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FBI Launches $1Billion Nationwide Face Recognition Project

The FBI has begun rolling out facial recognition to identify criminals. “FACE recognition is ‘now’,” declared Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in a testimony before the US Senate in July.

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The Next Generation Identification programme will include a nationwide database of criminal faces and other biometrics

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“FACE recognition is ‘now’,” declared Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in a testimony before the US Senate in July. It certainly seems that way. As part of an update to the national fingerprint database, the FBI has begun rolling out facial recognition to identify criminals.

It will form part of the bureau’s long-awaited, $1 billion Next Generation Identification (NGI) programme, which will also add biometrics such as iris scans, DNA analysis and voice identification to the toolkit. A handful of states began uploading their photos as part of a pilot programme this February and it is expected to be rolled out nationwide by 2014. In addition to scanning mugshots for a match, FBI officials have indicated that they are keen to track a suspect by picking out their face in a crowd.

Another application would be the reverse: images of a person of interest from security cameras or public photos uploaded onto the internet could be compared against a national repository of images held by the FBI. An algorithm would perform an automatic search and return a list of potential hits for an officer to sort through and use as possible leads for an investigation.

Ideally, such technological advancements will allow law enforcement to identify criminals more accurately and lead to quicker arrests. But privacy advocates are worried by the broad scope of the FBI’s plans. They are concerned that people with no criminal record who are caught on camera alongside a person of interest could end up in a federal database, or be subject to unwarranted surveillance.

The FBI’s Jerome Pender told the Senate in July that the searchable photo database used in the pilot studies only includes mugshots of known criminals. But it’s unclear from the NGI’s privacy statement whether that will remain the case once the entire system is up and running or if civilian photos might be added, says attorney Jennifer Lynch of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The FBI was unable to answer New Scientist‘s questions before the magazine went to press.

Current RISC responses include the Red/Yellow/Green flag, the category of hit, the FBI number, the master name and the response caveats. The RISC Rapid Search supports multi-tiered enrollment and dissemination policies and maintains unique identities for the individuals enrolled in the repository. (See diagram above.)

The FBI hasn’t shared details of the algorithms it is using, but its technology could be very accurate if applied to photographs taken in controlled situations such as passport photos or police shots.

Tests in 2010 showed that the best algorithms can pick someone out in a pool of 1.6 million mugshots 92 per cent of the time. It’s possible to match a mugshot to a photo of a person who isn’t looking at the camera too. Algorithms such as one developed by Marios Savvides’s lab at Carnegie Mellon can analyse features of a front and side view set of mugshots, create a 3D model of the face, rotate it as much as 70 degrees to match the angle of the face in the photo, and then match the new 2D image with a fairly high degree of accuracy. The most difficult faces to match are those in low light. Merging photos from visible and infrared spectra can sharpen these images, but infrared cameras are still very expensive.

Of course, it is easier to match up posed images and the FBI has already partnered with issuers of state drivers’ licences for photo comparison. Jay Stanley of the American Civil Liberties Union urges caution: “Once you start plugging this into the FBI database, it becomes tantamount to a national photographic database.” source – New Scientist

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As ‘Twitter Files’ Show Conclusive Proof That FBI Censored Free Speech Of American Citizens, Democrats Release Trump’s Tax Returns

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The FBI repeatedly grilled Twitter execs about censorship on the social media platform in the summer of 2020 — insisting that the company provide more information about removing ‘state propaganda’ from the site, according to the latest Twitter Files release.

The United States government invented the term ‘conspiracy theory’ in the aftermath of the execution of President John F. Kennedy by our government after they released the completely fraudulent ‘Warren Report’ to cover their tracks. But the conspiracy theorists were right, Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy, proof of that being the shocking execution of Oswald in the police station by Jack Ruby. So the FBI and the CIA labeled anyone who refused to believe their cock-and-bull story a ‘conspiracy theorist’. Now that the FBI has been caught red-handed censoring free speech as recently revealed in the stunning ‘Twitter Files’, they are saying that anyone who believes their lying eyes is a conspiracy theorist. This is why the Democrats released Donald Trump’s tax returns yesterday, in the hopes it’ll stop you from focusing on the FBI.

“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” Psalms 9:17 (KJB)

From our founding, NTEB has never shied away from a good, solid conspiracy theory as the majority of them are telling you the truth. What you find when you investigate a matter for yourself usually runs counter to the government version, like what actually happened on 9/11. When you understand that the main stream media is not in the business of telling you the truth but feeding you an agenda, things clear up pretty quick from that point on. If Donald Trump lied on his taxes, then that affects Donald Trump. But if the FBI conspired with Twitter to shut down the voices of constitutionally-protected free speech practicing Americans, then that problem affects 355 million people. If the media reported the truth, which story do you think would be in the headlines right now?

Latest ‘Twitter Files’ show FBI bullied executives over not reporting ‘state propaganda’ enough

FROM THE NY POST: The agency’s Foreign Influence Task Force — which deals with cyber threats — interrogated Twitter on its reporting about official state media actors’ use of the site, according to emails unearthed by independent journalist Matt Taibbi in what he dubbed the “Twitter Files Supplemental” Sunday night. San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan pressured former Twitter trust and safety chief Yoel Roth in July 2020 for more information about how they prevented bad actors from using the platform, according to screengrabs of email correspondence posted by Taibbi.

Chan was not satisfied with Twitter’s indication that it “had not observed much recent activity from official propaganda actors on your platform,” the emails show. Roth, in return, commented on the persistence of the agency, stating that he was “perplexed” by the probing inquiry.

“I’m frankly perplexed by the requests here, which seem more like something we’d get from a congressional committee than the Bureau,” he said in an email to his team.

Roth added that he was not “particularly comfortable with the Bureau (and by extension the [Intelligence Community]) demanding written answers.”

In another email, Roth said he felt the FBI’s line of questioning was flawed since Twitter had clearly acknowledged that “official state propaganda is definitely a thing on Twitter.” The FBI said its requests to the social media platform were a normal procedure for the agency.

“The FBI regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identified foreign malign influence actors’ subversive, undeclared, covert, or criminal activities,” the agency told Taibbi.

Last Friday, Taibbi said the FBI and Twitter’s relationship had a “master-canine quality” and that the two parties were in “constant and pervasive” contact. The FBI treated the social media giant like a “subsidiary,” he added, and constantly flagged numerous Twitter accounts for purportedly harmful “misinformation” beginning in January 2020. READ MORE

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When The FBI Raided Mar-A-Lago, They Had Plenty Of Time To Look Through Melania Trump’s Closet, But Have No Interest In Hunter Biden’s Laptop. Why Not?

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FBI agents scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe and spent several hours combing through Donald Trump’s private office, breaking open his safe and rifling through drawers when they raided the former First Family’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida Monday morning.

The astonishing daytime raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is a frightening and incredible fact on it’s own, and the more information that comes forward, the worse it gets. Today we find out that they spent a considerable amount of time going through Melania Trump’s closet, presumably for classified documents hidden, where, in her underwear drawer? I mean, come on now. Melania’s clothing puts our national security at risk, yet Hunter Biden’s laptop, filled with emails from the government agencies of Communist China and Ukraine, does not? Hmm.

“And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.” Isaiah 59:14,15 (KJB)

But as we ponder the legality and veracity of the raid on Mar-a-Lago, it begs the question as to why Hunter Biden’s home has never been raided, or his filth and corruption filled laptop examined by the FBI. You would think that would be one of the first places they would want to investigate. Remember when the FBI warned Hillary Clinton to preserve all her devices, how did she respond to that order? She wiped them all clean with impunity, daring the FBI to do something. And guess what? The FBI did nothing. Now you know what Biden’s 87,000 new IRS agents are for.

FBI searched Melania’s wardrobe, spent hours in Trump’s private office during Mar-a-Lago raid

FROM THE NY POST: The Post has learned that the search warrant used by the FBI to enter the palatial Palm Beach property focused solely on presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored there. A source close to the former president expressed concern that FBI agents or DOJ lawyers conducting the search could have “planted stuff” because they would not allow Trump’s attorneys inside the 128-room building to observe the operation, which lasted more than nine hours.

The raid by over 30 plain clothes agents from the Southern District of Florida and the FBI’s Washington Field Office extended through the Trump family’s entire 3,000-square-foot private quarters, as well as to a separate office and safe, and a locked basement storage room in which 15 cardboard boxes of material from the White House were stored.

Feds arrived at 9 a.m. and didn’t leave until 6:30 p.m.

An eyewitness to the raid said all of the boxes were confiscated by federal agents Monday, but it is unknown if anything else was taken as no itemized list of items was provided by the FBI. The boxes contain documents and mementos from Trump’s presidency, reportedly including letters from Barack Obama and Kim Jong Un, and other correspondence with world leaders.

A legal source said that the boxes had been packed up by the General Services Administration and shipped to Mar-a-Lago when Trump left office in January 2020. Trump’s attorneys, led by Evan Corcoran, had been cooperating fully with federal authorities on the return of the documents to the National Archives and Records Administration, according to sources. READ MORE

The federal judge who gave the green light for FBI agents to raid the home of Donald Trump donated thousands of dollars to Barack Obama and has in the past represented clients linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

Sen. Marco Rubio reacts to the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago on ‘Hannity’.

Lawmakers grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray relating to an alleged ‘cover-up’ of information related to Hunter Biden’s business dealings.

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Under Oath, James Comey Admits The FBI Never Validated The Phony ‘Russian Dossier’ That It Then Used As A Pretext To Wiretap Trump Campaign

Former FBI Director James Comey admitted that the Bureau did not verify allegations in the Steele dossier before it was cited as grounds for wiretaps of Trump campaign.

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Former FBI Director James Comey admitted that the Bureau did not verify allegations in the Steele dossier before it was cited as grounds for snooping on a former Trump adviser in 2016.

One of the greatest crimes in modern American history was not perpetrated by Al Capone, John Gotti, the Clinton Crime Family or the Bush Crime Family. No, those people are rank amateurs compared to what this man James Comey pulled off while serving as the head of the FBI.

James Comey oversaw the ‘investigation’ into the various felonies committed by Crooked HIllary Clinton, including but not limited to destroying 33,000 emails she was told to retain, her staff destroying mobile devices she was told to retain, wiping clean her the illegal email server she used as Secretary of State despite being ordered not to. And just for good measure her husband, Slick Willie Clinton, paid an unethical and illegal visit to the attorney general Loretta Lynch all while Hillary was under Comey’s investigation.

Yes, Hillary did all these things and more, and yet amazingly when James Comey was done investigating he let her off without so much as a parking ticket. Why? Because Comey and Hillary go back for decades and the whole thing was a setup. The Steele ‘Russian Dossier’ was financed by, guess who? Hillary and the Democrats. James Comey never investigated her, he ran interference for her.

Are you still wondering who killed Seth Rich? You shouldn’t be. Take a deep dive into the Clinton Dead Pool, and you’ll find out.

Comey replied with ‘I don’t recall’ to the majority of questions

FROM THE NY POST: The admission came in closed-door testimony before congressional investigators that was made public Saturday evening.

The dossier contained memos alleging Russian influence over Trump and his advisers and helped authorities get permission from a special court to surveil former Trump adviser Carter Page.

The compilation of the Steele dossier was funded first by a conservative publication, then by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

During his testimony Friday, Comey repeatedly professed ignorance regarding FBI investigations into Trump campaign associates in the weeks prior to the 2016 election.

Asked by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) what the FBI did to confirm the Steele dossier, Comey indicated that effort was still underway months after the warrant to surveil Page had already been granted and renewed. READ MORE

James Comey Admits Steele Dossier Unverified Months After FISA Warrant Granted

FROM BREITBART NEWS: The former FBI director said the anti-Trump dossier “was coming to us from a reliable source with a track record, and it’s an important thing when you’re seeking a PC warrant,” concerning Steele.

“But what I understand by verified is we then try to replicate the source information so that it becomes FBI investigation and our conclusions rather than a reliable source’s,” he told Republicans. “That’s what I understand it, the difference to be. And that work wasn’t completed by the time I left in May of 2017, to my knowledge.”

Comey now has confirmed what Republican lawmakers like Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Rep. Mark Meadows(R-N.C.), and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) have warned about for months – that the FBI used an unverified dossier, paid for by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party as political opposition research, to justify spying on the duly nominated GOP candidate for president just weeks before Election Day.

The original FISA warrant application submitted in October 2016, along with the three 90-day renewal, were labeled “Verified application,” as reported by National Review’s Andrew C. McCarthy. “The FBI has reviewed this verified application for accuracy in accordance with its April 5, 2001 procedures, which include sending a copy of the draft to the appropriate field office(s),” the applications read.

Along with being unaware of the dossier’s veracity, Comey did not know that Bruce Ohr, the Justice Department’s fourth-highest ranking official before his demotion last year, was a go-between for collecting so-called intelligence from Steele after the FBI terminated its relationship with the agent for alleging leaking information to the media. Further, Solomon reports that Comey could not recall that Steele’s relationship with the bureau had even been terminated. READ MORE

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