.“EN MI OPINION” IN GOD WE TRUST.
.No 336 Jueves, Marzo 14 2013 Editor Lázaro R González Miño.
Tenemos Papa. Por Lázaro R González Miño.
El Sr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio ha sido electo Papa de la Iglesia Católica Apostólica y Romana. El nuevo Papa escogió el nombre “Francisco” Nombre verdaderamente significativo porque entre otras cosas en La Santería, San Francisco de Asis es “Orula” o “Orunmila” El Santo que más sabe y el único que habla en el tablero de caracoles. San Francisco era capaz de hablar con los animales. En una ocasión que fue tomado prisionero y amarrado para que no pudiera comer; cuenta la leyenda que fueron las hormigas las que le llevaron la comida a la boca y así sobrevivió hasta que se pudo liberar. En el catolicismo también San Francisco es una figura sumamente importante. Bergoglio es hijo de Italianos. Esto entrona perfectamente con las profecías del Obispo Malaquías en la cual afirma que “El ultimo Papa será un Italiano que será conocido como “Pedro El Romano” a pesar de ser argentino de nacimiento, sus padres son Romanos. Pedro El Romano, guiara La Iglesia en su papado por senderos difíciles entre muchos enemigos. El escogió este nombre muy acertadamente aparentemente él va a decir y a aplicar lo que ningún otro Papa antes quiso hablar o hacer. Por otra parte él es un sacerdote de la “Orden de San Francisco de Loyola” más conocida como “Los Jesuitas” Esta es la única Orden Militar dentro de la Iglesia Católica Apostólica y Romana. Este hombre es un militar y está preparado para guerrear. Esto le confiere una atribución de ser: Un Guerrero que habla, que sabe lo que habla, que sobrevive, que está predestinado y que va a imponer los verdaderos principios de la Iglesia de Jesús El Nazareno, por el saber y si es necesario por la fuerza.
Que DIOS ilumine, proteja y guie al nuevo Papa en estos turbulentos tiempo y que logre realizar su tarea de evangelización, sanación y purificación de nuestra maltratada y Traicionada, Iglesia. Su primera presentación en público fue para decir: “Por favor oren por mi” En mi opinión él sabe perfectamente en que cueva llena de alacranes ha entrado. “Porque tuyo es el Reino, El Poder y La Gloria Eterna. AMEN” LRGM
Habemus Papam. Amenper.
El Cardenal
Jorge Bergoglio ha sido escogido como Papa, y será el Papa Francis I- el primer
Papa que se llama Francis, el primer Papa del continente americano y como es
claro el primer papa Argentino-.
Aunque el
problema de tener un Papa Argentino es que se presta a posibles chistes,
vamos a creer que este es un argentino diferente.
Es un
sacerdote Jesuita, lo cual lo considero mejor que ser un cura diocesano, porque
tiene más años de preparación escolástica y la formación de una institución cuasi-militar
como es la Compañía de Jesús.
Estudié con
los Jesuitas en la educación primaria en mi pueblo y después en Belén, y la
realidad es que aunque pude ver defectos humanos , la realidad es que
el tiempo de educación o la rigidez de la orden, creaban sacerdotes en los
cuales no vi las aberraciones que por desgracia se veía en aquellos tiempos y se
ha visto más ahora por la proliferación de los medios de comunicación, en
algunos curas diocesanos.
Esta
disciplina quizás sea la causa para su posición en las doctrinas fundamentales
de la Iglesia.
Se opuso a la presidenta Cristina Fernández Kirchner en cuanto
al matrimonio homosexual, y fue más lejos cuando dijo que la adopción de niños
por homosexuales era un tipo de abuso y discriminación contra los adoptados.
Como es claro
su posición en cuanto al aborto y la eutanasia también es tradicional.
No sé cómo
será en cuanto a la política internacional, pero me gusta que la
presidenta de Argentina lo haya acusado de ser una persona de la época
medieval de la inquisición.
Viniendo de
Cristina Kirchner para mí es un elogio.
No me
considero un católico institucional, simplemente un creyente de la iglesia
Católica y Apostólica, pero la institución romana representa en
muchas partes del mundo, la cara del cristianismo.
Por eso me
preocupo de su liderazgo, y me aflijo cuando veo sus defectos.
Esperemos que
este Papa sea un factor positivo para la Iglesia Romana.
Progress: Only 3 in 10 Trust the American Government Kyle Becker
Unexpectedly, this is great news for people who are trying to wake others up to what the government is doing. Keep sharing important news that other media don’t want to report.Pew Research Center:
The Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. has found that fewer Americans than ever trust the decisions made by the government.
Data collected from a survey taken in January of this year indicates that all demographics and partisan groups experienced an increasing lack of faith in government leadership, according to a release posted on the Pew Research website late last week.
“However, there are disparities,” the official summary noted. “[M]ore than twice as many Hispanics as whites (44 percent vs. 20 percent) trust the federal government, and more blacks (38 percent) than whites trust the government.”
Researchers additionally observed that younger Americans trust the government more than their older counterparts, and that more liberals believe in the administration of President Barack Obama than either independents or Republicans.
The government is spending beyond the economy’s means to pay it back and meanwhile achieve growth in production and job creation. It is continuing a ‘war on terror’ without end and giving itself a blank check to encroach on civil liberties. We need to keep holding the government accountable.
1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo For Homeland Security? It’s Time For A National Conversation
The Denver Post, on February 15th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo, so far to little notice. It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. As reported elsewhere, some of this purchase order is for hollow-point rounds, forbidden by international law for use in war, along with a frightening amount specialized for snipers. Also reported elsewhere, at the height of the Iraq War the Army was expending less than 6 million rounds a month. Therefore 1.6 billion rounds would be enough to sustain a hot war for 20+ years. In America.Add to this perplexing outré purchase of ammo, DHS now is showing off its acquisition of heavily armored personnel carriers, repatriated from the Iraqi and Afghani theaters of operation. As observed by “paramilblogger” Ken Jorgustin last September:
[T]he Department of Homeland Security is apparently taking delivery (apparently through the Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico VA, via the manufacturer – Navistar Defense LLC) of an undetermined number of the recently retrofitted 2,717 ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ MaxxPro MRAP vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.”
These MRAP’s ARE BEING SEEN ON U.S. STREETS all across America by verified observers with photos, videos, and descriptions.”
Regardless of the exact number of MRAP’s being delivered to DHS (and evidently some to POLICE via DHS, as has been observed), why would they need such over-the-top vehicles on U.S. streets to withstand IEDs, mine blasts, and 50 caliber hits to bullet-proof glass? In a war zone… yes, definitely. Let’s protect our men and women. On the streets of America… ?”
…
“They all have gun ports… Gun Ports? In the theater of war, yes. On the streets of America…?
Seriously, why would DHS need such a vehicle on our streets?”
Why indeed? It is utterly inconceivable that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is planning a coup d’etat against President Obama, and the Congress, to install herself as Supreme Ruler of the United States of America. There, however, are real signs that the Department bureaucrats are running amok. About 20 years ago this columnist worked, for two years, in the U.S. Department of Energy’s general counsel’s office in its procurement and finance division. And is wise to the ways. The answer to “why would DHS need such a vehicle?” almost certainly is this: it’s a cool toy and these (reportedly) million dollar toys are being recycled, without much of a impact on the DHS budget. So… why not?
Drones Will Target Conservative Americans
For many of us, Rand Paul’s filibuster was a surreal moment in time, beckoning back to better days when Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was considered a masterpiece of film because it embodied the values of our nation. Today, “violence porn” films like Django Unchained are considered the top of the heap because they, sadly, embody our corrupt and violent society.“Old Bull” Republicans like John McCain and Lindsey Graham thought Rand Paul’s filibuster was stupid and irrelevant. That it was ridiculous to think that Barack Hussein Obama, who has from almost Day One of his presidency spurned the rule of law—often blathering about “if Congress won’t act, I will”—would drop a hellfire missile on an American sitting in a cafe.
But this wasn’t some manufactured issue, as the Left is famous for. Michael Isakoff uncovered a secret DOJ memo last month that gave the Obama administration the authority to kill any U.S. citizen, at any time, anywhere, without proof, without due process, accountable to no one.
And in fact, Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, was taken out by a drone for basically being a propagandist for Al-Qaeda. Whether, being an American citizen, he should have been given due process is debatable. But two weeks after al-Awlaki was killed, his sixteen year old son, Abdulrahman, also an American citizen, was killed with a drone. His crime was being related to an identified terrorist. And in fact, then-Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs blamed al-Awlaki’s son for “not having a more responsible father” for his being vaporized by a missile.
And then there was the news that the Obama administration had ordered a fleet of “public safety” drones, able to pick up cell phone traffic, able to identify whether the target—that is, an American citizen—is armed or not—with the ability to be easily outfitted with missiles. Experts estimate this fleet of “public safety” drones to reach 30,000 by the end of Obama’s “third term.”
This in itself would have remained innocuous enough, but there was this odd “War on Domestic Terrorism” that the Obama administration was waging against conservatives.
For example, the Department of Homeland Security published a study titled “Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, which identified potential domestic terrorists as those who are “reverent of individual liberty.” Those who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority.” Those who believe there is a “grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.”
This of course sounds very much like beliefs espoused by conservatives, specifically the Tea Party, so it was valid for conservatives to be concerned.
Rand Paul, more pointedly, cited in his filibuster further ludicrous “behaviors” of potential domestic terrorists: Those who have guns with high capacity magazines and weatherized ammunition. Those who have more than a seven day supply of food. Those who pay in cash. And probably the most ludicrous: Those who are missing fingers.
It took almost two months for the American people to get a straight answer from the Obama administration as to whether an American citizen can be killed on American soil with a drone for being a potential terrorist.
Obama refused to answer the question. CIA appointee John Brennan, prompted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, refused to answer. Attorney General Eric Holder initially stated that it was constitutional in a letter to Senator Rand Paul. But when pressed by Senator Cruz, after equivocating for several minutes, Holder finally admitted that no, the Obama administration could not constitutionally kill an American citizen on American soil with a drone—though he never states this directly.
This was the impetus for Rand Paul’s thirteen hour filibuster of the John Brennan nomination, which finally resulted in the Obama administration sending a terse and extremely vague letter to Rand Paul, supposedly clarifying its position.
The letter states:
It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: “Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?” The answer to that question is no.
Of course, the question is, what does the Obama administration consider “combat”? This was not addressed; and more than likely, Obama, like everything else surrounding his drone program, will keep this under wraps.
John Brennan, who is in charge of the Obama administration’s drone program abroad, will no doubt become the de facto head of the domestic “public safety” drone program. All able to nullify the Fourth Amendment and spy on Americans. All able to determine whether a potential “domestic terrorist” is armed. All able to fire a missile, vaporizing an American sitting in a cafe, minding his own business, deemed by Barack Hussein Obama to be engaged in “combat.”
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Los Viejos amenper.
Cuando era
más joven, algunas veces fui tildado de falta de sensibilidad hacia las personas
mayores.
Esta
actitud quizás se debiera a mi experiencia con el público en el mostrador
de la farmacia.
Fue mi
percepción que los viejos, como todos los estratos sociales, son individuos, y
que cada uno es diferente.
O sea
que por el hecho de ser "viejitos" no los hace necesariamente buenas
personas, lo que aprendí es que si siempre fuiste una persona con
inclinaciones buenas, eres un "viejito" bueno, pero si tus
inclinaciones fueron durante tu vida a ser un "hijo de puta" te
conviertes en un "viejito" hijo de puta.
Ahora como ya
caí en la clasificación de viejo, puedo hablar de la vejez con propiedad y
autoridad.
Como soy un
viejo, no me pueden acusar de falto de sensibilidad hacia los viejos.
La vida pone
a cada uno en su lugar, así que, si se hacen cosas malas durante la vida de
uno, probablemente antes o después la vida sea mala con él.
Si siempre
hacemos daño o perjudicamos a los que nos rodean, el día que les necesitemos no
harán nada por ayudarnos, y si llevamos una mala vida, pues terminaremos mal,
esa es la realidad.
La vejez no
es crisol donde se derrite nuestra mala conducta durante la vida.
Estoy de
acuerdo que La tercera edad, como cualquier otra cohorte generacional, se ve
afectada por una serie de problemas propios y característicos de esa etapa
concreta de la vida.
Problemas
físicos, referentes a problemas de tipo somático y a limitaciones en la
actividad son factores que se sufren con la tercera edad.
Pero no
estoy de acuerdo con lo que dicen que la “Marginación Social” La “Soledad” y la
“Falta de residencias” y el “Rechazo familiar” son problemas inherentes de la
vejez.
La mayor
parte de las veces, con pocas excepciones, estos problemas se deben a la falta
de frutos por una mala cosecha.
O sea que si
no sembraste durante tu vida una cosecha de amor entre tus hijos y nietos, y no
cultivaste amistades, la soledad, la marginación social, la falta de
residencias y el rechazo familiar es que estás recogiendo lo que sembraste.
La falta de
dinero, también es parte de lo que sembraste, y aunque digan que en la tercera
edad la referencia del valor-dinero pierde la objetividad, porque por la
salud los viejos no pueden disfrutar del dinero, sin lugar a dudas que igual
que es mejor ser un joven con dinero que un joven arrancado, lo mismo es
mejor un viejo con dinero que un viejo arrancado.
La falta de
dinero para las necesidades para el cuidado de la salud, se está usando para
agendas políticas en este país, pero esto refleja también el tipo de conducta
del individuo durante su vida.
Por lo
general una persona falta de responsabilidad cuando joven, no previó el
prepararse con un buen seguro de largo término para su vejez, y otra vez, si no
sembró en su descendencia el amor, no recibirá tampoco la ayuda que necesita en
su vejez.
El sistema de
salud en los Estados Unidos, es el mejor del mundo. Por eso es que el
cambio propuesto para su socialización con el Obamacare, mientras más se
conoce, más se rechaza.
He conocido
muchas personas viviendo en países socialistas como España, Inglaterra y
Bélgica, y he podido comprobar que en ningún lugar se protege mejor la salud
del individuo que en los Estados Unidos.
Un viejo sin
dinero, sin merecerlo, no por sus méritos, (porque la vejez no debe de ser una
consideración meritoria, si el viejo tiene dignidad), no debe de tener
problemas en Estados Unidos.
Recibe todas
las medicinas, hospitalización y atención médica sin costarle un centavo por
los programas de Medicaid y Medicare.
Los viejos
con algunos medios tienen el Medicare y el seguro social, y si la situación se
pone difícil económicamente pueden acudir al Medicaid.
"Es
terrible llegar a viejo en este país" este es una frase que siempre
he oído una y otra vez.
Pero ahora yo
soy viejo, soy un viejo pragmático, me siento cómodo con mi vejez, y
aunque me doy cuenta que mi tiempo en esta mundo no será lo largo que yo
quisiera, pero tampoco estoy paranoico en mi vejez, como otros.
Todavía
compro los plananitos verdes para que se maduren, no pienso que los tengo que
comprar maduros porque no voy a estar vivo para el tiempo que se maduren.
Creo que
todavía tengo tiempo para ver muchos platanitos maduraar.
Nuestros
problemas con la familia es que siempre nos están llamando, invitando o
visitando y hay veces que mi esposa y yo quisiéramos un poco de esa
"soledad" que los "expertos" dicen que es el agobio de la
vejez.
Estamos en el
mejor país para pasar la vejez, hasta los viejos que no lo merecen tienen
una vejez mejor que la que pudieran tener en otros países.
En lo
sentimental el que siembra viento recoge tempestades y si no pusiste los
"shutters" pues vas a sentir la tempestad.
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¡Que
Falta De Respeto! A Los ciudadanos
Pensantes Cometieron Ayer La
Junta Escolar. Ricardo
Samitier.
La junta escolar ayer dio la prueba de que NO
SIRVEN... en medio de una CRISIS ECONÓMICA... votó a favor de dar Carvalho una INNECESARIA extensión
de contrato por cinco años...
NO ENTIENDO porque se APURARON EN EXTENDERLE EL
CONTRATO... CUANDO LE FALTABAN 2 AÑOS AL CONTRATO ACTUAL...
Tiene Que Haber Un GATO ENCERRADO En
Ese Apuro... Lo
Mejor De Todo Es Que Le Ofrecieron Aumentarle El Sueldo En $ 70.000, Con Lo Que
Su Salario Aumentaría A $ 345.000 Al Año...
Más Claro A $28,750.00 Mensuales...
“DEMAGÓGICAMENTE...” El Carvalho
DECLINO... el aumento....diciendo:
El
aumento en la remuneración es demasiado. "Quiero ser el servidor
público más mal pagados en esta comunidad"...
"Para
mi más importante que el cheque de pago y la cuenta de cheques son los valores
y los principios que impulsan lo que hago, lado a lado, hombro con hombro con
los directores, maestros y trabajadores de la cafetería."
Bravo,
Bravo GRITARON y aplaudieron todos los presentes...
Pero OJO: EL SALARIO FINAL DE
CARVALHO QUEDO POSPUESTO y se acordó que será negociado PRIVADAMENTE por el presidente de la junta
escolar y no requiere una segunda votación por la Junta... lo que acuerden así
será...
Apunten Quienes Fueron Los Más
Destacados POLITIQUEROS y BENEFICIADOS...Que Fueron A Pedir Que Le
Extendiera El Contrato A Carvalho:
La LISTA DE ESTRELLAS incluyó: Al Vice de la
Junta de Educación del estado Presidente Roberto Martínez, quien abandono sus
funciones en Tallahassee para venir a apoyar el contrato... El ex senador
estatal... que aparece en todas partes... Rudy García, el recién reelecto
Miami-Dade Comisionado José "Pepe" Díaz, ... el comisionado de Miami
Richard Dunn, alcalde de Miami, Tomás Regalado, presidente de United Way Harve
Mogul, Adolfo banquero Henríquez, Universidad Internacional de Florida, Mark
Rosenberg y United Teachers of Dade Presidente Karen Aronowitz.
Y un
montón mas de botelleros...
Insisto... Que oculto motivo
existe para extender un contrato al cual le faltaban 2 años... Solamente
eso sucede... cuando se rebajan los costos... NUNCA CUANDO SE AUMENTAN...
Obama administration fails watchdog’s transparency test
Cause of Action, a self-described government accountability organization, released a report examining federal agencies’ compliance with Freedom of Information Act requests, Wednesday.
As the group notes in their “Grading the Government” report, during his first month in office, President Obama laid out his goal to the heads of executive branch agencies to make his “the most transparent Administration in history.”
With Obama’s mission in mind the group set out to test the administration’s transparency — grading each agency on their responses to identical FIOAs — regarding spending on promotional items. The departments were graded on the amount of time it took to respond, the number of redactions in the responses and whether or not they granted the group a Public-Interest Purpose fee waiver.
The report found the average agency grade to be a “C-minus.”
According to Cause of Action, the Department of Commerce and the Department of Defense were among the worst FIOA responders, with each department receiving an “F” based on their grading system.
The Department of Education came out with with the lone “A.”
“What ‘Grading the Government’ shows is an inconsistency at best, and a failure at worst, by federal agencies in not just compliance with the President’s pledge for transparency, but compliance with basic FOIA protocol,” said Dan Epstein, Cause of Action executive director in a statement.
The 14 other agencies came out somewhere in the middle: The Department of Agriculture received a “C,” he Department of Energy got a “C-minus,” the Department of Health and Human Services received a “D,” the Department of Homeland Security got a “D-minus,” the Department of Housing and Urban Development received a “D-minus,” the Department of the Interior received a “B,” the Department of Justice got a “D,” the Labor Department got a “C-minus,” Department of State received a “C,” Department of Transportation got a “D,” the Department of the Treasury got a “D-minus,” the Department of Veterans Affairs received a “B-minus,” and the Environmental Protection Agency got a “B.”
As the organization notes, the report is not exhaustive as it only probed 16 departments however it contends that the research serves to confirm an earlier report offered by Bloomberg News.
“This report does not give a comprehensive picture of how the Federal Government handled its FOIA responsibilities in 2012 because it only examines performance on one request sent to 16 departments. It is a continuation of an earlier report by Bloomberg News, which found that 19 of 57 agencies failed to provide responses within the six-month timeframe,” the report reads. “Our findings largely confirm the Bloomberg report; we calculated a non-response rate of 25 percent (only slightly less than the 33 percent found by Bloomberg).”
Cause of Action noted that they have plans to continue to probe the openness of this administration.
US Plans to Let Spy Agencies Scour Americans' Finances
Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013 09:33 PM
The Obama
administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to
a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others
who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by
Reuters.
The proposed plan
represents a major step by U.S. intelligence agencies to spot and track down
terrorist networks and crime syndicates by bringing together financial
databanks, criminal records and military intelligence. The plan, which legal
experts say is permissible under U.S. law, is nonetheless likely to trigger
intense criticism from privacy advocates.Financial institutions that operate in the United States are required by law to file reports of "suspicious customer activity," such as large money transfers or unusually structured bank accounts, to Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation already has full access to the database. However, intelligence agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, currently have to make case-by-case requests for information to FinCEN.
The Treasury plan would give spy agencies the ability to analyze more raw financial data than they have ever had before, helping them look for patterns that could reveal attack plots or criminal schemes.
The planning document, dated March 4, shows that the proposal is still in its early stages of development, and it is not known when implementation might begin.
Financial institutions file more than 15 million "suspicious activity reports" every year, according to Treasury. Banks, for instance, are required to report all personal cash transactions exceeding $10,000, as well as suspected incidents of money laundering, loan fraud, computer hacking or counterfeiting.
"For these reports to be of value in detecting money laundering, they must be accessible to law enforcement, counter-terrorism agencies, financial regulators, and the intelligence community," said the Treasury planning document.
A Treasury spokesperson said U.S. law permits FinCEN to share information with intelligence agencies to help detect and thwart threats to national security, provided they adhere to safeguards outlined in the Bank Secrecy Act. "Law enforcement and intelligence community members with access to this information are bound by these safeguards," the spokesperson said in a statement.
Some privacy watchdogs expressed concern about the plan when Reuters outlined it to them.
A move like the FinCEN proposal "raises concerns as to whether people could find their information in a file as a potential terrorist suspect without having the appropriate predicate for that and find themselves potentially falsely accused," said Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior counsel for the Rule of Law Program at the Constitution Project, a non-profit watchdog group.
Despite these concerns, legal experts emphasize that this sharing of data is permissible under U.S. law. Specifically, banks' suspicious activity reporting requirements are dictated by a combination of the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA PATRIOT Act, which offer some privacy safeguards.
National security experts also maintain that a robust system for sharing criminal, financial and intelligence data among agencies will improve their ability to identify those who plan attacks on the United States.
"It's a war on money, war on corruption, on politically exposed persons, anti-money laundering, organized crime," said Amit Kumar, who advised the United Nations on Taliban sanctions and is a fellow at the Democratic think tank Center for National Policy.
SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY
The Treasury document outlines a proposal to link the FinCEN database with a computer network used by U.S. defense and law enforcement agencies to share classified information called the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System.
The plan calls for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — set up after 9/11 to foster greater collaboration among intelligence agencies — to work with Treasury. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment.
More than 25,000 financial firms — including banks, securities dealers, casinos, and money and wire transfer agencies — routinely file "suspicious activity reports" to FinCEN. The requirements for filing are so strict that banks often over-report, so they cannot be accused of failing to disclose activity that later proves questionable. This over-reporting raises the possibility that the financial details of ordinary citizens could wind up in the hands of spy agencies.
Stephen Vladeck, a professor at American University's Washington College of Law, said privacy advocates have already been pushing back against the increased data-sharing activities between government agencies that followed the Sept. 11 attacks.
"One of the real pushes from the civil liberties community has been to move away from collection restrictions on the front end and put more limits on what the government can do once it has the information," he said.
Michael German, senior policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said that U.S. officials had floated a similar scheme to pool such data a decade ago, but that funding for the plan was later withdrawn by Congress.
He said one of the problematic aspects of the plan is that there is "wiggle room" on how the information will be used. In the past, the National CounterTerrorism Center, which is supposed to ensure that critical threat information is shared among various agencies, was obliged to "promptly identify and purge any innocent U.S. person information."
But the guidelines were subsequently loosened so that "not only can they keep the data for a number of years, but they can continue to use it," German said.
Once spy agencies get such data, German said, "it's in a black hole. Time and again, we have evidence, unfortunately well after the fact, that somebody's civil rights have been violated, that the intelligence community simply ignores the rules."
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An airplane
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woman at Playboy, so Americans don't want me to
die."
She took the first pack and jumped out of the plane.
The second
passenger, John McCain, said, "I'm a Senator, and a
decorated war
hero from an elite Navy unit from the United
States of
America." So he grabbed the second pack and jumped.
The third
passenger, Barack Obama said, "I am the President of
the United
States and I am the smartest ever in the history of
our country,
some even call me the 'Anointed One.'" So he
grabbed the
pack next to him and jumped out.
The fourth
passenger, Billy Graham said to the fifth
passenger, a
10-year-old schoolgirl, "I have lived a full life
and served my
God the best I could. I will sacrifice my life and let
you have the
last parachute."
The little
girl said, "That's okay, Mr. Graham. There's a
parachute
left for you.
America 's smartest
President took my schoolbag."
. “EN MI OPINION” .
“The Freedon never is
Free” Editor Lázaro R González Miño
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