From: Occupy
COMMENTS - This is a must-read article. Note that: Arizona State is officially an
NSA-designated university and more about the tools which will be applied to Americans, and for which we pay more contractors to develop. Look for subsection, "When Data Mining leads to Drone Strikes." Links to Parts I & II of IV are below. III and IV will be posted as they appear.
Arizona
State is officially an NSA-designated university - See more at:
http://www.occupy.com/article/exposed-pentagon-funds-new-data-mining-tools-track-and-kill-activists-part-i#sthash.KHlGIh3A.dpuf
by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is funding a multimillion
dollar university
research program to develop new data mining and analysis
tools for the U.S. military intelligence community to track political
radicalism among British Muslims and other activist groups around the
world.
Leading intelligence experts including former National Security
Agency (NSA) official Thomas Drake – the whistleblower who inspired
Edward Snowden – confirm that the tools are designed to enhance the
intelligence community’s capabilities to identify potential
terrorism suspects that could face a range of sanctions, from
surveillance to no-fly injunctions to, at worst, being targeted for
extrajudicial assassination via the CIA’s "kill lists."
But, they say, inherent flaws in the program are instead likely to
facilitate the criminalization of political dissent and the targeting
of innocent civilians – and that such trends are increasingly
likely to affect not just "hostile theatres" abroad, but
even domestic populations in the U.S., Britain and Europe. MORE
