U.S. Navy caught spying on whole state

[Luis Gonzalez]

A child pornography case in Washington has shockingly escalated as an appeals court determined the U.S. Navy has been engaged in a “routine” and “widespread” program of “hacking” into private citizens’ computers and turning over information to law enforcement agencies.

In a decision filed Sept. 12, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals called the revelations such a “massive” and “extraordinary” violation of the law it threw out evidence the Navy had collected against Michael Allan Dreyer of Algona, Washington, who had been sentenced in 2012 to 18 years in prison for distribution of child pornography.

According to court documents, a Naval Criminal Investigative Service, or NCIS, agent in Georgia named Steve Logan trolled for traces of child pornography on computers across Washington State. When Logan discovered offending content on Dreyer’s computer, the agent turned the information over to the police.

The judges ruled Logan’s action a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the military from enforcing civilian laws, and warned greater action needs to be taken to stop the NCIS from continuing the practice.

“There could be no bona fide military purpose to this indiscriminate peeking into civilian computers,” Senior 9th Circuit Judge Andrew Kleinfeld wrote in a concurring opinion with the majority. “Letting a criminal go free to deter national military investigation of civilians is worth it.”

“The extraordinary nature of the surveillance here demonstrates a need to deter future violations,” the court ruled. “So far as we can tell from the record, it has become a routine practice for the Navy to conduct surveillance of all the civilian computers in an entire state to see whether any child pornography can be found on them, and then to turn over the information to civilian law enforcement when no military connection exists. This is squarely a case of the military undertaking the initiative to enforce civilian law against civilians.”

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Maybe Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence should look into the possibility of the Federal government being the source of that infamous iCloud leak.

[Dexter]

Maybe Kate Upton and Jennifer Lawrence should look into the possibility of the Federal government being the source of that infamous iCloud leak.

I said that the moment it happened. One of Snowden's leaks has already shown that these guys steal private images from people and share/trade them.