Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want the government spying on you

Daily Mail – by Daniel Miller  The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.

The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as ‘attack’, ‘Al Qaeda’, ‘terrorism’ and ‘dirty bomb’ alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like ‘pork’, ‘cloud’, ‘team’ and ‘Mexico’.

Released under a freedom of information request, the information sheds new light on how government analysts are instructed to patrol the internet searching for domestic and external threats.

The words are included in the department’s 2011 ‘Analyst’s Desktop Binder‘ used by workers at their National Operations Center which instructs workers to identify ‘media reports that reflect adversely on DHS and response activities’.

Department chiefs were forced to release the manual following a House hearing over documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit which revealed how analysts monitor social networks and media organisations for comments that ‘reflect adversely’ on the government.

However they insisted the practice was aimed not at policing the internet for disparaging remarks about the government and signs of general dissent, but to provide awareness of any potential threats.

As well as terrorism, analysts are instructed to search for evidence of unfolding natural disasters, public health threats and serious crimes such as mall/school shootings, major drug busts, illegal immigrant busts.

The list has been posted online by the Electronic Privacy Information Center – a privacy watchdog group who filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act before suing to obtain the release of the documents.

In a letter to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence, the centre described the choice of words as ‘broad, vague and ambiguous’.

They point out that it includes ‘vast amounts of First Amendment protected speech that is entirely unrelated to the Department of Homeland Security mission to protect the public against terrorism and disasters.’

A senior Homeland Security official told the Huffington Post that the manual ‘is a starting point, not the endgame’ in maintaining situational awareness of natural and man-made threats and denied that the government was monitoring signs of dissent.

However the agency admitted that the language used was vague and in need of updating.

Spokesman Matthew Chandler told website: ‘To ensure clarity, as part of … routine compliance review, DHS will review the language contained in all materials to clearly and accurately convey the parameters and intention of the program.’

MIND YOUR LANGUAGE: THE LIST OF KEYWORDS IN FULL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14 thoughts on “Revealed: Hundreds of words to avoid using online if you don’t want the government spying on you

  1. wonder if this is cause to misspell words intentionally now. Kartels in mecsico have fun with DeHeS all day long….

  2. So…saying that if the elite and others continue to DIRECTLY put my family at risk of starvation and death, I may have to resort to pulling the intestines out of everyone I can get to that is involved , spread them along a street, and light them on fire using lighter fluid and a Zippo, while they are still alive…..until such time I am found-out and killed….

    Would that be ok?
    Or would you like PORK to go with that??

    1. We should all cut and paste. Email congress, senate, and Obamanist. Drive them up a wall.

  3. If you are using the words/phrases: Jesus, Satan, drugs, big money, cash, pedophile, top secret, don’t tell anyone, keep this secret, don’t pay taxes, home church, prayer meetings, street preaching, holiness, righteousness, fasting, truth, exposing injustice, exposing wickedness, child pornography, Vatican crimes, Freemasons worship the Devil, George Bush senior killed JFK, etc. you are asking for attention.

  4. Please notice the DHS still won’t tell us who did 9-11, the intentional oil well blow out of the DH well in the Gulf of Mexico, or built the Fukushima plant to self destruct and went ahead and sabotaged it. Nor do they look for search for words like fondle, molest, short-eyes, breather, pedophile, unemployable, which may draw suspicion to their multibillion dollar funded organization which has yet to locate a single terrorist. They even let Henry Kissinger through after forcing him out of his wheel chair for an invasive search for a penis before they let him go. Kissinger is wanted for genocide and murder in at least half a dozen different countries. The TSA let him go. It could not be clearer that the DHS is totally divorced from any national security issues and is there to ply their trade at making molestation videos for the Bush41 criminal cabal to watch like they did those abu Gharaib tortures of innocent Iraqis. I am sorry America is so slow on this junk. The U.S. will insult its way to ruination. I just hold up the mirror.

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