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Quiet Cooperations: NSA/CSS & USCYBERCOM & NORAD-USNORTHCOM

Jul 16, 2010 11:27PM PDT

Dear Buzz Gang and Crew,
Even the great spy/thriller writers: Alistair MacLean, Tom Clancy, Frederick Forsyth & Jack Higgins could not conceive of this kind of intrigue and mystery. Ok conspiracy believers....you may want to sit back for this one. Wink

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For those that may not be aware, the NSA is actually the NSA/CSS. The CSS which is a military technology information gathering service which combined with the NSA years back in order to have better coordination of information between the two services.

USCYBERCOM which is the U.S. Cyber Command was created under Defense Secretary Robert Gates in June 2009 under the U.S. Military's United States Strategic Command to help the military combat cyber attacks on military installations. USCYBERCOM has several agencies underneath it including: The Joint Task Force for Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO) & Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare (JFCC-NW).

NORAD-USNORTHCOM which is: North American Aerospace Defense Command & United States Northern Command in 2008 performed an exercise to determine how quickly U.S. military resources could be deployed on U.S. soil. The purpose of the exercise to determine the military's effectiveness for counter-terrorists contingencies.

Why the NSA/CSS created "Perfect Citizen"?

Under the old 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, the U.S. Military is prohibited from being deployed on U.S. Soil to be used as law enforcement unless acted upon by Presidential Order. If anybody remembers the movie with Bruce Willis, Denzel Washington & Annette Bening called "The Siege", there was a lot focus placed on this aspect of the plot in the movie.

Anyway, the U.S. Military as well as many government agencies need information on spies and terrorist who may be operating on U.S. soil. Thus formed: "Perfect Citizen" by the NSA/CSS which now allows the information gathering intelligence agencies to pass information to the U.S. Military so that they can then act on spies and terrorist on the U.S. soil under Presidential orders.

Phew!! Okay, people simmer on that for a while. Hey, where is Jack Ryan in all of this? Wink

Later People. Happy

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