A local ABC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah has caused a stir online with a report suggesting that self-proclaimed Israeli art students, peddling their artwork from door to door, have been asking disturbing questions about plans to build an NSA data center in the area.

"These salespeople say they're Israeli students," ABC4 reporter Brent Hunsaker explained. "They even produce Israeli passports. They say they're selling their own artwork to raise money to open a gallery. So why would the Israeli art students want to know about the National Security Agency?"

According to Hunsaker, warnings about the students are being spread through blogs and church bulletins. One bulletin sent out to Mormon women even claimed that "federal law enforcement groups are actually investigating their ties to organized crime and terrorist groups."

The basis for the suspicions goes back to 2002, when a lengthy article at Salon described how Drug Enforcement Agency field offices were reporting that "young Israelis claiming to be art students and offering artwork for sale had been attempting to penetrate DEA offices for over a year. The Israelis had also attempted to penetrate the offices of other law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies."

According to author Christopher Ketcham, "Some of the Israelis were observed diagramming the inside of federal buildings. Some were found carrying photographs they had taken of federal agents. One was discovered with a computer printout in his luggage that referred to 'DEA groups.' In some cases, the Israelis visited locations not known to the public -- areas without street addresses, for example, or DEA offices not identified as such."

These reports were summarized in a June 2001 internal DEA memo, but what brought the story to public notice was a Fox News special in December of that year. It suggested that the "art students" might have been Israeli spies who had trailed al-Qaeda members across the United States but had never shared any information they might have gained on the plans for September 11 with US authorities.

Ultimately, the more conspiratorial aspects of the story proved impossible to confirm, and it became one more unsolved 9/11 mystery. Since then, self-proclaimed "Israeli art students" have continued to show up from time to time, but most of them are clearly running a scam.

Police in Ontario, Canada, for example, are currently issuing warnings about individuals going door to door and asking hundreds of dollars for "one of a kind" artworks that are "actually mass-produced oil paintings from China worth about $15."

The situation is somewhat different in Utah, however, where the sudden appearance of the art students is being tied to recent news reports that "the Army has awarded a $1.2 billion contract to a construction consortium to build a spacious new data center in Utah for the National Security Agency's (NSA's) cybersecurity effort."

The facility is part of the Comprehensive National Security Initiative, launched in 2008, whose aim is to protect military computer networks from cyber-threats and provide assistance to the Department of Homeland Security in securing the federal government's civilian networks.

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Comment by Central Scrutinizer on October 21, 2013 at 3:38pm

have up'd 3 since thursday w/ no probs, have ye tried a diff browser???

flush your DNS???......Empty temp internet folder???.....reset LAN adapter???

FLUSH DNS

START > RUN(XP) or Search Box(Win7) Type

CMD

then hit ENTER

in "dos" box prompt type

IPCONFIG/FLUSHDNS

hit ENTER

should get confirmation box

close DOS box

RESET LAN ADAPTER

do as above to get DOS window, type

IPCONFIG/RELEASE

(u will lose network connection for a minute so make sure no D/L's goin on)

ENTER, give it a few seconds then type

IPCONFIG/RENEW

after a few seconds, should get refreshed IP info

close DOS box

holla

Comment by truth on October 21, 2013 at 3:09pm

Still no uploading for me...dunno why

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on October 17, 2013 at 1:04am

werks for me James ;)

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on October 17, 2013 at 12:08am

weird...on my end, stoner me forgot i upped this one already, dunno if it replaced it or what, am uppin a different one now, I get no donor page

Comment by truth on October 17, 2013 at 12:04am

every time I click the upload link it goes to donation page. I get the hint, but damn I donated already last month :)

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on October 16, 2013 at 11:51pm

uploadn a 40 meg avi...am @ 28% so far.. ;)

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on October 16, 2013 at 11:42pm

havent tried in 2 weeks....lemme try now

Comment by truth on October 16, 2013 at 11:36pm

I havent been able to upload on TT for a week or so , can you Hwood?

Comment by Sweettina2 on October 15, 2013 at 8:33pm

My stars...hang on to your drawers and brace yourself.  Bibi's punks will record their next false flag which will probably bring in martial law.

Comment by sleat on October 15, 2013 at 4:48pm

But...that Utah data center is already running...they could literally get the addresss off the internet and save a plane ticket. This is very old news, isn't it?

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