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From: Tim Smith on 18 Apr 2008 23:03 went to the Austin, Texas, airport two months ago. # # But because he's black, dressed casually and wore expensive cowboy boots, # he soon was surrounded by strangers---police who suspected him of being # a drug courier. # # Mr. Kelly had gone to the airport only TO PICK UP A FRIEND. # # He felt numb, agreed to be searched because he didn't want to get beaten. # # Kelly tried an experiment. He had a white friend WEAR THE SAME OUTFIT he # had worn that day and retrace his steps at the airport. # # Police gave the friend not even a glance. # # His lawyer filed a class-action suit in a Texas state court. # # "The Supreme Court has hobbled the Fourth Amendment so much that I # never even thought about filing in Federal court." A major foobar in Zero Tolerance mania occurred when the government seized a ship over a couple joints. The government had seized the ship from itself. The Drug War. The Drug War. The Drug War. The Drug War. The Drug War. Hear it enough times and you believe it is a national security problem. Rather tha
From: Gerry Myerson on 18 Apr 2008 23:57 to answer the questions, "in the interests of national * security." * * The first clue of the Australian Headquarters of PROJECT PLATFORM appeared * in 1975. Then, as today, government undertakings involving expenditure * over a certain amount must be presented to a Senate body, the Joint * Parliamentary Accounts Committee (JPAC). In 1975 JPAC was asked to * examine and approve finance for the construction of a new building in * Deakin, a leafy suburb of Canberra. * * This quite massive building was to be constructed behind an existing, much * smaller one, which, until then, had been known to the public only as the * "Deakin Telephone Exchange." * * That it was not, and never had been, simply a "telephone exchange" finally * came to light in the 1975 JPAC Approval Report, when it admitted that the * existing building had a comprehensive basement which housed NASA's micro- * wave communications headquarters in Australia. Part of the justification * of the "need" for the new, much larger building, was that by 1980, it was * expected that NASA would run out of room in their existing home. * * Apart from NASA, it is now admitted that Deakin houses the National * Computer Headquarters for, amongst others, the Australian Defense * Department, the Australian Taxation Office, the Department of Social * Security, the Commonwealth Depa
From: Matthew T. Russotto on 18 Apr 2008 23:16 The Administration's position was set out last Nov. 26 in a legal # memorandum, from the Justice Department to the CIA saying anyone # disclosing classified information to a member of Congress would # be violating the Constitution. # # James Madison must be rolling in his grave at that claim. # # The principal of separation of powers, which he wrote into the # Constitution, was designed to let each of the three branches of # Government check abuse by the others. # # Congress does not like to tangle with the executive on claims of # national security. # # But will it lie down before this claim of exclusive, imperial power? The New York Times, June 20, 1997 President Threatens Veto of Senate Bill for CIA By TIM WEINER WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday passed a secret spending bill for U.S. intelligence, but the White House threatened to veto it over a provision that would protect whistleblowers. The Senate bill would let employees of the Central Intelligence Agency and other branches of the government tell members of Congress classified information that would expose a crime, reveal lying to Congress, uncover fraud or stop abuses. They could do so without approval from their superiors and without fear of reprisal. They could only pass on information to appropriate members -- for example, CIA information would have to go to the Intelligence Committee. But the White House said it would veto the entire bill over that provision. In a written statement, it said the whistle-blower measure would usurp "the president's constitutional authority to protect national security and other privileged information.
From: bitsplit on 18 Apr 2008 23:24 "Last Clink for Token-Only Turnstiles" * By Garry Pierre-Pierre, The New York Times, May 14 1997 * * The last token-only turnstile was ripped out today. * * Officials have spent $700 million over a four-year period to automate the * system, including upgrading the electrical wiring and the computer systems * to link up the vast network. * * Tokens will be eliminated in a year or so. * * For years, transit riders and advocates have been demanding discounts like * other cities, but transit officials said they couldn't do it without an * electronic system. * * In 1995, the Transit Authority lost $300 million in city, state and Federal * subsidies, and had to reduce and eliminate some bus and subway service, * along with some cleaning. Not counting the long-promised discounts, the * city is also offering free bus-subway transfers which will cost it another * $168 million. Wow. They are hurting for money, yet spent $700 million on it to offer discounts? They aren't expecting to monitor individual users, like in Singapore, are they? Let's see...they don't print them up in advance, so they can't be stolen. But each token booth has a video camera, which, if synchronized time-wise would yield a picture to associate with each card. They wouldn't use 'machine vision' to identify people, would they? They would never take our picture from a video camera and use it for a completely different surveillance purpose, would they? * "Police Use of Yearbooks Draws Protest From the Schools" * By Lawrence Van Gelder, The New York Times, March 28 1997 * * A storm of protest burst yesterday around a Police Department memo that * orders every detective squad in New York City to collect yearbooks from * the high schools and junior high schools in its precinct as an aid in * investigations. * * For mugshots. * * Lionel Oglesby, 15, of Brooklyn, a sophomore at Washington Irving High * School in
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2008 22:51
spied-on country's SIGINT agency. PGP - Free and unbreakable encryption, available world-wide. CISPES - Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador "Ultra-secret" agencies: NSA - U.S. National Security Agency GCHQ - British Government Communications Headquarters CSE - Canada's Communications Security Establishment DSD - Australian Defense Signals Directorate GCSB - New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau ****************************************************************************** Main() ---- Using mainly publicly available material, here is my documentation of: o Part 1: Massive Domestic Spying via NSA ECHELON This is highly detailed documentation of NSA spying. This spying is illegal, massive, and domestic. The documentation is comprehensive, especially since it is now brought together in this one section. o Part 2: On Monitoring and Being Monitored In this section, I describe the capabilities of ECHELON keyword monitoring. A detailed example --- how to use keywords to |