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From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 21:05 * "There was one incident with which I was INTIMATELY FAMILIAR, which * involved a quick and secret deployment of a major United States effort * of F.B.I.," and emergency, health and Army forces. * * "Because we had A TIP OF A POSSIBLE TERRORIST INCIDENT which, thank * goodness, did not materialize," the President added. * * However, the F.B.I. later stated it was investigating it as a hoax threat. * A Justice Department spokesman said it was "completely inaccurate" to * describe the incident as anything other than a hoax. And how did the President, who said he was 'intimately familiar' with the incident, come to believe that it was an [informer] tip about a possible threat, and not an anonymous hoax threat? The American people are not the only ones the NSA/FBI lie to... Notice how secrecy keeps playing a major part in all this...June 28, 1996, NYT, "Lawmaker Tells of High Cost of Keeping Secret Data Secret", the House intelligence committee said, not even including the CIA, the U.S. spends FIVE POINT SIX BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR (twice the annual combined budgets of the FBI and
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 21:07 on Critical * Infrastructure Protection. Whatever should we do about those nasty hackers? ****************************************************************************** Secret Service: Harassment of 2600 ------ ------- ---------- -- ---- A group of above-ground hackers associated with 2600 were having a lawful peaceful public meeting at the Pentagon City Mall on November 6, 1992. The meeting was busted up by mall police for no apparent reason. Identification was demanded from everyone. Bags were searched. It's the 1990s now. The harassment was publicized by 2600, and a reporter talked to the head of the mall's security: he let slip that the Secret Service ordered them to harass 2600's lawful peaceful public meeting. That was definitely news. The mall security manager then denied what he said about Secret Service ordering the harassment: luckily the reporter recorded his conversation. CPSR [Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility] and Marc Rotenberg of EPIC [Electronic Privacy Information Center] began FOIA [U.S. Freedom of Information Act] proceedings to find out about this incident. The case raises significant issues of freedom of speech and assembly, privacy
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 20:30 system owned by AT&T. Other specialists * testified to the same thing: purely domestic intercepts. I would say a MINIMUM of 100 million purely domestic U.S. conversations are run through NSA keyword monitoring each year. And who is listening to all our court authorized conversations? * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * Under a little-noticed section of a 1986 law, Congress dropped the * requirement that only the FBI's high-priced Special Agents could * listen to the tapes. The FBI now hires low-cost clerks for what must * be extremely tedious work. An army of low-cost clerks are listening to our private conversations? I feel sick. ---- Conclusion: Louis Freeh is a manipulative liar. Louis Freeh is a Scary Man with the morals of a styrofoam cup. ****************************************************************************** National ID Card -------- -- ---- * C-SPAN Congressional Television: outside coming down the Senate building's * steps, Senator Biden with Senator Simpson in tow proclaims: "What's wrong * with a National ID Card? It's the same tired old arguments against it." As if sane people shouldn't be paranoid about a National ID Card. * "New Rules Mean Job-Hunters Need Proof of Identity", The New York Times * * Passports, driver's licenses, Social Security cards or birth certificates * will be allowed to serve as identity papers. * * A 1982 proposal to catch illegal aliens by giving American workers * "counterfeit-proof" identity cards was hooted off the boards as a * threat to individual liberty. How bad would a National ID Card be? Bad. Real bad. You would be required to carry it at all times. It's all about surveillance and control. This section is about the National ID Card, plus deployment of a mix of surveillance and control techniques for tracking people. In California
From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 21:22 ! "Vast Coding of Data is Urged to Hamper Electronic Spies" ! ! Because the National Security Agency is actively involved in the ! design [of Key Recovery cryptography], the agency will have the ! technical ability to decipher the messages. ! ! Walter G. Deeley, NSA deputy director for communications security ! said, "It is technically possible for the Government to read such ! messages, but it would be insane for it to do so. It would be an ! extraordinarily expensive undertaking and would require a massive ! increase in computer power." Probably since noone believed that, they admitted it, and said why they needed to decrypt in real-time: # Encryption and Law Enforcement # # Dorothy E. Denning # Georgetown University # # February 21, 1994 # # To implement lawful interceptions of encrypted communications, they # need a real-time or near real-time decryption capability in order # to keep up with the traffic and prevent potential acts of violence. # Since there can be hundreds of calls a day on a tapped line, any # solution that imposes a high overhead per call is impractical. And if uncrackable crypto were in widespread use within the U.S., the FBI would demand that it be outlawed. For 'public safety and national security'. : * "Above the Law" : * ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 : * by David Burnham : * : * The suspicion that the government might one day try to outlaw any : * encryption device which did not provide eas
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 21:27
Cigarette smoking is as addictive as heroin, complete with withdrawal * symptoms, and the percentage of relapses (75%) is the same for "kicking" * cocaine and heroin users. * * It is far and away the number one cause of preventable death in the U.S. * today. Tobacco smokers have ten times the lung cancer of non-smokers, * twice the heart disease and are three times more likely to die of heart * disease if they develop it. * * Yet tobacco is totally legal, and even receives the highest U.S. Gov. * farm subsidies of any agricultural product in America, all while being * our biggest killer! What a total hypocrisy! My dad has been to Europe once: "I didn't have time to sight-see when we hit the beaches though". He enlisted at 17, and was captured during the Battle of the Bulge, which involved General Patton. My dad said that when he saw fellow GIs in the German prison camp trading food for tobacco and even adding wood shavings to extend it: that's when he decided not to smoke. "Tobacco isn't addictive" ---Politician Bob Dole, taker of tobacco monies I've always wondered which Senators were paid off to exempt billboards from having their health warnings be the same proportion as those in magazine ads. And how did they justify it? Here is an example of our law enforcement's attitudes toward marijuana: * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * FBI Director William S. Sessions, questioned by the Senate Judiciary * Committee in March 1986, acknowledged that he once told one of his * assistants that he thought several Ku Klux Klan members accused of * lynching a b |