From: Risto Lankinen on
the statistics.

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http://www.epic.org...Louis Freeh, banging the Drums of War:


Prepared Statement of
Director Louis J. Freeh
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Before the Senate Judiciary Committee

June 4, 1997

THE ISSUES YOU AND THE OTHER MEMBERS RAISE ARE CRITICAL AND IMMEDIATE.
MANY GO TO THE CORE OF THE FBI AND OUR ABILITY TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE. TO ADDRESS THESE VITAL ISSUES --- SERIOUS CRIME, TERRORISM AND
ESPIONAGE --- THE FBI MUST BE AND IS A DYNAMIC INSTITUTION ANTICIPATING
OR REACTING TO NEW TECHNOLOGY. PERHAPS UNLIKE ANY TIME IN OUR HISTORY,
THE NATURE OF CRIME AND TERRORISM IS EVOLVING AT AN UNPRECEDENTED PACE.
TERRORISM, BOTH INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC THREATENS US LIKE NEVER BEFORE.

* "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe
*
* Ironically, the World Trade Center was subsequently bombed by a group
* that was already under FBI surveillance.

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THE MARVELS OF THE INTERNET CAN BE USED FOR EVIL AGAINST CHILDREN.
CHILDREN CONTINUE TO FALL PREY TO VIOLENT ABDUCTORS OR PEDOPHILES WHO
NOW COME INTO HOMES OVER MODEMS AND TELEPHONE LINES. THE NEED FOR THE
RIGHT


From: JSH on
As far as I can
# tell, the photos would be no different from some photog books listed
# in the Library of Congress.
#
# The fact that you've confiscated the photos, but still haven't charged
# the photog, seems to indicate you're operating on auto-pilot, and that
# there is nothing wrong with the photos. I've never seen a news report
# where law enforcement wasn't sure, for this particular charge.
#
# It seems that you think some people may have "dirty thoughts" if they
# see the photos; that would make you the "Thought Police"!
#
# Sincerely,
# Guy


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The New York Times was no help.

They subsequently reviewed his work and called it ~"boring, been there, done
that". As if what they thought of his photos had a damn thing to do with the
matter.

The New York Times then continued to print topless pictures of young girls,
such as on November 10, 1991. They even printed color nipples of young girls
ages 5-8, confident the FBI wasn't going to bust *them*.

How hypocritical and self-serving.

Get a load of this wording:

* "Former Black Panthers Leader Is Freed on Bail"
* By B. Drummond Ayres Jr., The New York Times, June 11, 1997
*
* ...any trial jury is sure to be asked to weigh Mr. Pratt'


From: quasi on
electronic surveillance spy-power to me!

How about you?

The FBI has since come up with a briefcase with a 'targetable array of
microphones' to pick up conversations outside at a long distance.


* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* The leading lobbyist for CALEA was Louis Freeh, the aggressive new
* director of the FBI. The government's most important investigative
* tool, Freeh said, was "wiretapping, court-authorized wiretapping."
*
* Unless remedial steps were taken, he continued, "the country will
* be unable to protect itself from terrorism, violent crime, drug
* trafficking, espionage, kidnapping and other grave crimes."
*
* But is Freeh's frightening vision true?
*
* In fact, at the same time the FBI was telling Congress and the public
* that the new technologies were already preventing them from conducting
* essential wiretaps, senior FBI officials from cities across the United
* States were telling FBI headquarters in Washington THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
* We know this because...[buy the book! Burnham is an American hero.]


Additionally, the FBI/NSA has briefcase-sized devices that can be attached
to any digital telephone company transmission line, and can monitor many
conversations simultaneously.

# "The FBI's Latest Idea: Make Wiretapping Easier"
# By Anthony Ramirez, The New York Times, April 19, 1992
#
# One telecommunications equipment manufacturer said he was puzzled by the
# FBI proposal. "The FBI already has a lot of technology to wiretap digital
# lines," he said, on the condition of anonymity.
#
# He said four companies, including such major firms as Mitel Corporation,
# a Canadian maker of teleco


From: Pubkeybreaker on
been convinced that Communist
: nations were bankrolling or directing the antiwar movement and had
: ordered investigations into this possibility.
:
: The CIA's investigations, which included operation CHAOS, found no
: evidence of external control or funding of the antiwar movement, the
: Black Panthers, or the Students for a Democratic Society.

* "The Rise of the Computer State", David Burnham, 1984
*
* p128: Federal authorities were concerned that foreign governments MIGHT
* try to influence civil rights leaders in the United States. The list
* of Americans monitored ballooned as political groups, celebrities and
* ordinary citizens were added to the 'watch lists'. The NSA surveillance
* was illegal and was instantly stopped [years later] when it appeared
* that Congress might learn about the eavesdropping.

Fear, loathing, suspicion and monitoring of civil rights movements.

All it took was the thought that foreigners were influencing Americans.

That's all it took to make the massive surveillance "legal".

Of course, massive surveil


From: Pubkeybreaker on
to give us the beginnings of privacy from the
Government.

That the dangers of it protecting someone involved in these activities
outweighs right to privacy of everyone else in the United States.

That our communications must be compromised by Government "Key Recovery".


What a bunch of hooey.



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War #1 - Drugs
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* The New York Times
*
* December 7 1995. A&E Investigative Reports "Seized by the Law" draws
* attention to a recent embellishment of the criminal law that permits
* Federal agents and the state and local police to confiscate cash and
* property on the suspicion that their owners are involved in drug
* trafficking.
*
* Just suspicion.
*
* No arrest or indictment, much less conviction, is required.

The Dark Ages in America.

* And the fact that most of the proceeds stay with
* the police may be a temptation to confiscation.

Naw, that would never happen.

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Fear, loathing, suspicion, unlimited police powers...welcome to America...

* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* As he had done many times before, African-American Willie Jones was about
* to board an American airlines flight to Houston to buy flowers and shrubs.
* He was a second-generation family florist and on February 27, 1991 he was
* carrying $9600 in cash because the wholesalers prefer cash.
*
* This time, however, apparently because Jones fit a "profile" of what drug
* dealers are supposed to look like, two police off