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From: Nick Wedd on 18 Apr 2008 21:03 said that # her organization made three separate first-class mailings in the last # few months but that only one out of about 100 letters was ever delivered. # # The Post Office denied any responsibility. # # Miss Murray also said someone had broken into her Detroit office and # stolen a mailing list, several files and two books. [snip] # # A free-lance journalist has brought a suit in Federal District Court # charging that when he returned from Nicaragua the Customs Bureau detained # him until FBI agents came and seized his diary and address book. # # The FBI admitted to interviewing more than 100 people who visited # Nicaragua, but said they were acting under Presidential Executive Order. # # Two women have come forward to complain the IRS audited them IMMEDIATELY # AFTER RETURNING FROM NICARAGUA. # # The IRS denied it had anything to do with political views: "One woman has # never earned more than 12,000 a year, and we found that suspicious." FBI director Sessions ended up apologizing BIG TIME on C-SPAN, saying that sort of thing would NEVER happen again. "We have put procedures in place so that that will NEVER happen again". But, after having been granted the special powers of the court by Congress, noone was arrested and tried for this MASSIVE abuse of power, which was granted by Congress in the good faith that the government would not trade off the Bill of Rights in order to pursue political objectives. It was a worst-case disaster. Even after investigating, Congress basically yawned: "The CISPES case was an aberration, it was lower-level FBI employees who got carried away by their national security mandate. It was not politically motivated" --- The Senate Select Intelli
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 21:34 intrusive poking. It also doesn't work inasmuch as it has had no affect whatsoever on drugs. * Main Justice, by Jim McGee and Brian Duffy, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9 * * The drug war never had a stronger supporter than President George Bush. * * He showered the nation's drug warriors with money---nearly tripling the * overall anti-narcotics budget from $4.3 billion in 1988 to $11.9 billion * in 1992. * * The results were disappointing. * * After four years there was more cocaine on the streets than ever. * Naturally, it was also cheaper than ever. * * The overall crime rate was unchanged too. * * Inside Main Justice, such numbers are depressing. To those outside the law * enforcement community, it might have seemed an ironic, even heretical * notion, but to many of the career lawyers and prosecutors inside Main * Justice it was an article of faith that solving the nation's drug problem * could not be accomplished by prosecution and jail sentences alone. These * career people feel the answer is self-evident: Education, rehabilitation * and improving the grim lot of most of those prone to drug addiction ought * to become national priorities. * * Said David Margolis, who had supervised the Criminal Division's anti- * narcotics efforts in the early 1990s: "Anyone who thinks that drug * enforcement is primarily a law enforcement issue, they're smoking wacky * tabacky." Tell all the damn manipulative politicians. Jail's not even cost effective. * RAND Study Finds Mandatory Minimums Cost-Ineffective * ---------------------------------------------------- * * Excerpt from RAND Press Release: * * Washington, DC, May 12, 1997
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:06 the overseas agencies for their automatic collecting - while New Zealand does not even know what is being intercepted from the New Zealand sites for the allies. In return, New Zealand gets tightly controlled access to a few parts of the system. The GCSB computers, the stations, the headquarter operations and, indeed, GCSB itself function almost entirely as components of this integrated system. Each station in the network - not just the satellite stations - has Dictionary computers that report to the ECHELON system P37 United States spy satellites, designed to intercept communications from orbit above the earth, are also likely to be connected into the ECHELON system. These satellites either move in orbits that criss-cross the earth or, like the Intelsats, sit above the Equator in geostationary orbit. They have antennae that can scoop up very large quantities of radio communications from the areas below. A final element of the ECHELON system are facilities that tap directly into land-based tele
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 22:01 the bombs and just aimed for people. Communications, Command and Control. The above wasn't really the best example of OR, but I did get to quote my dad again. ;-) * "The Future of War - Power, Technology, and American World Dominance in * the 21st Century", by George & Meredith Friedman, 1996, ISBN 0-517-70403-X * * A discipline named operations research had begun to develop prior to World * War II that aspired to use quantitative methodologies to develop a science * of management. [snip] * * For the physicists and mathematicians of the Rand Corporation, the * intuitions of common sense were utterly insufficient as a guide to * management. Mathematical precision was necessary, and operations * research promised to supply that precision. [snip] * * It had not jumped from the management of particular, limited areas of * warfare to the structuring of entire campaigns and wars. Operations * research had not penetrated to the very marrow of conventional warfare, * that is, not until an attempt was made in 1961 to revolutionize the idea * of war. This was done by an industrialist na
From: Christian Siebert on 18 Apr 2008 20:04
What about the penalties for "unauthorized : breaking of another's encryption codes?" That : would criminalize cryptanalysis, the way to verify : the security of encryption software you buy. "The : only way to know the strength of a cipher is : cryptanalysis," says Marc Briceno, a : cryptography guru at Community ConneXion. : : Then there's Kerrey's statement saying "there : will be" restrictions on what encryption products : you're permitted to buy from overseas firms. This : contradicts Justice Department official Michael : Vatis, who told me at a conference this year that : the Clinton administration did not want import : controls. Though Cabe Franklin, spokesperson : for Trusted Information Systems, says Kerrey was : misunderstood. "In the briefing afterwards, I found : out he didn't mean that at all. He meant import : controls, but more regulation than restriction. The : same way they wouldn't let a car with faulty : steering controls in the country. He meant more : quality control," Franklin says. (I don't know : about you, but I'm not convinced.) [ What a bunch of hooey. ] : : Kerrey's sudden interest in cryptologic arcana : likely stems from a recent addition to his staff: : policy aide Chris McLean. : : McLean is hardly a friend of the Net. While in : former Sen. Jim Exon's (D-Neb.) office, McLean : drafted the notorious Communications Decency : Act and went on to prompt Exon to derail : "Pro-CODE" pro-encryption legislation last fall. : Then, not long after McLean moved to his current : job, his new boss stood up on the Senate floor : and bashed Pro-CODE in favor of the White : |