And just why would they do this, ya think?
Feds searched Daily Kos, NPR for threats to Obama, memo reveals
In the lead-up to President Obama’s inauguration, federal investigators conducted a major sweep of online social networks in search of threats.
In the process, according to a memo unearthed by a privacy advocate group, feds singled out numerous popular web sites and social networks to be scanned for threats and other information, including the liberal blogging community Daily Kos and National Public Radio.
In a memo titled “Social Networks and their Importance in FDNS” (fraud detection and national defense), which outlined online monitoring techniques in the lead-up to the 2009 presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security writes …
Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of “friends” link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know. This provides an excellent vantage point for FDNS to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners who are suspected of fraudulent activities.</i>
Just what “fraudulent activities” would those be, you think? Seeing as how Obama had the feds target supposed liberal groups, he wasn’t looking for “threats”…but rather, anyone discussing his regime in a negative light. And now we find this out? On the eve of an election where his party, gelded as they are, face getting their clocks cleaned by a bunch of hot topic half wits who have less interest in governing than my dog? Why now?
Chilling effect : situation where speech or conduct is suppressed by fear of penalization at the interests of an individual or group.
