The program was developed ostensibly to "fill the gap in HUMINT." The intent was to monitor or go after those who are in the process of radicalizing, or might radicalize but who haven't given the agency probable cause.
The actual intent was to find people who they could radicalize in order to manufacture consent for domestic agendas.
Now you know why you keep hearing that phrase. When the story comes out they can exploit the gap between the meaning of 'on radar' and claim that phrase merely meant someone was in the "monitoring list", rather than being a high priority that was actively kept track of. The excuse will be "they dropped the ball", as it always is.
There are now over two million americans "on the radar" in various tiers. This is what the threat matrix score was about. This is their program paralleling the NSA and DHS. Many databases are brought together, but they also employ part time and full time informants, usually ex-convicts and military veterans. Ever had a weird conversation in the grocery line about machine guns? How about a guy in a neighboring room at your motel wanting to show you his gun collection? That political group you just started suddenly has a couple guys join who want to talk about escalating? These are all hypothetical examples, but I'm sure more than a few people can relate.
Thats RADAR. And you, like millions of other American citizens, are on it.
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Posted courtesy of:
A whistleblower I may or may not have met recently.
we_kill_creativity 0 points 2.4 years ago
Do you think its more likely they do this, or that they don't? Its pretty fucking obvious at this point.