THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE

BIDEN WIDENS DOMESTIC SNOOPING UNDER THE COVER OF PROTECTING “CIVIL RIGHTS”

A new Biden Executive Order is authorizing U.S. Intelligence agencies to collect private communications and data of American citizens.

The order is another violation of 4th Amendment and other Constitutional rights of Americans to privacy and free speech, from an administration that has systematically assaulted those rights via dictates and federal agency policy initiatives. 

The EO, issued on 7 October, permits intelligence gathering of American citizen communications and data for:

“understanding or assessing transnational threats that impact global security, including climate and other ecological change, public health risks, humanitarian threats, political instability, and geographic rivalry.”

If the wording sounds like a blanket authority to sift through and surveil practically any communication of citizens, it’s because it amounts to exactly that.

Biden administration officials have managed to frame practically any speech that threatens government objectives or narratives as a danger to “public health,” for example.

But the new directive appears to put special focus on geopolitical communications and speech, likely in an attempt to surveil and suppress dissident opinions regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Aspects of Biden’s strategy for isolating Russia have been backfiring, and only edging the world closer to a wider and more dangerous war.

One of the latest missteps was attempting to impose a price cap on Russian oil imported by Western European countries facing an energy crisis with winter looming.

Biden tried to strong-arm Saudi Arabia into increasing oil production, and when that failed, he reportedly entreated the Saudi’s to at least not cut production until after the American midterm elections.

Skyrocketing energy prices have been a front-and-center issue with voters. 

Some contend that Biden’s Saudi negotiation represented a political quid-pro-quo that sought a temporary political benefit for Biden’s political prospects, in exchange for an after-midterm accommodation of the Saudi’s desire to cut production.

LifeSiteNews noted that a government factsheet said the EO was meant to help “implement the U.S. commitments under the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF)” in an effort to “restore trust and stability” to transatlantic data flows. 

But the attempt to allay civil liberties concerns by prohibiting signals intelligence collection for the purposes of “suppressing or burdening criticism or dissent,” is effectively nullified by other language in the EO, according to LifeSite’s reporting, which can be viewed here.

The Trends Journal has extensively chronicled the Biden Administration’s attempts to undermine Constitutionally guaranteed free speech and privacy rights of Americans in many articles, including:

• “U.S. GOVERNMENT CROSSING THE CONSTITUTIONAL LINE” (23 Feb 2021)
• “CONGRESS PRESSURES BIG TECH TO CENSOR EVEN MORE” (30 Mar 2021)
• “DC ATTORNEY CIRCUMVENTING BAR ON GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE OF FREE SPEECH” (13 Jul 2021)
• “GOVERNMENT: FREE SPEECH IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH” (21 Sep 2021)
• “BIDEN PUSHES FOR MORE CENSORSHIP” (20 Sep 2022)
• “‘DANGEROUS DISINFORMATION’ LABEL BEING USED TO GUT FUNDAMENTAL FREE SPEECH RIGHTS” (4 Apr 2022)
• “U.S.S.A. IF YOU DON’T OBEY THE GOVERNMENT, YOU ARE A DOMESTIC TERRORIST” (18 Jan 2022)
• “U.S. SURGEON GENERAL GOES FULL COMMIE, TELLS TECH TO GIVE HIM NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T BUY GOVERNMENT’S COVID LINE” (8 Mar 2022)
• “‘DANGEROUS DISINFORMATION’ LABEL BEING USED TO GUT FUNDAMENTAL FREE SPEECH RIGHTS” (5 Apr 2022)
• “BIDEN’S PICK TO HEAD NEW DOMESTIC ‘DISINFORMATION GOVERNANCE BOARD’: HOW LOW CAN YOU GO” (3 May 2022)
• “THE ‘DECLARATION’ TRASHING THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET” (3 May 2022)