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Historic NY

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21. Lets see where we read this before.......
Thu Jun 27, 2013, 01:25 PM
Jun 2013

Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force—The NYPD
By Christopher Dickey. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009.

Joint Terrorist Task force est. 1980 FBI in NY city
National Joint Terrorist TF est. by FBI Director 2002

Foreign Terrorist TF est. Presidential Directive 2 - 10/2001
Responds to requests received from the Counterterrorism
Division’s operational units, the CIA and the JTTFs to perform
data runs against public,proprietary, and government data
systems. Maintains the Consolidated Terrorist List that combines the
FBI’s Violent Gang and Terrorist list.

912 members before September 11, 2001. As of January 2005,
5,085 federal, state, and local members from law enforcement, intelligence, the military,
and other agencies

The JTTF members can include, but are not limited to:
Federal partners:
Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Defense: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Department of Justice: U.S. Marshals Service; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Federal Bureau of Prisons U.S. Department of Treasury: Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, U.S. Capitol Police, U.S. Park Police

State partners: State police & State highway patrols

NSA isn't the beginning and end of the surveillance state KG Jun 2013 #1
Really this has been common knowledge if your a Ny'er .. Historic NY Jun 2013 #2
So, "Just move along. It's old news. Nothing to see here." AnotherMcIntosh Jun 2013 #4
Correct. Important that it's being scrutinized. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #6
Your last sentence.... Democracyinkind Jun 2013 #9
Not just if you were a New Yorker, but if you were anywhere and paying any attention. harmonicon Jun 2013 #10
so you think what the CIA is doing is okay? nt temmer Jun 2013 #11
No, but I'm not surprised. harmonicon Jun 2013 #12
It's important not to let knowledge... JackRiddler Jun 2013 #17
Yes, I knew about both. harmonicon Jun 2013 #28
Wrong. To the contrary. closeupready Jun 2013 #18
Lets see where we read this before....... Historic NY Jun 2013 #21
Hardly 'common knowledge', as you put it. closeupready Jun 2013 #22
It is if you been following along. Historic NY Jun 2013 #25
I thought the CIA wasn't supposed to operate in the United States? Comrade Grumpy Jun 2013 #3
They aren't supposed to operate inside U.S. borders, premium Jun 2013 #5
In the transitional days prior to and after 9/11 Historic NY Jun 2013 #24
Good luck. That's never been the case. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #7
thank you - uncomfortable truths have to be spoken out temmer Jun 2013 #8
Experts at subverting political systems Jesus Malverde Jun 2013 #23
They say this all the time, so it must be true. JackRiddler Jun 2013 #27
They're not supposed to spy on US citizens' domestic activities. geek tragedy Jun 2013 #15
It's not the "current calls" they listen in on... Jesus Malverde Jun 2013 #26
Laws and the Constitution are so 20th Century. - nt HardTimes99 Jun 2013 #16
Phil Agee wrote "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" Lugal Zaggesi Jun 2013 #13
This is how the CIA and others follow the law without actually following it askeptic Jun 2013 #14
Law and Democracy is an illusion here in the USA. L0oniX Jun 2013 #19
CIA 'worked' with lots of cop shops, such as Los Angeles PD when RFK was assassinated. Octafish Jun 2013 #20
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