The “Secret Research Project” – an IRS List, an NSA Database, and Resulting “Files” on Americans…

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The “Secret Research Project” – an IRS List, an NSA Database, and Resulting “Files” on Americans…​

The “Secret Research Project” – an IRS List, an NSA Database, and Resulting “Files” on Americans…
May 28, 2019 ~~ A carefully redacted footnote within a report by FISA Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer has always appeared to be a clue to a domestic surveillance program. Now details behind the redactions tell a concerning story.... A brief refresher is needed for those new to the story. In April 2017 Judge Collyer wrote a highly critical FISA Court opinion following discoveries by Director Admiral Rogers of government contractors accessing the NSA database, and extracting illegal search results from the electronic records of every American.... The scale of abuse was incredible [SEE HERE] and the surveillance issues had been covered up for years. Collyer cited the Obama administration as having “an institutional lack of candor” in their responses to her and the FISA court. The judge focused her criticism after a review of the period 2012 through April 2016.
Eight-five percent of all use/extraction of the NSA database was unlawful; and they were searching many of the same Americans (“identifier”), repeatedly, over different dates. This means specific Americans were being targeted, tracked and monitored… unlawfully.
Within the 99-page opinion from Judge Rosemary Collyer she noted none of this FISA-702 database abuse was accidental. In a key footnote on page 87: Collyer outlined the years of unlawful violations was the result of “deliberate decisionmaking“:


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Make no mistake – Barack H. Obama and Eric Holder could never have accomplished this all on their own. They were used by their handlers, seduced as it were, by the awesome power they held, and had a supporting cast of criminals to assist in their endeavors. But, ultimately they just couldn’t help themselves. Pushed and prodded by their extremist cohorts, the first TWO BLACK MEN to hold the offices of POTUS and AG simultaneously used the power they were ENTRUSTED to safeguard and protect, to abuse and oppress the very citizenry and freedoms they both swore to protect and uphold.
The irony is beyond the pale……the election of Obama was supposed to “heal the land,” and instead it set back racial relations for decades.

Flash Back:

Maxine Waters Confirms 'Obama's Big Brother' Database 2013​

 

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Make no mistake – Barack H. Obama and Eric Holder could never have accomplished this all on their own. They were used by their handlers, seduced as it were, by the awesome power they held, and had a supporting cast of criminals to assist in their endeavors. But, ultimately they just couldn’t help themselves. Pushed and prodded by their extremist cohorts, the first TWO BLACK MEN to hold the offices of POTUS and AG simultaneously used the power they were ENTRUSTED to safeguard and protect, to abuse and oppress the very citizenry and freedoms they both swore to protect and uphold.
The irony is beyond the pale……the election of Obama was supposed to “heal the land,” and instead it set back racial relations for decades.

The U.S. Government's pretexted and unlawful surveillance of it's citizens long predated the ascendence of President Obama to the office of POTUS, most recently that I can recall is the use of CIA personnel to engage in domestic surveillance which is strictly prohibited, most recently in New York City after the 911 attacks but previously that I can recall as detailed in the declassified Church Committee report(s).

The abuse of FISA has always been an issue but it's only seem to have come to the forefront due to the stats of those now being caught up in their net.

The Church Committee (formally the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) was a U.S. Senate select committee chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church (D-ID) in 1975. The committee investigated abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The committee was part of a series of investigations into intelligence abuses in 1975, dubbed the "Year of Intelligence", including its House counterpart, the Pike Committee, and the presidential Rockefeller Commission. The committee's efforts led to the establishment of the permanent U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

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The Church Committee's final report was published in April 1976 in six books. Also published were seven volumes of Church Committee hearings in the Senate.[7]

Before the release of the final report, the committee also published an interim report titled "Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders",[8] which investigated alleged attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, including Patrice Lumumba of Zaire (now known as (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, Ngo Dinh Diem of Vietnam, Gen. René Schneider of Chile and Fidel Castro of Cuba. President Gerald Ford urged the Senate to withhold the report from the public, but failed,[9] and under recommendations and pressure by the committee, Ford issued Executive Order 11905 (ultimately replaced in 1981 by President Reagan's Executive Order 12333) to ban U.S. sanctioned assassinations of foreign leaders.

In addition, the committee produced seven case studies on covert operations, but only the one on Chile was released, titled "Covert Action in Chile: 1963-1973".[10] The rest were kept secret at CIA's request.[7]

According to recently declassified documents by the National Security Archive, the Church Committee also helped to uncover the NSA's Watch List. The information for the list was compiled into the so-called "Rhyming Dictionary" of biographical information, which at its peak held millions of names - thousands of which were US citizens. Some prominent members of this list were Joanne Woodward, Thomas Watson, Walter Mondale, Art Buchwald, Arthur F. Burns, Gregory Peck, Otis G. Pike, Tom Wicker, Whitney Young, Howard Baker, Frank Church, David Dellinger, Ralph Abernathy, and others.[11]

But among the most shocking revelations of the committee was the discovery of Operation SHAMROCK, in which the major telecommunications companies shared their traffic with the NSA from 1945 to the early 1970s. The information gathered in this operation fed directly into the Watch List. In 1975, the committee decided to unilaterally declassify the particulars of this operation, against the objections of President Ford's administration.[11]

Together, the Church Committee's reports have been said to constitute the most extensive review of intelligence activities ever made available to the public. Much of the contents were classified, but over 50,000 pages were declassified under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.

Church Committee - Wikipedia​

 

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Make no mistake – Barack H. Obama and Eric Holder could never have accomplished this all on their own. They were used by their handlers, seduced as it were, by the awesome power they held, and had a supporting cast of criminals to assist in their endeavors. But, ultimately they just couldn’t help themselves. Pushed and prodded by their extremist cohorts, the first TWO BLACK MEN to hold the offices of POTUS and AG simultaneously used the power they were ENTRUSTED to safeguard and protect, to abuse and oppress the very citizenry and freedoms they both swore to protect and uphold.
The irony is beyond the pale……the election of Obama was supposed to “heal the land,” and instead it set back racial relations for decades.

The U.S. Government's pretexted and unlawful surveillance of it's citizens long predated the ascendence of President Obama to the office of POTUS, most recently that I can recall is the use of CIA personnel to engage in domestic surveillance which is strictly prohibited, most recently in New York City after the 911 attacks but previously that I can recall as detailed in the declassified Church Committee report(s).

The abuse of FISA has always been an issue but it's only seem to have come to the forefront due to the stats of those now being caught up in their net.

The Church Committee (formally the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) was a U.S. Senate select committee chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church (D-ID) in 1975. The committee investigated abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The committee was part of a series of investigations into intelligence abuses in 1975, dubbed the "Year of Intelligence", including its House counterpart, the Pike Committee, and the presidential Rockefeller Commission. The committee's efforts led to the establishment of the permanent U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

...
The Church Committee's final report was published in April 1976 in six books. Also published were seven volumes of Church Committee hearings in the Senate.[7]

Before the release of the final report, the committee also published an interim report titled "Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders",[8] which investigated alleged attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, including Patrice Lumumba of Zaire (now known as (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, Ngo Dinh Diem of Vietnam, Gen. René Schneider of Chile and Fidel Castro of Cuba. President Gerald Ford urged the Senate to withhold the report from the public, but failed,[9] and under recommendations and pressure by the committee, Ford issued Executive Order 11905 (ultimately replaced in 1981 by President Reagan's Executive Order 12333) to ban U.S. sanctioned assassinations of foreign leaders.

In addition, the committee produced seven case studies on covert operations, but only the one on Chile was released, titled "Covert Action in Chile: 1963-1973".[10] The rest were kept secret at CIA's request.[7]

According to recently declassified documents by the National Security Archive, the Church Committee also helped to uncover the NSA's Watch List. The information for the list was compiled into the so-called "Rhyming Dictionary" of biographical information, which at its peak held millions of names - thousands of which were US citizens. Some prominent members of this list were Joanne Woodward, Thomas Watson, Walter Mondale, Art Buchwald, Arthur F. Burns, Gregory Peck, Otis G. Pike, Tom Wicker, Whitney Young, Howard Baker, Frank Church, David Dellinger, Ralph Abernathy, and others.[11]

But among the most shocking revelations of the committee was the discovery of Operation SHAMROCK, in which the major telecommunications companies shared their traffic with the NSA from 1945 to the early 1970s. The information gathered in this operation fed directly into the Watch List. In 1975, the committee decided to unilaterally declassify the particulars of this operation, against the objections of President Ford's administration.[11]

Together, the Church Committee's reports have been said to constitute the most extensive review of intelligence activities ever made available to the public. Much of the contents were classified, but over 50,000 pages were declassified under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.

Church Committee - Wikipedia​

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”I never would of agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become an American Gestapo”.
– Harry S. Truman (D-MO) 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953),​