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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:35 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 withdrawals * from, U.S. bank accounts in real time. FinCen is the Financial * Crimes Enforcement Network agency. # Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, January 1989 issue # # Al Bayse, Assistant Director of the FBI, said the FBI has developed an
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 23:00 -80699-1, 1996 * * In June 1989, the Deputy Attorney General ordered the nation's U.S. * attorneys to "take all possible actions" on forfeitures, even if it meant * dropping other matters. "You will be expected to divert personnel from * other activities." * * One year later, the Attorney General himself warned the U.S. attorneys * that the Justice Department had fallen far behind its budget projection * in the collection of assets. "We must significantly increase production * to reach our budget target... Failure to achieve the $470 million * projection would expose the Department's forfeiture program to criticism * and undermine confidence in our budget projections. Every effort must be * made to increase forfeiture income during the remaining three months of * fiscal year 1990." * * In addition, forfeiture activities affect how many federal prosecutors * will be allocated to each U.S. Attorney by the Justice Department. [snip] * * Says Senator Henry J. Hyde: "The more they seize, the more they get for * their own 'official use'. Federal and state officials now have the power * to seize your business, home, bank account, records and personal property, * all without indictment, hearing, or trial. Everything you have can be * taken away at the whim of one or two federal or state officials operating * in secret." * * The so-called War on Drugs, the Congressman
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:40 Police. ---- We netizens are rightfully paranoid of the American government, because it has no scruples. What the FBI did to photographer Jock Sturges was criminal. Excerpt from 'TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose + the Visual Arts', Summer 1992: * Hounded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a bizarre witch-hunt * at an expense to the taxpayers of over a million dollars, Sturges had * survived an attempt to destroy his life and his work and was now * countersuing the agency. * * Recapitulated briefly, Sturges, who's based in San Francisco, has for * years been photographing young people whose families practice nudity. * * He's done so with his subjects' permission, as well as that of their * parents, who often appear in the photographs along with their offspring. * Rejecting the use of standard model releases, with their blanket * permissions, the photographer chooses instead to request approval * from his subjects for each and every exhibition and publication * of each and every image --- an exemplary scrupulousness. * * Then, in 1990, alerted to the "questionable" content of some of his * images by a local p
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 23:35 o Key Recovery Means No Cryptography o Key Recovery Isn't Even Feasible o Government Steamroller o Feds' Wacky Pro-GAK Logic - Business Will Demand It - To Safeguard Your Privacy Part 5: There is no part five ---- - ----- -- -- ---- ---- Part 6: Louis Freeh & The Creeping Police State ---- - ----- ----- --- -------- ------ ----- o Louis Freeh o National ID Card o Worldwide Banking and Phone Monitoring o Cybernetic Control of Society o Conclusions ****************************************************************************** ECHELON is NSA's world-wide surveillance network and associated software. DICTIONARY - Keyword searching with exclusion logic software. ORATORY - Speech recognition. Think of it as speech-to-text software. Subject to DICTIONARY searches. CALEA - A 1994 law ("Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act") to force a massive reworking of the U.S. telephone infra- 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. g
From: Chip Eastham on 18 Apr 2008 22:41
of the code he sent out to his own job description which he transmitted in his resume many months prior. Why waste information that's just flying by for the taking? Care for a fun conspiracy theory? If I were pro-ECHELON, I would monitor all the Senators and ALL their staff AND all their families. That's just to start. I would also monitor ALL up-and-coming politicians. You never know when you're going to need to squeeze some support out of them. Has Bill Clinton been compromised by NSA ECHELON monitoring? * "The Secret War Against the Jews", Authors: John Loftus and Mark Aarons * * A large number of American candidates for public office have been placed * under electronic surveillance by British intelligence officers sitting * at their "temporary listening post" at Fort Meade. * * An admittedly secondhand source insists that the British eavesdroppers * were the source of the 1992 campaign stories that presidential candidate * Clinton had expressed pro-Soviet views while a student in London. * * Young Clinton's remarks were nothing more than an ambiguous comparison * of Soviet and American efforts for peace in Vietnam, fairly innocent at * the time. * * Because the wiretap itself could not be disclosed, it set off a scurry * of searching through archives on both sides of the Atlantic for any * incriminating documents. There was none, and in short order the British * smear campaign died of its own weight. * * It is time the Congress and the public realize that in the age of * computers, |