Pretty amazing how this document is now on the internet … probably not for long. It’s the “March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance,” a 166-page document issued last year by the National Counter terrorism Center, which spells out the government’s secret rules for putting individuals on its main terrorist database, as well as the no fly list and the selectee list.
Here are the highlights;
——- it allows individuals to be designated as representatives of terror organizations without any evidence they are actually connected to such organizations
——- the ONLY requirement is “reasonable suspicion” (page 48)
——- it gives a single White House official the unilateral authority to place “entire categories” of people the government is tracking onto the no fly and selectee lists.
——- It broadens the authority of government officials to “nominate” people to the watchlists based on what is vaguely described as “fragmentary information.” It also allows for dead people to be watchlisted.
——- the guidelines also define “destruction of government property” and “damaging computers” used by financial institutions as activities meriting placement on a list. They also define as terrorism any act that is “dangerous” to property
——- There are a number of loopholes [page 42] for putting people onto the watch-lists even if reasonable suspicion cannot be met.
————— 1)- The immediate family of suspected terrorists—their spouses, children, parents, or siblings—may be watchlisted without any suspicion that they themselves are engaged in terrorist activity.
————— 2)- ”associates” who have a defined relationship with a suspected terrorist, but whose involvement in terrorist activity is not known.
————— 3)- individuals with “a possible nexus” to terrorism, but for whom there is not enough “derogatory information” to meet the reasonable suspicion standard.
————— In other words, if you happen to purchase gas at a convenience store owned by a Mooslim using your credit card you may end up in the big government terrorist database.
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——- The fifth chapter, titled “Encounter Management and Analysis” details the type of information that is targeted for collection during “encounters” with people on the watchlists,
In addition to data like fingerprints, travel itineraries, identification documents and gun licenses, the rules encourage screeners to acquire health insurance information, drug prescriptions, “any cards with an electronic strip on it (hotel cards, grocery cards, gift cards, frequent flyer cards),” cellphones, email addresses, binoculars, peroxide, bank account numbers, pay stubs, academic transcripts, parking and speeding tickets, and want ads.
The digital information singled out for collection includes social media accounts, cell phone lists, speed dial numbers, laptop images, thumb drives, iPods, Kindles, and cameras. All of the information is then uploaded to the TIDE database.
Screeners are also instructed to collect data on any “pocket litter,” scuba gear, EZ Passes, library cards, and the titles of any books, along with information about their condition—“e.g., new, dog-eared, annotated, unopened.”
Business cards and conference materials are also targeted, as well as “anything with an account number” and information about any gold or jewelry worn by the watchlisted individual.
Even “animal information”—details about pets from veterinarians or tracking chips—is requested.
——- In other words, everything, (and they do mean EVERYTHING), about you will be collected, stored, and used against you at the appropriate time.
“Just shut the fuck up and trust us. If you’re not a terrorist you have nothing to worry about.” — Sincerely, Your Masters
Here is the full 166 page secret document: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/07/23/march-2013-watchlisting-guidance/
Anyone who’s white, eastern or northern European, Christian, believes in Freedom, the Constitution, the bill of Rights, life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness is a terrorist. The best plan is to get the hell off the radar, move as far away as possible from cities (remember Boston Gestapo tactics, pulling people out of their houses), become self-sustaining, and prepare for what is coming.
There is still time, and you’ll only have from now until the collapse to be ready, so don’t piss away the opportunity. It will save your life and the lives of loved ones. This is a very large, largely open country, geographically, once you get away from the cities. Many, many, great, safe places to live, especially in the Midwest. Take advantage while you still can, it’s not too late. Don’t give the fascists a chance to take you down.
“Many, many, great, safe places to live,…” ——— AWD
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I ain’t hiding from anybody. I have a couple of acres in a National forest, on a nice, deep, clean body of water (former strip mining pit, 90 feet deep in places). All the firewood and clean water I can handle. We’re far and away from anything of value or concern of the idiots running this state, nobody ever comes this far South in Illinois, except to hunt and fish, which is top-notch around here. Everyone is strapped, bow hunters, very respectful of firearms. The cost of living is one of the lowest in the country. I’m more and more glad I moved here every single day.
Dear AWD, Citizen Of The Great Socialist State Of Illinois
Thanks for posting. We WILL find you.
Sincerely,
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Rahm,
My favorite doctor and I cordially say “blow me”
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Cripes, they need 160 pages?
Here, I’ll help them and then save a few million in printing/distribution costs…
Our new, post 9/11 definition of a “terrorist,” is simple.
A “terrorist” is anyone that is not sucking gubment – or its representatives including cops, EPA, fire marshalls – dick.
If you question, you are a terrorist.
If you are in the wrong place at the wrong tim, you are a terrorist.
If you don’t like vaccinations, you are a terrorist.
If you use mathematics and come to the conclusion that the gubment has made promises it could never keep, you are a terrorist.
If you exercise, or talk, about any of the rights that our ancestors died for, you are a terrorist.
If you want to eat unadulterated food, you are a terrorist.
If you want to be left the hell alone, free to pursue life, liberty and happiness, you are a terrorist.
There, simple, too the point, one page and really the policy being used anyway.
As long as you are the right voting color, and you agree with everything they tell you even with evidence to the contrary, then you will be just fine. Today.
We all know they first came for the Patriots, but we weren’t card-carrying Patriots, so we did nothing…
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Obama Approves Substantial Expansion of Terrorist Watch Lists: “Concrete Facts Are Not Necessary”
Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Amid an outcry from Americans criticizing the Obama Administration over the possibility that terrorists may be among the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants entering the United States without documentation, the Department of Homeland Security has instead turned its scrutiny on American citizens.
The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept.
The “March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance,” a 166-page document issued last year by the National Counterterrorism Center, spells out the government’s secret rules for putting individuals on its main terrorist database, as well as the no fly list and the selectee list, which triggers enhanced screening at airports and border crossings. The new guidelines allow individuals to be designated as representatives of terror organizations without any evidence they are actually connected to such organizations, and it gives a single White House official the unilateral authority to place “entire categories” of people the government is tracking onto the no fly and selectee lists. It broadens the authority of government officials to “nominate” people to the watchlists based on what is vaguely described as “fragmentary information.”
The Intercept
The recently declassified Watchlisting Guidance rule book issued in 2013 and developed by members of 19 law enforcement agencies that include the FBI, NSA, CIA, and NSA, outlines the rules for placing individuals, including American citizens, on the various watch lists currently in use. As noted by The Intercept, the rules, much like America’s secretive anti-terrorism laws, are vague and often contradict each other.
It reveals a confounding and convoluted system filled with exceptions to its own rules, and it relies on the elastic concept of “reasonable suspicion” as a standard for determining whether someone is a possible threat.
Because the government tracks “suspected terrorists” as well as “known terrorists,” individuals can be watchlisted if they are suspected of being a suspected terrorist, or if they are suspected of associating with people who are suspected of terrorism activity.
“Instead of a watchlist limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,” says Hina Shamsi, the head of the ACLU’s National Security Project. “On that dangerous theory, the government is secretly blacklisting people as suspected terrorists and giving them the impossible task of proving themselves innocent of a threat they haven’t carried out.”
The guidelines for who is or is not a terrorist are now so vague that any American could potentially be added to a list for something as menial as knowing someone who has committed an activity deemed to be of terrorist nature. And as has been highlighted previously, those activities could range from making a hand gesture that looks like a gun or manufacturing your own gold and silver coins.
The newly expanded guidelines have completely redefined terrorism, turning even innocuous crimes or suspicions of crimes into activity that is now equivalent to traditional terrorist activities such as bombings and hijackings.
The document’s definition of “terrorist” activity includes actions that fall far short of bombing or hijacking. In addition to expected crimes, such as assassination or hostage-taking, the guidelines also define destruction of government property and damaging computers used by financial institutions as activities meriting placement on a list. They also define as terrorism any act that is “dangerous” to property and intended to influence government policy through intimidation.
This combination—a broad definition of what constitutes terrorism and a low threshold for designating someone a terrorist—opens the way to ensnaring innocent people in secret government dragnets.
What’s even more mindboggling than the actual crimes and activities for which an American can now be designated a terrorist are the rules for how law enforcement agencies are supposed to place names on the watchlists.
The heart of the document revolves around the rules for placing individuals on a watchlist. “All executive departments and agencies,” the document says, are responsible for collecting and sharing information on terrorist suspects with the National Counterterrorism Center. It sets a low standard—”reasonable suspicion“—for placing names on the watchlists, and offers a multitude of vague, confusing, or contradictory instructions for gauging it. In the chapter on “Minimum Substantive Derogatory Criteria”—even the title is hard to digest—the key sentence on reasonable suspicion offers little clarity:
“To meet the REASONABLE SUSPICION standard, the NOMINATOR, based on the totality of the circumstances, must rely upon articulable intelligence or information which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrants a determination that an individual is known or suspected to be or has been knowingly engaged in conduct constituting, in preparation for, in aid of, or related to TERRORISM and/or TERRORIST ACTIVITIES.”
The rulebook makes no effort to define an essential phrase in the passage—”articulable intelligence or information.” After stressing that hunches are not reasonable suspicion and that “there must be an objective factual basis” for labeling someone a terrorist, it goes on to state that no actual facts are required:
“In determining whether a REASONABLE SUSPICION exists, due weight should be given to the specific reasonable inferences that a NOMINATOR is entitled to draw from the facts in light of his/her experience and not on unfounded suspicions or hunches. Although irrefutable evidence or concrete facts are not necessary, to be reasonable, suspicion should be as clear and as fully developed as circumstances permit.”
While the guidelines nominally prohibit nominations based on unreliable information, they explicitly regard “uncorroborated” Facebook or Twitter posts as sufficient grounds for putting an individual on one of the watchlists.
According to the rule book, no actual evidence or concrete facts of wrong doing are required. In fact, according to the rules, even a single White House administration member can, for whatever reason they choose, add entire categories of people, including family members, friends and associates of suspected individuals, to a watch list.
It gives a single White House official the unilateral authority to elevate entire “categories of people” whose names appear in the larger databases onto the no fly or selectee lists. This can occur, the guidelines state, when there is a “particular threat stream” indicating that a certain type of individual may commit a terrorist act.
This means that you merely knowing someone, whether in person or in a virtual space like social media networks, could lead to you being placed on a terror watchlist.
In a previous article we facetiously opined that at the rate at which terror watchlists have been expanded since 2003, the number of people on the lists will exceed the U.S. population by 2019. The new rules implemented under the watchful eye of the Obama administration suggest that such a possibility is no longer a joking matter.
Though Americans who have been added to terror watchlists are currently faced with the inconvenience of restricted travel on public transportation systems and increased government scrutiny into their personal lives, how long before government officials start rounding up suspects, or those suspected of being suspects, under anti-terrorism laws like the Patriot Act? Under those guidelines, as well as those outlined in the National Defense Authorization Act, not only can American citizens be held without charge or trial indefinitely for mere suspicion of terrorist activities, but so too can they be assassinated by drone strikes or other government action.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin couldn’t have dreamed of the power that currently resides in the hands of the U.S. government and its subordinate agencies.
Editor’s Note: If you’re reading this or have shared it with others, or if you are suspected of knowing somebody who is suspected of reading this or sharing it with others, you may now be on a terror watchlist.
Blow me, Vlad.
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Got another link? The link above no worky!
I think terrorists are in charge of the weather around here. Seventy two hours ago it was 103F here. Today is it 64F. I finally get used to the heat then the bastards turn it off!
This is probably significant news. I dunno.
Prime Minister Arseniy “Yats” Yatsenyuk, …. the Nazi fucker we put into power ….. resigned today.
Also … Pentagon says Russia firing ACROSS border into Ukraine
Today IT IS 64F! Phucmerunnin!
“Got another link? The link above no worky!” ——— I_S
It’s the only link. I tried it 5 minutes ago …. no worky. I just tried it again, seconds ago, and it works.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/07/23/march-2013-watchlisting-guidance/
Thanks T4C!
@Admin, ha! “Reasonable suspicion” is nothing but a term bandied about AFTER they bust you by invading your privacy without a warrant.
Once again we have Ronnie to thank for that bs.
The original warrant-less search, at least original in it was the first such law I heard of at the time, was based on things like cops “thinking” they “smelled” something.
Or “thinking” they “saw” somebody passing a joint.
And the sheeple said, “Yeah! It’s only the druggies and criminals, if you aren’t a druggie or a criminal you have nothing to worry about.” “We have to protect the children,” or my favorite, “the Constitution wasn’t written for times like these!”
Just say no is evil, against our nature and abhorrent to a loving god that wants his children free to learn on their own, free to make their own way and free to make their own mistakes.
Then we were told to “just say no” to drugs and drinking and driving, for the damned children you know.
Now, “just say no” to free-thought, personal property, human dignity and civil rights.
Wonder how horrific this will all turn in another 30 years?
Wonder if we will be asked to “just say no” to raising our own children, determining our own futures, deciding on what to eat?
30 more years is right at the edge of my lifetime (if I am lucky), a big part of me just doesn’t want to know how bad it could be.
Nice find on the pdf link, T4C …… except all I get is a blank PDF page.
I have this mental picture of NSA goonfuks running wild trying to suppress the info ….. “FUCK! The American Terrorists found our secret document!! Fuckmedead! There goes my j.o.b.” heh heh
You’re More Likely to Be Killed By Obesity, Brain-Eating Parasites, Texting While Driving, Toddlers, Lightning, Falling Out of Bed …
Submitted by George Washington on 07/24/2014
Wikipedia notes that obesity is a a contributing factor in 100,000–400,000 deaths in the United States per year. That makes obesity 5,882 to times 23,528 more likely to kill you than a terrorist.
The annual number of deaths in the U.S. due to avoidable medical errors is as high as 100,000. Indeed, one of the world’s leading medical journals – Lancet – reported in 2011:
A November, 2010, document from the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services reported that, when in hospital, one in seven beneficiaries of Medicare (the government-sponsored health-care programme for those aged 65 years and older) have complications from medical errors, which contribute to about 180 000 deaths of patients per year.
That’s just Medicare beneficiaries, not the entire American public. Scientific American noted in 2009:
Preventable medical mistakes and infections are responsible for about 200,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to an investigation by the Hearst media corporation.
And a new study in the current issue of the Journal of Patient Safety says the numbers may be up to 440,000 each year.
But let’s use the lower – 100,000 – figure. That still means that you are 5,882 times more likely to die from medical error than terrorism.
The CDC says that some 80,000 deaths each year are attributable to excessive alcohol use. So you’re 4,706 times more likely to drink yourself to death than die from terrorism.
Wikipedia notes that there were 32,367 automobile accidents in 2011, which means that you are 1,904 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack. As CNN reporter Fareed Zakaria wrote last year:
“Since 9/11, foreign-inspired terrorism has claimed about two dozen lives in the United States. (Meanwhile, more than 100,000 have been killed in gun homicides and more than 400,000 in motor-vehicle accidents.) “
If Obama reacted to Da Joos as he did to the Russkies
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Fellow Americans,
Yesterday, Israeli troops continued to bomb Gaza. As many as 300 innocent lives have now been taken—men, women, children, infants who had nothing to do with the recent violence. Their deaths are a outrage of unspeakable proportions. At least 13 Israeli soldiers have also died. We mourn them no less.
But the nation that has lost by far the most people is Palestine. From the days of our founding the Palestinian people have not been all that familiar to the United States of America, but today I want them to know that we stand with you shoulder to shoulder in our grief and in our absolute determination to get to the bottom of what happened.
Now, here is what we know so far. Evidence indicates that aircraft being used in the assault are manufactured in two areas that are controlled by the United States—namely, the states of Missouri and Washington. Moreover, we know that the invaders have received a steady flow of support from the United States, which last year alone chipped in $30 billion toward operations like this one.
So I have decided that as we have helped make the invasion of Gaza possible, that we will impose sanctions on the United States, because we believe in standing up for the basic principle that a country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity has to be respected, and it is not we, or Israel, or Russia, or Germany, or any other country that should be deciding what happens there.
This is only fair.
As you know, just the other day I increased sanctions on Russia in connection with the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. And I froze the assets of some of its defense companies. But the American people understand that if you are going to throw stones you should get out of your glass house. They know that if you are doing hard things, then there is going to be some hair on it. Holding ourselves to the same standards is an example.
So I will repeatedly make clear that the United States must halt the flow of weapons across its borders into Israel. Thus far, America has failed to take any of the steps that I will be mentioning over the next few days, increasing sanctions against the makers of the F15C Eagle, white phosphorus and other anti-personnel weapons. Because like any people, Palestinians deserve the right to forge their own destiny.
That is not all.
The people who harbor Missouri and Washington must also be held accountable. Folks in Connecticut, Utah…you too bear responsibility for the overall strategy of the occupation, as well as for the deaths of innocent people.
While I’m proud that the Iron Dome system, which Americans helped develop and fund, has saved many lives, no one can deny the truth that is revealed in the awful images that we all have seen in Gaza lately.
Yesterday I spoke to Prime Minister Netanyahu about the situation. We discussed Israel’s efforts to stop the threat of terrorist infiltration by blowing up tunnels, including those illegally dug from kitchens and bedrooms in the upper stories of Palestinian homes, and from beaches where their little children play.
I explained very clearly that we want peace, and are really annoyed that Israel has continued to expand settlements in the occupied territories against international law, and despite the leverage our military aid buys. That’s why, together with our allies, we’ll continue our severe posturing.
Let me close by saying I think now is a somber and appropriate time for all of us to step back and take a hard look at what has happened.
Violence and conflict inevitably lead to unforeseen consequences. Israel and Palestine have the capacity to put an end to the fighting—though not, of course, the people who are unable to get to the hospital or are living in refugee camps or are, you know, otherwise voiceless.
Meanwhile, the United States is going to continue to lead efforts within the world community to de-escalate the situation, to stand up for sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to support the people of Palestine as they courageously despair of ever making their own decisions about how they should move forward.
Thank you. And now, I’ll take just a few questions.
Helen?
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Though Americans who have been added to terror watchlists are currently faced with the inconvenience of restricted travel on public transportation systems and increased government scrutiny into their personal lives, how long before government officials start rounding up suspects, or those suspected of being suspects, under anti-terrorism laws like the Patriot Act? Under those guidelines, as well as those outlined in the National Defense Authorization Act, not only can American citizens be held without charge or trial indefinitely for mere suspicion of terrorist activities, but so too can they be assassinated by drone strikes or other government action.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin couldn’t have dreamed of the power that currently resides in the hands of the U.S. government and its subordinate agencies.
Editor’s Note: If you’re reading this or have shared it with others, or if you are suspected of knowing somebody who is suspected of reading this or sharing it with others, you may now be on a terror watchlist.
IT SEEMS THAT ANY SITUATION / REASON IS BEING USED TO ‘TIGHTEN THE NOOSE’ AND TAKE AWAY MORE OF OUR FREEDOMS. AS HISTORY PROVES OVER AND OVER AGAIN THIS WILL COME TO A VERY BAD ENDING.
WHEN THE STOCK MARKET CRASHES AGAIN (SOON TO HAPPEN) AND THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM / U S DOLLAR IMPLODES THEN YOU WILL REALLY SEE THE GOON SQUADS MARCHING IN THE STREETS AS OUR CITIES BURN. WATERTOWN MA. WAS A TRIAL RUN – ‘THEY’ KNOW THAT THE SHIT IS ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN.
T4C
OK … got it saved to my hard drive. Thanks.
That such a document as “WATCHLISTING GUIDANCE” even exists I find to be absolutely horrifying.
It has truly come to ‘THEM AGAINST US’ !
It’s gonna boil down to Pentagon/Military vs. NSA/CIA/Homeland Security.
America’s Dumbest Move Yet: Seizing A Foreign Bank
….So while the US is still running around and barking at others, it is quickly losing its capacity to bite.
Their only tactic is to haphazardly attack Russian interests wherever they can.
They’re sanctioning Russian companies. They’re trying to torpedo international support for Russia. And now they’ve resorted to plundering Russian assets held in other sovereign nations.
Imagine you’re Qatar. Or China. Or Kuwait. Or Singapore. Or anyone else who holds substantial amounts of US debt.
All of these countries understand the lesson loud and clear: when the US doesn’t like you, they will do everything they can to make your life difficult.
Does this inspire confidence? If you’re holding hundreds of billions of dollars of US Treasuries, does this really improve your level of trust in the US?
Probably not.
By terrorizing Russian interests, the Obama administration is begging the rest of the world to reconsider their misplaced trust in the United States.
All these foreign countries really have to do if they want to retaliate is start dumping their US Treasuries. Or simply stop rolling over when the notes mature.
That will cause catastrophic consequences in the United States. Interest rates will soar, inflation will kick in, and the government will be even closer to default than it already is.
Inexplicably, Mr. Obama is practically begging the world to do this. It’s tremendously arrogant.
It’s like the economic warfare equivalent of Napoleon pompously leading his overstretched, exhausted army into Russia.
And neither Napoleon nor Obama gave the slightest consideration to the big picture consequences.
At $17.6 trillion in debt, the US is trying to wage economic war without any ammunition. It’s not something that is going to work out well for them.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-24/americas-dumbest-move-yet-seizing-foreign-bank
Here’s my watchlist. To anyone fom the government who is watching me? Go fuck yourself.