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From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:49 surveillance will be able to operate. # "Made in America?", Wired Magazine, June 1997 # # Japan's Justice Ministry is rallying support for an anticrime bill that # would give police extensive wiretap powers---a major departure given the # country's constitutional guarantees for "secrecy of any means of communi- # cations." According to activist Toshimaru Ogura, Japanese cops are # modeling their proposals on US wiretap law, specifically the 1994 # Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The NSA helped # sculpt CALEA's language, which begs the question: Is Japan's wiretap bill # another one of the NSA's covert operations? * "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe * http://www.aci.net/kalliste * * The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is the government * corporation that insures deposits at U.S. member banks. The FDIC * improvement act of 1991 required the FDIC to study the costs and * feasibility of tracking every bank deposit in the U.S. * * The notion was it was necessary to compute bank deposit insurance * requirements in real time. * * Not everyone thought this was a good idea. The American Bankers' * Association noted it was inconceivable that such data would "be * used only by the FDIC in deposit insurance coverage functions." * * Even though the FDIC argued against it, FinCEN then proposed in * its draft report to Congress in June 1993 a "Deposit Tracking * System" (DTS) that would also track deposits to, or w
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:31 Bill of Goods : : by Declan McCullagh May 9, 1997 : : Senate Democrats are preparing legislation : that requires universities and other groups : receiving Federal grants to make their : communication networks snoopable by the : government, The Netly News has learned. The : draft also includes penalties for "unauthorized : breaking of another's encryption codes," and : restrictions on importing encryption products. : : At a Democratic leadership press briefing, : Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) yesterday said his bill : slightly relaxed export rules in exchange for : greater federal control over crypto imports. But : what he appears to be truly aiming for is a : full-scale assault on your right to use whatever : encryption software you want in your own home. : [snip] : : It's diabolical. Researchers already have to : comply with a legion of rules to qualify for grants. : Kerrey's proposed bill, called "The Secure Public : Network Act," would add yet another provision to : the fine print. It requ
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 19:25 law that he was then trying to persuade Congress to approve. * * "If you think crime is bad now," he warned the assembled lawyers, "just * wait and see what happens if the FBI one day is no longer able to conduct * court-approved electronic surveillance." 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 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"
From: David Bernier on 18 Apr 2008 22:25 director of the * Los Angelos County Department of Public Social Services. * * "We will not share the fingerprints with the police or any other government * agency." * * Intrigued by Los Angelos County's program, the New York Legislature * authorized an identical fingerprint program. # "Proposal Links Fingerprint Plan and Albany's Medicaid Help" # By James C. McKinley Jr, The New York Times, 1994? # # Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and the majority leader of the State Senate # have agreed to a plan linking Medicaid with a plan to fingerprint welfare # recipients. # # Later in the day Mr. Giuliani said he would favor allowing law-enforcement # agencies access to the fingerprint records of welfare recipients. # # "You wouldn't want any criminals getting welfare." So, we'll fingerprint welfare recipients like criminals? Instead of asking for utility bills and leases in their name to prove residency? Other states are following suit...Pennsylvania, Florida... * "A Test for Welfare Fraud Is Expanded to Families" * By Esther B. Fein, The New York Times, 11/11/95 * * New York State is sharply increasing the number of people it electronically * fingerprints to detect welfare fraud past the 285,000 single adult program * to more than 453,000 recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children. * * Of the 220,193 people electronically fingerprinted as of Nov. 9, only 146 * were found to have registered for duplicate benefits. New York State * officials said they didn't expect to find many cases of fraud. [What???] * "We are just using a new tool to help comply with Federal regulations * prohibiting us from giving duplicate benefits." * * The program is costing the state $10 million a year. One big evil eye, done with biometrics...control FAR BEYOND anything that could be implemented with a social security number.
From: Gage on 18 Apr 2008 21:31
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 Intelligence Committee. * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * ...something much more sinister was at work. In his carefully documented * analysis of the CISPES matter, 'Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: the * Covert War Against the Central American Movement', Boston writer Ross * Gelbspan argues that a much more extensive conspiracy may have been at * work. Far from being a low-level operation, Gelbspan reports, hundreds * of documents in the CISPES file had been initialed by Oliver "Buck" |