Comments on: Operation Shamrock: NSA’s First Domestic Spying Program Was Revealed by Congress in 1975

By: ASA troop

ASA troop — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:09 +0000

There is one topic that has not been covered. That is, Why were some of these people targeted and What was their True intent. At the time (late 60’s) there were nationwide riots that resulted in many cities being put to the torch and looted. This required coordination and financing. Part of this program was to detect the members of this network and its foreign managers. I’ve been told that some of these connections led to members of congress. Enter the “Church commission”. Congress found out that the ASA was monitoring some of its members. The fall out was the FISA act and the deletion of the ASA. The truth was that there were members of congress that were part of this network. The purpose of the network was to destabilize the government during the Vietnam War (not unlike CIA operations of the time on other countries). To prevent the detection of any illegal activities of any member of congress, the FISA act requires that select members of congress is informed of any domestic spying. This allows them to block any detection of their illegal activities or foreign bribery or influence.

By: A Losing Battle Against Domestic Spying » Darren Hoyt Dot Com

A Losing Battle Against Domestic Spying » Darren Hoyt Dot Com — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:47:02 +0000

[...] you doubt the need for private citizens to protect themselves, recall Operation Shamrock (which is barely the tip of the iceberg): During the Vietnam War, the NSA used data from Shamrock [...]

By: Globalstomp

Globalstomp — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:35:40 +0000

Yea, we know about John Kerry in Vietnam and we also know he received a metal (unjustly) for his service there but that’s off topic. ATT might as well call themselves the NSA as they joined forces long ago in the eighties and house their spying equipment and recieve funding from the NSA. The NSA have been spying on Americans since 1952 so what’s new?

By: Another Day in the Empire

Another Day in the Empire — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:14:47 +0000

[...] The NSA, of course, has snooped on Americans since it was established by pen flourish in 1952. In fact, government cryptologists set the precedent well before the creation of the NSA with the Shamrock program, an idea spawned by military censorship during WWII. “Copies of foreign telegraph traffic had been turned over to military intelligence during the war, and, when the war ended, the Army Security Agency sought to have this continue. All the big international carriers were involved,” Dr. Louis Tordella, a former deputy director at the NSA, told Brett Snider. [...]

By: datadork

datadork — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 00:53:14 +0000

Trust no one! Not even NPR.
Your dentist works for the NSA, the people who clean my pool are just trying to recover floride from 1960’s mind control experiments. My neighbor’s cat is actually a bio-remote data collector of allien origin, operating with the permission of Carl Rove. Tony Snow knows all about this, in fact Tony Snow is not human, that is why the podium he uses durring press appearrences is purged with argon gas. Just ask yourself, who stopped adding MTBE to gasoline? Well, lunch break is over and I’ve got to get back to digging for kryptonite or the republicans who enslaved me durring the late 1940’s at Roswell, NM will beat me again. Actually I can often avoid the beattings by doing my Joeseph Lieberman impression. It seems to make my captures laugh uncontrolably. I tried doing John Kerry on them but that seemed to really piss them off. Did you know that John Kerry was in Vietnam?

By: Len Hart

Len Hart — Sun, 14 May 2006 19:39:34 +0000

Apparently the GOP learned all the wrong lessons from Nixon’s fall from grace. The GOP did not learn that keeping an “enemies list” and violating the constitutional rights of “dissent”; rather —it learned not to get caught. And even that lesson was not learned well.

By: In Search Of Utopia

In Search Of Utopia — Sun, 14 May 2006 18:33:04 +0000

More Right Wing Logic

From Today’s WAPO Op-Ed Page: On Thursday, USA Today reported that three U.S. telecommunications companies have been voluntarily providing the National Security Agency with anonymized domestic telephone records — that is, records stripped of individu…