4th Amendment for Sale: U.S. Intelligence Agencies Buying Social Media Data, Report Reveals

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4th Amendment for Sale: U.S. Intelligence Agencies Buying Social Media Data, Report Reveals

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A newly released report from Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines confirms that U.S. spy agencies are collecting vast amounts of social media, cell phone and other commercial data—though the full extent to which this is happening still isn’t clear.

“The [intelligence community] currently acquires a significant amount of [commercially available data] for mission-related purposes, including in some cases social media data [REDACTED] and many other types of information,” says the report, which contains redactions.

While giving a general description of intelligence agencies’ use of commercial data, the report lacks specifics. The ODNI said it doesn’t know which federal intelligence agencies are buying Americans’ personal data.

Examples cited in the report include the Defense Intelligence Agency—the Pentagon’s main intelligence agency—having a system that buys geolocation data around the world.

“DIA currently provides funding to another agency that purchases commercially available geolocation metadata aggregated from smartphones,” the report says, before explaining how the DIA separates foreign from American data.

The FBI also has a contract with the online intelligence firm ZeroFox for “social media alerting,” and the U.S. Navy has a contract with Sayari Analytics, Inc. for access to its database, which purportedly “contains tens of thousands of previously-unidentified specific nodes, facilities and key people related to U.S.-sanctioned actors.”

The DHS, meanwhile, has a corporate tool that allows it to analyze companies around the globe and their relationships to various subsidiaries.

Along with being light on details for what data is being bought, the report also doesn’t explain what agencies are doing with the data. The ODNI gave a general description that the data can be used for surveillance purposes, analysis and clandestine operations. The report gives one passing reference to how commercial data can be used for “building and training artificial intelligence models.”

Intelligence officials have been far more forthcoming than the report about their use of private data.

In 2020, Congress formed a temporary commission, the U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, which talked of the need for the government to have private data to train their AI weapons to combat China.

“What I would like to see is a broad research exemption that would allow the kind of data that is being collected to be used for research with appropriate safety safeguards and privacy concerns and so forth,” said former Google CEO and current military contractor Eric Schmidt, who chaired the commission.

“One of the key things to understand about AI is it needs data. It eats data; it’s how it trains it, how it learns. And the more data, the better.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Non-Binary Navy Drag Queen Could Be Court-Martialed

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Non-Binary Navy Drag Queen Could Be Court-Martialed

(Headline USA) The non-binary drag queen recruited by the U.S. Navy as one of its “ambassadors” could face a court martial for violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to a legal complaint filed this week.

The complaint, filed by America First Legal, demands an investigation into active duty Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, whose “stage name” is “Harpy Daniels.” It claims Kelley violated the military’s uniform code on several occasions by publicly wearing women’s clothing and posting graphic pictures and descriptions of sexual acts, where Kelley was wearing his Navy uniform, the Washington Examiner reported.

In one of the pictures, posted in August 2019, Kelley wore his uniform with the caption, “Hold on I haven’t had my coffee or daily dose of glitter and d**k.”

“These posts present a distorted view of the Navy to the public and bring discredit upon the armed forces,” the AFL complaint stated, arguing that Kelley has “engaged in partisan activity, behaved in ways that discredit the military, publicly criticized his command, and misused his uniform for personal gain.”

They cited a social media post from Kelley in which he bragged about how his ballot was “blue” and how he would “speak so much more of my political view” if he were “out of uniform.” He also retweeted a post calling former President Donald Trump a “motherf***er.”

“In order to preserve the Navy’s reputation, swift action must be taken to restore good order and discipline and to prevent further partisan activity that implies Navy endorsement of particular candidates and causes,” AFL counsel Jacob Meckler said in a press release. “America First Legal will not stand by and allow Kelley to sacrifice the military’s reputation in pursuit of his own partisan agenda.”

Kelley was appointed last month as the first of five “Navy digital ambassadors” for the military branch’s online recruitment efforts. He claimed on social media that he sees drag as a way to “advocate” for people who “were oppressed for years in the service.”

JPMorgan Chase Pays $290M to Epstein’s Sexual Abuse Victims

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JPMorgan Chase Pays $290M to Epstein’s Sexual Abuse Victims

(Headline USA) JPMorgan Chase reportedly reached an agreement this week to settle a lawsuit from victims of Jeffrey Epstein.

The mega-bank has not yet released details regarding the “agreement in principle,” but a “person familiar” with the deal said JPMorgan will pay a total of $290 million to the victims, who were a part of a class action lawsuit against the company. There were roughly 100 women involved with the suit, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The lawsuit alleged the bank handled Epstein’s finances and repeatedly ignored warnings about Epstein’s criminal enterprises, specifically his role in the sex trafficking of young women and girls.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon was called to sit for a deposition with lawyers for the victims last month and insisted that he had no part in handling Epstein’s accounts.

“Our CEO reaffirmed after his deposition that, as he has previously said, that he never met with him, never emailed him, does not recall ever discussing his accounts internally, and was not involved in any decisions about his account,” JP Morgan said in a statement. “There are millions and millions of emails and other documents that have been produced in this case and not one comes close to even suggesting that he had any role in decisions about Epstein’s accounts.”

However, several emails involving JPMorgan executive Mary Erdoes paint a picture of a sodrid relationship between herself and Epstein — even after he was convicted.

“While we regret any association with Jeffrey Epstein, we would never have continued to do business with him if we believed he was using our bank to commit heinous crimes,” JPMorgan spokesperson Darin Oduyoye said in a statement. “Mary Erdoes and others exited him as a client six years before he was charged with human trafficking.”

JPMorgan cut financial ties with Epstein in 2013, at which point he moved to the German bank Deutsche Bank AG as his main financial institution.

China Busted for Wuhan Bioweapons, ‘Plandemic’ Development: Report

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China Busted for Wuhan Bioweapons, ‘Plandemic’ Development: Report

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recently released report revealed that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were mutating viruses prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to create biological weapons.

According to The Blaze, China’s military attempted to create biological weapons while simultaneously developing a vaccine for their own citizens.

Investigators in the U.S. State Department received intelligence information on China’s actions leading up to the pandemic. More than a dozen investigators combed through metadata, phone records and internet information.

The investigative team concluded that China did indeed perform risky experiments in Wuhan prior to the pandemic.

“Wuhan scientists were conducting experiments on RaTG13 from the Moijang mine, and that covert military research, including laboratory animal experiments, was being done at the institute before the pandemic,” the team reported.

The Chinese lab tested at least nine different COVID variants.

Reports indicated that testing of the viruses began around 2017. In 2018, the institute started combining viruses similar to SARS with another illness contracted by Chinese copper minors that they likely contracted by coming into contact with bat guano, referred to as “WIV1.”

Rutgers University Professor of Chemical Biology Richard Ebright described the new combined virus as the most dangerous coronavirus experiment ever undertaken.

The mutated virus killed 75% of mice in testing, and had a high infection rate.

The NGO known as the EcoHealth Alliance partially funded the research into the virus and had ties to former U.S. Coronavirus Czar Anthony Fauci.

In November 2019, several of the scientists at the institute contracted the illness and went to the hospital with COVID-like symptoms. A relative of one of the workers allegedly died from the same illness.

“We were rock-solid confident that this was likely COVID-19 because they were working on advanced coronavirus research in the laboratory,” an investigator said. “They’re trained biologists in their thirties and forties. Thirty-five-year-old scientists don’t get very sick with influenza.”

A month before the outbreak, researchers conducted “serial passaging” experiments—a process which encouraged pathogens to mutate into deadlier versions of themselves.

Chinese scientists never published information about experiments due to its secretive nature.

“The investigators believe the Chinese military had taken an interest in developing a vaccine for the viruses so they could be used as potential bioweapons,” the report read. “If a country could inoculate its population against its own secret virus, it might have a weapon to shift the balance of world power.”

‘Trantifa’ Launches New Domestic Threats from Violent, Radical Leftists

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‘Trantifa’ Launches New Domestic Threats from Violent, Radical Leftists

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A new far-left group of activists has formed an Antifa-adjacent organization, Trantifa, to advance transgender “rights” and raise “awareness” through violent measures of the traumas experienced by transgenders.

As the left cracks down on supposed right-wing terrorism, Americans across the country are under assault at the hands of Transtifa, the Daily Mail reported.

Julio Rosas, an author who recently testified to House lawmakers about leftist extremism, cited a series of trans extremist incidents. In particular, he noted trans mass shooter Audrey Hale’s destructive shooting spree in a Christian elementary school in Nashville earlier this year.

“Trans activists gravitate towards these very far-left groups, because they share their anarcho-communist type ideology,” Rosas said, adding that the leftist stranglehold on the education world has aided such indoctrination.

“They view the US as systemically racist, that it’s subjugated queer people, and that states passing laws against child mutilations is part of a trans genocide,” he noted. “And they’re fighting back.”

The radicalized group of trans activist, according to Rosas, are concentrated on America’s coasts, and they coordinate together to stage rallies and riots, to confront their political opponents and to use social media to force their radicalism into the mainstream.

When the Daily Mail asked the FBI if it was monitoring transgender activism, it declined to respond.

On TikTok, transgenders have taken to posting images of themselves armed, prepared to fire weapons on those who deny them the “right” to use whatever bathroom they wish.

TikTok user Tara Jay, for example, recently shared a foreboding video clip with her 2,400 followers, suggesting that she would consider shooting anyone who tried to “stop me from going into the women’s bathroom.”

“It will be the last mistake you ever make,” Jay remarked in the now-deleted post, urging transgenders to acquire weapons for use on straight people.

Meanwhile, as transgender terrorism skyrockets, President Joe Biden and his intelligence agencies have decided to spend their time searching for white supremacists, among whom Muslims now seem to be included.

Reps. Mace and Luna: ‘Far More’ Hunter Files on Record, Contempt Charges Still Loom for FBI Chief

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Reps. Mace and Luna: ‘Far More’ Hunter Files on Record, Contempt Charges Still Loom for FBI Chief

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., slammed Biden’s Department of Justice for hiding information about Hunter Biden’s criminal investigations as she joined Steve Bannon’s War Room to discuss the ongoing investigation. 

Mace said that the House Oversight Committee investigating Biden’s suspicious foreign businesses plans to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress. Mace noted that Wray has access to subpoenaed documents that implicate the Democrat president but refused to hand them over to the committee.

The Post Millennial reported that Mace also blasted Biden’s DOJ for refusing to comply with the subpoena for the classified document found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and indicting him over them. 

 “What I’ve seen is damning. I want the American people to have access to the same information that I do. I want them to come to their own conclusions,” Mace said.

The congresswoman added that the oversight committee has even more work to do, as she confirmed the existence of evidence where Biden and his son allegedly bragged about hiding money. 

“We have far more bank records we’ve got to go over because they hid the money,” Mace explained. “They bragged about hiding the money yesterday in the 1023 document and said, ‘It would take the American people 10 years to find it.'”

Mace swore that the House Oversight Committee would not relent in its efforts to hold Biden accountable for his alleged crimes as Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., now knows about more than 1023 documents implicating the president. 

After Trump’s indictment, Mace alleged, “This was done on purpose. On the same day that we got access to information that corroborated corruption in the Biden family.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., also posted a video supporting the congresswoman’s claims with the caption, “We have evidence.”

In her video, she reminded that Alvin Bragg indicted President Trump in New York the day the oversight committee got the special activity reports.

“The day that House Oversight got access to the form from the FBI that stated that Joe Biden received a $5 million bribery transaction when he was sitting vice president, they then indicted President Trump again,” Luna said.

She concluded, “There is absolutely an exploitation and abuse of the justice system” by the Biden administration.

DHS Tried to Slap ‘Risk Scores’ on Social Media Users

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DHS Tried to Slap ‘Risk Scores’ on Social Media Users

(Robert Jonathan, Headline USA) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reportedly paid a contractor nearly $800,000 to develop a way to assign so-called risk scores to social media accounts using automated technology.

The left-wing Brennan Center for Justice, which claims to be nonpartisan, found out more about what the government called Project Night Fury through a freedom of information request and then shared the information with the leftist Vice news outlet.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham purportedly was the contractor for Night Fury, a 2018 data-collection initiative meant to initially identify potential pro-terrorism online accounts on platforms such as, but not limited to, Facebook and Twitter.

The apparent end goal was to expand DHS’s existing capabilities.

As part of its dissection of the internal documents it obtained from the feds, the Brennan Center implied that the potential for abuse was present.

“Under the system contemplated by Project Night Fury, it appears that social media users could be labeled as threats in the absence of any evidence of criminal activity or planning, or based on a misinterpretation of innocuous behavior.”

The Brennan Center also noted that “The contract also fails to explain or define what a ‘risk score’ would measure — whether the risk of being a terrorist, being pro-terrorist, committing a violent act, or something else — nor does it explain how automated social media analysis would be an appropriate tool to make that determination.”

Under the plan, moreover, the term pro-terrorist account was undefined, “vesting both the university and DHS with significant discretion in identifying the attributes that would justify the designation.”

The civil liberties organization insinuated that privacy rights may have been afterthought in Project Night Fury, a concern that had prompted a DHS inspector general investigation.

“The privacy threshold analyses also do not describe any safeguards, but they do state that DHS would collect a wide range of sensitive information, including account names, emails, phone numbers, pictures, and posts from members of the public,” the Brennan Center detailed.

It turns out that the project was abandoned in late 2019 apparently with no culmination.

“The project illustrates our ongoing concerns about the use of social media by DHS and other federal agencies to make high-stakes judgments in the absence of any concrete evidence of efficacy or robust guardrails to protect against discrimination and overreach,” the Brennan Center concluded.

In a statement responding to the revelations about Night Fury, a DHS spokesperson told Vice that it “is committed to protecting individuals’ privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.”

The agency went on to explain that it makes use of “various forms of technology” in its mission and that it has implemented appropriate safeguards when outsourcing functions to contractors.

The Project Night Fury concept has Chinese Communist Party undertones because it “bears a striking resemblance to the Chinese ‘social credit‘ scores assigned to citizens to measure their compliance with the regime,” Breitbart News provocatively claimed.

Mask Mandates Back in Style at White House

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Mask Mandates Back in Style at White House

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Despite the formal end to the state of emergency declared to address COVID, President Joe Biden has reintroduced masks and social distancing mandates to his White House.

As dozens of NCAA championship teams descended on the White House for “College Athlete Day,” the Biden administration released a statement that includes new COVID protocols for the unwashed who visit the White House.

“Masking Guidance: Fully vaccinated guests are not required to wear a mask on the White House grounds,” the email stated, adding social distancing policies as well for the unjabbed, Fox News reported.

“Guests who are not fully vaccinated must wear a mask at all times and maintain at least 6 feet distance from others while on the White House grounds,” Biden’s White House demanded.

When asked about the new mandates, the White House claimed that they had accidentally included old information in the welcome packets, and that they would be sending out new information to visiting athletes.

Further, the Biden administration is continuing to discriminate against the unvaxxed, despite the numerous health complications linked to the jab.

The White House mandate comes long after the effectiveness of masking has been debunked.

For example, in a study published earlier this year, scientists conducted a systematic review of more than 2,000 studies on the adverse effects of masking, finding “significant effects in both medical surgical and N95 masks.”

It turns out that the covering the breathing orifices of humans for long periods of time carries health consequences, among them “decreased oxygen saturation and increases in heart rate, blood pressure, blood-CO2 levels, and skin temperature, as well as dizziness, speech impediments, headaches, and dyspnea.”

In other words, the government mandated the use of things actively harming public health, just as the Food and Drug Administration has done for decades.

“Face mask side-effects must be assessed (risk-benefit) against the available evidence of their effectiveness against viral transmissions,” the authors concluded. “In the absence of strong empirical evidence of effectiveness, mask wearing should not be mandated let alone enforced by law.”

Calif. Wants to Charge Parents Who Oppose Trans Agenda w/ ‘Child Abuse’

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Calif. Wants to Charge Parents Who Oppose Trans Agenda w/ ‘Child Abuse’

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) A recent revision to California legislation required judges trying custody disputes to treat parents who refused to “affirm” their child’s gender identity as a threat to their safety.

According to the Washington Free Beacon, the bill—which passed through the State Assembly in March—demanded that judges favor the parent who affirms their child’s delusion as being more considerate of their “health, safety, and welfare.”

The bill’s opposition expressed concern that this change would lead to state courts treating “misgendering” as abuse.

“When you say that gender affirmation is in the child’s best interest for health, safety and welfare, it takes nothing to say [non-affirmation] is now abuse—because you’re not taking care of the health, safety, and welfare if you’re not affirming them,” said San Francisco attorney, Erin Friday.

If passed, school administrators, church officials and hospital workers must affirm a child’s perception of their own gender, lest they risk incurring charges of child abuse.

In AB 957, co-author State Senator Scott Wiener made no attempt to limit reports of child abuse by the child’s age, length of gender identification or regulate a child’s affirmation of social transition. He also neglected to provide a definition of a “nonaffirming” parent or guardian.

Parent’s rights activists fought the bill, calling it a “grotesque violation of both children’s and parent’s rights.”

“While more and more European countries pound the breaks on ghoulish gender medicine for kids, California has decided to mandate it,” said Jay Richards, director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion and Family.

“They not only want to make sure that any child with discordant feelings toward his or her sexed body gets fast tracked to cross-sex hormones and sterilizing surgery, state Democrats want to go after parents who might otherwise hesitate.”

Critics also spoke out against the bill for its possible effects on visitation or custody rights for parents who did not ascribe to gender ideology.

“It’s not a giant leap–it’s a tiny step to get there,” said Friday. “We know exactly where they are going with it. I didn’t think the bill could get worse, but it got worse.”

Wiener previously authored legislation to make California a sanctuary state for minors seeking sex changes without parental consent.

He has several other forthcoming proposals—one of which would require foster parents to affirm trans-identifying children. Another proposal, if passed, would reform the state’s sex offender registry to give a pass to gay pedophiles.

‘F**k You!’: ‘Dilbert’ Creator Blasts Trump Indictment

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‘F**k You!’: ‘Dilbert’ Creator Blasts Trump Indictment

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Scott Adams, the controversial creator of the comic strip “Dilbert,” slammed the indictment of President Trump in a video posted to Twitter.

Adams began his treatment of the indictment with a comparison to another investigation involving another former president of the United States.

“This is not Watergate,” he said. Adams claimed that with Watergate evidence was presented to the public, and because the evidence was overwhelming, addressing the criminal behavior was uncontroversial with the American people.

Adams then said that the public’s response will differ radically if they are not presented with evidence in Trump’s case, but rather given descriptions of documents that they cannot verify.

“If you put a living ex-president who is running for office in prison – in prison – and you don’t let the public see the evidence, because it’s private, it’s all secret stuff, no,” Adams said, explaining that unverifiable evidence is insufficient to convince the American people that Biden’s appointees may jail their bosses primary political opponent. “Let me just say this as clearly as possible,” Adams continued, “No! No! No, that’s not gonna happen.”

Adams clarified that he was not predicting political events.

“Now I don’t know what will happen,” he said. “But I’ll tell you what’s not gonna happen. You’re not gonna put the f**king president in jail… prison, you’re not gonna put the f**king president in prison without showing us the evidence.”

Adams, and the American people, have good reason to be suspicious of claims made by federal intelligence officers about President Trump. We now know that the FBI’s connections to Fusion GPS played a significant role in creating the phony anti-Trump smear, the Steele Dossier.

Indeed, affidavits suggest that the FBI may have even planted the phony anti-Trump information.

Adam’s concluding comments, in that light, were well suited for the occasion and trust necessary to believe the indictment was created in good faith.

“Now if you can’t show us the evidence, F**k You!”

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