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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 22:26 might be Soviet spies, to be alert to which books and periodi- * cals such people read or check out and to disclose the names and informa- * tion about book borrowers suspected of using libraries for espionage * purposes or recruiting library users for espionage [what???]. * * FBI Director William S. Sessions said the bureau would continue to contact * public, university and corporate libraries in the New York City area about * "hostile intelligence service activities at libraries." [fuh-gedda-boutit] Of course, they know all the books you've ever bought using credit cards. Fear, loathing, hysteria, and a loosening of the rules for "national security": * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * After the Oklahoma City bombing, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick * and FBI Director Freeh announced that they had decided to reinterpret * twenty-year-old Justice Department guidelines originally put in place to * restrain the FBI from violating the constitutional rights of political * dissidents. * * "If those guidelines are interpreted broadly and proactively, as opposed * to defensively, as has been the case for many many years, I feel confident * ...we have sufficient authority," Freeh told a Senate Committee. * * William Safire, the conservative New York Times columnist with libertarian * leanings, was appalled, asking if there wasn't anyone in the government * who remembered how the FBI played the game in the bad old days? * * "To the applause of voters fearful of terrorism," Safire wrote, "the pro- * activists declare their intention to prevent crime. This would be followed * by surveillance of suspect groups by using new technology, the infiltra- * tion of political movemen
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 21:23 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" * Revell, then the number two official in the FBI. [Further evidence * implicates the CIA] Congress is unable to investigate the FBI, let alone the NSA. # "U.S. Recruited Ex-Rebel Despite Links to Deaths, Report Says" # By Tim Golden, The New York Times, January 21, 1997 # # A former Salvadoran guerrilla commander was recruited by American officials # as a paid informer and allowed to resettle in the United States despite # intelligence informat
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:36 structure so that the government can intrinsically wiretap it. Also called the FBI Digital Telephony Act. It is a domestic extension of ECHELON. GAK - Government Access [to cryptographic] Keys. Any cryptography product with GAK has been compromised so the government can read it. SIGINT - Signals Intelligence = NSA = electronic snooping Key Recovery - See GAK. C-SPAN - Two cable channels dedicated to broadcasting both houses of Congress and other U.S. governmental functions. DEA - U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration DIA - U.S. Pentagon Defense Intelligence Agency DIA - U.S. Drug Interdiction Agency (older) FBI - 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.
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:27 *** end of 'Puzzle Palace' excerpts. Wow. No recap necessary. I'm feeling a bit sick at this point, how about you? ****************************************************************************** Those of you who supported any version of the FBI/NSA Digital Telephony Act sold us down the river, making use of this Orwellian Military technology fully legal domestically for the first time. The descent into the abyss, from which there is no return. : * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 : * : * [ Al Bayse was assistant director of the FBI's Technical Services : * Division, in charge of spending more than half a billion dollars : * for research, development and computer operations. ] : * : * "Sure", said Al Bayse of the FBI, "I believe there is an absolute : * right to privacy. But that doesn't mean you have the right to break : * the law in a serious way. Any private conversation that doesn't : * involve criminality should be private" : * : * In other words, as the debate was framed by Bayse, the right to : * privacy is at least partly contingent on a determination by an FBI : * agent or clerk that the conversations they already intercepted and : * understood do not involve a crime. Do you want to live in a real live Big Brother world? It is not at all about trying to keep up with technology in order to wiretap. The phone companies are already able and authorized to listen in on any line at any time, to check the integrity of the network. I've heard some funny stories by old Bell System employees about a bunch of people listening into private conversations, and having a hoot. Question: How can the FBI use computers to monitor thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of phone calls simultaneously, as they said they would do with the bill, when we Americans spea
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:49
Get a load of this: * "Police Applaud Ruling to Allow Restrictions on Gang Suspects" * By Tim Golden, The New York Times, February 1, 1997 * * Law enforcement officials in California today praised a State Supreme * Court decision that allows cities to prohibit SUSPECTED gang members * from standing together on street corners, climbing trees, wearing beepers * and doing any number of other things that are legal for ordinary citizens. * * The ruling was in a case for the city of San Jose to prevent 38 Hispanic * men and women suspected of membership in a street gang from frequenting * a four-block neighborhood that the police said the gang had terrorized. * * "We're thrilled," said Los Angelos County Attorney Gil Garcetti. * * State and local law enforcement officials predicted that the court ruling * would prompt a wave of similar legislation across California. * * Because the San Jose City Attorney's office brought action against the * defendants under a civil procedure, the defendants were not guaranteed * the standard protections of crimi |