From: Pubkeybreaker on
investigation requiring the interception of private communications could
* be conducted WITHOUT A JUDICIAL WARRANT simply by turning to the NSA."
*
* Under current laws, if the FBI wants to eavesdrop legally on the conversation
* of a criminal it must obtain a warrant from a Federal judge. In those cases
* where the FBI wants to eavesdrop on a specific individual who it believes
* is an agent of a foreign government, it can apply for a warrant from a
* special SECRET PANEL of Federal judges established just for that purpose.
*
* The special missions and advanced technology of the NSA however, make its
* operations more difficult to control within the restrictions of the Federal
* wiretapping and surveillance laws.
*
* According to the 1975 report of the Special Senate Intelligence Committee,
* the agency has equipment that "sweeps up enormous numbers of communications,
* not all of which can be reviewed by intelligence analysts."
*
* Using "watch lists" --- lists of words and phrases designed to identify
* communications of intelligence interest --- NSA computers scan the mass of
* acquired communications to select those which may be of specific foreign
* intelligence interest", the report said.
*
* The court ruled Fourth Amendment rights were not violated.
*
* The Senate investigation in 1975 uncovered evidence the overseas
* communications of a number of individuals engaged in organizing
* political protests against the war in Vietnam were subjected to
* surveillance by the NSA equipment.


Mini-recap:

o The NSA can listen in on all American citizens' border-crossing
communications of any sort without a warrant or any other court
procedure, and effectively distribute that information to any and
all local law-enforcement agencies. And foreign governments.

Loss of Fourth Amendment rights.

Not even discussed with the American public.




From: fortune.bruce on
NY story to tell you. This past Thursday "The Associate"
> starring Whoopi Goldberg premiered. Afterwards I went to the party where
> I met an okay looking girl with a smokin' body. To shorten the story, we
> go to her place at 60th St. between Park and Lex. All night she kept
> bugging me about not having any idea who she was. So right when we're
> getting naked she finally tells me: she is Kurt Russel's little sister.
> Of course I thought she was pulling my leg, but she pulls a photo book
> out and sure enough, she is Kurt Russel's little sister! I got her phone
> number, but boy she is a big LOSER.

This email didn't contain his age, yet I knew it and many other things about
him simply from collecting them over time. I had no special need to do so,
but found it could add important detail to a security incident report. As
previously shown, for an incident report on someone working on their own job
within the firm I compared the capabilities of the code he sent out to his
own job description which he transmitted in his resume many months prior.

Why waste information that's just flying by for the taking?

Care for a fun conspiracy theory?

If I were pro-ECHELON, I would monitor all the Senators and ALL their staff
AND all their families. That's just to start. I would also monitor ALL
up-and-coming politicians.

You never know when you're going to need to squeeze some support out of them.

Has Bill Clinton been compromised by NSA ECHELON monitoring?

* "The Secret War Against the Jews", Authors: John Loftus and Mark Aarons
*
* A large number of American candidates for public office have been placed
* under electronic surveillance by British intelligence officers sitting
* at their "temporary listening post" a


From: fortune.bruce on
not be the American way.

Unrestricted cryptography must be made legal now,
so we are no longer naked to ECHELON monitoring.
It will be a beginning.


: Privacy Journal's War Stories (75 pages, $21.50) is available from
: PRIVACY JOURNAL, P.O. Box 28577, Providence RI 02908, 401/274-7861,
: electronic mail: 5101719(a)mcimail.com.
:
: Beverly Folmsbee of Pittsfield Massachusetts, who was not suspected
: of any drug use, left her job after declining to take a "degrading"
: urinalysis test at her company, then known as Tech Tool Grinding &
: Supply Inc.
:
: It required disrobing, donning a hospital gown, and submitting to
: bodily inspection by a medical staff person.
:
: But the highest court in the state said that the testing was legitimate.
: Source: Folmsbee v.Tech Tool Grinding & Supply Inc., 417 Mass. 338, 630
: N.E. 2d 586 (1994).


It is totally urinating what the politicians and
courts have allowed in the name of the Drug War.


: Privacy Journal's War Stories, By Attorney Robert Ellis Smith
:
: Burlingame, CA, 1990: A flight attendant suffered medical complications
: because of Federal requirements that compel drug-monitors to have
: employees drink water until they can provide a urine sample. The 40-year-
: old woman was unable to urinate in a random drug test. She drank three
: quarts of water and even vomited some of it but could not urinate in the
: noisy crowded test site. She became ill at home and a doctor diagnosed
: her condition as "water intoxication." The lack of privacy inhibits
: 25 percent of people from urinating, surveys show [JAMA 1/2/91].





From: Matthew T. Russotto on
State we were told to fear.

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No wonder there are militias.


It gets worse.

Much worse.




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Wild Conspiracy Theory
---- ---------- ------

This is an expanded version of a posting I made promoting unregulated
(free from government-has-the-key) cryptography.

Attorney John Loftus is the author of four histories of intelligence
operations. As a former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department's
Nazi-hunting unit, he had unprecedented access to top-secret CIA and
NATO archives. Mark Aarons is an investigative reporter and author of
several books on intelligence related issues.

One day I was flipping channels, and came across "The Leon Charney Show".

Attorney Charney was interviewing Attorney Loftus, who has many many
connections in the intelligence world.

Mr. Loftus described a room in NSA's Fort Meade that was actually British
soil (diplomatic territory), with a British guard posted outside...


: From: guy(a)panix.


From: Chip Eastham on
express lanes" explained the ex-agent.
:
: Truck after truck drove straight into the U.S. unmonitored.
:
: Then a message came through the walkie-talkie: "We got some cameras
: watching, better get out there and cover traffic".
:
: Suddenly several Customs agents came out of the booths and started
: inspecting trucks.

That makes at least five people at a minimum!

What the hell is going on???

IF the rumor is true, THIS looks like it would be the smoking gun.

How did our country get so twisted around that they can invade our
bodies to drug test, yet allow truck after truck after truck to
just wander right in knowing HUGE drug shipment after HUGE drug
shipment is crossing? Gosh, there's no drug problem with Mexican
police, military and even their president.

* The New York Times, February 19 1997
*
* Brig. General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, Mexico's top Military Drug War
* point man, was arrested on charges of receiving payoffs from Jaurez
* cartel kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes, De