DHS coordinate with local LE

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DHS is once again directly involved in local LE enforcement matters. Say "welcome" to Big Brother.


Authorities raid Main Street club

by robert stewart
Advocate staff writer
July 21, 2012

Authorities raided a Baton Rouge club Friday night and arrested 29 people, 23 of whom were underage, a Baton Rouge police spokesman said.
Baton Rouge police, along with the Office of the State Fire Marshal, Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control, and Homeland Security Investigations raided Club Theory on 602 Main St., Cpl. L’Jean McKneely said in a news release.
The identities of the 23 underage people arrested were not released. McKneely said they were booked and released to their relatives.
The six adults arrested were:

• XXX, 27, booked into Parish Prison with possession of marijuana
• XXX, 23, booked with entry or remaining after being forbidden and resisting an officer
• XXX, 24, booked with interfering with an officer
• XXX, 27, booked with possession of a firearm in an alcohol establishment
• XXX, 20, booked with possession of marijuana
• XXX, 21, booked with resisting an officer and simple battery on an officer

Police also found suspected illegal drugs and three handguns in the club, McKneely said. The drugs will be destroyed, he said.


http://theadvocate.com/news/3405471-...in-street-club

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Military Industrial Complex Darling Neustar is using loopholes to bypass privacy regulations and sell cell phone tracking data to law enforcement and marketers.
Born out of the Military Industrial Complex’s Lockheed Martin, one of the government’s largest defense contractor’s, Delaware based Neustar has data on nearly every cell in America.
Due to their role as middle man in Uncle Sam’s multi-billion spy network Neustar has built a cozy relationship with law enforcement agencies across the country who tap the company records when they want to track you or to discover were you have been.
This of course comes with caveat that since the company isn’t a cell phone carrier regulations that prevent carriers from handing over your data to third parties doesn’t apply to Neustar.
As RT reports in the two videos below, the company has become an intelligence agency for hire for law enforcement agencies and the go to source for marketers who want to aggressively put localized ads in front of your face no matter were you are located.
The report raises serious constitutional and consumer privacy concerns about the companies relationship with law enforcement and marketing agencies.
Neustar is spying on Americans for the government.

Spy agency has Google-style capability to search all communications.
The National Security Agency is storing all electronic communications and analyzing them in real time, according to former NSA employee turned whistleblower William Binney, who warns that the federal agency has a Google-style capability to search all conversations for keywords.

Since 2008, the NSA has had the legal power to intercept all phone calls, emails and text messages sent by American citizens without probable cause. However, although long suspected, the agency has never admitted that it is analyzing the content of such messages, conceding only that persons, dates and locations are part of the snooping process.
However, in a recent*sworn declaration to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Binney, a former NSA employee with the signals intelligence agency within the DoD, divulges that the federal agency, “has the capability to do individualized searches, similar to Google, for particular electronic communications in real time through such criteria as target addresses, locations, countries and phone numbers, as well as watch-listed names, keywords, and phrases in email.”
Using as many as twenty data intercept centers throughout the United States which can each store an almost unimaginable quantity of information, Binney notes that, “The sheer size of that capacity indicates that the NSA is not filtering personal electronic communications such as email before storage but is, in fact, storing all that they are collecting.”
Binney also points to FBI Director Robert Mueller’s 2011 admission that the FBI, with the aid of the NSA and DoD, had “put in place technological improvements relating to the capabilities of a database to pull together past emails as well as … and future ones as they come in so that it does not require an individualized search.”
Binney said he quit the NSA in 2001 because “the individual liberties preserved in the U.S. Constitution were no longer a consideration,” after 9/11.

Binney’s revelations coalesce with the fact that, according to many privacy experts, the NSA has been intercepting and recording all electronic communications across the entire world since at least the early 1990′s.
In 1999,*the Australian government admitted*that they were part of an NSA-led global intercept and surveillance program called Echelon in alliance with*the US and Britain that could listen to “every international telephone call, fax, e-mail, or radio transmission,” on the planet.
In addition, a*2001 European Parliament report stated*that “within Europe all e-mail, telephone and fax communications are routinely intercepted” by the NSA.
Under the Clinton Administration Echelon certainly turned its attention to citizens of countries around the globe and monitored millions of calls and other communications.
Echelon expert Mike Frost, who spent 20 years as a spy for the Canadian equivalent of the National Security Agency, told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that the agency was monitoring “everything from data transfers to cell phones to portable phones to baby monitors to ATMs.”
Last month the NSA refused to provide details*of its clandestine spying program, ironically arguing that to do so would violate the privacy of American citizens.
When Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall of the intelligence oversight committee asked that the NSA provide a rough estimate as to how many U.S. citizens have had their communications monitored under the expanded Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the federal agency refused to provide the figure because it would “further violate the privacy of U.S. persons.”