National Security Letters-like a Diving Shop, from whom the FBI demanded a list of its students, or a Video store's list of viewed movies, or a local Library's list of rented books. Hmm. Did you rent "Enemy of the State"?
Administrative Subpoenas: Completely illegal abuse of government authority issuing edicts as though they were written in stone by God, (like the 10 Commandments).
Watch List ("Terrorist") 750,000 names? Really, there are that many enemies, or just people against the "Bush Crime Family"?
No-Fly List: As in 2 old ladies, from Florida, wearing PINK, (Oh my God, not Pink) T-Shirts. Or the kid with the Anti-Bush T-Shirt. A list reported to hold 100,000 names? You better hope you are not a Smith, a Jones, or dare to have 'Mohamed' anywhere in your name. When you land back in the USA, an agent may look at your passport and say "Oh, Egypt, get in that line please". Yeah, Egypt, it's a country on the world map, a member of the U.N., a staunch ally (and now paying the price daily) of the USA.
Pentagon "Track & Target" 2841 Anti-War Activists, who they no-doubt did their best to undermine in their quest for endless war.
Airport Security-Removing Shoes & Belts, forcing travelers through a new Detector Sniffer by G.E. Iontrack, which smells 3 Explosive-production substances and 8 drug related. Terrorism, eh? Hmm.
Interception of Emails absent a warrant, that quant old theory of justice where an impartial party evaluates the merits of a request.
Carnivore Program illegal sweep & interception of telephone conversations using "Key word search" formula for listening for words like 'Osama'. Nothing prevents listening for "Cheney Sucks Shit", except the 100,000 instances an hour which would overwhelm the system.
Echelon Program uses Satellite Interceptors to listen-in to Phone Calls, based in seven Western-allied English-speaking countries .
Interception of Telephone Switch Traffic (ATT San Francisco) without a court-ordered warrant or specifically designated target, but a complete absorption of ALL traffic (supposedly criminal or not. Don't worry, we can always find a crime to suit the call, or enact legislation to criminalize previously legal activities. Gotcha ! )
Re-Route Traffic (ATT, New Jersey) Same as #10, but routing traffic closer to computer servers-how convenient.
"Trap & Trace" the Phone, not the Target- This Orwellian "Guilt by Association" (encased in the Un-Patriotic Act), which allows agents to 'follow the phone a suspect calls, not just the phone of the actual suspect who they are tailing. Watch out Pizzerias, screen your callers on that next order. If they are under investigation, so are you.
Total Information Awareness (TIA) program by Pentagon claimed to be dis-banded, no doubt a lie. Collects and cross-references ALL credit-cards, flights, passengers, phone calls, email, faxes, etc on scaleable Terra Servers with unlimited capacity, tracing and creating a relational database, creating criminal associations where none previously existed.
Sneak & Peak: A small matter where people with dirty shoes traipse through your house fishing for "The Anarchists Cookbook" and have 2 weeks to tell you they were there, (without the required court-ordered warrant)
Switch Duplication (Flow and Caller ID-ATT) as reported, would replicate a switch center (ATT Class 5) at NSA in Fort Meade or Fiber to FBI, Quantico.
FBI Infiltration of 40+foreign countries restricting Americans' Constitutionally Guaranteed rights to Freedom of Travel & Association
FBI & local police Infiltration of grassroots Peace & Anti-War groups fostering suspicion, acting as 'Agent Provocateur', violating 1st Amendment rights, attempting to undermine, embarrass and destroy them.
Violations of Posse Comitatus- military deployed on streets, trains, airports. Federalization of National Guard (shoved into recent legislation, without debate)
Violations of Posse Comitatus - use of 'Drone' aircraft remote controlled from the Pentagon, spying on American cities
Violations of Posse Comitatus-Federalization of Local Police in Immigration and other issues (see #17)
Monitoring of Bank Transactions via SWIFT & other means
Acquiring video evidence with a warrant (refers to private cameras in Gas Stations, ATM, Shops, Malls...)
Tracking cash transactions (as in Amtrak National Passenger Rail Service providing a passenger list to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of those taking a round-trip train to New York, same day & paying cash!
Reading Faxes (called a "Fax Sniffer"). Don't believe us? Search the public bid database by Wright-Patterson AFB for a five (5) unit RFP.
Target tracking via Embedded RFID and Satellite transmitter chip. The stuff sci-fi movies were made of.
We forgot the suspension of Habeas Corpus, that quant little idea 500 years old, dating back to the Magna Carta. Did we mention designating Americans as "Enemy Combatants" or holding people without charges, or the right to see an attorney or to be presented with the evidence, including your accusers?
Posse Comitatus: The concept, intent and origins,
previously inviolate, that U.S. Military must NEVER again be deployed on
American soil and used as a divisive weapon to intimidate, restrain and
control their fellow citizens... 