Sep 11 2006
Media Is Anti Anti-Terrorism
Listen to what the right after 9-11:
Within minutes of the strikes, U.S. law enforcement and intelligence-gathering authorities mobilized to find the culprits and prevent another attack.
They increased the tapping of Americans’ phone calls and voice mails. They watched Internet traffic and e-mails as never before. They tailed greater numbers of people and into places previously deemed off-limits, such as mosques.
They clandestinely accessed bank and credit card transactions and school records. They monitored travel. And they entered homes without notice, looking for signs of terrorist activity and copying the contents of entire file cabinets and computer hard drives.
Authorities even tried to get inside people’s heads, using supercomputers and “predictive” software to analyze enormous amounts of personal data about them and their associates in an effort to foretell who might become a terrorist, and when.
Three thousand people had died and the US was clearly under attack, but the LA Times is apparently upset the administration tried to do something in response (of course they would be apologists if Clinton had to do these things). Of course not all of it is true – there is no mind reading SW. That is pure science fiction fantasy. The BDS is strong in this one.
BTW, this guy is a Class A idiot. First off he has no idea that most communications runs over the same basic technology (thus his surprise the Feds can monitor instant messaging, email and Voice over IP). But the real stunner is when the guy claims the Feds can track the GPS signal in your car – not knowing that the a GPS system is a reciever and not a transmitter.
Several congressional officials and privacy experts said they believed the NSA also tracked the movement of “persons of interest” by the electronic signals emitted by their cellphones and the Global Positioning Systems in the vehicles they drive.
Boy, journalists are technically ignorant lot. In this case so were is congressional sources and ‘privacy experts’. Doh!
Update: A Media Research Center report just out scientifically confirms the media’s slant and bias – of course.
“‘Authorities even tried to get inside people’s heads, using supercomputers and “predictive” software to analyze enormous amounts of personal data about them and their associates in an effort to foretell who might become a terrorist, and when.”
What bugged me deeply about that affair was simply we were using this nonsensical, essentially impossible data mining… and still refusing to go after terrorists.
Seriously, this is no joke. I have been online arguing with extreme Muslims and Neo-Nazis – and others – since the middle of the nineties. Those guys are available to talk to online. You can find them. You can figure out, from talking to them, who is willing to do terrorism because if you gain rapport with them and they believe they are anonymous (or safe somehow) they will frankly tell you.
And we have not been investigating these guys. Because of the whole “it is religious” and “it is political” ten foot poles.
I still very much doubt we do very much of this kind of work. It is only now, finally, that we have admitted our war is not against “terrorists” (we have done nothing, essentially, against the most noxious FARC in Columbia) but we are in war against Islamo-Fascists. Why did that take so incredibly long to finally admit?
Truth be told, further, we can’t hack these guys systems. We can’t surveil them like we should be.
Do not get this confused with data mining actually focusing on Islamist terrorists… such as being unable to note when a known terrorist or associate calls someone in the US. Or data mining for relationships with American citizens and extremist Islamic organizations. Come on, we have celebrated Islamists, even the President has, with known ties to terrorism.
The Left is opposed to every manner of protection, regardless. A lot of these people are unafraid to call our country a “police state”. Unafraid because that is so incredibly stupid, not because echeleon will close down on them, of course.
The Left’s response today, in general, is very sickening.
AJ: actually, as long as your cellphone is turned on, you/it can, and have been tracked!
But it’s not the NSA doing it, the phonecompanies can do it, because every time your location changes, vis a vis a cell tower, it “pings” the new celltower that is providing the coverage, and phone companies can track the locations of those “pings”, as you move in relation to the celltowers!
As far as GPS is concerned, yes, it is a receiver, you are correct! OnStar works via GPS, so my question is, how come OnStar knows EXACTLY where my parent’s car is, at any given moment, when I want to find them?
Does the GPS system “receiver”, actually have some type of “ping” back mode as well?
On GPS:
Vehicle tracking systems are GPS based. You stick a little thing under the car, and it uses GPS and a sending system to send report back of the position of the car. There are many available models of these tools people can buy. A popular method of sending coordinates back is through SMS.
You have to actually plant this on someone’s car… and all of the models I have ever seen also require battery exchanges.
On “OnStar” OnStar effectively is sending out to the home office your GPS coordinates, just as the system can send your voice. It is highly unlikely they constant track your coordinates, but rather get them when needed.
Of course, GPS mapping systems also use GPS to track… they just don’t send that information out to anyone.
This congressional statement just shows, as AJ noted, how stupid and uninformed these people are… and how wicked they are when it comes to handling the truth in a way that can protect America.
But, the Left do hate America.
On the Update, on Media Coverage:
This is a great article, btw, apologies for getting off on a tangent.
This is a huge thing to me… how we so incredibly cleanse our mainstream media from any reference to Islamism… look at ‘Pathway to 9/11’… why have we had Farenheit 9/11 and Oliver Stone’s film which doesn’t mention Islamism… but we haven’t had anything factual based until now — five years later? And even that is censored at the highest levels.
If they left had their way, this miniseries even wouldn’t have been shown.
IMO, we are in serious trouble.
They love to talk about how the authorities are censoring us… but they are the censors.
These people are reading too many comic books.
Most people I know were pissed off that the government let these people come in here, learn to fly here, live here and plot here and did nothing about it. Nada. That is what pissed people off. If there was another attaack tomorrow these same people would be rasing hell because the government did not keep them safe.
Terrye
Able Danger caught the drift when it was early on and still workable. They got shutdown.
The shutdown of Able Danger was not due to what they had, it was a brute force parallel method to shutting down a same method inquiry into the Clinton Chinagate other datamining operation.
They tossed the baby out with the bathwater just to cover their butt.