As the monumental case titled In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001 plods on toward a judge’s decisive ruling on whether Saudi Arabia should be dismissed as a defendant, lawyers on both sides are in a slugfest over what evidence the public should get to see…
Putting It Together – The Forced Metadata Demand Inside the Jack Smith Court Order – They Are Showing Us the Govt Battlespace for 2024 and What We Will Face…
Yesterday, we noted the warrant demand from Special Counsel Jack Smith to Twitter, that included the demand for all information on Donald Trump’s account that relates to his followers and supporters. {LINK} However, the element for this focus is the granular demand for user metadata, and the bigger picture for 2024…
The Post 9/11 Weaponization of The United States Government…
Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act. What Obama and Holder did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum…
Democrats Once Opposed the Post-September 11th Expansion of the Surveillance State…
The Dept. of Homeland Security, once viewed as an Orwellian power grab, is now championed by Democrats to police “dangerous” political speech…
To the Government, We’re All Terrorist’s Now…
You may think you’re not worth spying on. But to our government, we’re all terrorists now…
Why Metadata Matters…
Metadata is often described as everything except the content of your communications. You can think of metadata as the digital equivalent of an envelope. Just like an envelope contains information about the sender, receiver, and destination of a message, so does metadata. Metadata is information about the digital communications you send and receive. Some examples […]
NSA Wants Option to Restart FISA Phone Metadata Collection, Despite All of Its Problems…
The National Security Agency (NSA) wants to keep the authority to collect phone records of international terrorism suspects and of the people the suspects call, despite having shut down the program due to multiple issues. Moreover, recent NSA testimony to Congress indicated that those issues may well reemerge if the agency decides to restart the […]
Outstanding Investigative Work: Guccifer 2.0’s Russian Breadcrumbs…
In this report, Forensicator analyzes metadata left in the various documents that Guccifer 2 modified and then published on his WordPress blog. Some new discoveries are made, some revisited. Forensicator concludes that Guccifer 2’s consistent intent was to plant clues which connected Guccifer 2 to Russia. Except for one head fake, when Guccifer 2 was […]
NSA Quietly Deletes Years of Illegally Collected Wiretap Data…
The National Security Agency (NSA) is scrubbing several years worth of call records swept up in foreign intelligence surveillance wiretaps that it was never authorized to collect – claiming that “technical irregularities” caused the oversight, according to the agency. The agency issued a statement Thursday notifying the public that in May it began to delete […]
FBI Agent Ignored Possible Clinton Server Breach. Here’s Why…
FBI agent Peter Strzok knew there was a breach into Hillary Clinton’s server but did not investigate. Former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Joe diGenova suggests when James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence under Obama, “found out Hillary Clinton’s server had been compromised, they are required by law to conduct a damage […]