Wednesday, February 08, 2006

US Secret Services Spy On Journalists

We all know it's been true for a century, and every day new information appears:

BECAUSE: A CONSPIRACY IS ONLY A CONSPIRACY, UNTIL THE FACTS ARE MADE KNOWN...

And, as the Daily Kos editors point out: ''This piece does not require a tinfoil hat, just a thinking cap.''

NSA Spied on Journalists Risen, Hersh & Others

Eleven days before Andrea Mitchell asked author and NYT reporter James Risen whether he had any knowledge that the NSA had been spying on CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour, Wayne Madsen wrote: NSA spied on its own employees, other U.S. intelligence personnel, journalists, and members of Congress

The list of journalists targeted by the NSA include: James Bamford, James Risen, Vernon Loeb, Seymour Hersh, Bill Gertz, John C.K. Daly, and Wayne Madsen.

ACCORDING TO NSA SOURCES, THE TARGETED JOURNALISTS INCLUDED:

* Author James Bamford, author of "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency";  

* New York Times' James Risen, author of "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration";

* Washington Post's Vernon Loeb

* New Yorker's Seymour Hersh, (Hersh calls the Bush White House the most secretive administration he's ever encountered. The Bush Administration was especially concerned that the American public was getting its pre-war intelligence from the likes of Hersh in an article he wrote in March of 2002 called: "The Debate Within" - The objective is clear: topple Saddam. But how?)

* Washington Times' Bill Gertz

* UPI's John C. K. Daly

* Wayne Madsen, who has written about NSA for The Village Voice, CAQ, Intelligence Online, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). - (source: WayneMadsenReport)

Considering this list we might now ask, along with Andrea Mitchell, "Was The NSA Spying on CNN Reporter Christiane Amanpour?"  And if not, why not?  More on that question below.

FIRSTFRUITS: THE JOURNALIST SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM

The journalist surveillance program, code named "Firstfruits" was part of a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) program that was maintained at least until October 2004 and was authorized by then-DCI Porter Goss. Firstfruits was authorized as part of a DCI "Countering Denial and Deception" program responsible to an entity known as the 'Foreign Denial and Deception Committee' (FDDC).

IT'S INTERESTING! - READ MORE ABOUT HOW ALL 'HACKS' ARE HARASSED TOO:

DAILY KOS - a very informative web site - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/eylmd


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REFERENCES & LINKS:

* CONSPIRACIES? - Those who first of all start shouting about 'conspiracy theory' and 'paranoia' or similar, are always the evil INFORMANTS, the paid infiltrators which are afraid of being disclosed. They are the real Judas's that work for treacherous 'masters' - the Quislings that will go to jail.

* The Pentagon's propaganda war - BBC - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3ser2

* It's not only the genocide and the illegal 'tapping' - MSNBC - Live Vote: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

"People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq

* What happened on 9/11? - We have been lied to! The PNAC racket killed the people. - What is happening to our world? - February 16-17, 2006 - Two workshops on 9/11 with professor Steven Jones (BYU) - at Arizona State University - More information on 9/11 at Url.: http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/

* P.M. - Compliant media - Hitler: An Officer and a Gentleman? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/3eepa

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The merciless engine of propaganda has been turned on: 'The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

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