Communications

Claims that government agencies are infiltrating online communities and engaging in “false flag operations” to discredit targets are often dismissed as conspiracy theories, but these documents leave no doubt they are doing precisely that.

Whatever else is true, no government should be able to engage in these tactics: what justification is there for having government agencies target people – who have been charged with no crime – for reputation-destruction, infiltrate online political communities, and develop techniques for manipulating online discourse? But to allow those actions with no public knowledge or accountability is particularly unjustifiable.

-Journalist lawyer, Glenn Greenwald (2014) on review of secret docs released by Snowden.

Autonomy and accountability are inversely related…There’s no verifying things that remain secret […] Unleashing USSOCOM is a recipe for mischief…Hello imperial presidency. From a president’s point of view, one of the appealing things about special forces is that he can send them wherever he wants to do whatever he directs. There’s no need to ask permission or to explain imperial presidency.

-May 29, 2012 Andrew J. Bacevich, Boston University Professor to CBS News.

The Senate’s Church Committee investigated and identified a wide range of intelligence abuses by federal agencies, including the CIA, FBI, Internal Revenue Service, and National Security Agency.

In the course of their work, investigators identified programs that had never before been known to the American public.

Committee staff researched the FBI’s long-running program of “covert action designed to disrupt and discredit the activities of groups and individuals deemed a threat to the social order,” known as COINTELPRO.

*obstruction of justice *destruction of evidence* terrorism *failure to render aid *economic warfare *smear campaigns. *harassment *intimidation *gaslighting* global stalking ( to illuminate criminal networks *falsification of law enforcement records* illegal stops* illegal searches *falsely reporting crimes *targeting a civilians with a campaign centering around cyberwarfare, psychological warfare and electronic warfare, *using directed energy weapons and sonic devices to injure