National Counterterrorism Center gets insane new power over private data on Americans
Madison Ruppert, Contributor
ActivistPost.com
Friday, March 23, 2012
Just when you thought the ludicrously paranoid federal government of the United States of America couldn’t get any worse; Attorney General Eric Holder has signed new guidelines for the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
The American Big Brother surveillance state has grown exponentially over recent years and it does not look like it is going to be slowing down any time soon with the new guidelines which allows private data on Americans to be held when there is no suspicion of them being tied to terrorism for a whopping five years.
Keep in mind, Internet service providers just announced that they will soon be engaging in the largest digital spying operation in history, along with the National Security Agency (NSA) building a behemoth data center to process information, which could include just about anything.
Now the NCTC is getting even more power from the Obama administration, something akin to the George W. Bush-era “Total Information Awareness” program which was supposedly partially shut down by Congress.
For those who are unaware, the NCTC was established by Presidential Executive Order 13354 in 2004, and later actually codified by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. They are in an interesting position given that they report directly to the President and to the Director of National Intelligence, while following the policy dictated by the President and the National and Homeland Security Councils.
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