It is no secret that the government has taken advantage of the 9/11 tragedy and scared the majority of the country into willingly sacrificing their freedom for a false sense of security. Yet, even with the sheeple cowed into compliance, the few remaining “annoyances” required to get unfettered access to the personal information of every US citizen are still apparently too daunting for the fine agents of the FBI. According to information contained in a report released today by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General, the FBI routinely ignores the already lenient rules that they are required to follow to obtain phone records.

According to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, telecom providers are allowed to immediately provide records in the case of an actual emergency where there is a “reasonable belief” that “an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure without delay.” The FBI expresses this urgent need through what is called an “exigent letter” that is provided to the phone company. While I am not privy to the actual process, I can only imagine that it involves an agent filling in the phone number in question on a form letter and then handing it to a phone company employee (who, believe it or not, works inside the FBI office responsible for handling these requests). While you would imagine that the FBI would be perfectly happy with a system that is devoid of judicial oversight and only requires only writing a letter to gain access to private records, but according to the Inspector General’s report agents routinely obtained records without using an “exigent letter”. In some cases, the phone number in question was merely written down on a Post-It note left on the telecom employee’s desk, other times requests were made verbally.

Additionally, the FBI has developed a new legal “theory” that allows telecoms to divulge information without any judicial process AT ALL! Unfortunately for the American public, the portion of the report dealing with this new theory is heavily redacted. Hidden from view is any discussion of the legal basis for this new claim. Even the section number of the law the FBI feels grants it this power is redacted. This ridiculous secrecy is exactly the opposite of what you would expect from an administration that ran on a platform of hope and promised openness and transparency. Well at least we know that it is business as usual at the Department of Injustice.

FBI Replaced Legal Process with Post-It Notes to Obtain Phone Records

What was quite possibly the best opportunity for President Obama to announce the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life to the world has passed without a single word on the subject. Of all the supposed venues for announcement that have been theorized, today’s speech was the only event that would allow the President to make what would be the most important announcement in world history without any overbearing American nationalism. With this opportunity passed, I believe the chances of disclosure coming from President Obama or his administration are slim to none. Barring any action from the UN or another national government, it would appear the current tradition of silence and deception will, for the time being, remain the status quo as it has for the past 62 years.

Earlier today the appearance of a blue spiral of light over Norway sent shockwaves across the Scandinavian country as thousands witnessed the phenomenon. According to witnesses, the event lasted a little over 2 minutes, but some residual coloration was still visible in the sky for some time. Experts have ruled out auras, meteors, and other known natural phenomena. Additionally, no rocket sites in Norway or any neighboring countries say they have fired any rockets. This leaves this event a complete mystery.

Because this occurred on the eve of President Obama’s arrival in Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, many have postulated that the two events may be related. The internet has been abuzz lately with rumors of government disclosure of the existence of extraterrestrial life and many theories peg President Obama’s Nobel Prize speech as a possible venue for an announcement. In a way, announcing the existence of extraterrestrial life at the Nobel ceremonies seem logical. If he brokered some sort of diplomatic agreement between the earth and an extraterrestrial race, Pres. Obama would definitely deserve the peace prize, an accolade that right now very few feels he has earned. Additionally because the speech will occur outside of the United States, he would be seen as making the announcement to the entire planet and not just to the US. Ultimately, only time will tell if the two events have anything to do with each other. Even if there is no link between this phenomena and President Obama, something amazing happened over Norway today.

Spiral UFO Puts Norway In A Spin [via Alien UFO Casebook 'Frontier']