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From: Rotwang on 18 Apr 2008 20:44 * * 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 * government action in violation of constitutional rights than the decision * 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 o
From: Gerry Myerson on 18 Apr 2008 21:55 people. GCSB workers are forbidden to say anything about their work, even to their partners. The indoctrination concluded with Holmes signing the two page indoctrination form, which refers to New Zealand laws for punishing infringements (in the Crimes Act) but which originates primarily in UKUSA regulations. Equivalent forms must be signed by staff throughout the UKUSA alliance. P44- In the middle of 1994 Holmes got his first overseas posting - and a prestigious one at that. He is on a three-year posting to the center of the UKUSA alliance, the enormous NSA headquarters at Fort George G. Meade. This posting was the first ever by a GCSB analyst to the NSA. Before he left New Zealand his daily work, like that of all analysts, revolved entirely around that most striking manifestation of GCSB's links with the NSA: the ECHELON Dictionary system. Each morning the signals intelligence analysts in New Zealand log on at their computer terminals and enter the Dictionary system, just as their equivalents do in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. What follows is a precise description of how the system works, the first time it has been publicly described
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 23:49 - executive officer of * the World Future Society and managing editor of its monthly magazine. * * The Futurist, noted that with a little refinement, the microchip could be * used in a number of human applications. He stated: "Conceivably, a number * could be assigned at birth and go with a person throughout life." * * The article continued: "Most likely, he added, it woud be implanted on * the back of the right or left hand for convenience, `so that it would * be easy to scan....It could be used as a universal identification card * that would replace credit cards, passports, that sort of thing. At the * checkout stand at a supermarket, you would simply pass your hand over * a scanner and your bank account would automatically be debited." There it is again: people talking about assigning everyone a biometric identifying number at birth. ---- # Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, June 1994 issue # # The Hughes Aircraft Company is selling a tiny transponder for injection # under the skin of laboratory animals. Hughes has also moved into "the # human market." # # Effective this year, the federal Food and Drug Administration requires # every breast implant carry a transponder chip with a unique identifying # number. A hand-held scanner can read the number much like a supermarket # scanner. # # The reason the government gave for the transponder was that both the doctor # and patient might lose track of what kind of breast implant was installed, # and so if a certain model had a recall, they could tell what was installed. # # # The American Textile Partnership, a research consortium linked to the U.S. # Department of Energy, is sponsoring a research called "Embedded Electronic # Fingerprint" to develop a transponder the size of a grain of wheat that # could be attached to a garment until the owner threw it out. # # Heretofor, this application has been considered only for
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 21:55 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 information from half a dozen rebels that he had planned a # 1985 attack in El Salvador in which SIX AMERICANS and seven others were # killed, newly released Government reports show. It doesn't matter to our government if Americans get killed. Whatever the president wants, he gets. FISA is yet another dagger shredding the U.S. Constitution. : The Washington Post Magazine, June 23 1996 : "Government surveillance, terrorism and the U.S. Constitution" : from Main Justice, by Jim McGee and Brian Duffy, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9 : : The internal Justice Department FISA watchdog was Mary Lawton: it took : her two years before saying the investigations into CISPES & Co should : be shut down. : : On the day after Thanksgiving in 1993, not quite a month after Mary Lawton : died, Richard Scruggs decided it was time to go through her office on the : sixth floor of Main Justice. : : The deeper Scruggs got into the FISA files, the more uneasy he grew. : : Reading the FISA applications in Lawton's files, Scruggs began finding : errors. The volume of FISA cases was so heavy that the lawyers could spend : only so much time on each one. : : "The review process to prevent factual and legal errors was virtually : nonexistent," Scruggs recalled. : : In high school, Mary Lawton had won a debate about the meaning of the : U.S. Constitution. Nor was it an aberration: the 1980s joined the 1960s and 1970s with yet another massive use of this Orwellian technology for political purposes. And these are when they were caught. It's currently used for the "Drug War", a highly political endeavor.
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 21:58
laughing," said Mr. Lungren, asking newspapers in * the state to censor the rest of the week's cartoons as a public service. * * No one followed the Attorney General's request. Other Federal and state government officials were SHOCKED that it passed and made angry noises and tried to interfere. * The New York Times, Aug 29 1996, Ventura, California, By Katharine Seelye * "Dole Criticizes Clinton as Lax On a Policy to Combat Drugs" * * Dole, speaking out against Proposition 215, which would allow marijuana * to be used as medicine: "If somebody, say from Mexico or any other country, * aimed a missile at California, you would do something about it. And they're * aiming millions and millions of missiles right at these young people right * here, whether it's a needle, whether it's a cigarette, whatever the delivery * system is. It's poison [at least it's not paraquat!], and it's got to stop * in America. My view is that drugs are wrong, you shouldn't use drugs, you * shouldn't smoke cigarettes---let's just throw them all out at the same * time." * * Mr. Dole later qualified his remarks: "I didn't say anything about * cigarettes." [what???] Proposition 215 passed into law. It was a major repudiation of Drug War hysteria. A major repudiation of the Schedule I Substances classification of marijuana. DEA: "Drugs in this schedule are those that |