During the 2010s, international media news reports revealed new operational details about the Anglophone cryptographic agencies' global surveillance of both foreign and domestic nationals. The reports mostly relate to top secret documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The documents consist of intelligence files relating to the U.S. and other Five Eyes countries. In June 2013, the first of Snowden's documents were published...

The Anglo-American intelligence aliance is by far the most powerful and widespread in the world. See for example UKUSA Agreement and Five Eyes. They are aided by most intelligence agencies of the western world. All this intelligence is being used to strengthen the Anglo-American Empire.

The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

This quote comes from a book published in 1970 by Zbigniew Brezinski who was a US top foreign policy advisor who co-founded the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller, a member of one of the richest families on earth. He is labeled "America’s grand strategist"*.

For example ECHELON was created in the late 1960s as an initially secret surveillance program operated by the United States with Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. It did not receive sustained public attention until its existence was revealed in the 1980s and confirmed in the 1990s. Only in 2013 it gained substantial worldwide media attention due to the global surveillance disclosures by Edward Snowden. ECHELON was used as a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications involving mass surveillance and industrial espionage.

The September 11 Attacks in 2001 were a major false flag event used by the Anglo-American power elite to increase their desired national and global surveillance power. They had knowledge of the coming September 11 attacks but let them happen and created the circumstances which allowed them to implement far-going surveillance in- and outside of the United States. Already in October 2001, only weeks after the attacks, the Patriot Act was installed.

The Administration and the Congress bypassed careful debate by enacting too quickly legislation that would supposedly insulate the United States against further attack by increasing the ability of law enforcement agencies to conduct search and seizure, institute wiretaps without a warrant, and physically detain a person without allowing access to legal representation [and it] received little resistance from any members of Congress who might have been concerned about the possibility of unconstitutional legal action.

Legal experts have suggested that the USA PATRIOT Act erodes elements of several of the Bill of Rights to the US Constitution. This includes the First Amendment (freedom of speech and assembly), Fourth Amendment (freedom from unreasonable search and seizure), Fifth Amendment (right to due process of law), Sixth Amendment (right to speedy, public, and fair trials, right to confront accusers, and right to a criminal defense), and Eighth Amendment (freedom from excessive and cruel & unusual punishment).

The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric threats to U.S. national security by achieving "Total Information Awareness" (TIA). It was achieved by creating enormous computer databases to gather and store the personal information of everyone in the United States, including personal e-mails, social networks, credit card records, phone calls, medical records, and numerous other sources, without any requirement for a search warrant.*

The United States Department of Homeland Security was created in November 2002, also in response to the September 11 attacks.

The Framers of the Constitution believed that power, and most especially government power, was a hindrance to the liberty of the people. This was mostly due to the fact that the colonists had suffered from British rule... the Framers were wary of any form of governmental power because they were all too aware of the potential abuses deriving from it.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

The Protect America Act of 2007 is the self-given warrant for global surveillance of foreign intelligence targets. In 2013 German magazine Der Spiegel reported that the National Security Agency widely monitors international payments, banking and credit card transactions.* In 2014 Human Rights Watch stated that surveillance is undermining media freedom and the right to counsel, and ultimately obstructing the American people’s ability to hold their government to account.*

PRISM is a code name for a program under which the NSA collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google LLC under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms.

According to Google itself it is Google's mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.* It's a very powerful tool for controlling the minds of the sheeple who often regard Google as "their best friend". The power elite in control of Google of course decide what information is provided to its users and they nearly have global reach. Google has a global spying infrastructure.

Under the Patriot Act, Google or others who receive a NSL must disclose the sought-after information if the authorities say the request is "relevant to an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities." ... National Security Letters are a powerful tool because they do not require court approval, and they come with a built-in gag order, preventing recipients from disclosing to anyone that they have even received an NSL. ... the lack of court oversight raises the possibility for extensive abuse.*

The search giant's close relationship with the National Security Agency is well-established... Google purchased defense contractor Boston Dynamics... the company has a contract with DARPA.*

By 2017 Google became a leading lobbyist in the United States.*

Services like Google are "for free". When the product is for free, YOU are the product.* Online free services usually make money by extracting lots of data from users. Using Google simply means that your privacy is history and that all data collected by Google and similar organizations can be used and abused by those in control of it. In 2008 it was reported that Google stores your IP address which can locate the address from where you typed. The same of course goes for widely used social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. The common sheeple idiot reaction about the God-given human rights and privacy they give away for nothing is that they "have nothing to hide". Edward Snowden said...

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.*

A counterintelligence state is characterized by the presence of a large, elite force acting as a watchdog of a security defined as broadly that the state must maintain an enormous vigilance and enforcement apparatus. This apparatus is not accountable to the public and enjoys immense police powers. According to western propaganda the best examples of such states are the Soviet Union, the former German Democratic Republic, Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and modern Russia under Vladimir Putin. But are these the best examples of counter-intelligence states to date?

For many years, the East German Stasi was viewed as the most totalitarian of intelligence services, relentlessly spying on its citizens during the Cold War. But the Stasi's capabilities pale in comparison to what the NSA can now do.*

The U.S. has proved to be an unethical steward of the internet. The U.K. is no better. The NSA's actions are legitimizing the internet abuses by China, Russia, Iran and others.*

The western power elite and their media hypocritically point their fingers to Russia and China, but the Anglo-American Empire has by far the largest and most powerful intelligence and counter-intelligence infrastructure the world has ever seen.

CIA is on the front line of the defense of this nation. As we speak, CIA officers are spread out across the globe in some very dangerous places, putting their lives on the line, tackling the threats of our times from terrorism and nuclear proliferation to narcotics trafficking and espionage and every other global challenge and threat. Their skill and ingenuity and dedication are working to keep the nation safe.*

The fingerprints of the CIA are all over the world in regard to terrorism and drugs. Intelligence agencies are authorized to covert operations and black operations which are drenched in secrecy. Secrecy is linked to corruption. The CIA was involved in many illegal regime changes and false flag operations throughout the world. Check for example Iran-Contra scandal, Operation Phoenix, Augusto Pinochet, Operation Condor, Operation CHAOS, Operation Cyclone, COINTELPRO, Operation Gladio, etcetera.
The war on terror saw a boom in global terrorism and aggressive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, two countries which had nothing to do with the 9/11 Attacks which were used to "justify" these wars. The war on drugs led to a boom in cocaine and heroine production and its worldwide trafficking.
In 2007 US president Obama said: I will close Guantanamo*, one of the US torture locations around the world. It was another lie. In 2014 Obama admitted that the United States tortured some folks*. The CIA is involved in torture as is even admitted by its own power elite in the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture, simply because the truth could no longer be concealed. The United States has a history of unethical human experimentation.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it... where law ends, there tyranny begins.