Many people are discussing who President Trump will appoint to two positions: (1) Director of the National Security Agency (NSA); and (2) The Director of the FBI. Without actually realizing it, both of these positions are fundamentally tethered.
The NSA Director is the librarian of the Intelligence Community. The NSA gathers, collects, intercepts and stores the metadata of every electronic transmission, including communication. The Director of the NSA is in charge of that massive responsibility to protect and guard the library.
The FBI Director is the chief customer of that library. On the domestic investigative side, the intelligence side, and the counterintelligence side of all FBI operations, their access to exploit that metadata has become critical. The urgency of that need underpins the motive to continue reauthorizing FISA-702. When we remove the pretending, 702 reauthorization means surveillance access without warrants for all American communication.
The Fourth Amendment has been destroyed by legislative permission, and a complete lack of accountability for violations of law. Americans are no longer "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures," and "reasonable cause" warrants are no longer needed.
It should not be too much to ask for an FBI Director who respects the Fourth Amendment. Alas, in the real world of the Patriot Act, pragmatically we are well aware that every sub-silo and contractor within the FBI toolbox has access to this unlimited surveillance library.
Perhaps unbeknownst to most, the people advising President Trump on his next FBI Director also hold a vested interest in making sure the nominated candidates for NSA and FBI will continue to allow exploitation.
I prefer an FBI Director who does not support FISA-702 warrantless searches of U.S. citizen data. Unfortunately, everyone in the orbit of President Trump providing the advice and recommending the candidates, do not hold the same view. Not a single one.
That context brings me to the key point that every reader must keep at the forefront of everything else that unfolds for the next several years. Urgency and response to prayer tell me to just let the information flow and everyone can judge for themselves.
By now you probably carry in your wallet or purse a newly DHS and TSA compliant "real ID," either in the form of a driver's license, a passport, or a biometric alien registration id.
If you travel, you will note your compliant ID is scanned by TSA and more recently your face is photographed, recorded and uploaded. The database connecting your biometric identity to your personage is now complete and growing larger.
♦ The People Behind Donald Trump:
Advanced autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) is about to merge with the surveillance authority within FISA-702.
Think.
When the AI search and filter capability is merged with the NSA metadata, add fractal computing power and imagine the search results. It is only a matter of time before an Obama-type administration take power again. What will that merged system look like when weaponized?
Now, think about what comes next. Oh, and you don't have to wonder too much.
Palantir agreed to cooperate with the FBI and launched facial recognition AI on behalf of their federal contract with the FBI into the events of J6 attendees. The FBI arrests followed. Palantir's access to the DHS/TSA database, as granted by the FBI for use in their J6 targeting operation, was a beta test for how artificial intelligence could scour the national biometric database and deliver results.
(2) Palantir (AI surveillance) is beta testing with various sub-silos (like FBI), under auspices of various legal authorities (like J6).
[*Apply the Dept of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as nose under tent to #1]
Peter Thiel's company, Palantir, is the contracted exploitation software that scours the system, connects to the metadata and delivers the return result. Palantir is the product that identifies the faces, in the library assembled by the federal requirement for "read id."
The fully autonomous surveillance system is almost finished. 5G makes the data processing stream fast and in real time. What remains is simply a hardware issue, ie. cameras.
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison have positioned themselves brilliantly.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is also a solid way in.
This backdrop also frames the nomination of Kristi Noem and Tulsi Gabbard at DHS and DNI respectively, quite differently.
Everything built for good is but one election away from being weaponized.