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From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 20:59 # The report is one of FOUR MAJOR STUDIES to cite the "alarming imbalance" # of spending more than $26 billion a year on machines, and less than $3 # billion on people, and those people spend their time analyzing the # information the machines collect. # # The Foreign Service has been crippled by budget cuts, sapped by the # Militarization of intelligence. Diplomats, not spies, should be doing # analysis of events in peaceful places. # # The report, by 19 people from the worlds of espionage, diplomacy, the # Military, academia and business, says American intelligence "still has # not yet come in from the cold" and is "ill-prepared for the 21st Century." The Cold War meant that not only were the government's SIGINT operations to continue via the NSA, they were to grow and grow and grow. The threat of Nuclear War is what spurred many decades of Cold War and SIGINT. * "Time Details Eisenhower Plan for U.S. Under Atomic Attack" * Reuters, The New York Times, August 3, 1992 * * A "Doomsday Plan" devised to rescue United States leaders from nuclear * catastrophe included underground bunkers, secret rescue teams, and a * vault full of cash. But by the time the Soviet Union collapsed, and we began giving Communist China "Most Favored Nation" trading status, NSA's huge SIGINT operation had an unstoppable momentum of its own. A worldwide network of intercept stations was in place. The NSA is at least six times larger than the FBI, and uses its people for ECHELON monitoring of the entire world. NSA cannot by itself bring itself to disengage from this massive information feed: it would be like undergoing drug withdrawal. They will never admit their budget could be halved like our nuclear weapons have been since the end of the Cold War. We MUST let go of World War II and the Cold War. We MUST dismantle domestic ECHELON, and embrace unimpaired encryption. We MUST cancel CALEA. Forcefully disown it so it is ne
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 20:32 in eight-four countries. * * In 1993 SWIFT began asking users of its messaging system to include a * purpose of payment in all messages, as well as payers, payees, and * intermediaries. This type of arrangement would allow NSA computers * to use keyword monitoring to scan for any names in which they were * interested. ! FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, Senate Judiciary Committee, June 4, 1997 ! ! NOT THAT LONG AGO, NO ONE PERCEIVED THAT TELEPHONE SYSTEMS COULD BECOME ! UNTAPPABLE, THE NECESSITY FOR STRONG PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN LOCAL, STATE, ! FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IS MORE URGENT. * Electronic Privacy Information Center, http://www.epic.org * * "As a means of espionage, writs of assistance and general warrants * are but puny instruments of tyranny and oppression when compared * with wiretapping." ---Mr. Justice Brandeis, 277 U.S. 438 (6/4/1928) * * * European Union and FBI launch a global surveillance system * -------- ----- --- --- ------ - ------ ------------ ------ * * The EU, in cooperation of the FBI of the USA, is launching a system of * global surveillance of communications to combat "serious crime" and to * protect "national security". * * But to do this they are creating a system which can monitor everyone * and everything. * * At the first meeting of the new Council of Justice and Home Affairs * Ministers in Brussels on 29-30 November 1993 they adopted the following * Resolution on "the interception of telecommunications" which speaks for * itself and reproduced here in full: * # CONFIDENTIAL MEMO #
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 18:57 : SOFTWAR : http://www.us.net/softwar The U.S. Constitution is in tatters, disappearing piece-by-piece, emasculated by politicians constantly beating drums of War for "Law & Order". ****************************************************************************** The NSA Admits --- --- ------ Ready? Let's start out with what the NSA will admit. (extra capitalization is mine) * Court Says U.S. Spy Agency Can Tap Overseas Messages * By David Burnham, The New York Times, 1982 * * Washington, Nov 6 --- A Federal appeals court has ruled that the National * Security Agency may lawfully intercept messages between United States * citizens and people overseas, even if there is no cause to believe they * Americans are foreign agents, and then provide summaries of these messages * to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. * * Because the National Security Agency is among the largest and most * secretive intelligence agencies and because MILLIONS of electronic messages * enter and leave the United States each day, lawyers familiar with the * intelligence agency consider the decision to mark a significant increase in * the legal authority of the government to keep track of its citizens. * * The mission of the NSA is to eavesdrop on electronic messages of foreign * governments and protect the electronic communications of the United States. * To accomplish these goals, the agency has SEVERAL THOUSAND listening posts * around the world and a HUGE bank of computers in its heavily guarded head- * quarters at Fort George Meade, MD, near Washington. * * A Special Senate Intelligence Committee report in 1975 found that the * computer syst
From: Tim Little on 18 Apr 2008 18:51 'monitor'. Your phone calls, bank transactions, credit card usage, health/ credit/utility/law-enforcement/TRW/IRS records, your whole life. One big evil eye of Mordor. The Russian State we were told to fear. ****************************************************************************** No wonder there are militias. It gets worse. Much worse. ****************************************************************************** Wild Conspiracy Theory ---- ---------- ------ This is an expanded version of a posting I made promoting unregulated (free from government-has-the-key) cryptography. Attorney John Loftus is the author of four histories of intelligence operations. As a former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit, he had unprecedented access to top-secret CIA and NATO archives. Mark Aarons is an investigative reporter and author of several books on intelligence related issues. One day I was flipping channels, and came across "The Leon Charney Show". Attorney Charney was interviewing Attorney Loftus, who has many many connections in the intelligence world. Mr. Loftus described a room in NSA's Fort Meade that was actually British soil (diplomatic territory), with a British guard posted outside... : From: guy(a)panix.com [updated here 5/25/97] : Subject: Re: Threaten U.S. Domestic ECHELON : Newsgroups: alt.cypherpunks,talk.politics.crypto,com
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 21:05
the agency only investigated * suspected crimes, not political beliefs or constitutionally protected * freedom of speech. * * Oliver Revell, the FBI's executive assistant director, said that the * FBI did not investigate CISPES because of its political activities, * but for a "wide range of possible crimes." % The New York Times, Thursday, February 4, 1988 % "Reagan Backs FBI Over Surveillance" % % President Reagan is satisfied that the Federal Bureau of Investigation % conducted a proper surveillance campaign against groups opposed to his % policies in Central America, the White House said today. % % The new FBI Director William S. Sessions assured Reagan that there was % a solid basis for the investigation: "We knew CISPES was established % from funding by the Communist Party, U.S.A." Well, Reagan didn't like a peaceful Texas based group called CISPES, which was against the United States' support of the El Salvador government. The El Salvador government was torturing and killing people. * "Officers held in Salvador Abductions", By James LeMoyne, NYT, 4/25/86 * * One of those arrested was accused of killing the head of the Salvadoran * Land Reform Institute and two AMERICAN agrarian advisors. So the FBI had one of their agents infiltrate CISPES using a Frank Varelli, who was born in San Salvador and served in the U.S. Army. # "How the FBI infiltrated CISPES and Assisted t |