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Top Biden Intel Nominee Calls Warrantless Surveillance Tool Used to Spy on Americans ‘Irreplaceable’

July 14, 2023July 13, 2023 Admin

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead top intelligence agencies described a tool used to surveil Americans without a warrant as vital at his confirmation hearing Wednesday.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh characterized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a tool that has been abused to spy on Americans, as “extensively used” and “irreplaceable” in his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee. Biden nominated Haugh to head both Cyber Command and the National Security Agency (NSA) in May, according to Politico.

Commentary: What We Know about the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid (So Far)

August 20, 2022August 19, 2022 Admin

“There’s so much we don’t know!” says any liberal losing an argument about the dramatic FBI raid last week on Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Palm Beach residence and private club.

There are, indeed, some things that we do not know, but what we do know is already quite revealing. We know that the raid – which involved 30 FBI agents and three Justice Department lawyers – lasted over nine hours and was by day’s end reclassified as a “search” by all government agencies and the entire legacy media. We know that this supposed “search” was personally ordered not by FBI Director Christopher Wray, but by Attorney General Merrick Garland, a highly partisan Biden Administration appointee who has implied that parents objecting to critical race theory in public schools are domestic terrorists, and who refused to provide home security protection to Supreme Court justices in the majority of the recent ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Vanderbilt Announces Research Partnership with NSA

July 14, 2022July 24, 2022 Peter D'Abrosca

After hosting a summit on modern conflict and emerging threats with the National Security Agency (NSA) in May, Vanderbilt University has announced a five-year “education partnership agreement” with the government agency.

“This partnership will bring together the sharpest and most innovative minds across military intelligence and higher education to address these urgent and complex issues,” said Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier. “Drawing on our strong track record with military-academic collaborations, Vanderbilt provides the intellectual forum to explore these challenges from new and cross-disciplinary perspectives.”

Prosecutors Plan to Argue Defendants Used Encrypted Chat in Whitmer Case

February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 Peter D'Abrosca

In the high profile case against alleged plotters of a kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), the state plans to introduce evidence that defendants use encrypted chat applications in the planning stages of their scheme.

“The government disagrees, saying the defendants did more than talk, but took actions to carry out their plan: they cased Whitmer’s house twice; drew maps; bought night vision goggles; secretly communicated in encrypted chat rooms so as not to get caught; and held training exercises,” according to The Detroit Free Press.

Marine Jim Walden Describes the Death of His Son at the Hands of an Illegal Alien

October 1, 2021September 30, 2021 Julie Carr

Thursday morning on the Tennessee Star Report, host Michael Patrick Leahy welcomed Marine Jim Walden and the father of deceased Marine Jimmy Walden who was killed by an illegal alien.

Commentary: The National Security Agency and Tucker Carlson Controversy

July 19, 2021July 18, 2021 Admin

Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s charge that the National Security Agency illegally spied on him and leaked his emails is enraging prominent liberals. Carlson sought “to sow distrust [of the NSA], which is so anti-American,” declared MSNBC analyst Andrew Weissman, formerly the chief prosecutor for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. CNN senior correspondent Oliver Darcy ridiculed Carlson for effectively claiming that “I’m not a crazy person overstating a case!”

When did the NSA become as pure as Snow White? Do pundits presume that there is a 24-hour statute of limitation for recalling any previously-disclosed NSA crimes and abuses?

The Carlson controversy cannot be understood outside the context of perennial NSA abuses. The NSA possesses a “repository capable of taking in 20 billion ‘record events’ daily and making them available to NSA analysts within 60 minutes,” the New York Times reported. The NSA is able to snare and stockpile many orders of magnitude times more information than did East Germany’s Stasi secret police, one of the most odious agencies of the post-war era.

Tucker Carlson: A Whistleblower Warned Me That the NSA Has Been Spying on My Communications

June 30, 2021July 16, 2021 Admin

Fox News host Tucker Carlson Monday night accused the Biden administration of spying on him in an attempt to find something scandalous to leak that could get him taken off the air.

Carlson told his audience that the “War on Terror” under the Biden Regime had pivoted, and was now “being waged against American citizens—opponents of the Regime.”

Commentary: The Military-Intelligence Complex

November 5, 2019November 4, 2019 Admin

Much has been written about the so-called Resistance of disgruntled Clinton, Obama, and progressive activists who have pledged to stop Donald Trump’s agenda. The choice of the noun “Resistance,” of course, conjures up not mere “opposition,” but is meant to evoke the French “resistance” of World War II – in the melodramatic sense of current loyal progressive patriots doing their best to thwart by almost any means necessary the Nazi-like Trump.

Commentary: The Sophisticated Intelligence Operation to Destabilize and Overthrow the American Government

October 29, 2019October 28, 2019 Admin

Americans outside the Beltway have been struggling for almost three years to figure out what’s been going on in Washington, what to call it and how to explain it.

National Security Agency ‘Unmaskings’ Skyrocketed Last Year

May 2, 2019May 1, 2019 Admin

by Chuck Ross The National Security Agency (NSA) disclosed the identities of nearly 17,000 U.S. residents and businesses to American intelligence officials last year through a legal — but controversial — practice known as “unmasking,” according to a report released Tuesday. The number of unmaskings — 16,721 to be…

Prosecutors: Reality Winner Faces ‘Longest’ Sentence Ever Imposed For Media Leak

August 17, 2018August 16, 2018 Admin

by Chuck Ross Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner’s 63-month prison sentence will be the “longest” ever served by a federal employee in a case involving leaks to the media, prosecutors said Tuesday. Winner, who worked for an NSA contractor based in Augusta, Georgia, pleaded guilty in June…

Trump Revokes Security Clearance of Former CIA Director John Brennan

August 15, 2018 Admin

The security clearance of a former Central Intelligence Agency director has been revoked by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said in a statement that John Brennan has been sowing “division and chaos” about his administration. The clearances of other former officials also are under review, including those of former National…

Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Report On Russian Meddling In 2016 Election

July 4, 2018July 3, 2018 Admin

by Chuck Ross The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is endorsing a January 2017 report from three intelligence community agencies that found the Russian government, with the approval of Vladimir Putin, attempted to influence the 2016 election. The Senate panel released a summary report on Tuesday, two weeks before…

NSA Deletion of Call Records Raising Questions

July 1, 2018June 30, 2018 Admin

The National Security Agency is deleting more than 685 million call records the government obtained since 2015 from telecommunication companies in connection with investigations, raising questions about the viability of the program. The NSA’s bulk collection of call records was initially curtailed by Congress after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden…

NSA Contractor ‘Reality Winner’ Pleads Guilty In Leak Case

June 27, 2018June 26, 2018 Admin

by Will Racke Former National Security Agency contractor Reality L. Winner pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending a media outlet a classified document pertaining to Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. A former Air Force linguist, Winner is the first person to be prosecuted by the Trump administration for…

Commentary: The Left Attacks Fred Fleitz, The New Chief Of Staff At President Trump’s NSC

June 3, 2018July 18, 2018 Admin

by George Rasley By a quick count of search returns it appears we’ve quoted our old friend Fred Fleitz, former CIA analyst, State Department aide, staffer for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, FOX News regular and author of the must-read book Obamabomb: A Dangerous and Growing National Security…

The Crisis of Confidence in the United States’ Intelligence Community Reaches New Heights

May 26, 2018July 18, 2018 Admin

by Printus LeBlanc The FBI is in serious trouble, not just the people in the bureau that lied to the Office of Inspector General, fixed the Clinton investigation, and spied on a political campaign. The American people are losing confidence in the bureau. FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich stated in…

NSA Tripled The Amount Of Surveillance It Conducted In 2017

May 7, 2018May 6, 2018 Admin

by Eric Lieberman The National Security Agency (NSA) tripled its collection of Americans’ phone call and text message records in 2017, according to U.S. intelligence agency report published Friday. The federal surveillance agency gathered 534 million records in 2017, a 151 million increase from 2016. The government “has not altered the…

Congress Slips CLOUD Act Into Lengthy Omnibus Spending Bill, Granting Authorities Even More Surveillance Power

March 26, 2018March 26, 2018 Admin

House Republicans voted 256 to 167 to pass a $1.3 trillion, 2,232-page spending bill Thursday, which includes deep within the abyss of the bureaucratic legalese, a law that eases law enforcement’s ability to collect people’s information that is stored abroad.

Special Counsel Mueller’s Use of ‘Parallel Construction’ May Run Afoul of Constitutional Protections

February 2, 2018February 2, 2018 Admin

by Printus LeBlanc It seems like every day there is a chorus of officials celebrating Special Counsel Robert Mueller. If you dare question his integrity, you are to be banished to the gulags. However, with a little bit of research you will find out his career as a law…

Commentary: Is Today’s American Intelligence Community Trustworthy?

November 20, 2017November 19, 2017 Admin

by Printus LeBlanc Since President Trump took office, there have been multiple reports of friction between the President and the Intelligence Community (IC). This is disconcerting because the President needs the community especially in the tough times we are currently facing, North Korea, Iran, and terrorism. If the people…

Section 702, A Devil of a Spy Game

October 27, 2017October 26, 2017 Admin

Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act is up for an eight-year extension. And it’s high time to curb this government power. This is the section of U.S. law that allows feds to spy on Internet and telephone communications absent any open court warrant, so long as the surveillance is…

Why Is Congress Not Investigating Obama’s Unprecedented Political Espionage?

August 28, 2017August 27, 2017 Admin

An award-winning national security correspondent for CIRCA News believes Congress needs to launch an investigation into Obama-era unmasking and warrantless surveillance of Americans, according to an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation. Sara A. Carter, of the Sinclair Broadcasting Group, has been an overseas war correspondent for the…

Trump Department of Justice Catches NSA Leaker Hiding in Plain Sight

June 7, 2017June 6, 2017 Tennessee Star Staff

The Justice Department and the FBI have caught their first major leaker in the Trump administration, a 25-year-old liberal named Reality Leigh Winner. For the Justice Department and perhaps President Donald Trump himself, the arrest on Monday is a major victory in the newly declared crack down on leaks. Unauthorized…

House Intelligence: “Reports Clearly Show That the President-Elect Was Monitored”

March 22, 2017March 23, 2017 Christina Botteri

Once again, statements by President Trump once characterized as “a lie” or “wrong” is proved to be, in fact, accurate. Moments ago House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes had to awkwardly walk back previous statements flatly denying any “wiretapping” of Donald Trump or Trump Tower prior to the inauguration. At about…

How Radical Islam Penetrated The U.S. House of Representatives

February 26, 2017July 18, 2018 Tennessee Star Staff

George Rasley, CHQ Editor Our friend Luke Rosiak, Investigative Reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation, should receive a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting of the vast national security breach of the House of Representatives perpetrated by five Pakistani Muslims who were employed as information technology staff by dozens of House Democrats.…