for years and these detention camps are a huge red flag as well as training foreign troops and moving foreign equipment into the country-heads up

 

 

This is nothing new, years ago FEMA came up with a plan to take the weapons away from the citizens of the USA. They even poled new recruits in the military asking if they would go into civilian areas and take the weapons away from the people, of course 82% said no way, so they counted on NATO troops to do the dirty work and even brought NATO equipment here and stored it on our soil!! Detention camps were setup across the country and LEO was informed through FEMA of what could possibly happen if a national emergency was declared!! Ok so I'm sure everyone is thinking BS or I'm paranoid but people I have seen the memos from FEMA and I have seen a detention center in Indy (an old train repair yard, furnaces installed and fixed up including razor wire fences, funny they all point inward!!! And holding areas coming from railroad car areas, looked like they were gonna round up cattle but no it was for People!!!) People you have to understand with one swipe of a pen all are rights go out the window are goverment has planned this and has plans in place to carry this out. It is called a Federal emergency all our President has to to is sign it and FEMA and Marshall law take over, end of our rights. Be aware and be prepared!!! Hell I have friends that use to be cops and when they seen this they all gathered up unregistered weapons, don't think they cared much for it.....lol But really if you think of how this could play out, we could be fighting foreign troops on our own soil without being invaided because are own President would bring them here. Be very very intuned to our rights because they could be gone tomorrow!!!!

 

 

Doug

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http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/4312850

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This is nothing new, years ago FEMA came up with a plan to take the weapons away from the citizens of the USA. They even poled new recruits in the military asking if they would go into civilian areas and take the weapons away from the people, of course 82% said no way, so they counted on NATO troops to do the dirty work and even brought NATO equipment here and stored it on our soil!! Detention camps were setup across the country and LEO was informed through FEMA of what could possibly happen if a national emergency was declared!! Ok so I'm sure everyone is thinking BS or I'm paranoid but people I have seen the memos from FEMA and I have seen a detention center in Indy (an old train repair yard, furnaces installed and fixed up including razor wire fences, funny they all point inward!!! And holding areas coming from railroad car areas, looked like they were gonna round up cattle but no it was for People!!!) People you have to understand with one swipe of a pen all are rights go out the window are goverment has planned this and has plans in place to carry this out. It is called a Federal emergency all our President has to to is sign it and FEMA and Marshall law take over, end of our rights. Be aware and be prepared!!! Hell I have friends that use to be cops and when they seen this they all gathered up unregistered weapons, don't think they cared much for it.....lol But really if you think of how this could play out, we could be fighting foreign troops on our own soil without being invaided because are own President would bring them here. Be very very intuned to our rights because they could be gone tomorrow!!!!

 

 

Doug

 

 

 

Thanks Dave-good post

 

 

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