Obama Prism

7/28/2019 Obama Prism

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PresidentObamasDataHarvestingProgram:NSAasPollster,PRISMasMISObyJohnStantonIt

is

way

too

soon

to

bet

the

house

fortune

on

the

reliability

of

reports

by

the

Washington

Post

(Washington,DC)andTheGuardian(UnitedKingdom)onPresidentObamasdataharvestingprogram,

knownforthemomentasPRISM.

With the hot pursuit of mainstream media reporters underway by the US Department of Justice

(Associated Press, for example); a US CorporateState show trial of Bradley Manning, Julian

Assange/Wikileaks (Obama has already stated they are guilty); the extraordinary cyberwar/hacking

accusationsagainsttheChinesegovernment;andtheshrillsoundofcyberquackery fromtheDefense

ScienceBoardanditslegionofsecuritycontractors,cautionallaroundistheorderoftheday.

Indeed, the membership of President Obamas National Security Telecommunications Advisory

Committee (NTSAC) reflects the closeproximityof thePresident to critical cyber/telecom/ISP leaders

who likelygetadvancedwarningofthe incomingnukes.SomeoftheNSTACmembers includeVerizon

BusinessGroup,Raytheon,AT&T,Vonage,Intelsat,Avaya,MicrosoftandLockheedMartin.Andtheydid

not know that theirnetworks, switches, routers,andpacketswerebeing violated?Of interest is the

presenceofFireEye,acybersecurityfirm.OneofFireEyesBoardmembers isRobertLentzwhohasan

excellentDOD/NSApedigree.Roberthas servedasamemberof theboardofdirectors sinceMarch

2010.HehasservedasthepresidentofCyberSecurityStrategiessinceOctober2009.Heservedasthe

deputyassistantsecretaryofdefenseforcyber,identity,andinformationassuranceintheOfficeofthe

Assistant SecretaryofDefense,Networks and Information Integration/Chief InformationOfficer from

November

2007

to

October

2009.

Since

November

2000,

he

has

also

served

as

the

chief

information

security officer for the U.S. Department of Defense. He previously worked at theNational Security

Agencyfrom1975to2000,whereheservedinthefirstNationalComputerSecurityCenter.

TheUSnationalsecuritymachineryhasstatedtimeandagainthatthe InternetandWorldWideWeb

are fair game for military information support operations (MISO) and that means shaping the

consciousness of individuals, organizations and governments to the benefit of Americas national

interests.Viewed inthismanner, it ispossibletoarguethatPRISMwouldhaveachillingeffectonnot

only whistleblowers and their media handlers, but perhaps on practitioners of industrial espionage

whethertheyareFrench,ChineseorIsraelis.

Thecalculated

pursuit

of

mainstream

media

by

President

Obama,

the

publicizing

by

the

US

corporate

nationalsecuritymachineryofPRISM,StuxnetandthetakedownofBitCoinwebsites;andtheentryof

CyberCommandintothedailylivesofAmericansseemstosuggestthataneworderisafoot,oratleast

that the US Corporate State is trying to recover/wrest control of the US historicalcurrentfuture

narrative from independent internal and foreign news/information sources. Obama seems to have

takenUSpresidentialparanoiatonewlevels.


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President Obamas national security aides and political handlers appear to have adopted the John

HaldemanJohnErlichmanphilosophyandpracticeofprotectingObama.AccordingtotheTelegraph,

UK,ValiNasr,auniversityprofessorwhowasseconded in2009 toworkwithRichardHolbrooke,Mr

Obama's specialenvoy toAfghanistan andPakistan, recordshisprofounddisillusionathowa "Berlin

Wall" of domesticfocused adviserswas erected to protect MrObama. "The president had a truly

disturbinghabit

of

funneling

major

foreign

policy

decisions

through

asmall

cabal

of

relatively

inexperiencedWhiteHouseadviserswhoseturfwasstrictlypolitics,"reportsTheTelegraph.

IntelligenceAgenciesasPollstersWoulditsurpriseanyoneofsomeeagerObamaaidesdecidedtousedataminedthroughaprogramlike

PRISM to figureoutwhatAmericancitizensare thinking?ForgetGallupandPew.With the thoughts,

pictures, video, travel records and expenditures of tens of millions of Americans harvested and

interpreted by variousmachine programs and human analysts in theNSA,CIA, andDIA,whoneeds

commercialpollsters.Talkaboutsamplesize!AndthankstomanyUSCourtdecisions,datagatheringis

largelylegal.

Andwould itnotbeamatterofnationalsecurityforthePresidentoftheUnitedStatestoknowwhat

AmericansarethinkingastheUSAremains inastateofemergencysince911.MoreovertheAmerican

nation is still atwar andjust steps away from lightingup Iran, Syria and Iraq (again). For the global

carnagetoproceedasplanned,theUSCorporateStatemustcontroltheflowofinformationasitdidin

WorldWarII(19391945).

Obama is theboss has a need for the info asDoctor Evil so eloquentlyput it themovieAustin

Powers.PRISMdatamustbe inhishands,particularlygiven thatObamacan saywitha straight face

civillibertiesimprovewiththistypeofsurveillance.USSenatorsmusthavetheinfotoo.Senatorslike

DianeFeinstein,

John

McCain

and

Lindsey

Graham

are

happy

to

be

monitored

and,

well,

why

not

all

of

us.All fourofthesecharactersknowthatAmericanswillcollectivelyshrugtheirshouldersand forget

aboutthematterbyimmersingthemselvesinthecelebritybreakdownoftheday.

PerhapsthemostunsettlingaspectofUSgovernmentdataharvestingandanalysisprogramsisthatthe

all of the work is researched, developed, tested and deployed by forprofit companies like those

belonging to NSTAC. According to the Defense Security Service (DSS), U.S. industry develops and

producesthemajorityofournation'sdefensetechnologymuchofwhichisclassifiedandthusplaysa

significantroleincreatingandprotectingtheinformationthatisvitaltoournation'ssecurityDSShas

IndustrialSecurityoversightandassistanceresponsibilityforover13,000clearedfacilitiesparticipating

in

the

National

Industrial

Security

Program

and

estimates

that

there

are

over

11

million

classified

documents in thehandsofU.S. industry.DSS,alwaysunderstaffedbutextraordinarilydedicated,do

theirbesttokeepUSindustrywithinatolerabledegreeofgreed.


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AllPRISMsareNotCreatedEqualEmail,voice,videocapturewouldseemtorelyonsomesortofreadmodulewithinaswitch.Analyzingit

allseparatingwheatandchafewouldappeartorequiresomesortofautonomousmachinelanguage.

PerhapssomeofthesePRISMsaretangentiallyrelatedtotheNSAsPRISM.

OveratCryptome,adocumentfromtheUSDepartmentofHomelandSecurity(DHS)describesProtect,

Respond, Inform,Secure,andMonitor (PRISM).According toDHSPRISM iscomposedof twoprimary

components: Contora and ESRI ArcIMS. Additional and optional components include Message 911,

Ensco Sentry, and Lunar Eye. These components have been tightly integrated into a single enduser

applicationthatprovidesamessaging,alerting,georeferencedmapping,assettracking,CBRNsensing,

andpublicwarningsystem.LunarEyeisaGPStrackingsuite.

A USAF communications dictionary shortens ProgrammableReconfigurableIntegratedSwitch and

MultiplextoPRISM.

AlcatelLucents

product

PRISM/GORI

manages

SMS

(text)

messages.

A

sample

of

DODs

DTIC

search

enginereturnswhenPRISM isenteredfollows: MITREsPRISM isasoftwareprogramusedtorequest

intelligence collection on moving vehicles, aircraft, people and animals; PaRallel Inference SysteM

PRISMa connectionist inference for developing machine language and autonomous network

managementprograms;andRDTEBudgetNotePRISMtoMAJIICInteroperabilityAssessment:assessed

that Planning Tool for Resource, Integration, Synchronization and Management (PRISM) and the

interface to NATO MultiSensor AerospaceGround Joint ISR Interoperability Coalition (MAJIIC) was

functional and ready for operations by demonstrating automated interoperability and exchange of

intelligencerequirements.

Whatsthe

Big

Deal?

David Bromwich at the Huffington Post sums it up best, Even now, government aides are most

concernedabout"themagnitudeoftheleak."Thequestionthattroublesthemisnot,Howdidwecome

tothis?butrather,Shallweprosecutethewhistleblower?Thepatternissogallingandtedious,andits

harmssoinvisibletoallbutafew,thatwemaybetemptedtorelaxandwaitforthenextelection.But

remember again the language of the court order.On an ongoing daily basis. All call detail records.

Includinglocaltelephonecalls.Thenextpresidentwillinheritthis.Nonames,norecordsofwords(not

yet), no inculpating or exculpating evidence (just "signatures"), but still: these are outlines of the

communicativebehaviorofupwardof amillionpersons,with similarly compellingordersout to the

other telecoms. The aim is to capture by index thewhole of theU.S. population. The amazing and

routineFISAorderisablindcommandfortheopeningofathousandeyes.Theplainestrebuketosuch

procedurescomesfromthelanguageofthefourthamendmentitself.

Therightofthepeopletobesecure intheirpersons,houses,papers,andeffects,againstunreasonablesearches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but uponprobable cause,supportedbyOathoraffirmation,andparticularlydescribingtheplacetobesearched,andthepersonsorthingstobeseized.


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By what right are the addressed envelopes of the spoken communications of 280 million citizens

plucked fromtheairbygovernmentandfiledaway?Supportedbywhoseoathandwhataffirmation?

Thereisasimpleforcetothewordsofthefourthamendmentafterall.Itsays:wedonotlivebysecret

laws,andwewillnot abidebygeneralwarrants.And to the comfortofferedby senatorsChambliss,

Graham,andFeinstein,whoaskustosleepwellandsleeplong,thereisasimplereply.Inwhatcountry

dothey

think

they

are

living,

and

under

what

constitution?

John Stanton isaVirginiabasedwriter specializing in national securitymatters.His latest book isCyberNoodles(cybersecurity),OrphanNukesandtheFailureoftheUSNationalSecurityState.Reachhimatcioran123@yahoo.com

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