From: Risto Lankinen on
life
when Reno, after trying "very hard" to figure out a way to pump
fire-retardant gas in at the same time as the C.S. gas: failed to
figure out a way, yet proceeded. [After someone "talked" to her.]

Senator: Did the FBI consider delivering Avalon fire-retardant gas?

Reno/FBI: No, how could we deliver it without getting shot?

It's called running another tube out the tank turret, just as was done
for delivering the highly flammable chemical-weapons grade tear gas in
the first place. Use another tank if necessary.

It was that simple.


"We did not know the complex was on fire at first, but we started
smelling smoke. We didn't know what to do.

We were afraid that if we came out of the building, we would be shot.

All of a sudden, the smoke came. I couldn't see my husband any more."

After the whole thing was over, the BATF raised its own flag over
the ruins.


Burn baby burn. 80 men, woman and children.

The official FBI fire plan [their own C-SPAN testimony], which they followed,
was letting them burn.

Janet "Barbecue" Reno. Who testified she would do nothing different again.

You want to take "responsibility" for it: then resign.


Law enforcement gun hysteria.


Like a scene from a nightmarish movie [such as Terry Gilliam's Brazil]
the Feds, while poking holes in the building with a tank snout and spraying
dangerous amounts of toxic tear gas, and while knocking down extended areas
of the compound (as shown and commented on by ABC news) with another tank in
the rear, blared 1984 Newspeak over loudspeakers at the hapless victims:

"THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK. REPEAT THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK."



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War #3 - Child Pornography
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"There were


From: Pubkeybreaker on
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 system functioned like a "GIANT VACUUM CLEANER" capable of
* sweeping in ALL ELECTRONIC MESSAGES to and from the United States.
* [snip]
*
* Mr. Jabara is a lawyer who for many years has represented Arab-American
* citizens and alien residents in court. Some of his clients had been
* investigated by the FBI.
* [snip]
*
* The FBI's investigation of Mr. Jabara, who has not been formally accused
* or indicted for any crimes, began in August 1967. In November 1971, the
* Government acknowledged, the FBI asked the NSA "to supply any available
* information" about the lawyer that "might come into its possession during
* the course of its foreign intelligence activities".
*
* As a result, the NSA provided the FBI summaries
* of six overseas conversations of Mr. Jabara.
*
* In earlier court proceedings, the FBI acknowledged that it then
* disseminated the information to 17 other law-enforcement or intelligence
* agencies and three foreign governments.
* [snip]
*
* John Shattuck, Washington director of the ACLU, who represented Mr. Jabara
* said "It is difficult to imagine a more sweeping judicial approval of
* governmen


From: S.C.Sprong on
variety of keywords, such as "Tricky Dicky." This, according to the
* former NSA G Group chief, would be converted to 'ky----ky."
*
* Should this selection process still produce a considerable amount of
* traffic, the data could then undergo 'secondary testing', such as the
* addition of the words "New York," to reduce the number.


You may wonder what keywords excel at picking up "resume condition" traffic.

You want the truth?

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH

Just kidding. That was Jack Nickelson speaking for the NSA.

Here is how it is done:

o Select all traffic.

o Exclude commonplace traffic, such as mailing lists.
example: FROM <firewalls(a)greatcircle.com>
This is done by selecting keywords that match against the routing
information in the email header: who it came from, who it is going to.
The phone analogy is recipient and originating phone numbers.
This cuts down on "noise". "Secret Power" gave examples of this too.

o Search all traffic for a set of keywords that are found (tuned) over
time to have the best results. SOME of the ones I used:

first day
last day
resign
new job
resume
interview
drug test

It's ironic that drug testing of employees is so wide-spread that it can
be used to pick out people looking for new jobs.

o Further exclusion logic (keywords) to isolate the meaning of the
keyword 'resume' to mean job history. Also, UK people say 'CV'.
Example: do NOT allow a sentence fragment like 'resume playing'
to trigger "resum


From: Pubkeybreaker on
they consider
doing the same.

Contact all your friends.

: The New York Times, 2/10/87
: "Is This America?", by Anthony Lewis
:
: "When we speak out", she said, "that's our protection."
:
: She still believes in America.

Network. "Creep" back at the bastards who are destroying America!

Be persistent.

It is almost too late.

---guy(a)panix.com



It must always be remembered that crime statistics are highly
inflammatory---an explosive fuel that powers the nation's debate
over a large number of important social issues---and that FBI
Director Louis Freeh today is the leading official shoveling
the fuel into the blazing firebox.

---David Burnham


Indeed, the Scary Man has been whispering Nightmare Stories in the ear of
President Clinton to control him...

* "Threat to Disneyland, Mentioned by Clinton, Is Termed a Hoax."
* By Stephen Labaton, The New York Times, April 23, 1995
*
* Responding to a question about whether Washington should review its
* readiness to combat domestic terrorism [the first arrest in the OKC
* bombing had just been made], the President sought to reassure the
* public that the Government was already making great efforts to do so.
*
* Groping for a specific illustration, he appeared to think twice about
* describing the incident, but then went ahead.
*
* There's been a lot of activity that the public does not see, most of
* which I should not comment on, but let me give you one specific example,"
* he said.
*
* "There was one incident with which I was INTIMATELY FAMILIAR, which
* involved a quick and secret deployment of a ma


From: tchow on
gas
became ill, and others died from the exposure in enclosed quarters.
You would think Israelites would be sensitive to deadly gassing of
people in enclosed areas. [Gas use as reported by Amnesty
International's Chemical Report on C.S. Agent #6.]

o The F.B.I., through the Department of Justice, requested that Texas
Governor Ann Richards allow the use of helicopters from the Texas
National Guard at Waco. Texas law forbids the use of the National
Guard in police action against a citizen of the state, except when
drugs are involved in a criminal action.

But the A.T.F. fabricated a drug charge ("ugh, they're operating a
methamphetamine lab or something huh-huh-huh") to gain the use of the
helicopters. Later, Governor Richards stated publicly that she had
been lied to by the Department of Justice.

o They knew the secrecy of the operation had been blown. How macho to
plow ahead anyway. They must feel invincible in those stormtrooper
outfits.



Here is the fifty-percent reason.

A little technical quibble.

Reckless disregard for human life, leading to a disaster.

The following descriptions