Are You
On The List?
By Michael
Snyder (The American Dream | Original
Link)
Are you on the list? Are you one of the millions of
Americans that have been designated a threat to national security by the U.S.
government? Will you be subject to detention when martial law is imposed during
a major national emergency? As you will see below, there is actually a list that
contains the names of at least 8 million Americans known as Main Core that the
U.S. intelligence community has been compiling since the 1980s. A recent
article on Washington’s Blog quoted a couple
of old magazine articles that mentioned this program, and I was intrigued
because I didn’t know what it was. So I decided to look into Main Core, and what
I found out was absolutely stunning – especially in light of what Edward Snowden has just revealed to
the world. It turns out that the U.S. government is not just gathering
information on all of us. The truth is that the U.S. government has used this
information to create a list of threats to national security that the government
would potentially watch, question or even detain during a national crisis. If you have ever been publicly critical of the
government, there is a very good chance that you are on that list.
The following is how Wikipedia describes Main Core…
The following is how Wikipedia describes Main Core…
Main Core
is the code name of a database maintained since the 1980s by the federal
government of the United States. Main Core contains personal and financial data
of millions of U.S. citizens believed to be threats to national security. The
data, which comes from the NSA, FBI, CIA, and other sources, is collected and
stored without warrants or court orders. The database’s name derives from the
fact that it contains “copies of the ‘main core’ or essence of each item of
intelligence information on Americans produced by the FBI and the other
agencies of the U.S. intelligence community.”
It was Christopher
Ketchum of Radar Magazine that first reported on the existence of Main
Core. At the time, the shocking information that he revealed did not get that
much attention. That is quite a shame, because it should have sent shockwaves
across the nation…
According to a senior government official who served with
high-level security clearances in five administrations, “There exists a
database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason,
are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated.
The database can identify and locate perceived ‘enemies of the state’ almost
instantaneously.” He and other sources tell Radar that the database is
sometimes referred to by the code name Main Core. One knowledgeable source
claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially
suspect. In the event of a national emergency, these people could be subject to
everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and
possibly even detention.
Of course, federal law is somewhat vague as to what might constitute a “national emergency.” Executive orders issued over the last three decades define it as a “natural disaster, military attack, [or] technological or other emergency,” while Department of Defense documents include eventualities like “riots, acts of violence, insurrections, unlawful obstructions or assemblages, [and] disorder prejudicial to public law and order.” According to one news report, even “national opposition to U.S. military invasion abroad” could be a trigger.
Of course, federal law is somewhat vague as to what might constitute a “national emergency.” Executive orders issued over the last three decades define it as a “natural disaster, military attack, [or] technological or other emergency,” while Department of Defense documents include eventualities like “riots, acts of violence, insurrections, unlawful obstructions or assemblages, [and] disorder prejudicial to public law and order.” According to one news report, even “national opposition to U.S. military invasion abroad” could be a trigger.
So if that list contained 8 million names all the way back
in 2008, how big might it be today?
That is a very frightening thing to think about.
Later on in 2008, Tim Shorrock of Salon.com also reported on Main Core…
That is a very frightening thing to think about.
Later on in 2008, Tim Shorrock of Salon.com also reported on Main Core…
Dating back to the 1980s and known to government insiders as
“Main Core,” the database reportedly collects and stores — without warrants or
court orders — the names and detailed data of Americans considered to be
threats to national security. According to several former U.S. government
officials with extensive knowledge of intelligence operations, Main Core in its
current incarnation apparently contains a vast amount of personal data on
Americans, including NSA intercepts of bank and credit card transactions and
the results of surveillance efforts by the FBI, the CIA and other agencies. One former intelligence official described Main Core
as “an emergency internal security database system” designed for use by the
military in the event of a national catastrophe, a suspension of the
Constitution or the imposition of martial law.
So why didn’t this information get more attention at the
time?
Well, if Obama had lost the 2008 election it might have. But Obama won in 2008 and the liberal media assumed that he would end many of the abuses that were happening under Bush. Of course that has not happened at all. In fact, Obama has steadily moved the police state agenda ahead aggressively. Edward Snowden has just made that abundantly clear to the entire world.
Well, if Obama had lost the 2008 election it might have. But Obama won in 2008 and the liberal media assumed that he would end many of the abuses that were happening under Bush. Of course that has not happened at all. In fact, Obama has steadily moved the police state agenda ahead aggressively. Edward Snowden has just made that abundantly clear to the entire world.
After
2008, it is unclear exactly what happened to Main Core. Did it expand, change
names, merge with other programs or get superseded by a new program? It appears
extremely unlikely that it simply faded away. In light of what we have just
learned about NSA snooping, someone should ask our politicians some very hard
questions about Main Core. According toChristopher Ketchum, the exact
kind of NSA snooping that Edward Snowden has just described was being used to
feed data into the Main Core database…
A host of publicly disclosed programs, sources say, now
supply data to Main Core. Most notable are the NSA domestic surveillance
programs, initiated in the wake of 9/11, typically referred to in press reports
as “warrantless wiretapping.” In March, a front-page article in the Wall Street
Journal shed further light onto the extraordinarily invasive scope of the NSA
efforts: According to the Journal, the government can now electronically
monitor “huge volumes of records of domestic e-mails and Internet searches, as
well as bank transfers, credit card transactions, travel, and telephone
records.” Authorities employ “sophisticated software programs” to sift through
the data, searching for “suspicious patterns.” In effect, the program is a mass
catalog of the private lives of Americans. And it’s notable that the article
hints at the possibility of programs like Main Core. “The [NSA] effort also
ties into data from an ad-hoc collection of so-called black programs whose
existence is undisclosed,” the Journal reported, quoting unnamed officials.
“Many of the programs in various agencies began years before the 9/11 attacks
but have since been given greater reach.”
The following information seems to be fair game for collection without a warrant: the e-mail addresses you send to and receive from, and the subject lines of those messages; the phone numbers you dial, the numbers that dial in to your line, and the durations of the calls; the Internet sites you visit and the keywords in your Web searches; the destinations of the airline tickets you buy; the amounts and locations of your ATM withdrawals; and the goods and services you purchase on credit cards. All of this information is archived on government supercomputers and, according to sources, also fed into the Main Core database.
The following information seems to be fair game for collection without a warrant: the e-mail addresses you send to and receive from, and the subject lines of those messages; the phone numbers you dial, the numbers that dial in to your line, and the durations of the calls; the Internet sites you visit and the keywords in your Web searches; the destinations of the airline tickets you buy; the amounts and locations of your ATM withdrawals; and the goods and services you purchase on credit cards. All of this information is archived on government supercomputers and, according to sources, also fed into the Main Core database.
This stuff is absolutely chilling.
And there have been hints that such a list still exists today.
For example, the testimony of an anonymous government insider that was recently posted on shtfplan.com alluded to such a list…
And there have been hints that such a list still exists today.
For example, the testimony of an anonymous government insider that was recently posted on shtfplan.com alluded to such a list…
“We know all this already,” I stated. He looked at me,
giving me a look like I’ve never seen, and actually pushed his finger into my
chest. “You don’t know jack,” he said, “this is bigger than you can imagine,
bigger than anyone can imagine.
This administration is collecting names of sources, whistle blowers and
their families, names of media sources and everybody they talk to and have
talked to, and they already have a huge list. If you’re not
working for MSNBC or CNN, you’re probably on that list. If you are a website owner with a
brisk readership and a conservative bent, you’re on that list. It’s a political
dissident list, not an enemy threat list,” he stated.
What in the world is happening to America?
What in the world are we turning into?
As I mentioned in a previous article, the NSA gathers 2.1 million gigabytes of data on all of us every single hour. The NSA is currently constructing a 2 billion dollar data center out in Utah to store all of this data.
If you are disturbed by all of this, now is the time to stand up and say something. If this crisis blows over and people forget about all of this stuff again, the Big Brother surveillance grid that is being constructed all around us will just continue to grow and continue to become even more oppressive.
America is dying right in front of your eyes and time is running out. Please stand up and be counted while you still can.
What in the world are we turning into?
As I mentioned in a previous article, the NSA gathers 2.1 million gigabytes of data on all of us every single hour. The NSA is currently constructing a 2 billion dollar data center out in Utah to store all of this data.
If you are disturbed by all of this, now is the time to stand up and say something. If this crisis blows over and people forget about all of this stuff again, the Big Brother surveillance grid that is being constructed all around us will just continue to grow and continue to become even more oppressive.
America is dying right in front of your eyes and time is running out. Please stand up and be counted while you still can.
