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Harah!: Israeli Company Hired by State Government to Spy on Pennsylvanians

Harah!: Israeli Company Hired by State Government to
Spy on Pennsylvanians

Source: thiscantbehappening.net
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http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/208

Published: Sept 19, 2010
Author: Dave Lindorff

Harah!: Israeli Company Hired by State Government to Spy on Pennsylvanians


Dave Lindorff

The surprise disclosure that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, through
its state Homeland Security Agency, along with a number of local police
departments in the state, have been employing a private Israeli security
company with strong links to Mossad and the Israeli Defense Force to spy
on law-abiding citizens, grows increasingly disturbing when the website
of the company, called the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response,
is examined.

ITRR’s slick site at
TerrorResponse.org features a
homepage image of an armor-clad soldier or riot policeman preparing to
fire an automatic pistol, while the company boasts of being “the
preeminent Isreal/American security firm, providing training,
intelligence and education for clients across the globe.”

Image captured from ITRR's website
Image captured from ITRR's website

The firm, which offers courses locally at the University of Philadelphia,
notes that all its course offerings, some of which are taught in Israel,
are “approved by the Israeli Ministry of Defense.” The course titles
include such compelling topics as: “Tactical Advantage in Combat,”
“Civilian Battlefield,” “Undercover/Plainclothes Tactical Operations,”
“Israeli Shooting Techniques,” “Arena Combat,” “Hard Entry (Arrest)” and
“Principles of Night Operations.” While a number of the titles link to
course descriptions, the links to the undercover class and the civilian
battlefield class were disabled when this reporter visited the site,
which was two days after the company’s role as a state security
contractor was exposed.

The description for the Tactical Advantage course, which the website says
was designed for military, law enforcement and security personnel,
describes the program as “intense, dirty, aggressive and based on Israeli
Counter-Terror Schools policy.” It says “This course pushes trainees to
the physical and mental edge.”

American organizations which engage in protests and rallies, hearing that
reference to the Israeli Counter-Terror Schools policy, might recall the
IDF’s handling of the aid flotilla that was boarded on the high seas by
IDF troops as they read these lines. That assault, in which the Israelis
used 9mm semi-automatic weapons against defenders armed at most with
sticks and light chains, left nine flotilla participants, including a
young Turkish American, dead.

The Institute of Terrorism Research and Response, which only lists a
post-box address in Philadelphia (though in its report on the scandal the
Philadelphia Inquirer referred to ITRR as a “Philadelphia-based company
with offices in Philadelphia and Jerusalem”), also advertises a
subsidiary operation it calls a Targeted Action Monitoring Center
(TAM-C), which it claims is “world renowned” and which it says supplies
“factual, actionable intelligence to subscribers.” All information
gathered by the firm’s staff of “former law enforcement, military and
intelligence professionals” is sent to the Israeli headquarters of the
TAM-C for processing--a move which effectively insulates it from
discovery by any surveillance victims who might seek disclosure under
federal or state Freedom of Information laws, or who might sue in court
for violation of their civil liberties.

While ITRR, founded in 2004, doesn’t name any of its clients, it says
they range from Fortune 100 companies, including the power industry,
maritime companies, US infrastructure companies, “the company company
charged with protecting oil production facilities,” missionary
organizations and pharmaceutical firms, to law enforcement agencies and
joint terrorism task forces.

A search on Google for references to ITRR doesn’t turn up much, but there
is a report in July 2008 by a Washington-based right-wing site called
National Terror Alert, which attributes a warning of a “possible
large-scale terror attack” to ITRR. Claiming that it had “intercepted
communications from an organization closely associated with international
terrorists, to include al Qaeda,” the National Terror Alert organization
says TIRR reports that, “Available intelligence and recent events
indicate that terrorists have an established capability and current
intent to mount an attack on the target and there is some additional
information on the nature of the threat. It is assessed that an attack on
the target is a priority for the terrorists and is likely to be mounted.”


Nothing came of this "alert," but it should be noted that a
year later, the first head of the new federal Department of Homeland
Security, former Republican governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge, admitted
that the color-coded terror alerts issued by his office had been
manipulated to serve Republican political interests. It should also be
recalled that the 2008 TIRR “warning” came during the height of the
election season, just before the two national party conventions. As the
Philadelphia Daily News commented at the time in a headline, “GOP kicks
off fall campaign with heightened terror alert.”

But ITRR does much more than just monitor terrorists. Indeed, it seems to
be far too busy monitoring legitimate, non-violent and completely legal
protest organizations and other political groups to do much real
anti-terror work. According to news reports on ITRR’s work for the
Pennsylvania Homeland Security Agency and also the Pittsburgh Police
Department, it would appear that ITRR was spying on and providing
Pennsylvania State Police and Homeland Security with reports on
everything from anti-war groups and anti-oil-shale-fracking groups to gay
rights groups, animal rights groups, environmental organizations and even
Good Schools Pennsylvania, a citizens association formed to back Gov. Ed
Rendell’s school reform initiatives. Even a Harrisburg, PA man who likes
to bring a 25-foot inflatable pig to demonstrations to symbolize
government waste was targeted.

While local news media reports in Philadelphia have suggested that ITRR
is just composed of two people, Aaron Richman, an Israeli police captain
and security consultant and Michael Perelman, a retired New York City
police commander, the website makes it clear that the company actually
employs a large number of people in Israel, and may have as many as 15
people working “in the field” in the US.

Its activities are not limited to Pennsylvania either. The firm boasts on
its website that “Information provided to clients ranges from issues of
global jihad to Mexican Cartel threats along America’s southern border
(maybe that’s where Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer got her weird tale,
eventually debunked and retracted, of beheadings in the border desert?)
to providing guidance of the threat of disorders as a result of
international monetary meetings.”

This latter is a reference to the yeoman work ITRR reportedly did for the
Pittsburg Police Department in advance of the disastrous G-20 meeting in
Pittsburgh, which turned into a police riot after the local government
and police brought in hundreds of reinforcements from other cities, with
cops suited up as though for war, to lock down the city and prevent
students from demonstrating against the predations of international
capital and international “free trade” agreements. It appears that ITRR
had ingratiated its way into the confidence of demonstration planners by
having its agents join chat rooms and websites “posing as G-20
opponents.” One wonders whether these same agents may have also acted as
agents provocateur.

As the head of Pennsylvania’s Homeland Security Agency, James Powers, who
hired ITRR, put it, “We got the information to the Pittsburgh Police, and
they were able to cut them off at the pass.”

So much for the Constitutional right to protest!

Several calls for comment made to the Homeland Security Agency and the
Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency which oversees it went
unanswered, but Perelman has released a statement saying "The
Institute of Terrorism Research and Response tracks events, givinglaw
enforcement a heads-up for the potential of disorder as our bulletins
provided to the [state] clearly show...[and] does not follow people,
conduct surveillance, photograph, or record individuals."

This claim is undermined by the details in some of its reports (a select
bunch of ITRR weekly "terror" alert report released by the
state government after the scandal broke included one on the Brandywine
Peace Community, which regularly runs a protest at the Lockheed Martin
military contractor plant just northwest of Philadelphia. The report
says, "When their focus is not directed at Lockheed itself,
protesters will likely gather at the traffic light on the corner of Mall
and Goddard to wave signs at cars." Less this report not sound
terrifying enough, the report adds ominously (with no supporting evidence
to back its claim) that even so, the event could attract "radical
protesters from the ranks of local communist and/or anarchist
movements."

Gov. Rendell, after the story about ITRR’s activities for the state under
a no-bid, $125,000/year contract, broke, claimed he was “embarrassed” by
the spying on non-violent civic action organizations, and vowed to cancel
the contract effective this October.

It is not clear, however, that there will be any information provided
about who was spied on over the time the company has been active. Members
of both political parties in the state legislature are calling for a
General Assembly hearing into ITRR’s activities, but such calls in this
closely divided body generally come to little or nothing. Meanwhile,
Rendell, a lame duck governor headed for the exit, is unlikely to do
anything about the issue beyond saying he’s embarrassed by it. He has
said he has no intention of firing Powers.

I know how damaging this kind of spying by state and local governments
can be. Back in the mid-1970s, when I and some journalist colleagues
owned and ran a small weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, the LA
Vanguard, we were among the targets of a massive illegal spying campaign
by the paranoid Los Angeles Police Department’s “red squad,” the Public
Disorder Intelligence Division. Our staff was actually penetrated by a
young red squad officer, who pretended to be a student wannabe journalist
in order to try to learn our sources for reports on the LAPD. But we were
only one of about 200 groups, ranging from a local anti-nuclear group to
the Peace & Freedom Party, a well-known third party in California
electoral politics, to the National Organization for Woman and even the
office of then City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky.

The reason we all learned about what the LAPD red squad was doing was
that one spy was outed, a class-action suit was filed by the ACLU of
Southern California, there was discovery ordered by the court, and
eventually the city of Los Angeles settled with the victims of the
campaign, to the tune of $1.8 million.

The Pennsylvania ACLU may eventually sue Pennsylvania over this latest
domestic spying outrage, but the times have changed, and it is hard to be
confident that the courts, no great friend of civil liberties at the
state level, and packed with Reagan and Bush 1 and 2 appointees at the
federal level, will mandate disclosure of the names of groups spied on,
much less of the records that were compiled. Furthermore, because the
state did this spying through an outside contractor, which is
headquartered in Israel, government and police agencies could claim that
the records are for the most part out of their hands and beyond the
courts’ jurisdiction.

At least one man, Gene Stilp, owner of the giant inflatable pig, already
has plans to sue the government in federal court. "When people's
civil rights are trampled it's a federal issue," says Stilp, himself
a licensed attorney. Stilp says he isn’t satisfied with Rendell’s
statement that he is “embarrassed” by the disclosure of ITRR’s contract.
“Being embarrassed doesn’t cut it,” says Stilp, who is calling for an
investigation into ITRR’s spying activities by the attorney general or
the federal government, and full disclosure of which groups and
individuals were spied upon.

Another person who has good reason to believe he was probably targeted by
ITRR is ThisCantBeHappening!’s own John Grant. Says Grant, “The more I
read about this affair, the more disturbing it seems. I'm a Vietnam
veteran and part of an organization -- Veterans For Peace -- that very
publicly opposes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We meet monthly and we
organize events with other anti-war groups. All
First-Amendment-protected, red-blooded American stuff. To think that some
self-ordained watchdog group of security freaks is monitoring me and my
friends and reporting our activities to God-knows who in the context of
'terrorism' -- and probably making tons of money doing it -- really
pisses me off. Governor Rendell should be embarrassed. He should come
clean and make public all the groups and people this gang was spying and
reporting on. The fact they are somehow connected to Israel -- a nation
many of us have been critical of -- is further reason to clear up what's
going on."
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Comments Below;


Gov. Rendell, after the story about ITRR’s activities for the state under a no-bid, $125,000/year contract, broke, claimed he was “embarrassed” by the spying on non-violent civic action organizations,
and vowed to cancel the contract effective this October.


Jews and Democrats share political and life philosophies.

The DNC is funded by a Jewish Money changer- Soros.




Correct. That is why over 78% of them voted for Obama.



78% of American Jews vote Obama




Obama mentor: Barack has a 'yiddish
e nishama' - Isreal overjoyed that
Barack Obama is

Abner Mikva next to an Obama poster with "Yes we can" written
in Hebrew.Obama mentor: Barack has a 'yiddishe nishama'Nov. 5, 2008Yaakov
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lakeside apartment building to vote on Tuesday morning, he wasn't
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2004 elections, there was no line at all. "People are excited,"
Mikva told The Jerusalem Post as he stood in line to vote. "This
election has people more involved." Mikva knows a thing or two about
elections. At 82, he is an elder statesman in his Hyde Park neighborhood
on Chicago's South Side. Sen. Barack Obama lives just up
...






True

Dems need to pay Jews back to keep that 78+%.

Gov Rendell is doing his part.




The DNC is funded by a Jewish Money changer- Soros.

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Comment by Sandra on September 19, 2010 at 8:10pm
Another violation of the Constitution I bet! Just like the UN on our soil... Maybe they are going to be in many cities one day? Nope, I bet zero's private army is made up of hammas, black panthers SEIU, X ACORN ant the ilk such as that... (note I do not capitalize muslin anything, it tends to be proper and I don't care to be... I remember it Wayne, guess people didn't pay attention and many still don't!

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