‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State

(Crippling our economy, destroying the social safety net, doing away with checks and balances and building a surveillance system worthy of Dick Cheney's wet dream of having total informational awareness over all of us all of a sudden. Why? I'll tell you why... because they plan to preserve their profit margins as they lose to BRICS by turning America into the UAE complete with that whole kafala system of slavery.)

from the New York Times

Elon Musk may be stepping back from running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, but his legacy there is already secured. DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system for the Trump administration — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States.

President Trump could soon have the tools to satisfy his many grievances by swiftly locating compromising information about his political opponents or anyone who simply annoys him. The administration has already declared that it plans to comb through tax records to find the addresses of immigrants it is investigating — a plan so morally and legally challenged, it prompted several top I.R.S. officials to quit in protest. Some federal workers have been told that DOGE is using artificial intelligence to sift through their communications to identify people who harbor anti-Musk or -Trump sentiment (and presumably punish or fire them).

What this amounts to is a stunningly fast reversal of our long history of siloing government data to prevent its misuse. In their first 100 days, Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump have knocked down the barriers that were intended to prevent them from creating dossiers on every U.S. resident. Now they seem to be building a defining feature of many authoritarian regimes: comprehensive files on everyone so they can punish those who protest.

“This is what we were always scared of,” said Kevin Bankston, a longtime civil liberties lawyer and a senior adviser on A.I. governance at the Center for Democracy & Technology, a policy and civil rights organization. “The infrastructure for turnkey totalitarianism is there for an administration willing to break the law.”...

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Constant Israeli Wolf Pack Surveillance in Technocratic Apartheid West Bank

 by Scott Creighton

This is where AI and endless for-profit surveillance is headed FOR ALL OF US and it's being tested in the West Bank right now. This is why the IDF and Zionists in Israel hate Hamas: because they wont allow Israel to do this to their citizens in Gaza.

Long-time CIA asset named as FBI’s spy on Trump campaign (archive)

by Bill Van Auken from WSWS (archived from 2018)

The naming of Stefan Halper as the individual sent by the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election campaign has further inflamed the political warfare raging within the US state apparatus and political establishment. Halper is a long-time CIA asset with deep ties to US and British intelligence.

Published reports that the FBI had used a confidential informant to gather information on the Trump campaign led US President Donald Trump to announce via Twitter on Sunday, “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes, and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!”

Repeating his denunciation of the year-old probe by Robert Mueller, the special counsel who is investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign, as a “witch hunt,” Trump declared last week that the report of FBI spying on his campaign was a political scandal “bigger than Watergate."

The identification of Halper—who was implicated as the leading figure in a conspiracy by intelligence agents to subvert then-President Jimmy Carter’s re-election campaign in 1980—as the covert FBI spy has been the subject of a heated debate in Washington and the media.

Both the New York Times and the Washington Post, the two papers of record for the US political establishment, have studiously observed the demands of the FBI to conceal Halper’s identity.
The Post reported that it was concealing the identity of the spy from the American people because of “warnings from US intelligence officials that exposing him could endanger him or his contacts.”…
Democrats have rallied behind the FBI’s defiance of congressional oversight. Leading Democrats have rushed to the defense of the intelligence agencies, denouncing Trump and Nunes for allegedly placing US security at risk.

Senator Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence panel, appeared on the CBS News program “Face the Nation” Sunday—well after Halper’s identity as the FBI covert agent had already been revealed by a number of publications—to threaten that “when individuals want to try to reveal classified information about the identity of an FBI or CIA source, that is against the law.”...

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Detroit Police Commissioner Arrested for Opposing Orwellian Surveillance State

Commissioner Willy Burton tries to oppose the continued use of Project Green Light by Detroit and gets arrested for his troubles.

Epstein Case: Intelligence Industry Plays the Nuclear Option on Trump

In fear of an investigation into their efforts to thwart our democratic process in 2016, the intelligence community has decided to play their trump card. Pardon the pun. In Feb. they got a judge to toss plea deal for Epstein that had been on the books since 2008. No one suddenly found Jesus. The Mueller investigation fizzled and impeachment was off the table. There are no coincidences in politics. This is their nuclear option. Pure and simple.

Stasi State: Amazon “Ring” Doorbell Surveillance Wants To Create A Crime News Network

from Activist Post

Amazon is currently looking to hire someone with the title “Managing Editor, News” for its Ring doorbell surveillance hardware and software which wants to create a Stasi police state run by citizens themselves.

Activist Post has previously warned you that it’s not enough that Amazon is on record working with the FBI with its Facial Rekogntion biometric software … no, Amazon is also spying on customers of its recently purchased home surveillance cameras called “Ring.”...

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