Sonny Clark
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Do you trust your government? Do you trust the FBI? Do you trust your local police department? It seems justice and corruption may be closer kin folk than one may have thought.
FBI Caught Letting Criminals Go Rather than Being Transparent About their Police Spy Program
New York, NY — Stingray devices, generically known as international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) catchers, are designed to emit a signal that is stronger than nearby cell phone towers in order to force phones in the vicinity to connect to them. Once connected, all call records, location data, text messages and metadata are accessible to those in control of the device.
This technology was originally developed for anti-terrorism operations by Harris Corporation but has been employed by police departments across the U.S. for use in standard police work.
New information shows that the FBI lets suspects in criminal cases go free rather than revealing the details of their use of stingray devices.
Judge Patrick H. NeMoyer in Buffalo, New York, described a 2012 deal between the FBI and the Erie County Sheriff’s Office in his court order Tuesday: The FBI instructed the police to drop criminal charges instead of revealing “any information concerning the cell site simulator or its use.”
Erie police had long tried to keep that contract secret, but the judge rejected that idea and ordered that details of the Stingrays be made public.
“If that is not an instruction that affects the public, nothing is,” NeMoyer wrote.
The lead ACLU attorney on this case, Mariko Hirose, described Stingrays as military-grade equipment that has no place being used on unsuspecting American citizens. She also said that the FBI’s tactic to stay quiet about Stingrays makes little sense. Erie County spent more than $350,000 to buy two Stingray devices and related training and equipment.
“Why are municipalities spending so much money when they might have to drop the charges in the name of secrecy?” she asked.
FBI Caught Letting Criminals Go Rather than Being Transparent About their Police Spy Program The Free Thought Project
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Our judicial system is infested with secrecy and obvious corruption. This includes the FBI, Department of Justice, and local and state police departments. Law enforcement agencies across the country are engaging in spying, and John Q. Public is their target and victim. The "right to privacy" has become an ancient relic, and is no longer valid in a country that once bragged to the world about American privileges granted by founding principles of citizen rights. U.S. Governments, on all levels, can spy on citizens and keep them under surveillance with or without just cause.
FBI Caught Letting Criminals Go Rather than Being Transparent About their Police Spy Program
New York, NY — Stingray devices, generically known as international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) catchers, are designed to emit a signal that is stronger than nearby cell phone towers in order to force phones in the vicinity to connect to them. Once connected, all call records, location data, text messages and metadata are accessible to those in control of the device.
This technology was originally developed for anti-terrorism operations by Harris Corporation but has been employed by police departments across the U.S. for use in standard police work.
New information shows that the FBI lets suspects in criminal cases go free rather than revealing the details of their use of stingray devices.
Judge Patrick H. NeMoyer in Buffalo, New York, described a 2012 deal between the FBI and the Erie County Sheriff’s Office in his court order Tuesday: The FBI instructed the police to drop criminal charges instead of revealing “any information concerning the cell site simulator or its use.”
Erie police had long tried to keep that contract secret, but the judge rejected that idea and ordered that details of the Stingrays be made public.
“If that is not an instruction that affects the public, nothing is,” NeMoyer wrote.
The lead ACLU attorney on this case, Mariko Hirose, described Stingrays as military-grade equipment that has no place being used on unsuspecting American citizens. She also said that the FBI’s tactic to stay quiet about Stingrays makes little sense. Erie County spent more than $350,000 to buy two Stingray devices and related training and equipment.
“Why are municipalities spending so much money when they might have to drop the charges in the name of secrecy?” she asked.
FBI Caught Letting Criminals Go Rather than Being Transparent About their Police Spy Program The Free Thought Project
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Our judicial system is infested with secrecy and obvious corruption. This includes the FBI, Department of Justice, and local and state police departments. Law enforcement agencies across the country are engaging in spying, and John Q. Public is their target and victim. The "right to privacy" has become an ancient relic, and is no longer valid in a country that once bragged to the world about American privileges granted by founding principles of citizen rights. U.S. Governments, on all levels, can spy on citizens and keep them under surveillance with or without just cause.
