US Senator: Yes, We Intend to Monitor All Phone Calls and Internet Searches

US Senator: Yes, We Intend to Monitor All Phone Calls and Internet Searches

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Rockefeller makes clear that the impending changes to the law aren't about making it easier for the National Security Agency to listen in on a particular terrorism suspect's phone calls. Instead, the changes are about letting the nation's spooks secretly and unilaterally install filters inside America's phone and internet infrastructure.

Privatising US Law Enforcement: The FBI Deputizes Business

by Matthew Rothschild

--, February 9, 2008
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Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to “shoot to kill” in the event of martial law.

InfraGard is “a child of the FBI,” says Michael Hershman, the chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members Alliance and CEO of the Fairfax Group, an international consulting firm.
InfraGard started in Cleveland back in 1996, when the private sector there cooperated with the FBI to investigate cyber threats.
“Then

I thought that this already existed?

Hardly a journalistic masterpiece, but it pretty much sums what I was implying. --

The system they refer to, I believe was enabled to act when key words were detected.