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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 18:55 Canadian examples, these stories will only be the tip of the iceberg. There is no evidence of a UKUSA code of ethics or a tradition of respect for Parliament or civil liberties in their home countries. The opposite seems to be true: that anything goes as long as you do not get caught. Secrecy not only permits but encourages questionable operations. Three observations need to be made about the immense spying capability provided by the ECHELON system. The first is that the magnitude of the global network is a product of decades of intense Cold War activity. Yet with the end of the Cold War it has not been demobilized and budgets have not been significantly cut. Indeed the network has grown in power and reach. Yet the public justifications, for example that 'economic intelligence is now more important', do not even begin to explain why this huge spy system should be maintained. In the early 1980s the Cold War rhetoric was extreme and global war was seriously discussed and planned for. In the 1990s, the threat of global war has all but disappeared and none of the allies faces the remotest serious military threat. The second point about the ECHELON capabilities is that large parts of the system, while hiding behind the Cold War for their justification, were never primarily about the Cold War at all. The UKUSA alliance did mount massive operations against the Soviet Union and other 'communists', but other elements of the worldwide system, such as the interception of Intelsat communications, microwave networks and many regional satellites, were not aimed primarily at the Russians, the Iraqis or the North K
From: bitsplit on 18 Apr 2008 21:12 in the Information Age" * Authors Morely Winograd & Dudley Buffa, 1996, ISBN 0-8050-4489-2 * * From Richard Nixon's law and order campaign in 1968 to George Bush's * infamous Willie Horton ad in 1988, Republicans have attempted to define * their differences with Democrats by a no-nonsense position on crime and * criminals. * * It helped Republicans win the presidency, and it also gave them the * tool by which to control the Democratic majorities in Congress that * might allow their opponents to label them as soft on crime. * * No Democrat, except those in overwhelmingly Democratic districts, could * afford to cast any votes in Congress that might allow their opponents * to label them soft on crime. A constant state of law enforcement hysteria. The absolute pinnacle of War terminology was the phrase "Zero Tolerance". We will monitor and prosecute mercilessly with mandatory minimums because letting even one criminal not be caught means you are soft on crime. Everyone is potentially guilty. We need a Police State to combat crime. * USA Today, undated: HOME GARDEN RAIDS: Federal drug agents want to * raid indoor home gardens in search of marijuana plants. The DEA has * subpoenaed Florida garden centers to turn over records showing who * has bought items like fluorescent lamps and plant food. [What???] * CBS News, Dan Rather reporting. See this camera on a building at the * mall? It's aimed at this lighting store's customers, recording them * and the licenses on their cars. Little old lady: I was growing some * plants indoors, here aren't they pretty? When the police burst in... * USA Today, undated: Kalispell, Montana---Police said u
From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 22:31 looked as if they * had been slapped. No one said anything for a long time." * * Ronald Reagan, a consummately wise politician who professed a belief in * Bible prophecy, caught the implication [about The Mark of the Devil]. * * He then hushed the cabinet and efficiently dismissed the National ID Card * proposal by sardonically remarking, "Maybe we should just brand all babies." "Those that give up essential liberty for a little security, deserve neither liberty nor security." - Ben Franklin "When ID's are mandatory, it is time to leave the planet." - Robert Heinlein * "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5 * * In the November 1994 publication of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, * the FBI advocated BIOMETRIC CAPTURE FOR ALL NEWBORN BABIES AND * SIMULTANEOUSLY THEIR MOTHERS. ****************************************************************************** Worldwide Banking and Phone Monitoring --------- ------- --- ----- ---------- Newspeak: "It's never been abused, and we are doing this to protect you." * Dorothy "DoubleThink" Denning, "Encryption and Law Enforcement", 2/21/1994 * * Although there is no evidence of widespread abuse of wiretaps by law * enforcement officials, Key Escrow will effectively thwart any * potential abuse, thereby providing greater protection from illegal * government wiretaps than currently exists. It is astonishing the extent the U.S. government feels its citizens and the world's population must by spied upon. The U.S. Government wants all communication systems in the world to be designed so they can spy on it. The U.S. Government wants to know every banking transaction in the world in real-time. What does it look like to you? * "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs,
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:13 - U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation BATF - U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms UKUSA - pronounced 'you-koo-za' - a secret wartime treaty that says member nations can spy on each others population without warrants or limits, and that this can be shared with the spied-on country's SIGINT agency. PGP - Free and unbreakable encryption, available world-wide. CISPES - Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador "Ultra-secret" agencies: NSA - U.S. National Security Agency GCHQ - British Government Communications Headquarters CSE - Canada's Communications Security Establishment DSD - Australian Defense Signals Directorate GCSB - New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau ****************************************************************************** Main() ---- Using mainly publicly available material, here is my documentation of: o Part 1: Massive Domestic Spying via NSA ECHELON This is highly detailed documentation of NSA spying. This spying is illegal, massive, and domestic. The documentation is comprehensive, especially since it is now brought together in this one section. o Part 2: On Monitoring and Being Monitored In this section, I describe the capabilities of ECHELON keyword monitoring. A detailed example --- how to use keywords to pick out conversations of interest --- is given. I also put forth a case of what it means to be monitored
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 19:41
as well as the surveillance court all interceptions received from the British GCHQ or any other non-NSA source. Thus it is possible for GCHQ to monitor the necessary domestic circuits and pass them on to the NSA through the UKUSA Agreement, giving them impunity to target and watch-list Americans. * * * * * * * * * * *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * P475: Three decades after its creation, the NSA is still without a formal charter. Instead, there is a super hush-hush surveillance court that is virtually impotent; the FISA, which has enough loopholes and exceptions to render it nearly useless; and an executive order that was designed more to protect the intelligence community from citizens than citizens from the agencies. In addition, because it is an executive order, it can be changed at any time at the whim of a President, without so much as a nod toward Congress. P471: On January 24, 1978, President Jimmy Carter issued an executive order imposing detailed restrictions on t |