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DHS Source says surveillance is going after whistleblowers, leakers, media sources and involves both parties

The news that the NSA is monitoring Verizon, multiple Internet and communication sources is just the latest scandal to hit Washington.

While the Intelligence head is providing some damage control, a DHS “insider” paints a different picture to Canada Free Press.

photo Anonymous9000 via Flickr

photo Anonymous9000 via Flickr

“If anyone thinks that what’s going on right now with all of this surveillance of American citizens is to fight some sort of foreign enemy, they’re delusional. If people think that this ‘scandal’ can’t get any worse, it will, hour by hour, day by day. This has the ability to bring down our national leadership, the administration and other senior elected officials working in collusion with this administration, both Republican and Democrats. People within the NSA, the Department of Justice, and others, they know who they are, need to come forth with the documentation of ‘policy and practice’ in their possession, disclose what they know, fight what’s going on, and just do their job. I have never seen anything like this, ever. The present administration is going after leakers, media sources, anyone and everyone who is even suspected of ‘betrayal.’ That’s what they call it, ‘betrayal.’ Can you believe the size of their cojones? This administration considers anyone telling the truth about Benghazi, the IRS, hell, you name the issue, ‘betrayal.’”

The author, Doug Hagmann, outlines his extensive meeting with the source and even pushed back that the comments made were not surprising at all.

“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, whistleblowers 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,” the source said.

The DHS “whistleblower” says it’s about censorship and control.

“It means that there will be censorship under the color of authority of anyone in the U.S. who is attempting to expose what’s going on in our name. It’s about controlling any damning information from reaching epidemic proportions. It’s damage control to the extreme. It’s about the upcoming censorship of the internet in the name of national security. The plans are already in place. These latest reports about ‘spying eyes’ have turned this administration and others connected to it into something very, very dangerous. They feel cornered and threatened, and I’m hearing about some plans they have to shut down the flow of information that is implicating them of wrongdoing. Time is short.”

Here’s the other assertions made:

  • Use the Justice Department to silence journalists like in the Rosen case, but they won’t stop there. They will use a host of national security policies, laws, letters, whatever to take out the bigger threats
  • Use some sort of excuse, an external threat, and I believe it will be a combination of the economic collapse and a Mid-East war that will begin in Syria to throttle the information that is accessible on the Internet
  • DHS is co-ordinating efforts with other federal agencies to begin to threaten American citizens with incarceration for non-compliance
  • People exposing the truth about Benghazi, killing the U.S. Dollar, even those questioning Obama’s legal status and eligibility to be President are the current targets
  • This is about the Marxist takeover of America. This is about our country being able to survive another July 4th holiday
  • This is about a world war about to break out that will kill millions of people, all because of the agenda of this administration
 
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