CreativeTime Reports/Flickr

(INTELLIHUB) — One of the reasons that the government is consistently “Chicken Littling” us with threats of extremism is money. Security is a multi-billion dollar revenue generator for the National Security Racketeering Network and Private Security Companies run by former ex-federal employees.

The operations of the private companies run the gamut from street-level tasking to tactical and offensive, weaponized-software deployment against innocent Americans. Now the U.S. has its own groups of militarized and federalized cyber-warriors. The most common groups are the FBI’s DITU — Data Intercept Technology Unit (run by an individual with a degree in law and psychology), the NSA of course, The NSA TAO (Tailored Access Operations), and Cyber-Command. Both the NSA and Cyber-Command are based at Fort Meade in Maryland.

Now there are a few private companies, think of Blackwater” on a cyber-level, which are also master’s of intrusion, hacking, identity theft, spoofing, and 24/7 harassment of anyone who has been illegally and unconstitutionally watch-listed as a domestic threat. However, NSA still has the budget, the tech-toys, the software, and extra-judicial tactics that trump any of the subsequently mentioned private groups.

One of the companies which act as a hired gun for the federal government (and thus has the luxury of operating without any oversight, is James Bimen and Associates, based in Fairfax, Virginia. This corporation is right down the street from several acronym agencies, has developed special tools for the FBI, and is tasked to hack into computers and phones of watch-listed individuals (WLIs) and Targeted Individuals (TIs).

Another company that develops software being utilized for illegal cyber-intrusions, harassment, and data-theft by the FBI & NSA was in part developed and sold by HT Srl (The HackingTeam) and Cicom – both based in Baltimore, Maryland. HackingTeam’s head office is located in Milan, Italy, and it is likely that Cicom is a HackingTeam front-company due to their shared location(s) and close association.

Now the HackingTeam has sold its software to oppressive regimes that commit human rights violations like North Sudan — where dissidents are harassed and killed.

This raises an important question. If it is illegal to sell weapons to authoritarian regimes like North Sudan, then why are U.S.-based companies allowed to sell weaponized software to governments which will use the technology to commit human rights violations, and just as importantly – why have certain factions within the U.S. Government deployed this same software against innocent Americans?

On the street level, private security companies are hiring ex-convicts to harass WLIs and TIs to perpetuate what is referred to as “Gang Stalking” on a street level. But what many people do not know is that the threats, harassment, theft, and gaslighting also occur on a cyber-level.

So not only are Targeted Individuals and Watchlisted individuals harassed by finely-tuned Zersetzung operations on the street level, all of their communications and online privacy are also violated. This equates to 24/7 harassment.

Why are companies like James Bimen and Associates and HackingTeam allowed to launch vicious and illegal tactics against innocent American citizens? Who provides them with “top cover” to engage in this non-stop torturous activity against individuals who were never charged with any crimes, never had a chance to defend themselves, and never had a day in court?

Wake up, people! Our tax dollars are spent funding the very entities which are supposed to be protecting us from external threats, versus deploying what equates to “weaponized software” and technology against innocent and unsuspecting Americans.

Due to a lack of technological capability, the Stasi only operated on the street level. But now, here in the U.S.A., we are being subject to treatment which far exceeds what the Stasi perpetrated against the East German population, and we are facing this threat both on the virtual level and on the street.

As a side note, I blogged about James Bimen and Associates at the beginning of this year, and subsequent to that short thread, their website mysteriously disappeared from the internet.

The author of this article, who prefers to use the nom de plume “XKeyscore” in order to maintain his anonymity, is a Doctoral Candidate and multiglot with two Master’s Degrees and a Baccalaureate specializing in Middle Eastern Studies. He holds one Master’s Degree specializing in Intelligence and Counter-intelligence operations, and a second Master’s Degree in Security Studies. XKeyscore has studied under a United States intelligence agency analyst and now-retired, high ranking, American military officers. XKeyscore writes exclusively for Intellihub News & Politics. Read more articles by this author here.