Note:  During the past few weeks, Americans Stand with Israel and other blogs have been posting concerns about Facebook's privacy issues relating to members who are having their comments pulled from their sight when mentioning the Muslim Brotherhood, Homeland Security, Obama, etc. What we have discovered is that these organizations are "key" words that somehow enable those organizations mentioned to grab our comments and place on their Facebook pages without the member's knowledge.  We have asked Facebook to explain how and why they would implement this capability; and more importantly, why a terrorist organization - Muslim Brotherhood - is even allowed to be a member of FACEBOOK?!  ... To-date, we have not received a response from anyone associated with Facebook and every explanation has been unfruitful, by those trying to make sense of out this nonsense.  Well, here it is folks - bloggers - our freedom of speech is being monitored by Homeland Security and not just on Facebook!  Jihad Watch monitors Islamic terrorism throughout the world; maybe Homeland Security needs to monitor that site in order to gain information their own department is unable to gain by its own technology; doesn't that make you feel safer?!  I'm sure I am missing key points to this report (below) ... but if anything, it should make all Americans wonder  if this administration is over-ruling the First Amendment of the Constitution.  HS refuses to identify the terrorists and enemies of the United States, while treating Conservative blogs, such as Jihad Watch, Bare Naked Islam, etc. as the enemy..
See: http://americansstandwithisrael.blogspot.com/2012/01/muslim-brotherhood-facebook-and-youyes.html
http://americansstandwithisrael.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-post-barack-obama-muslim.html
  ,,,,,,,,,  Bee Sting

 and now, from "The Last Refuge":

THE LAST REFUGE
Posted on January 11, 2012 by sundancecracker

Mossad Puddy BEWARE – They are looking for your trail…..

Rueters Reports On Websites, and “content” Department Of Homeland Security Is Monitoring…

(Reuters) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, according to a government document.

A “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS last November says that since at least June 2010, its national operations center has been operating a “Social Networking/Media Capability” which involves regular monitoring of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.”

A DHS official familiar with the monitoring program said that it was intended purely to enable command center officials to keep in touch with various Internet-era media so that they were aware of major, developing events to which the Department or its agencies might have to respond.

The document outlining the monitoring program says that all the websites which the command center will be monitoring were “publicly available and… all use of data published via social media sites was solely to provide more accurate situational awareness, a more complete common operating pictures, and more timely information for decision makers…”

The DHS official said that under the program’s rules, the department would not keep permanent copies of the internet traffic it monitors. However, the document outlining the program does say that the operations center “will retain information for no more than five years.”

The monitoring scheme also features a five-page list, attached to the privacy review document, of websites the Department’s command center expected to be monitoring.

CONTROVERSIAL SITES

These include social networking sites Facebook and My Space – though there is a parenthetical notice that My Space only affords a “limited search” capability – and more than a dozen sites that monitor, aggregate and enable searches of Twitter messages and exchanges.

Among blogs and aggregators on the list are ABC News’ investigative blog “The Blotter;” blogs that cover bird flu; several blogs related to news and activity along U.S. borders (DHS runs border and immigration agencies); blogs that cover drug trafficking and cybercrime; and websites that follow wildfires in Los Angeles and hurricanes.

News and gossip sites on the monitoring list include popular destinations such as the Drudge Report, Huffington Post and “NY Times Lede Blog”, as well as more focused techie fare such as the Wired blogs “Threat Level” and “Danger Room.” Numerous blogs related to terrorism and security are also on the list.

Another blog on the list, Cryptome, also periodically posts leaked documents and was one of the first websites to post information related to the Homeland Security monitoring program.

Also on the list are JihadWatch and Informed Comment [leftist professor Juan Cole -ed.], blogs that cover issues related to Islam through sharp political prisms, which have sometimes led critics to accuse the sites of political bias. **(Note: and the critics are, let me guess, Islamic organizations complaining about any American Conservative blog exposing Sharia laws and Islamic terrorism?)

Also on the list are various video and photo-sharing sites, including Hulu, Youtube and Flickr.

While a DHS official involved in the monitoring program confirmed the authenticity of the list, officials authorized to speak for the Department did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.  (more)