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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:53 * of the panel is this case. Taken to its logical conclusion, the decision * authorizes the Federal Government to restructure its surveillance * activities so that any Federal law-enforcement or intelligence * investigation requiring the interception of private communications could * be conducted WITHOUT A JUDICIAL WARRANT simply by turning to the NSA." * * Under current laws, if the FBI wants to eavesdrop legally on the conversation * of a criminal it must obtain a warrant from a Federal judge. In those cases * where the FBI wants to eavesdrop on a specific individual who it believes * is an agent of a foreign government, it can apply for a warrant from a * special SECRET PANEL of Federal judges established just for that purpose. * * The special missions and advanced technology of the NSA however, make its * operations more difficult to control within the restrictions of the Federal * wiretapping and surveillance laws. * * According to the 1975 report of the Special Senate Intelligence Committee, * the agency has equipment that "sweeps up enormous numbers of communications, * not all of which can be reviewed by intelligence analysts." * * Using "watch lists" --- lists of words and phrases designed to identify * communications of intelligence interest --- NSA computers scan the mass of * acquired communications to select those which may be of specific foreign * intelligence interest", the report said. * * The court ruled Fourth Amendment rights were not violated. * * The Senate investigation in 1975 uncovered evidence the overseas * communications of a number of indivi
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:53 Robin Robison, broke his indoctrination oaths and told the Observer that, as part of his job, which involved sorting intelligence reports from the British intelligence agencies, he personally forwarded GCHQ transcripts of intercepted communications about Lonrho to Mrs. Thatcher's office. P9 Intelligence is not just neutral information; it can be powerful and dangerous. Intelligence gathering and military force are two sides of the same coin. Both are used by countries and groups within countries to advance their interests, often at the expense of others. To influence or defeat an opponent, knowledge can be more useful than military force. The type of intelligence described in this book, signals intelligence (SIGINT), is the largest, most secret and most expensive source of secret intelligence in the world today. P-5655 Like the British examples, and Mike Frost's 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 disappea
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:49 guilty. That's why police hold guns to the heads of four-year-olds. The universal number assigned by the biometrics becomes your worldwide identification number. This was a serious proposal. The authors are associated with Interpol (one is a staff member) and the U.N. INTERPOL is essentially dependent on the NSA. Consider it an NSA proposal to issue everyone a Universal Biometrics Card. Everyone in the world. # By John Walker -- kelvin(a)fourmilab.ch, Revision 8 -- February 28th, 1994 # # Operationally, the Universal Biometrics Card serves as the cardholder's # identification for all forms of transactions and # interactions. It can potentially replace all the # following forms of identification and credentials: # # Passport and visas # House and car keys # Driver's license and automobile registration(s) # Employee ID card # Bank credit, debit, and automatic teller cards # Health insurance card # Medical history/blood type/organ donor cards # Automobile insurance card # Telephone credit card(s) # Membership card for clubs, museums, etc. # Frequent flyer club card(s) and flight coupons # Car rental discount card(s) # Train, bus, airplane, toll road and
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:09 fishing trawlers, 5535 Japanese diplomatic traffic in the South Pacific, 4959 communications from South Pacific countries and so on. They type in the code for the category they want to use first that day. As soon as they make a selection, a 'search result' appears, stating the number of documents which have been found fitting that category. The day's work begins, reading through screen after screen of intercepted messages. If a message appears worth reporting on, the analyst can select it from the rest and work on it out of the Dictionary system. He or she then translates the message - either in its entirety or as a summary called a 'gist' - and writes it into the standard format of all intelligence reports produced anywhere within the UKUSA network. This is the 'front end' of the Dictionary system, using a commercially available program (called BRS Search). It extracts the different categories of intercepted messages (known just as 'intercept') from the large GCSB computer database of
From: bitsplit on 18 Apr 2008 23:23
in our social fabric: widespread fear, loathing and suspicion. And: censorship. Tom Petty wins MTV's highest video award, but they always censored the word 'joint' in the video! MTV, the spirit of Rock'N'Roll...not. Maybe they're just doing what they can: they played the word BACKWORDS in the video...a British band was on trial in the U.S. a few years ago charged with putting backward-playing lyrics on their album (acquitted). But it's okay if Jay Leno shows a Clinton look-alike smoking a bong. Drug addicts can't get clean needles, furthering the AIDS epidemic. # "AIDS VIRUS FEEDS ON FEDERAL NEEDLE POLICY" # By Steven Wishnia, High Times Magazine, July 1997 # # No federal action is planned to end the ban on federal funding for needle # exchange programs by the Clinton Administration, despite mounting scienti- # fic evidence that shooting up with unclean needles is the second most # common risk behavior (40%) for HIV infection. # # It is a very cost-effective way of saving lives. # # SIX federally funded studies done between 1991 to 1995 conclu |