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March
26, 2007 -- WMR has been reporting for some time on the massive thefts
of personal data by a covert U.S. intelligence “black bag” program
publication date: Apr 30, 2007
March 26, 2007
-- WMR has been reporting for some time on the massive thefts of
personal data by a covert U.S. intelligence “black bag” program to
populate a renewed secret Total Information Awareness System series of
databases. Since being cut off from funding by Congress in 2003, the
TIA has continued secretly under the aegis of the Department of
Homeland Security and the National Security Agency. WMR’s sources in
the Intelligence Community have told us on background that many of the
so-called data thefts are being carried out by U.S. intelligence black
bag teams operating outside of legal authority.
TIA’s former program director, Iran-contra felon
Admiral John Poindexter, resigned in August 2003 from the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Total Information Awareness
Office (IAO) after details of the project emerged. After Congress cut
funding, the IAO was closed and its logo, featuring a Masonic “all
seeing eye” atop a pyramid scanning the earth, was retired.
TIA was an offshoot of Poindexter’s Genoa project, a
deep data mining system developed by SYNTEK, Inc., a company for which
he served as Senior Vice President. Poindexter has also worked for
other companies engaged in mass data surveillance, including Saffron
Technology, Inc. and Presearch, Inc.
However, according to Wired magazine,
the TIA’s clone has been developed, in conjunctions with Poindexter’s
former assistants at IAO, by the government of Singapore, one of the
most invasive governments in the world when it comes to personal
surveillance. The new TIA, called Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning
(RAHS), was unveiled. In January, Poindexter joined the board of
BrightPlanet, a Sioux Falls-based company that markets one of the most
invasive data mining systems in the world and has the U.S. Intelligence
Community as a priority target in its marketing plans.
Poindexter's Total Information Awareness System is back, with chopsticks.
BrightPlanet’s partners include Lockheed Martin, the
world’s largest war profiteer; Factiva, a Dow Jones company that
gathers open source news information; Basis Technology, which extracts
“meaningful intelligence from unstructured text in Asian, European, and
Middle Eastern languages;” Convera, which markets software tools that
searches “video, image and audio information, in multiple languages;”
ASP Solutions Ltd., which provides “information services with Internet
Monitoring & Surveillance at the core;” Klinx, which “harvests
content from sources throughout the Internet, including the Deep Web;”
and Phoenix Global Intelligence Systems, which claims it is “comprised
of talented, visionary and dedicated individuals from around the globe
who have come together with common cause. Embracing the forces of
globalisation [sic] and technology, they embody the very spirit that
the enemy seeks to destroy. Unrestrained by nationality and not
beholden to political leaders, Phoenix Global Intelligence Systems
represents the future of global security provision.” Phoenix is
composed of 40 “concerned citizens” who monitor the Internet to look
for terrorists and pass tips on to the government. A cyber-vigilante
group is more like it – former CIA Counter-terrorism chief Vince
Cannistraro called Phoenix’s work “a vigilante kind of activity” in an
interview last August with the Argus (South Dakota) Leader.
Wired reports that two of Poindexter’s chief
assistants at IAO, John Peterson of the Arlington Institute, and Dave
Snowden. Were top consultants on developing RAHS. Snowden is Chief
Scientific Officer for Cognitive Edge, a Singapore company that
developed RAHS. The RAHS system is scheduled to be deployed as a
massive data mining program by the Singapore government and will scan
data from medical information to raw surveillance data.
Ominously, the RAHS roll out in Singapore was
attended by four of the five ECHELON signals intelligence partner
nations: United States, Australia, United Kingdom, and New Zealand. In
addition, Israel attended the RAHS seminar. Israel and Singapore have
become close intelligence and military partners. Wired reports that
Singapore sent a high-level delegation to the United States to discuss
RAHS with officials of the Department of Homeland Security and the
Directorate of National Intelligence in early March. Patrick Neary, a
former Senior Executive Analyst for the Army’s Deputy Chief of Staff
for Intelligence and now the chief strategist for DNI chief Admiral
Mike McConnell, a former NSA Director, cancelled his meeting with the
RAHS team at the last minute. McConnell, after retiring as NSA
Director, became a head honcho at Booz Allen Hamilton, a major
intelligence contractor that has also been conducting data mining for
the US Intelligence Community, including the joint NSA-CIA “First
Fruit” database that monitors journalists to identify government
leakers.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center
successfully sued the Department of Defense over its refusal to provide
details of the TIA pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request. However, since Poindexter no longer works for a government
agency, as predicted at the time he left the Pentagon, he became much
harder to track. Now, he has the government of Singapore to provide him
financial and operational cover for his intrusive Orwellian technology.
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