Ways the Government gathers intelligence: Conspiracy theorists will always have an angle on any event that occurs. And it’s usually a good listen… for the first few minutes anyway, until they just lose you in their twisted plot. But hearing about the government’s “secret” machinations and shady dealings is funny, till it’s proven to be true. Remember when nobody believed that governments were “peeking” over your shoulder, accessing your emails, text messages and calls?
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Edward Snowden and the big NSA reveal soon changed that, but were many individuals concerned? Yes… for about a week, but since then, most people have just shrugged it off. The government managed to convince everyone that snooping was for the greater good. After all, you wouldn’t want them to miss another 9/11 plot, would you?
But it turns out, the government’s intelligence gathering is basically limitless; there are absolutely no boundaries. Everything about everyone is scraped and filed away. Another more disturbing fact is how they use the info they scrape. Based on the volume of data, government agencies tend to make snap decisions based on perceived “patterns”, like the frequent stop-and-search of a young Muslim who has left the country a few times. Or the tracking of people’s adult entertainment viewing habits to use in discrediting them.
Alphabet agencies are known for their use of dirty tricks to “get their man”; but we bet even you didn’t think they’d stoop this low. Here are ten times they totally did.
10. Criminals Get A Free Pass
To gain the trust of their informants, government agencies give them a free pass to keep committing crimes. In some cases, the criminals have been ordered to actually do so. In a report submitted to the Justice Department in 2012, the FBI admitted that it gave informants permission to break the law over 5, 000 times in 2011 alone. Tracing these crimes, the Justice Department found that the FBI, through its informants, was responsible for about 10% of the criminal cases prosecuted in federal court in 2011.
Notorious recipients of this “free pass” have included mobster James Bulger who ran a crime ring while working with them in the 1970s, and mafioso Gregory Scarpa who actually did wet work for the FBI.
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