Domestic Spying Programs Alive and Well Pt Two: Sifting Through Your Private Information
Submitted by MichaelVail on Wed, 10/11/2006 - 8:55am.
Peace groups, activists, journalists and bloggers beware! The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, passed in December 2004, requires the President to share information between governmental agencies and sharing information with the private sector for emergency preparedness but Homeland Security plans to share all declassified data with the private sector.
According to an internal report: “Homeland Security Information Sharing Between Government And The Private Sector”.
Homeland Security will work hard to declassify classified information to pass along to local, State, and non-governmental organizations. These groups will inter operate with each other through secure protocols and databases and Information Sharing & Analysis Centers (ISACs) :
Homeland Security in their internal reports has admitted to collecting information information those responsible for criminal and/or suspicious activity. The FBI has of late been monitoring peace groups, activists and even journalists that work for media groups that have leaked classified information on unconstitutional programs. Now they plan to share information on American citizens who have yet to be even charged of a crime:
First, when Congress enacted the Homeland Security Act, it created the
“Homeland Security Information Sharing Act” (HSISA), a free-standing law intend-
ed to promote the distribution of such information, whether classified or unclas-
sified, to the public and private owners and operators of critical infrastructure.
HSISA declares the sense of Congress that Federal agencies should share, to the
maximum extent practicable, information that:
• Relates to terrorist threats;
• Relates to the ability to prevent or disrupt terrorist activity;
• Would improve the identification or investigation of suspected terrorists; and
• Would improve response to terrorist attacks.
Essentially, HSISA instructs the President to develop homeland security information
sharing systems to promote the sharing of both classified and sensitive but unclassi-
fied information.
The few, the proud, the chosen NGO's(Non-governmental Organizations) who are chosen by DHS will be privy to a gargantuan amount of information from the following governmental organizations:
I. From Government to Private Sector
A. From State to Local Governments
B. From Federal Government
i. Department of Homeland Security
1. IAIP
• ISACs, USCERT.
• HSIN (HSIN has multiple customers at different levels. i.e. JRIES is for
Law Enforcement and State Homeland Security Advisory, while
HSIN-CI’s primary mission focus is the Private Sector).
• Warnings/Threat level.
2. FEMA
• Emergency Alert System (EAS): dissemination of alert and warning mes-
sages, Presidential messaging to the nation, and state/local use. EAS
operates at the national level through 34 Primary Entry Point broadcast sta-
tions.
• National Warning System (NAWAS):
created to rapidly notify emergency management officials of impending
or threatened attack or accidental missile launch on the United States.
The three types of civil warnings supported by NAWAS are: (1) natural
and technological emergency warning; (2) attack warning; and (3) fall-
out warning.
• Washington Area Warning System (WAWAS): a 24-hour alert and warn-
ing system for the Washington DC area that coordinates federal and city
emergency operations in the Nation’s Capital.
3. U.S. Secret Service; Financial Crimes Task Force
4. U.S. Coast Guard
• Local Area Maritime Security
Committees composed of federal and non-Federal port partners.
• Local Command Centers.
• Captains of the Ports.
• Liaison at interagency operations centers.
• Electronic bulletins.
• 3 Interagency command centers located at San Diego, Norfolk and
Charleston (SC).
5. Private Sector Office
• HSIN-CI: Established and continued expansion to private sector members.
• HSAS: Provided outreach/notification and coordination of private sec-
tor leaders to changes in level.
• Ready-Business: Shaped content, messaging, outreach and partnerships
for campaign to enhance private sector preparedness and business conti-
nuity.
• US-Visit: Fostered information and issue exchanges for the transportation
communities on the rollout, impact and benefits of the Program.
ii. Department of Commerce
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) encompasses
the National Weather Service.
iii. Department of Justice
• FBI: InfraGuard is part of HSIN-CI.
• https://www.swern.gov/ privatesec-
tor/InfraGard.php.
• Wanted lists; Joint Terrorism Task Forces.
• HSIN-CI, HSOC is currently sending Joint FBI/DHS Sector.
• Bulletins via HSIN-CI.
iv. Department of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
v. Department of Energy
vi. Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
vii.Nuclear Regulatory Commission
In September 2006 Michael Chertoff stood before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and discussed parts of Homeland Security's information sharing program but did not mention declassifying data to share with the private sector.
“Under the leadership of President Bush, the Administration has integrated intelligence collection and analysis across all the elements of the intelligence community under the Director of National Intelligence and the Program Manager Information Sharing Environment.
At the Department of Homeland Security, we have a strengthened and unified intelligence office led by a veteran intelligence official. And through our Homeland Security Information Network, thousands of state and local participants share information every day on threats and incidents within their communities.
In the future, we intend to expand these valuable partnerships even further by substantially increasing federal participation in state and local fusion centers across our country as part of an interagency effort to better share intelligence with state and local governments. DHS intelligence personnel already work side-by-side with their federal, state and local counterparts at fusion centers in New York, California, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland. Our goal is a two-way flow, with every level of government pooling intelligence.
By the end of 2008, working with our other federal partners, our goal is to have intelligence and operations personnel at every state and major metropolitan fusion center in the United States, sitting in the same room, sharing and analyzing information and intelligence in real time. “
Yet in their internal report “Homeland Security Intelligence & Information Fusion” they acknowledge that the private sector will have a prominent role in the dissemination of information:
“To some degree, the fusion process involves every level and sector (discipline) of government, the private-sector, and the public. The level of involvement from these participants will vary based on specific circumstances. Some disciplines, such as law enforcement, represent a core component of the fusion process because of the relationship between crime and because, in many cases, law enforcement authorities are best-suited to coordinate statewide and local fusion efforts. Minimally, the fusion process should be organized and coordinated on a statewide level and each State should establish and maintain an analytic center to facilitate the fusion process.
Each major urban area (as defined by the Urban Area Security Initiative [UASI] program) may want to establish a similar capacity ensuring it is interlinked with the fusion process established by the State. Other localities, tribal governments, and even private-sector entities should develop a process to interlink and participate in these statewide (or UASI) fusion efforts. The public should be engaged through public education programs that describe what they should look forand what to do if they observe suspicious activities or circumstances. “
It is also noteworthy that they mention criminal activities, and not just terrorism. That is related to how the FBI has used the patriot act in non terror related investigations. These information distribution centers will be used for terror and disaster briefings as well as creating a database of suspicious and subversive Americans. Just as the FBI kept their Administration Index(ADEX) for those subversives that needed to be rounded up, this program will harvest every scrap of data about you that exists so they can craft a mental profile of a terrorist and apply that profile to millions of Americans. The nonconformists will be sent to a detention center courtesy of Halliburton.
An August 2006 Report entitled, “Survey of DHS Data Mining Activities” DHS attempts to justify data mining:
Table 1: Common Data Mining Uses
COMMERCIAL USES
• To analyze and segment customer buying patterns and identify
potential goods and services that are in demand.
• To identify and prevent fraudulent and abusive billing practices.
• To analyze sales trends and predict the effectiveness of promotions.
• To predict the effectiveness of surgical procedures, medical tests, and
medications.
• To search information from a number of documents and written
sources on a particular topic (text mining).
• To identify trends and present statistics in ways that are easily
understood and useful.
GOVERNMENT USES
• To monitor expenditures of employee travel and purchase cards.
• To quickly access information that speeds up the overall security
clearance investigation process for employees.
• To identify improper payments under federal benefit and loan programs
and help detect instances of fraud, waste, and abuse.
• To rank programs quickly by using established performance indicators.
• To assist law enforcement in combating terrorism.
Please take note of these common data mining uses and see if it applies to their ADVISE system:
"Science and Technology (S&T) is developing an advanced analytics
capability called Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and
Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE), as described in Table 6. ADVISE is an
advanced information technology that can integrate information and facts
from many different types of data. Since ADVISE is a “technology
framework,” it can be tailored and deployed for specific purposes and
areas of interest. For example, it is being developed to incorporate
chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive threat and effects
data. It is intended to ingest data from a variety of sources, ranging from
highly structured content, such as database records, to unstructured
content, such as message traffic. Still in development, ADVISE will
connect information extracted from text and images, databases, and
simulation and modeling tools to provide a watch-and-warning system for
analysts.
ADVISE employs semantic graphs to determine relationships and patterns
among data and multiple visualization techniques to display the resulting
information The Department seeks to predict threat and vulnerabilities,
such as through the detection of relationships between seemingly
disjointed entities. Semantic graphs organize data entities regarding threats
and vulnerabilities and link their relationships. Thus, hidden relationships
in the data are uncovered by examining the structure and properties of the
semantic graph. For example, a simple semantic graph can link people,
workplaces, and towns as well as indicate a relationship with various
friends. Studying the links can assist in understanding the relationships
between entities, and help identify threats and vulnerabilities. S&T
expects ADVISE’s ability to apply the capabilities of semantic data
fusion, link analysis, and unstructured text analysis will be a powerful
capability that will allow analysts to find the expected and discover the
unexpected."
ADVISE can be used to apply terrorist profiles and analyze a potential terrorist, subversive, or criminal and establish links to his family and friends who are now potential terrorists. Just like the NSA and their unconstitutional wiretapping creates a web of interconnected people. Bob called Jennifer and she called Todd and so on. Every person you have ever worked with, spoken with or had any type of relationship can be traced back to you. I say it once again ladies and gentlemen, privacy is a masterfully crafted illusion in the 21st century.
I guarantee that these NGO's who are partnered with Homeland Security will sell your information to the highest bidder and identify theft will be even more rampant than it is today. We need to put a blazing spotlight on this issue. Please email both articles to your friends and family. Subscribe to our email and rss syndication so you can be aware of future updates.
--
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like. -- Justice William O. Douglas
Michael Vail
According to an internal report: “Homeland Security Information Sharing Between Government And The Private Sector”.
Homeland Security will work hard to declassify classified information to pass along to local, State, and non-governmental organizations. These groups will inter operate with each other through secure protocols and databases and Information Sharing & Analysis Centers (ISACs) :
The Task Force issued the following recommendations:
1. DHS and the Private Sector should work in collaboration to develop a formal, and
objectively manageable, homeland security intelligence/information requirements
process.
• The process should place a premium on, and leverage, superior Private Sector
information resources, expertise in business continuity planning, and under-
standing of the operations of infrastructure sectors. (M/A)
• The process must recognize the diversity of the Private Sector. (A)
• DHS should partner with the Private Sector in developing an integrated archi-
tecture for information collection and sharing. The Task Force understands
that this is how Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) is being
developed and how HSIN-CI (Critical Infrastructure) (with 40,000+ members)
operates. The Task Force supports that approach. (M/A)
• The Private Sector and DHS need to integrate and align their requirements for
information collection and sharing. (M/A)
• Information Sharing & Analysis Centers (ISACs), Sector Coordinating Councils
(SCCs) and other Private Sector organizations and stakeholders must coordinate
their efforts and define Private Sector requirements for DHS so that specific
Private Sector entities can formally request, track and receive only that information
requested. This will require doing a better job of articulating what types of informa-
tion they want from government and with what frequency. (M/A)
• Information Sharing & Analysis Centers (ISACs), Sector Coordinating Councils
(SCCs) and other Private Sector organizations and stakeholders must coordinate
their efforts and define Private Sector requirements for DHS so that specific
Private Sector entities can formally request, track and receive only that information
requested. This will require doing a better job of articulating what types of informa-
tion they want from government and with what frequency. (M/A)
• The process should include a greater bias toward disseminating more information
in unclassified form. The solution should not primarily be to investigate more peo-
ple and issue more clearances. (M/A)
• Where information must be classified,
• DHS and other agencies should work harder to produce unclassified
versions. (M/A)
• The President should continue to implement on a timely basis the pro-
visions of the Intelligence Reform law designed to expedite the clear-
ance process. (M)
1. DHS and the Private Sector should work in collaboration to develop a formal, and
objectively manageable, homeland security intelligence/information requirements
process.
• The process should place a premium on, and leverage, superior Private Sector
information resources, expertise in business continuity planning, and under-
standing of the operations of infrastructure sectors. (M/A)
• The process must recognize the diversity of the Private Sector. (A)
• DHS should partner with the Private Sector in developing an integrated archi-
tecture for information collection and sharing. The Task Force understands
that this is how Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) is being
developed and how HSIN-CI (Critical Infrastructure) (with 40,000+ members)
operates. The Task Force supports that approach. (M/A)
• The Private Sector and DHS need to integrate and align their requirements for
information collection and sharing. (M/A)
• Information Sharing & Analysis Centers (ISACs), Sector Coordinating Councils
(SCCs) and other Private Sector organizations and stakeholders must coordinate
their efforts and define Private Sector requirements for DHS so that specific
Private Sector entities can formally request, track and receive only that information
requested. This will require doing a better job of articulating what types of informa-
tion they want from government and with what frequency. (M/A)
• Information Sharing & Analysis Centers (ISACs), Sector Coordinating Councils
(SCCs) and other Private Sector organizations and stakeholders must coordinate
their efforts and define Private Sector requirements for DHS so that specific
Private Sector entities can formally request, track and receive only that information
requested. This will require doing a better job of articulating what types of informa-
tion they want from government and with what frequency. (M/A)
• The process should include a greater bias toward disseminating more information
in unclassified form. The solution should not primarily be to investigate more peo-
ple and issue more clearances. (M/A)
• Where information must be classified,
• DHS and other agencies should work harder to produce unclassified
versions. (M/A)
• The President should continue to implement on a timely basis the pro-
visions of the Intelligence Reform law designed to expedite the clear-
ance process. (M)
Homeland Security in their internal reports has admitted to collecting information information those responsible for criminal and/or suspicious activity. The FBI has of late been monitoring peace groups, activists and even journalists that work for media groups that have leaked classified information on unconstitutional programs. Now they plan to share information on American citizens who have yet to be even charged of a crime:
First, when Congress enacted the Homeland Security Act, it created the
“Homeland Security Information Sharing Act” (HSISA), a free-standing law intend-
ed to promote the distribution of such information, whether classified or unclas-
sified, to the public and private owners and operators of critical infrastructure.
HSISA declares the sense of Congress that Federal agencies should share, to the
maximum extent practicable, information that:
• Relates to terrorist threats;
• Relates to the ability to prevent or disrupt terrorist activity;
• Would improve the identification or investigation of suspected terrorists; and
• Would improve response to terrorist attacks.
Essentially, HSISA instructs the President to develop homeland security information
sharing systems to promote the sharing of both classified and sensitive but unclassi-
fied information.
The few, the proud, the chosen NGO's(Non-governmental Organizations) who are chosen by DHS will be privy to a gargantuan amount of information from the following governmental organizations:
I. From Government to Private Sector
A. From State to Local Governments
B. From Federal Government
i. Department of Homeland Security
1. IAIP
• ISACs, USCERT.
• HSIN (HSIN has multiple customers at different levels. i.e. JRIES is for
Law Enforcement and State Homeland Security Advisory, while
HSIN-CI’s primary mission focus is the Private Sector).
• Warnings/Threat level.
2. FEMA
• Emergency Alert System (EAS): dissemination of alert and warning mes-
sages, Presidential messaging to the nation, and state/local use. EAS
operates at the national level through 34 Primary Entry Point broadcast sta-
tions.
• National Warning System (NAWAS):
created to rapidly notify emergency management officials of impending
or threatened attack or accidental missile launch on the United States.
The three types of civil warnings supported by NAWAS are: (1) natural
and technological emergency warning; (2) attack warning; and (3) fall-
out warning.
• Washington Area Warning System (WAWAS): a 24-hour alert and warn-
ing system for the Washington DC area that coordinates federal and city
emergency operations in the Nation’s Capital.
3. U.S. Secret Service; Financial Crimes Task Force
4. U.S. Coast Guard
• Local Area Maritime Security
Committees composed of federal and non-Federal port partners.
• Local Command Centers.
• Captains of the Ports.
• Liaison at interagency operations centers.
• Electronic bulletins.
• 3 Interagency command centers located at San Diego, Norfolk and
Charleston (SC).
5. Private Sector Office
• HSIN-CI: Established and continued expansion to private sector members.
• HSAS: Provided outreach/notification and coordination of private sec-
tor leaders to changes in level.
• Ready-Business: Shaped content, messaging, outreach and partnerships
for campaign to enhance private sector preparedness and business conti-
nuity.
• US-Visit: Fostered information and issue exchanges for the transportation
communities on the rollout, impact and benefits of the Program.
ii. Department of Commerce
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) encompasses
the National Weather Service.
iii. Department of Justice
• FBI: InfraGuard is part of HSIN-CI.
• https://www.swern.gov/ privatesec-
tor/InfraGard.php.
• Wanted lists; Joint Terrorism Task Forces.
• HSIN-CI, HSOC is currently sending Joint FBI/DHS Sector.
• Bulletins via HSIN-CI.
iv. Department of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
v. Department of Energy
vi. Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
vii.Nuclear Regulatory Commission
In September 2006 Michael Chertoff stood before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and discussed parts of Homeland Security's information sharing program but did not mention declassifying data to share with the private sector.
“Under the leadership of President Bush, the Administration has integrated intelligence collection and analysis across all the elements of the intelligence community under the Director of National Intelligence and the Program Manager Information Sharing Environment.
At the Department of Homeland Security, we have a strengthened and unified intelligence office led by a veteran intelligence official. And through our Homeland Security Information Network, thousands of state and local participants share information every day on threats and incidents within their communities.
In the future, we intend to expand these valuable partnerships even further by substantially increasing federal participation in state and local fusion centers across our country as part of an interagency effort to better share intelligence with state and local governments. DHS intelligence personnel already work side-by-side with their federal, state and local counterparts at fusion centers in New York, California, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland. Our goal is a two-way flow, with every level of government pooling intelligence.
By the end of 2008, working with our other federal partners, our goal is to have intelligence and operations personnel at every state and major metropolitan fusion center in the United States, sitting in the same room, sharing and analyzing information and intelligence in real time. “
Yet in their internal report “Homeland Security Intelligence & Information Fusion” they acknowledge that the private sector will have a prominent role in the dissemination of information:
“To some degree, the fusion process involves every level and sector (discipline) of government, the private-sector, and the public. The level of involvement from these participants will vary based on specific circumstances. Some disciplines, such as law enforcement, represent a core component of the fusion process because of the relationship between crime and because, in many cases, law enforcement authorities are best-suited to coordinate statewide and local fusion efforts. Minimally, the fusion process should be organized and coordinated on a statewide level and each State should establish and maintain an analytic center to facilitate the fusion process.
Each major urban area (as defined by the Urban Area Security Initiative [UASI] program) may want to establish a similar capacity ensuring it is interlinked with the fusion process established by the State. Other localities, tribal governments, and even private-sector entities should develop a process to interlink and participate in these statewide (or UASI) fusion efforts. The public should be engaged through public education programs that describe what they should look forand what to do if they observe suspicious activities or circumstances. “
It is also noteworthy that they mention criminal activities, and not just terrorism. That is related to how the FBI has used the patriot act in non terror related investigations. These information distribution centers will be used for terror and disaster briefings as well as creating a database of suspicious and subversive Americans. Just as the FBI kept their Administration Index(ADEX) for those subversives that needed to be rounded up, this program will harvest every scrap of data about you that exists so they can craft a mental profile of a terrorist and apply that profile to millions of Americans. The nonconformists will be sent to a detention center courtesy of Halliburton.
An August 2006 Report entitled, “Survey of DHS Data Mining Activities” DHS attempts to justify data mining:
Table 1: Common Data Mining Uses
COMMERCIAL USES
• To analyze and segment customer buying patterns and identify
potential goods and services that are in demand.
• To identify and prevent fraudulent and abusive billing practices.
• To analyze sales trends and predict the effectiveness of promotions.
• To predict the effectiveness of surgical procedures, medical tests, and
medications.
• To search information from a number of documents and written
sources on a particular topic (text mining).
• To identify trends and present statistics in ways that are easily
understood and useful.
GOVERNMENT USES
• To monitor expenditures of employee travel and purchase cards.
• To quickly access information that speeds up the overall security
clearance investigation process for employees.
• To identify improper payments under federal benefit and loan programs
and help detect instances of fraud, waste, and abuse.
• To rank programs quickly by using established performance indicators.
• To assist law enforcement in combating terrorism.
Please take note of these common data mining uses and see if it applies to their ADVISE system:
"Science and Technology (S&T) is developing an advanced analytics
capability called Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and
Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE), as described in Table 6. ADVISE is an
advanced information technology that can integrate information and facts
from many different types of data. Since ADVISE is a “technology
framework,” it can be tailored and deployed for specific purposes and
areas of interest. For example, it is being developed to incorporate
chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive threat and effects
data. It is intended to ingest data from a variety of sources, ranging from
highly structured content, such as database records, to unstructured
content, such as message traffic. Still in development, ADVISE will
connect information extracted from text and images, databases, and
simulation and modeling tools to provide a watch-and-warning system for
analysts.
ADVISE employs semantic graphs to determine relationships and patterns
among data and multiple visualization techniques to display the resulting
information The Department seeks to predict threat and vulnerabilities,
such as through the detection of relationships between seemingly
disjointed entities. Semantic graphs organize data entities regarding threats
and vulnerabilities and link their relationships. Thus, hidden relationships
in the data are uncovered by examining the structure and properties of the
semantic graph. For example, a simple semantic graph can link people,
workplaces, and towns as well as indicate a relationship with various
friends. Studying the links can assist in understanding the relationships
between entities, and help identify threats and vulnerabilities. S&T
expects ADVISE’s ability to apply the capabilities of semantic data
fusion, link analysis, and unstructured text analysis will be a powerful
capability that will allow analysts to find the expected and discover the
unexpected."
ADVISE can be used to apply terrorist profiles and analyze a potential terrorist, subversive, or criminal and establish links to his family and friends who are now potential terrorists. Just like the NSA and their unconstitutional wiretapping creates a web of interconnected people. Bob called Jennifer and she called Todd and so on. Every person you have ever worked with, spoken with or had any type of relationship can be traced back to you. I say it once again ladies and gentlemen, privacy is a masterfully crafted illusion in the 21st century.
I guarantee that these NGO's who are partnered with Homeland Security will sell your information to the highest bidder and identify theft will be even more rampant than it is today. We need to put a blazing spotlight on this issue. Please email both articles to your friends and family. Subscribe to our email and rss syndication so you can be aware of future updates.
--
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like. -- Justice William O. Douglas
Michael Vail
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