us Stratfor emails reveal widespread TrapWire surveillance system

[FlintyV]

RT - Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology ? and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.

Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. It?s part of a program called TrapWire and it's the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America?s intelligence community. The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a who?s who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and the corporation's ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented.

The details on Abraxas and, to an even greater extent TrapWire, are scarce, however, and not without reason. For a program touted as a tool to thwart terrorism and monitor activity meant to be under wraps, its understandable that Abraxas would want the program?s public presence to be relatively limited. But thanks to last year?s hack of the Strategic Forecasting intelligence agency, or Stratfor, all of that is quickly changing.

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[Growled Member]

The police state is becoming more a reality every day.

[Gerowen]

Ya know, from what I read in the article, this project seems legit. Normally I'm one of the first guys to be suspicious of our government's activities, but I can't find any wording in this article that indicates misuse. In an age where the target of attacks may not be a military target, but a public attraction where people gather, I can see how cameras on those attractions would be useful in allowing security personnel to watch a crowd for suspicious behavior, such as the one guy who isn't moving with the crowd or carrying an unusually large bag. As long as they're not sticking these cameras around my house, on the road beside my yard, or in the bathrooms, I think monitoring high value targets seems to be a good idea. I haven't read the e-mails though, so maybe I'm missing something, but the article seems pretty cut and dry. They're monitoring high value targets for suspicious activity and reporting what they find to law enforcement agencies.