The Department of Homeland Security has always faced limits on its ability to conduct surveillance of U.S. citizens without their consent. A new report suggests that President Joe Biden’s team may try to render those limits ineffective.
“The Department of Homeland Security is limited in how it can monitor citizens online without justification and is banned from activities like assuming false identities to gain access to private messaging apps used by extremist groups such as the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers,” CNN reported Monday.
“Instead, federal authorities can only browse through unprotected information on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook and other open online platforms.”
Apparently, the Biden administration feels that it needs to spy on Americans by whatever means necessary. As such, it reportedly wants to use private research firms to do the dirty work.
“By partnering with research firms who have more visibility in this space, the DHS could produce information that would likely be beneficial to both it and the FBI, which can’t monitor US citizens in this way without first getting a warrant or having the pretext of an ongoing investigation,” CNN reported.
In other words, private research firms are not subject to the same restrictions as the DHS. This means that they can assume false identities and spy on unsuspecting Americans.
CNN reported that the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency both have restrictions on “collecting intelligence domestically,” so private research firms seem to be the best option for gathering such information.
Barring yourself from some action just to have someone else do it for you in this case is just like paying someone to break into your neighbors house to take the silverware. Does that illegal action potential give you just cause as the information wasn’t obtained with a proper search warrant? Most likely not. Does that to solve them of the misdeed of being involved in a crime by association? Certainly not. When will we get the common sense to reign this kind of crap in? Probably never since common sense is no longer common.
Hell, they ALREADY do , since Obama authorized it !!!!