FBI Must Evolve to Fight Terrorism

 What is scary at this link that looks at the subject of this blog entry is the path of evolving. 

It suggests that the FBI take or is taking a path of public private partnership to access intelligence about domestic terrorism.  Probably using public sector big data on everything to identify entity relationships the indicate a high degree of probability that terrorism may be involved.  Public big data on everyone that the FBI nor any other domestic agency could undertake.  It is much better and with less regulation to let private enterprise big data develop their big data silos, each proprietary to the company that produces it and have a private enterprise aggregator sift through all the data on every citizen to identify the bad guys.  That is something the NSA is already doing globally and using private enterprise big data as well as their own proprietary data to accomplish.  It is all just data points on everyone.

If the FBI pays private enterprise data miners for domestic information mining and product it can be a front end for the FBI to look at for leads and act on them as well as pass them on to NSA/CIA for refinement, possible feedback info sharing.  I am sure that NSA is already getting it through direct feed from private enterprise big data.  This "need" to shift it to the FBI is just "laundering" it by its first point of entry to the government domain to be an Agency well recognized for its domestic law enforcement role.

Getting legislation to smooth the way for all of this is equally scary.  Legislation that might be easier to get because it is in the FBI frame law enforcement as opposed to the NSA frame of spying.  Two different things, two different frames of public opinion.  In the end FBI just passes on all the meaty stuff to the NSA either proactively at the direct request by the NSA to produce it for any target.

The PR problem is to keep public opinion in the domain of what the FBI does as law enforcement and not let the FBI be seen as a spy agency, which they would actually become.

What we have here is not a problem is the "Fight Terrorism" domain.  It is propaganda problem in the PR department of the FBI to keep the FBI distanced from domestic spying when this is really another step toward increased public spying on a Total Information, All the Time basis.

How dumb do they think some of us are.

You can fool most of the people most of the time.  Does that say something about our general level of public perception or technological advances in the formation of and manipulation of public perception of what is really going on and for the benefit of whom and who is paying the cost and in what terms is cost measured.

Can't fool all the people all the time!!!!