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From: S.C.Sprong on 21 Apr 2008 23:08 different for each. NSA's spying operations are so massive and all encompassing, and the maintenance burden for interfacing to all the latest equipment now so high, that they have had to come out in the open and lie lie lie to get CALEA. We need CALEA to prevent crime and catch terrorists like a hole in the head. ---- At the same time Stafford Beer was trying to get a grip on the Chilean economy, the U.S. was trying to destroy it. * http://ursula.blythe.org/NameBase * * Uribe, Armando. The Black Book of American Intervention in Chile. Boston: * Beacon Press, 1975. 163 pages. Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Casart. * * Chile is a well-documented example of covert destabilization by the U.S., * and NameBase includes several books on the subject. The CIA had been * passing out money since 1964 to influence elections in Chile, but Salvador * Allende won the presidency in 1970 anyway. * * Under orders from Nixon and Kissinger, a broad economic blockade was then * launched in conjunction with U.S. multinationals (ITT, Kennecott, Anaconda) * and banks (Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank). * * According to notes taken by CIA director Richard Helms at a 1970 meeting * in the Oval Office, his orders were to * * "make th
From: S.C.Sprong on 21 Apr 2008 20:14 citizen he wants. : * : * Since it is technically a *British* target of surveillance, no : * *American* search warrant is necessary. The British officer then : * simply hands the results over to his American liaison officer. : * : * Of course, the Americans provide the same service to the British : * in return. All international and domestic telephone calls in Great : * Britain are run through the NSA's station in the British Government : * Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) at Menwith Hill, which allows : * the American liaison officer to spy on any British citizen without : * a warrant. : * : * According to our sources, this duplicitous, reciprocal arrangement : * disguises the most massive, and illegal, domestic espionage apparatus : * in the world. Not even the Soviets could touch the U.K.-U.S. intercept : * technology. : * : * Through this charade, the intelligence services of each country can : * claim they are not targeting their own citizens. This targeting is : * done by an authorized foreign agent, the intelligence liaison : * resident in Britain or the United States. : * : * Thus, in 1977, during an investigation by the House Government : * Operations Committee, Admiral Inman could claim, with a straight face, : * that "there are no U.S. Citizens now targeted by the NSA in the United : * States or abroad, none." : * : * Since the targeting was
From: S.C.Sprong on 21 Apr 2008 20:51 1996 / early 1997, several states, including California, passed laws via citizen initiative ballots that legalized marijuana if a doctor prescribes it. Usually for nausea or weight loss from chemotherapy or AIDS. A massive Federal and State Drug War hysteria campaign failed to stop people approving it. * The New York Times, Oct 3, 1996, San Francisco * "Skirmish in Anti-Drug War: California vs. 'Doonesbury'", by Tim Golden * * There a drug wars, and there are drug wars... * * Marching bravely into the cultural swamp where Dan Quayle once bogged * down in combat with the television single mother Murphy Brown, * California's Attorney General, Dan Lungren, has taken his fight * against the medical use of marijuana to Zonker Harris, the laid-back * hero of the comic strip 'Doonesbury'. Like the former Vice President, * Mr. Lungren appears to have underestimated his adversaries' capacity * to make fun of him. * [snip] * * Mr. Lungren raided a marijuana outlet after two years in which the * United States Attorney in San Francisco and the city's District * Attorney had both declined to prosecute it. * [snip] * / "Zonker": I can't believe anyone would shut down the Cannabis Buyers' / Club! Who ordered the bust? / Other character responds: "Dan Lungren, the State Attorney General. / Local cops wouldn't do it, so they had to bring in the Republicans." * * "No one should be 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 allo
From: S.C.Sprong on 21 Apr 2008 20:16 technologies, so many different data formats. I wrote 6502 assembler code for an SMDR unit (Station Message Detail Recording), which is a computer that monitors phone call logs and attaches to a PBX within a company and can generate long-distance expense reports by department, person, etc. We had to write a different program interface for every damn PBX manufacturer. The data format was different for each. NSA's spying operations are so massive and all encompassing, and the maintenance burden for interfacing to all the latest equipment now so high, that they have had to come out in the open and lie lie lie to get CALEA. We need CALEA to prevent crime and catch terrorists like a hole in the head. ---- At the same time Stafford Beer was trying to get a grip on the Chilean economy, the U.S. was trying to destroy it. * http://ursula.blythe.org/NameBase * * Uribe, Armando. The Black Book of American Intervention in Chile. Boston: * Beacon Press, 1975. 163 pages. Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Casart. * * Chile is a well-documented example of covert destabilization by the U.S., * and NameBase includes several books on the subject. The CIA had been * passing out money since 1964 to influence elections in Chile, but Salvador * Allende w
From: S.C.Sprong on 21 Apr 2008 20:27
on his chances of obtaining security * clearances. [snip] * * The Pattersons said that they began hearing interference on their * telephone, including voices, after the visit by the FBI agent and that * about 50 pieces of mail Todd received from foreign governments from 1983 * to 1988 showed signs of tampering. * * But a Justice Department lawyer told the court, "Just because they heard * funny noises on their telephone and some foreign mail was damaged doesn't * mean we should start rummaging through agency files and asking if there * was a wiretap. The FBI insists on keeping a file ("but we 'closed' it") on him even though they should have seen he was not a threat to national security. Fear, loathing, hysteria, and spying on our reading habits: The FBI also had their counter-intelligence unit start a "Library Awareness Program", which meant they wanted to know everyone who checked out certain books. What a bunch of peeping tommy guns! * "LIBRARY SPY HUNT IS CURBED BY FBI", By Herbert Mitgang, NYT, 11/11/1988 * * Bowing to pressure from a House subcommittee and continued resistance from * librarians, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has set limits on its * program seeking the help of librarians in "detecting Soviet spies." * * Under the Library Awareness Program. which the FBI says has been in exist- * ence for years, librarians have been asked to report suspicious-looking * people who might be Soviet spies, to be alert to which books and periodi- * cals such people read or check out and to disclose the names and informa- * tion about book borrowers suspected of using libraries for espionage * purposes or recruiting library users for espionage [what???]. * |