UNIT 8200 is Israel equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) or GCHQ in Britain; what sets the unit apart from its SIGINT counterparts in the United States and Europe is that it does almost all its research and development in-house; this means that, aside from interpreters and analysts, the unit is home to a huge cadre of engineers, technicians, and programmers; one result is that veterans of Unit 8200 have founded many of Israel successful high-tech start-ups
The waves of cyber attacks on Iran nuclear facilities and critical infrastructure – the attacks we know of: Stuxnet, Duqu, Flame – have drawn attention to the secretive Unit 8200, the cyberwarfare unit within the Israel Defense Force (IDF) Military Intelligence (MI) branch (these cyberattacks have also drawn attention to the U.S. efforts in this regard: see David Sanger, “Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran, New York Times, 1 June 2012). The Financial Times notes that Unit 8200 is Israel equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) or GCHQ in Britain. These three organizations belong to a branch of the military called signals intelligence, or SIGINT. Unit 8200 task is to intercept, monitor, and analyze enemy communications and data traffic — from mobile phone chatter and e-mails to flight paths and electronic signals. The unit goal is to “fish out from an ocean of data the piece of information that will help the Israeli security forces identify and thwart a potential attack, the FT writes. In addition, Unit 8200 is responsible for all aspects of cyberwarfare. The Israeli military allows no information about Unit 8200 to leak out: it has a base in the Negev desert, and several other installations around the country, but the precise location of these facilities remains secret, as is the identity of the current commander, the unit budget, and the precise number of soldiers and officers serving in the unit. The FT notes that what sets the unit apart from its SIGINT counterparts in the United States and Europe is that it does almost all its research and development in-house. “This means that, aside from interpreters and analysts, the unit is home to a huge cadre of engineers, technicians and programmers. One consequence of this in-house approach is that many veterans of Unit 8200, upon leaving the military, launch successful high-tech start-ups. The UPI offers an interesting look at Unit 8200 and its unique contribution to Israel high-tech sector. Israel high-tech exports are estimated to be worth $18.4 billion a year, accounting for more than 45 percent of Israel exports. Many successful high-tech start-ups in Israel were launched by veterans of unit 8200. The short list would include:
The Financial Times commented on FST21: the company “main product is a mix of technologies, combining hardware and software to suit a specific need. Such technological mash-ups have long been regarded as a specialty of Israel high-tech entrepreneurs. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the company bears the unmistakable stamp of Israel most successful and secretive technology incubator … Unit 8200. Farkash says that the unit internal procedures and organizational culture read almost like a playbook for the start-up economy. “We are very tolerant of mistakes. It is impossible to be creative when fear leads you, he says. At the same time, the unit hands immense responsibility to men and women barely out of their teens — and tries to instill in them the belief that they can rise to the occasion. Cohen agrees, telling the FT that the key to success is to find smart, effective solutions for problems that have not even surfaced in the real world. “Ideally, we want to be in a position to understand the implications of a new technology before a terrorist group, or the Syrian army, will start using it, says Cohen. “If you look at the organization, it is basically made up of hundreds of start-ups, he explains, adding that the development teams wrestle with all the same problems a start-up encounters: tight budgets, tight deadlines, rising threats from the outside, and constant pressure to perform. “All the time, you are trying to do something not with 300 people but with 30, not with $100 million, but with $10 million. Yossi Vardi, who founded the first Israeli software company in 1969, told the FT: “More high-tech billionaires were created from 8200 than from any business school in the country. The fact that a successful high-tech company is headed by former operatives of Unit 8200 may not always be helpful to business. One example: in late 2005, representatives of defense and intelligence agencies on the Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an inter-agency committee of the U.S. government which reviews the national security implications of foreign investments in U.S. companies or operations, objected to CheckPoint acquisition of Maryland-based security software developer Sourcefire. Sourcefire develops software for the U.S. military and intelligence community, and members of the U.S. national security establishment, and quite a few lawmakers, were uncomfortable with the idea of an Israeli company, founded and headed by veterans of Unit 8200, gaining intimate knowledge of Sourcefire solutions and applications. With growing efforts in Congress to limit foreign companies’ ownership of security-sensitive U.S. companies, the CheckPoint-Sourcefire deal increasingly appeared to be doomed, and in March 2006 the two companies announced that the acquisition was cancelled. |
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MK ULTRA PROJECT /// NAPOLITANO : Big Brother’s all-seeing eye
Use of military surveillance drones overhead would be un-American
For the past few weeks, I have been writing in this column about the government’s use of drones and challenging their constitutionality on Fox News Channel, where I work. I once asked on air what Thomas Jefferson would have done if – had they existed at the time – King George III had sent drones to peer inside the bedroom windows of Monticello. I suspect Jefferson and his household would have trained their muskets on the drones and taken them down. I offer this historical anachronism as a hypothetical only, not as someone who is urging the use of violence against the government.
Nevertheless, what Jeffersonians are among us today? When drones take pictures of us on our private property and in our homes and the government uses the photos as it wishes, what will we do about it? Jefferson understood that when the government assaults our privacy and dignity, it is the moral equivalent of violence against us. Folks who hear about this, who either laugh or groan, cannot find it humorous or boring that their every move will be monitored and photographed by the government.
Don’t believe me that this is coming? The photos that the drones will take may be retained and used or even distributed to others in the government so long as the “recipient is reasonably perceived to have a specific, lawful governmental function” in requiring them. And for the first time since the Civil War, the federal government will deploy military personnel insidetheUnitedStates and publicly acknowledge that it is deploying them “to collect information about U.S. persons.”
It gets worse. If the military personnel see something of interest from a drone, they may apply to a military judge or “military commander” for permission to conduct a physical search of the private property that intrigues them. Any “incidentally acquired information” can be retained or turned over to local law enforcement. What’s next? Prosecutions before military tribunals in the United States?
The quoted phrases above are extracted from a now-public 30-page memorandum issued by President Obama’s secretary of the Air Force on April 23. The purpose of the memorandum is stated as “balancing … obtaining intelligence information … and protecting individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.” Note the primacy of intelligence-gathering over protection of freedom, and note the peculiar use of the word “balancing.”
When liberty and safety clash, do we really expect the government to balance those values? Of course not. The government cannot be trusted to restrain itself in the face of individual choices to pursue happiness. That’s why we have a Constitution and a life-tenured judiciary: to protect the minority from the liberty-stealing impulses of the majority. And that’s why the Air Force memo has its priorities reversed – intelligence-gathering first, protecting freedom second – and the mechanism of reconciling the two – balancing them – constitutionally incorrect.
Everyone who works for the government swears to uphold the Constitution. It was written to define and restrain the government. According to the Declaration of Independence, the government’s powers come from the consent of the governed. The government in America was not created by a powerful king reluctantly granting liberty to his subjects. It was created by free people willingly granting limited power to their government – and retaining that which they did not delegate.
The Declaration also defines our liberties as coming from our Creator, as integral to our humanity and inseparable from us, unless we give them up by violating someone else’s liberties. Hence, the Jeffersonian and constitutional beef with the word “balancing” when it comes to government power versus individual liberty.
The Judeo-Christian and constitutionally mandated relationship between government power and individual liberty is not balance. It is bias – a bias in favor of liberty. All presumptions should favor the natural rights of individuals, not the delegated and seized powers of the government. Individual liberty, not government power, is the default position because persons are immortal and created in God’s image, and governments are temporary and based on force.
Hence my outrage at the coming use of drones – some as small as golf balls – to watch us, listen to us and record us. Did you consent to the government having that power? Did you consent to the American military spying on Americans in America? I don’t know a single person who has, but I know only a few who are complaining.
If we remain silent when our popularly elected government violates the laws it has sworn to uphold and steals the freedoms we elected it to protect, we will have only ourselves to blame when Big Brother is everywhere. Somehow, I doubt my father’s generation fought the Nazis in World War II only to permit a totalitarian government to flourish here.
Is President Obama prepared to defend this? Is Mitt Romney prepared to challenge it? Are you prepared for its consequences?
Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. He is author of “It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom” (Thomas Nelson, 2011).
FAİLİ MEÇHULLER DOSYASI : Okkan suikastiyle ilgili flaş açıklama !
PKK itirafçısı Abdulkadir Aygan, Diyarbakır’da suikast sonrası öldürülen şehit Gaffar Okkan için çarpıcı iddialarda bulundu.
İsveç’te ikamet eden eski Jandarma İstihbarat ve Terörle Mücadele (JİTEM) mensubu Abdulkadir Aygan, Diyarbakır Emniyet Müdürlüğü görevini yaparken uğradığı silahlı saldırı sonucu hayatını kaybeden Ali Gaffar Okkan suikastı ile ilgili çarpıcı açıklamalarda bulundu.
İnternet üzerinden görüşme sağlanan Abdulkadir Aygan, 1999 yılında JİTEM ile ilişiğini keserek Burdur Jandarma Komutanlığı İstihbarat Şubesi emrine atandığını ve suikast döneminde Diyarbakır’da olmadığını söyledi. Suikast öncesinde JİTEM ile Ali Gaffar Okkan personeli arasında yaşanan sürtüşmelere şahit olduğunu kaydeden Aygan, “1999 yılında JİTEM ile ilişkimi keserek Burdur Jandarma Komutanlığı İstihbarat Şubesi emrine atandım. Gaffar Okkan suikastı ben Diyarbakır’dan ayrıldıktan sonra gerçekleştirilmiş. Ancak; Diyarbakır Jandarma İstihbarat Grup Komutanlığı emrinde sivil memur olarak çalışırken, o dönem Jandarma İstihbarat Tim Komutanı olan Yüzbaşı Zahit Engin’in Gaffar Okkan ve emniyet aleyhindeki konuşmalarına tanık olmuştum. Resmen küfrediyordu, kızıyordu. Hatta birkaç kez kendisi ve timdeki rütbeli personelden bazıları Diyarbakır şehir merkezinde görevli polislerle münakaşa ediyorlardı” dedi.
“YEŞİL’İN ADAMI FAİLİ MEÇHULLERİ DEŞİFRE EDİNCE JİTEM SIKINTIYA GİRDİ”
Abdulkadir Aygan Diyarbakır’da görev yaptığı yıllarda emniyet mensupları tarafından sorgulanan ve Yeşil kod Mahmut Yıldırım ile çalışan eski PKK’lı itirafçının JİTEM’in bazı faili meçhul ve personelini deşifre edince sıkıntı yaşandığını söyledi. Aygan, “JİTEM ve bazen de Yeşil (Mahmut Yıldırım) ile çalışan eski PKK’lı itirafçı Muhsin Gül cinayet masası ekipleri tarafından alınıp sorgulanmıştı. Muhsin de JİTEM’in bazı faili meçhullerini ve personelini deşifre etmişti. Bu durum JİTEM’i sıkıntıya sokmuştu. Gaffar Okkan emrindeki emniyetçiler, JİTEM personelini ve faaliyetlerini takibe almışlardı. Bir seferinde Terörle Mücadele (TEM) şubesindeki sivil polisler beni ve yanımdaki Hasan Adak isimli JİTEM personelini Ofis semtinde gezerken durdurup üzerimizdeki zimmetli, resmi silahı almak istediler, bizi emniyete götürmek istediler. Aramızda gerginlik yaşanmıştı. Bu durum; JİTEM’i ve üst makamları rahatsız ediyordu” şeklinde konuştu.
“BANA GELEN BİLGİYE GÖRE TEMİZÖZ’ÜN ADAMI DA SUİKASTTE YER ALDI”
Diyarbakır Emniyet Müdürü Ali Gaffar Okkan’ın suikastında Cemal Temizöz’ün eski PKK’lı olan adamı Abdulhekim Güven’in yer aldığı bilgisinin kendisine geldiğini belirten Aygan, ancak kendisinin bu konuyu net bilmediğini söyledi. Aygan, “İnternet üzerinden bana iletilen bir bilgiyi buradan sizinle paylaşmak istiyorum. Bana gelen mesaja göre; Gaffar Okkan suikastında eski PKK’lı ve Cemal Temizöz’ün adamı ve şu an cezaevinde olan Abdulhekim Güven de yer almıştır. Bana gelen mesajda Abdulhekim Güven’in sosyal konumu, ekonomik durumu dahi yer almaktadır. Mesajı gönderen kişi bu bilgiyi teyit edip etmeyeceğimi soruyor. Ancak; bilmediğim ve tanık olmadığım hiçbir konu hakkında konuşmam doğru olmaz diyerek cevap yazmadım” ifadelerini kullandı.
“BÖYLE BİR EYLEMİ ÜST DÜZEY ASKERİ YETKİLİNİN BİLGİSİ DIŞINDA GERÇEKLEŞTİRMEK MÜMKÜN DEĞİLDİR”
Böylesi planlı ve uzun hazırlıklar sonucunda gerçekleştirilen eylemin bölgede görev yapan üst düzey askeri yetkilinin bilgisi olmadan yapmanın mümkün olmayacağını belirten Aygan, açıklamalarını şöyle sürdürdü:
“Bir kez daha deklare ediyorum. A.Gaffar Okkan suikastı, uzun hazırlıklar, ince ve detaylı planlar sonucu, devlet içerisindeki Gladio (Ergenekon-JİTEM de bu yapıya dahildir) tarafından hem resmi görevliler, hem de sivil piyonlar (taşeronlar) kullanılarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bazılarının iddia ettiği gibi ‘Hizbullah’ın tek başına böyle bir suikastı, tereyağından kıl çeker gibi yapması mümkün değildir. Kullanılan kalaşnikof silahlar da askeri istihbaratın gizli kasalarında bulunan, teröristlerden ele geçirilmiş ve resmiyete sokulmamış envanter dışı silahlardır. Böyle bir eylemi üst düzeydeki askeri yetkilinin bilgisi dışında gerçekleştirmek mümkün değildir. O dönem Diyarbakır’da her kim 7. Kolordu Komutanı idiyse, onun bu işte büyük rolü vardır”.
24 Ocak 2001 tarihinde Diyarbakır Emniyet Müdürü görevinde iken makamından Diyarbakır Valiliği’ne giden Ali Gaffar Okkan ve korumaları Yenişehir ilçesi Sezai Karakoç bulvarında hain bir pusu sonucu şehit edilmişti.
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