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Central Intelligence Agency
From Wikipedia
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and conducting covert operations.
Abuses of CIA authority, 1970s
and illegal domestic spying on U.S. citizens
In 1971, the NSA and CIA were engaged in domestic spying; the DOD was eavesdropping on Henry Kissinger. The White House and Camp David were wired for sound. Nixon and Kissinger were eavesdropping on their aides, as well as reporters. Famously, Nixon's Plumbers had in their number many former CIA officers
by me, Kerry Burgess, Feb 18, 2023
Carefully documented in my journal, the one that was private, was that this all started for me on May 10, 2006
The fantastic stuff I've described all these years never existed in my mind before that day
NASA, USMC, Princeton, Thomas Reagan, the Phoebe Cates you don't know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intelligence_operations_abroad
United States intelligence operations abroad
From Wikipedia
The United States is widely considered to have one of the most extensive and sophisticated intelligence network of any nation in the world, with organizations including the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, amongst others. It has conducted numerous espionage operations against foreign countries, including both allies and rivals. Its operations have included the use of industrial espionage, cyber espionage. and mass surveillance.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-cia-acting-outside-law-spy-americans
How the CIA Is Acting Outside the Law to Spy on Americans
Concerned senators have revealed that the government is using an executive order to bypass privacy protections enacted by Congress.
Elizabeth Goitein
February 15, 2022
There’s a lot to unpack in the bombshell announcement by Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) last week that the CIA has been conducting a bulk collection program and searching through the resulting data for information about Americans.
“Bulk collection” is what happens when the government vacuums up data indiscriminately rather than targeting individuals or groups. The term was last in the news when whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed in 2013 that the NSA had collecting Americans’ telephone records in bulk.
You might be asking, didn’t Congress end bulk collection? The short answer is no. In 2015, Congress passed legislation that ended the NSA’s program and sought to prohibit bulk collection when the government is acting under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA). But that law only applies to certain types of surveillance that target U.S. persons or happen inside the United States. When the collection happens overseas or falls into one of FISA’s statutory gaps, it takes place under Executive Order 12333, issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
As the Brennan Center noted in a 2016 report, most foreign intelligence surveillance actually takes place under EO 12333, not FISA. That means it is subject to no statutory constraints whatsoever, and there is no judicial review or oversight. EO 12333 does place some limits on surveillance, but not shockingly, its rules are much more permissive than those Congress established in FISA. Bulk collection is just one example — it’s banned under FISA but permitted under EO 12333.
The FISA/EO 12333 distinction might have made sense in 1978, when surveillance in the United States generally meant surveillance of U.S. persons and surveillance abroad generally meant surveillance of foreign nationals. It makes zero sense today, when Americans’ communications and other personal data are as likely to be routed through or stored in Europe or Asia as the United States. Bulk collection under EO 12333 will inevitably sweep in dizzying amounts of Americans’ information.
What stops the CIA from poring through the data looking for Americans’ information? Let’s be honest: nothing. The CIA’s internal rules from 2017 say the information sought must be “related to a duly authorized activity of the CIA,” as determined by. . . the CIA. The FBI has similar rules limiting its searches of data obtained under FISA Section 702. Year after year, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court finds that FBI agents have violated these rules—and that’s when there’s a court actually watching them.
The CIA’s rules also say that CIA officers should document their purpose in running searches for Americans’ information. But according to staff members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, these rules, despite having been finalized five years ago and released with great fanfare, have not yet been “implemented.”
https://www.cia.gov/about/
Central Intelligence Agency
What We Do
To stop threats before they happen and further U.S. national security objectives, we:
Collect foreign intelligence
Alien (law)
From Wikipedia
In law, an alien is generally any person (including an organization) who is not a citizen or a national of a specific country, although definitions and terminology differ across legal systems.
Lexicology
The term "alien" is derived from the Latin alienus. The Latin later came to mean a stranger, a foreigner, or someone not related by blood. Similar terms to "alien" in this context include foreigner and lander.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_(literature)
Identification (literature)
From Wikipedia
Identification refers to the automatic, subconscious psychological process in which an individual becomes like or closely associates themselves with another person by adopting one or more of the others' perceived personality traits, physical attributes, or some other aspect of their identity. The concept of identification was founded by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in the 1920’s, and has since been expanded on and applied in psychology, social studies, media studies, and literary and film criticism. In literature, identification most often refers to the audience identifying with a fictional character, however it can also be employed as a narrative device whereby one character identifies with another character within the text itself.
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
PICARD: A missile complex? ...The date? Mister Data, I need to know the exact date.
DATA: April fourth, two thousand sixty-three.
PICARD: April fourth?
RIKER: The day before First Contact.
DATA: Precisely.
From 4/3/2025 ( Yesterday - Thursday ) To 4/4/2063 ( ) is 13880 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/3/2003 ( premiere USA TV series "Average Joe" ) is 13880 days
From 4/4/2025 ( Today - Friday ) To 4/5/2063 ( ) is 13880 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/3/2003 ( premiere USA TV series "Average Joe" ) is 13880 days
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
(from internet transcript)
Captain's log, April 5th 2063. The voyage of the Phoenix was a success, ...again. The alien ship detected the warp signature and is on its way to rendezvous with history.
From 10/6/2017 ( premiere USA film "Blade Runner 2049" ) To 4/4/2025 ( ) is 2737 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/1/1973 ( ) is 2737 days
https://cacm.acm.org/issue/may-1973/
From 6/3/1983 ( premiere USA film "WarGames" ) To 4/4/2025 ( ) is 15281 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/4/2007 ( ) is 15281 days
http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20070904/NEWS/709040339/B-52-mistakenly-flies-nukes-aboard/
AirForceTimes
B-52 mistakenly flies with nukes aboard
Sep. 4, 2007 - 08:22 PM
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 7:39 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 04/04/2025
