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From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 20:52 bank, and computers. Every electronic intercept capability NSA denied having was right there. In a small black box, not much bigger than a briefcase, was "Oratory." This portable key-word selection computer could be taken almost anywhere and set to pick out pre-selected words and automatically monitor and record fax, voice, or teletype messages that contained them. Developed by NSA, "Oratory" was "tempest-proof" (i.e. shielded to prevent emmisions that could lead to detection), small, virtually indestructible, and easy to repair: all you had to do was open the lid and replace the self-diagnosed defective component. [snip] In pursuit of plausible deniability, CSE, GCHQ, and NSA have used each others' personnel and resources to evade laws against domestic spying. [ an example given in which the NSA wanted to spy on someone within the US, even though they had no authorization for such an operation ] ...So, two Canadians were sent to conduct a counter-espionage operation on US soil at US taxpayer expense so that NSA could maintain deniability. In every way that counts, NSA broke US law and spied on its own citizens. [ A UK operation by CSE described next. Margaret Thatcher (then Prime Minister) thinks two of the ministers in her cabinet are not 'on s
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 21:26 to issue everyone a Universal Biometrics Card. Everyone in the world. # By John Walker -- kelvin(a)fourmilab.ch, Revision 8 -- February 28th, 1994 # # Operationally, the Universal Biometrics Card serves as the cardholder's # identification for all forms of transactions and # interactions. It can potentially replace all the # following forms of identification and credentials: # # Passport and visas # House and car keys # Driver's license and automobile registration(s) # Employee ID card # Bank credit, debit, and automatic teller cards # Health insurance card # Medical history/blood type/organ donor cards # Automobile insurance card # Telephone credit card(s) # Membership card for clubs, museums, etc. # Frequent flyer club card(s) and flight coupons # Car rental discount card(s) # Train, bus, airplane, toll road and bridge tickets # Airline flight boarding pass # Train and bus pass and subscription card # WHO immunisation certificate # Personal telephone directory # Personal telephone number # Passwords for access to computers, data services, and networks # Software subscription access keys # Cable and satellite TV subscriptions # Cellular phone and personal digital assistant personal ID # Encryption keys for secure electronic mail, phone, and FAX # Electronic signature key # # Cash # # Of course, use of the Universal Biometrics # Card will start out as voluntary... The
From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 19:09 of the FBI and DEA) on "a document classification system stuck on autopilot, indiscriminately stamping 'Top Secret' on thousands of documents every year." ECHELON generates 90% of those documents. Machines. 5/24/1992 The Washington Post Parade Magazine: The Pentagon even labelled as not only SECRET but NOFORN---which means they cannot even be shared with our allies---anti-American cartoons that ran in IRAQI newspapers, even more than a year later [when or if they ever declassified them I don't know]. One typically ludicrous cartoon depicts drunken GIs lounging in the Saudi sand with shapely U.S. servicewomen dressed in unusual military attire: bras, shorts and high heels. NOFORN level security for IRAQI cartoons. Clueless autopilot secrecy. The ultimate in bureaucratic capture: # "Failures of Leadership on Land Mines", NYT editorial, 6/21/97 # # Land mines are responsible for killing 10,000 people worldwide each year, # most of them innocent civilians, including children. # # Never before has the momentum to ban all land mines been so strong. A high # percentage of battlefield casualties among American troops are by mines. # # Yet President Clinton and Vice President Gore are meekly yielding to the # wrongheaded opposition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, even though they # claim to support the ban themselves. #
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 19:53 5 1994 * * By mistake, a Congressional subcommittee has published an unusually * detailed breakdown of the highly classified "black budget" for United * States intelligence agencies. * * In previously defeating a bill that would have made this information * public, the White House, CIA and Pentagon argued that revealing the * secret budget would cause GRAVE DAMAGE to the NATIONAL SECURITY of * the United States. * * $3.1 billion for the CIA * $10.4 billion for the Army, Navy, Air Force * and Marines special-operations units * $13.2 billion for the NSA/NRO/DIA * * The only damage done so far is to the * credibility of those who opposed the measure. There is no constitutional basis for this massive loss of Fourth Amendment rights. It sounds like some wild conspiracy theory, doesn't it? Yet it exists. ****************************************************************************** Secret Court ------ ----- : The Washington Post Magazine, June 23 1996 : Government surveillance, terrorism and the U.S. Constitution: : The story of a Washington courtroom no tourist can visit. : By Jim McGee and Brian Duffy [snipped article excerpts shown here] : Adapted from the book "Main Justice", 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9. : * Last year, a secret court in the Justice Department authorized a record * 697 'national security' wiretaps on American soil, outside normal * constitutional procedures. * * The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is a 1978 law that permits * secret buggings and wiretaps of individuals suspected of being agents * of a hostile foreign government or international terrorist organization * EVEN WHEN THE TARGET IS NOT SUSPECTED OF COMMITTING ANY CRIME. * * The FISA court operates outside the normal constitutional standards for * searches and seizures. Non-government p
From: Marshall on 18 Apr 2008 21:05
Implement National ID Cards, they promise, and a bright, secure future * can be ours. [snip] * * Recently, treasonous federal courts have ripped to shreds over 200 years * of American constitutional law, ruling that, "A person's property has no * constitutional rights." So-called "anti-terrorist" legislation makes * possible the immediate arrest and imprisonment of any and all persons * *suspected* of being a "terrorist." These persons shall be deemed a risk * "to internal security." * * A persons' home, auto, bank account, and other property shall be seized. * This will be accomplished using _forfeiture laws_, originally designed * to stop drug dealers and kingpins, but now used across America by Gestapo * police to harass and bankrupt private citizens opposed to Big Brother * government's criminal activities. * * "Thought crimes" alone provide justification for the arrest of dissidents. : "Author of Book on Poppy Cultivation Cleared of Drug Charge" : By Carey Goldberg, The New York Times, May 25 1997 : : "What happened to me was designed to silence me," said Jim Hogshire, "and : to some extent it did a good job of that because for the next year or more : I was wrapped up with this case." : : |