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From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 20:16 James Bamford's 'The Puzzle Palace' and David Kahn's 'The Code Breakers'. P22 In 1984, Glen Singleton of the NSA was formally appointed GCSB's Deputy Director of Policy and Plans. Having an American inside the GCSB serving as a foreign liaison officer would be one thing: allowing an officer from another country to direct policy and planning seems extraordinary. [ Unless you think of the NSA as the New World Order. ] P28-29 Intelsat 7s can carry 90,000 individual phone or fax circuits at once. All 'written' messages are currently exploited by the GCSB. The other UKUSA agencies monitor phone calls as well. The key to interception of satellite communications is powerful computers that search through these masses of messages for ones of interest. The intercept stations take in millions of messages intended for the legitimate earth stations served by the satellite and then use computers to search for pre-programmed addresses and keywords. In this way they select out manageable numbers (hundreds or thousands) of messages to be searched through and read by the intelligence analysis staff. Many people are vaguely aware that a lot of spying occurs, maybe even on them, but how do we judge if it is ubiquitous or not a worry at all? Is someone listening every time we pick up the telephone? Are all Internet or fax messages being pored over continuously by shadowy figures somewhere in a
From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 21:41 a million dollars, Sturges had * survived an attempt to destroy his life and his work and was now * countersuing the agency. * * Recapitulated briefly, Sturges, who's based in San Francisco, has for * years been photographing young people whose families practice nudity. * * He's done so with his subjects' permission, as well as that of their * parents, who often appear in the photographs along with their offspring. * Rejecting the use of standard model releases, with their blanket * permissions, the photographer chooses instead to request approval * from his subjects for each and every exhibition and publication * of each and every image --- an exemplary scrupulousness. * * Then, in 1990, alerted to the "questionable" content of some of his * images by a local processing lab, the FBI arrested Joe Semien, Sturge's * assistant, invaded the photographer's San Francisco studio without a * warrant, and seized all his prints, negatives, records, and equipment; * thereafter, without arresting Sturges, or even charging him with * anything, they refused to return his property and did everything * possible to destroy him personally and professionally by branding * him a child pornographer On September 15, 1991, The New York Times reported that the Feds took the case to a grand jury after 17 months, and they immediately threw it out. And that "this was unusual because only the prosecution's evidence is presented to a grand jury and they generally return indictments at the Government's request". Excerpt from 'TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose + the Visual Arts', Summer 1992: * Jock Sturges: * * It took another month to get the U.S. Attorney to admit they had * finished the investigati
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:58 using : drugs, Sheraton said. Source: Senate Labor Committee on Employment, 6/93 If you strip us naked you will detect more crime, but also, you strip individuals naked without specific individuals being suspected of a crime. Dragnet monitoring should 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 &
From: Gage on 18 Apr 2008 20:42 Hysteria, Propaganda and Lies: And that Drug War hysteria commercial about the train wreck by the engineer on pot? They can't quite bring themselves to tell you he had been drinking. And they still show this ad... * "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1 * * In one ad, the wreckage of a train is shown. Now, everyone will agree * that no one should attempt to drive a train while high on marijuana. * But a man's voice says that anyone who tells you 'marijuana is harmless' * is lying, because his wife was killed in the train accident. * * This contradicts the direct sworn testimony of the engineer responsible * for that disaster; that "the accident was not caused by marijuana." It * deliberately ignores his admissions of drinking alcohol, snacking, * watching TV, generally failing to pay adequate attention to his job, * AND DELIBERATELY JAMMING THE TRAIN'S SAFETY EQUIPMENT prior to the * accident. [snip] * * And in yet another ad, the lies finally got them in trouble. The ad showed * two brain wave charts which it said showed the brain waves of a 14-year- * old "on marijuana". * * Outraged, researcher Dr. Donald Blum from the UCLA neurological studies * center told KABC TV (Los Angelos) news November 2, 1989, that the chart * actually shows the brain waves of someone in a deep sleep --- or a coma. * * He said he had previously complained directly to the Partnership for a * Drug Free America and they ignored him. They finally pulled the ads. [snip] * * The Heath/Tulane Study of 1974 ha
From: Rotwang on 18 Apr 2008 18:49
War WE ARE NOW AT AN HISTORICAL CROSSROAD ON THE ENCRYPTION ISSUE. THE SAFETY OF ALL AMERICANS [is at stake]. ANY SOLUTION THAT IGNORES THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS RISK GRAVE HARM TO BOTH. Louis Freeh is lying. * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * The FBI attributes to wiretaps less than three percent of all judgements. * Thus the FBI assertion that electronic surveillance is essential to * investigating crime and nabbing spies and terrorists cannot be taken * at face value. Monitoree John DeLorean sends his regards. Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum Drum War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War It is ECHELON that they are trying to protect. If the FBI targets you, they can get all your phone conversations BEFORE they are encrypted, and can get your password to access your private cryptography key. * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * "Keeping Track of the American People: The Unblinking Eye and Giant Ear" * * About six times a week, fifty-two weeks a year, a team of highly trained * FBI agents secretly breaks into a house, office, or warehouse somewhere in * the United States. * * The agents are members of the bureau's Surreptitious Entry Program, and * their usual mission is to plant a hidden microph |