I am in Berlin for the annual Sam Adams Award – this time to William Binney, formerly Technical Director of the NSA. There will be an address by Edward Snowden (and a short contribution from me). It really is a tremendous event, with some very senior former intelligence professionals making revelations about the extent to which the security state is out of control, a tool of immoral governments dominated by corporate interests.
The event is at the Berlin-Moscow Venue, 52 Unter Den Linden, and starts at 7pm (6pm UK time). It will be livestreamed on the Sam Adams website.
7:00-7:05 Wilkommen by Joerg Dreger, Managing Partner, Dreger Group
7:05-7:12 Ray McGovern, veteran CIA senior intelligence officer (27 years) and presidential briefer; SAA cofounder and Master of Ceremonies: Moment of Silence for Ambassador Robert White; acknowledgement of David MacMichael, retired Senior Estimates Officer in National Intelligence Council; Overview of history/purpose of Sam Adams Award
7:12-7:15 Annie Machon, former M15 intelligence officer (speech + introduction of Katharine and Craig)
7:15-7:20 Katharine Gun*, former GCHQ intelligence officer
7:20-7:25 Craig Murray*, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan
7:25-7:28 Coleen Rowley*, former FBI Special Agent and Minneapolis Chief Division Counsel (brief remarks +introduction of Todd P., Jesselyn & Tom)
7:28-7:33 Jesselyn Radack*, former ethics adviser, US Department of Justice and National Security; Human Rights Adviser, Government Accountability Project (GAP)
7:33-7:37 Todd Pierce, Major, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.); Guantanamo Military Commissions Defense Counsel
7:37-7:45 Thomas Drake*, former senior intelligence service executive, National Security Agency (NSA) – (speech + introduction of Ed Snowden)
7:45-8:00 Edward Snowden* (by video link), former NSA contractor; former CIA systems administrator
8:00-8:05 Ray McGovern segue to SAA Award Announcement; Reading of SAAII citation by Annie M. & Elizabeth M.(English and German versions, respectively); conferral by Thomas Drake of Sam Adams Integrity in Intelligence Corner-Brightener Candlestick to William Binney, former National Security Agency (NSA) Technical Director, World Geopolitical and Military Analysis, NSA, and co-founder, Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center
8:05-8:20 Acceptance speech by William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical and Military Analysis, NSA, and co-founder, Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center; Q & A
8:20-8:25 Wrap-up by Ray McGovern
8:25-8:30 Closing remarks by Joerg Dreger
8:30-9:00 Reception
*denotes former Sam Adams Award recipient
“Habba said: ‘If such mass harvesting does occur, who is going to read all of the intercepts? Is the necessary manpower available?’”
Yup.
They’ve created a database of material on everyone using the internet and mobile networks.. They pull out your file when they’re specifically interested in you, and more generally when you’re flagged in connection with something of interest.
So, if they haven’t already knocked on your door, just consider yourself pending.
On a brighter note, I’d imagine these great databases will also be sold to Advertising and other corporate outlets.
So, be expecting more of those annoying phone calls.
@Habbabkuk: “If such mass harvesting does occur, who is going to read all of the intercepts? Is the necessary manpower available?”
From my understanding, it’s not so much a real-time monitoring exercise as a means for retro-active analysis and profiling, once something interesting is brought to light. And also mass pattern-testing for suspicious methods of activity, once such a method is stumbled upon or conjectured. (Having said that, a great deal of real-time monitoring for the more obvious triggers is going to occur too, as the data is being cross referenced and filed away.)
For instance, once it is established that a cunning method of communication is being employed, a great deal of trace data can be looked through to see where it was done, by whom, where, the contents looked at if possible, and triggers set up to provide more immediate alerts where it occurs again. That method of communication can be examined in retrospect – who else has employed it, when, where, with whom?
Once a person of suspicion is identified, a great deal of history can be called upon to trace their movements, contacts, spending patterns, and profile them and all their mates to several degrees of separation.
Should you be a person of interest who falls out of favour, knowing everything you (and your mates) have just about ever done, said, watched, listened to, consumed, associated with or conceivably could have same, is an ideal way to discredit that person. (And make any mates who might stand up for them think twice, for that matter.)
That’s the sort of thing the vast bank of historical data is for, and computers are supremely good at sifting through it and establishing patterns. You don’t need 1/3rd of the population monitoring everyone (including each other) on a real-time basis.
Sorry, I repeated a point in my second paragraph (shame there isn’t a minute or so grace to correct these things). Generally, I feel it pointless to make another post to correct an obvious typo – let it stand!
So to add value to this extra post, may I refer False-Flag watchers to the latest one unfolding, even as we speak! I’ve written the preliminaries to uncovering the false-flag here:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/01/inevitable-payback/comment-page-1/#comment-504781
(24 Jan, 2015 – 4:25 pm) – if the link doesn’t work – right at the bottom.
RoS should love it.
So, be expecting more of those annoying phone calls.
Helloooo, Sir. I’m just calling to see if you’d be interested in our latest promotion. Buy one suicide belt and get one absolutely free….
This is quite an interesting history of The Sam Adams Award.
“Ray McGovern established the Sam Adams Associates “to reward intelligence officials who demonstrated a commitment to truth and integrity, no matter the consequences.””
http://orientalreview.org/2013/07/12/snowden-honored-by-group-of-former-intelligence-officials/
Sibel Edmonds won the award the year before Craig:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds
She’d be a media superstar, were it not for an unfortunate habit of stepping outside the illusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cze1zVDsQMs
Has her own website:
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/
Trowbridge, sorry no sign of your comment at this end. Akismet may have eaten it; it doesn’t bother telling us in 98% of cases. Try a “binary search” re-post. Write the comment in a text editor. Split it in half and post as 2 comments. Whichever half doesn’t get through contains the problem. Repeat until bored.
Mary (& homeneara), thanks! Craig made an excellent point about the risk of being killed by a terrorist being negligible compared with that of being murdered by an acquaintance.
Speaking of Sibel Edmonds, her new novel The Lone Gladio, is very interesting, among other things for her take on what really happened on 9/11.
The Art of Deception:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpJnwCtxKJQ
More news about Leon Brittan:
Leon Brittan Ex-Labour MP Barbara Castle said former Home Secretary was man ‘she could not trust’: The former cabinet minister said the Tory peer was “a powerful man with many secrets”.
The idea of giving him that dossier makes me think of Quatermass II.
Before I retire I must make a comment. It was Julian Assange who told us that Poroshenko was the US governments’ (from memory) “man in Ukraine” revealed by leaked documents. The United States, which cannot ever pay off its Mickey Mouse money debt, has ensured, with UK complicity (as in torture) that Julian Assange is ostracised in a foreign embassy until the general public becomes aware of what is going on.
Meanwhile, Poroshenko, that big lump of chocolate lard, prepares for further deaths to bring Russia into a war which the US thinks can save it from its debt. It cannot. This time nobody will get rich from the world war. But those who tried to do will be pilloried from here to kingdom come. America is already training Ukraine troops in its methods of modern warfare. In a land which never had a civil war for ninety years the brown fatman and weasel-faced Yatsenyuk, have torn part of their own country apart in an attempt to draw Russia into a conflict that will end the world as we know it.
Poroshenko so loves his people that he is arranging a massive memorial graveyard for them.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/12/ukraine-prepares-250000-graves-soldiers.html
We have to stop the unholy alliance with the US. Syriza might show us the way. Bloody well hope so, for young people and future generations.
Am I on pre-mod? I’ve just posted 4 comments and none of them registered.
Glenn
The point about the collection of metadata is that those who spy on others are by definition breaking the natural order of society, putting psychological pressure on those they are spying upon. Even animals think twice about copulating when they see they are being observed. The crime of spying is far more extreme than anything they are likely to spy on.
Spying is a power thing. It makes the spiers feel superior to others when they are in reality inferior. It makes them feel as though they have power over others while in fact the spied-on can feed their spying-addicted minds many kinds of psychological poison.
What is it about the spiers that they cannot trust in the providence of God and the freedom of individual witness? Every experience must be channelled through their machine.
A psychologist once said to me that I had a competitive mentality. Darlings, you’re the ones with the white coats on!
People who spy are the ones with the white coats on and their addiction to that feeling of control sooner or later ties the ends of their sleeves together behind their backs in padded cells.
The world’s politicians have now reached the stage of hyper-manic psychosis manifested by Stalin, Hitler and Saddam Hussain.
The population of Syria has not and will not cave in to the combined pressure of trillionaire Gulf monarchs, tortured and brainwashed CIA operatives, the whole world’s media, and the purchase of learned, ambitious religious thinkers.
Whoever spies, lies. And whoever lies has no foothold in the help of Allah. Spying is like a huge celebration fireworks display, achieving absolutely nothing and wasting a hell of a lot of money and time.
Janet, I ain’t going to do you..and I ain’t going to do Blair(tonight)…and My Wife and I are much the same age..
Tonight was F’ckin AWESOME
It was absolutely Packed
We were Both Dancing at The Front..
and we thought we were..
Well actually we were..and still look pretty much the same
TEENAGERS
We can’t change anything…all this geopolitical shiit…
just f’kin ignore them..don’t do what they tell you to do…just say yes..agree and carry on..just exactly what you already had planned to do…and some of them try nagging on your back..these cretins these psychopaths..these parasites..trying to suck your energy and blood out of you..
Ignore them..don’t even tell them to f.ck off..just walk away..leave them..throw them off
They can’t control you..if you don’t let them get your attention.
They ain’t human
We are.
Love & Peace,
Tony & Wife & Friends xx
The Band was Something Else..we really weren’t expecting that
But I am going To Do Blair..the Evil C.NT
I am having you on Trial For War Crimes Against Humanity
@ John Goss.
Have you seen this – a heavily armed American soldier in Mariupol who isn’t pleased to accidentally find himself on TV. Look out for him at 2′ 32″.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84503534&v=kiwIUsX63Hk&x-yt-ts=1421914688#t=175
Sorry..it get’s worse…but wtf..
So Far as I can see after 50 Years of Such Intensive Programming..well actually largely designed in London and initially practiced in London and Berlin
The AMERICANS Are Gone
You see.. they had adverts every 30 seconds on American TV…
Whilst we in The UK – had The Avengers and The Prisoner No 6
Lets Face it You American Guys Seriously F.Cked Up
You are Gone
Bye…
Our New Friends and Trading Partners – Are Not You
We in The UK..Have Cut THE USA OFF
Goodbye..Go and Have a W/BANK
Tony
John Goss speaking of the US and Ukraine.
‘We have to stop the unholy alliance with the US.’
You should see Modi and Obama greeting each other. They could not stop shaking hands and even hugged. Michelle looked a bit left out.
What is their alliance all about? Trade? Arms supplies? Knocking China?
Barack Obama Lands In India For Visit
President Obama receives a hug from Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he disembarks from Air Force One with the First Lady.
http://news.sky.com/story/1414392/barack-obama-lands-in-india-for-visit
Obama arrives for three-day India visit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-30930581
Johm
You must be pre-mad. Filter problem.
John. Of interest on the attack on Mariupol.
Who killed 30 civilians in Mariupol : The Guardian v M o A
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1422155024.html
Glenn @ 10.38
Excellent post.
And, of course, a key feature of mass surveillance is that we all become self-policing knowing that we are being watched & recorded. Just as we drive differently when we see a police car in the vicinity, so we will behave differently knowing the authorities are always watching. The policeman takes up residence in our heads. For the system to work it is also important that we all know we are being watched.
@KingofWelshNoir: That’s nothing new. I’m sure you know about the omniscient, omnipresent deity that being were brought up to fear, and was used to control people, in the not too distant past.
I don’t have any problem with this, btw, provided that it is “good” (i.e. allowing people to grow and develop), as opposed to being repressive. It is the latter that humans have had to resist, it seems, again and again, throughout history…
Who watches the watchers?
In a democracy, the watchers should be answerable to the people. Anything else starts the slippery slope to totalitarian government.
@habby 24/1/15 6:34pm If such mass harvesting does occur, who is going to read all of the intercepts? Is the necessary manpower available?
Well, re:the Amesys-Bull ‘Eagle’ monitoring system that the French sold to Ghadaffi’s Lybia already weaponised; this filing cabinet sized box could store an entire years’ internet traffic, for a whole country. The ensuing database could then be keyword searched at the leisure of the Ministry of Peace & Love. People died.
Closer to home, the entrepreneur Christine Maxwell (sister to Ghislaine) co-founded the CHILIAD data-mining system, and another sexy ‘autonomous’ tool that is used to analyse/categorise our over-collected data is sold by PALANTIR. There are many other systems, I know this because I asked the ‘Home Office’ and they completely denied that any such tool exists or is used!
These tools can simply produce a list of all people who mention “Syria” in a text-message, or in the future those who moan about “King Charles”, for further processing by the….
This will be a better way to post the link that five times I could not post.
https://www.facebook.com/craig.murray.1257/posts/10153513372667646?notif_t=like
Despite the misinformation put out by the resident turds (or mounds of chocolate lard to use their terminology) – the OSCE confirm the missile attacks on Mariupol came from DNR controlled areas
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/136061
BTW
Congratulations to Bradford City for their superb FA Cup victory yesterday over the New Russian attempt to buy British football!
3 years in a penal colony for blogging critical of the regime – I wonder if Sergei Reznik was up for an award at the Sam Adams awards?
http://www.osce.org/fom/135776
Resident Dissident : Despite the misinformation put out by the resident turds . . . .
Why do you post here? I’m glad you do, but I’m curious as to how you would justify it. You give every appearance of despising the majority of posters here, so presumably you’re not concerned for our moral, spiritual or educational welfare, yet you spend your precious time trying to convince us of the ‘official position’ on topics. Personally, I learn a lot from this site, but I doubt you would admit to that, so just why do you bless us with your presence?
“In a democracy, the watchers”
Peacewisher, unfortunately that statement falls to pieces right there.
Don’t buy into the narrative. It is unacceptable to have watchers, totally unacceptable.