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From: Tim Smith on 18 Apr 2008 17:54 * ISBN 0-312-11057-X, 1994 : * : * In 1943 this resulted in the Britain-USA (Brusa) agreement to merge : * the Communications Intelligence (COMINT) agencies of both governments. : * : * One of the little-known features of Brusa was that President Roosevelt : * agreed that the two governments could spy on each others' citizens, : * without search warrants, by establishing "listening posts" on each : * others' territory. [snip] : * : * According to several of the "old spies" who worked in Communications : * Intelligence, the NSA headquarters is also the chief British espionage : * base in the United States. The presence of British wiretappers at the : * keyboards of American eavesdropping computers is a closely guarded : * secret, one that very few people in the intelligence community have : * been aware of, but it is true. : * : * An American historian, David Kahn, first stumbled onto a corner of : * the British connection in 1966, while writing his book The Codebreakers. : * : * One indication of just how sensitive this information is considered on : * both sides of the Atlantic is the fact that Kahn's publishers in New : * York and London were put under enormous pressure to censor a great deal : * of the book. In the main, Kahn simply revealed the existence of the : * liaison relationship, but when he wrote that the NSA and its British : * equivalent, the Government Communications Headquarters, "exchange : * personnel on a temporary basis", he had come too close to revealing : * the truth. : * : * The U.S. government told Kahn to hide the existence of British : * electronic spies from the American public. Kahn eventually agreed : * to delete a few of the most sensitive paragraphs describing the : * exchange of codes, techniques, and p
From: Chip Eastham on 18 Apr 2008 19:58 income during the remaining three months of * fiscal year 1990." * * In addition, forfeiture activities affect how many federal prosecutors * will be allocated to each U.S. Attorney by the Justice Department. [snip] * * Says Senator Henry J. Hyde: "The more they seize, the more they get for * their own 'official use'. Federal and state officials now have the power * to seize your business, home, bank account, records and personal property, * all without indictment, hearing, or trial. Everything you have can be * taken away at the whim of one or two federal or state officials operating * in secret." * * The so-called War on Drugs, the Congressman continued, "has been * perverted too often into a series of frontal attacks on basic * American constitutional guarantees --- including due process, * the presumption of innocence, and the right to own and enjoy * private property." ---- * 2 Customs Agents are Facing Charges in Kidnapping Case * by David Kocieniewski, The New York Times, 1996 * * Two United States Customs inspectors have been charged with kidnapping * and beating someone they suspected was a drug dealer last year while * trying to rob him of cash and cocaine, Federal prosecutors said. * * Three men charged in all put on bullet-proof vests and police badges, * according to the complaint, and stopped the victim after identifying * themselves as Federal agents. The Federal agents then beat the man, * handcuffed him, forced him into their car and drove off, witnesses * said. * * The victim, whom Federal officials refuse to identify, dashed from the * car when it stopped at an intersection and persuaded a motorist to take * him to a police station. Wow. People seeking sanctuary from Federal thugs in the local police station. T
From: Chip Eastham on 18 Apr 2008 17:59 COMPREHENSIVE BOOK: buy it! "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 Buy this book: "The Secret War Against the Jews", Authors: John Loftus and Mark Aarons, ISBN 0-312-11057-X, 1994. Don't let the title throw you: the authors spoke with a great many intelligence people, and cleverly probed NSA/CIA/FBI by submitting items for publication approval, and when they censored something... Bingo. Because of the Catch-22 situation, the NSA gave up trying to censor many books, since it can be used to confirm questions they would otherwise have refused to answer. The other books referenced within are also suggested reading. I have sometimes edited for brevity the excerpts, especially my newspaper clippings of stories flying by. If I have any news story specifics wrong or if you have more details, please email me. Later versions of this document can be searched for at dejanews.com. Or, you can email me, Subject: Requesting Cryptography Manifesto. ---- ---- Here comes a large 'reasoned polemic': ---- This is a U.S.-centric message, but keep reading even if you are not in the U.S.; British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand citizens are also directly affected. This message is about ECHELON, which is an unbelievably huge world-wide spying apparatus, including the domestic phone calls of many countries. United States citizens' phone calls are being monitored in a dragnet fashion not even George Orwell could have imagined. This was all paid for by U.S. taxpayers. Built in secret. Not debated. The CALEA legislation is a shameful takes-us-into-the-abyss domestic spy bill. It is for the FBI to simultaneously mon
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:38 the threatening items that had been found > in Cummings' residence: a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook, publications > from Loompanix, a mag stripe read head (no electronics) which "could have > been used" to commit fraud, and material thought to be C4 but later > proven not to be. However, Varney said, the fact that it could have been > showed how serious this was. Nobody questioned his logic. Wow, I'd better throw out my copy of "The Anarchist's Cookbook", eh?. Oh wait: it would be more fitting if I blew it up. * C-SPAN Television, Wednesday June 5th, 1997 * * Andrew Grove, Chairman & CEO of Intel Corporation, is asked whether * bomb-making information should be censored from the Internet. * * "No. The same information is available in libraries, and we don't * censor libraries, nor should we. When I was thirteen I built a * nitroglycerin bomb. It was an incredibly stupid thing to do, * and I knew someone who had their hand blown off, but I am * adamantly against censoring such material." * * "And unlike a library, a parent can buy a program that uses keyword * monitoring to disallow Internet traffic per the parents' wishes. * Such a program is available now, and costs only $29." I think I looked at it for all of 30 seconds before putting in my bookshelf. I don't remember the bomb-making details in it. I have a vague impression of a lot of squiggly lines, suitable for a really bad coloring book. I also purchased a variety of odd privacy-related publications from Eden Press. What is the Official Federal Dangerous Book List? What books did they check on for their 'Library Awareness Program'? How was it determined these books made people dangerous? Who approved this Fahrenheit 451 persecuted-for-books program? The Thought Police had testified in court against Ed Cummings.
From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 21:17
Oh wait: it would be more fitting if I blew it up. * C-SPAN Television, Wednesday June 5th, 1997 * * Andrew Grove, Chairman & CEO of Intel Corporation, is asked whether * bomb-making information should be censored from the Internet. * * "No. The same information is available in libraries, and we don't * censor libraries, nor should we. When I was thirteen I built a * nitroglycerin bomb. It was an incredibly stupid thing to do, * and I knew someone who had their hand blown off, but I am * adamantly against censoring such material." * * "And unlike a library, a parent can buy a program that uses keyword * monitoring to disallow Internet traffic per the parents' wishes. * Such a program is available now, and costs only $29." I think I looked at it for all of 30 seconds before putting in my bookshelf. I don't remember the bomb-making details in it. I have a vague impression of a lot of squiggly lines, suitable for a really bad coloring book. I also purchased a variety of odd privacy-related publications from Eden Press. What is the Official Federal Dangerous Book List? What books did they check on for their 'Library Awareness Program'? How was it determined these books made people dangerous? Who approved this Fahrenheit 451 persecuted-for-books program? The Thought Police had testified in court against Ed Cummings. The judge rules on whether Ed is guilty of probation violation: > The judge determined that a probation violation had indeed taken place > and that Cummings should be held and a sentencing date scheduled within > 60 days. The judge had just done the same thing for a man who had just > committed his third DWI offense. In fact, he had killed someone. The > judge ordered that person held on $50,000 bail. Ed Cummings, however, > was another matter. The judge ordered Cummings held on $250,000. > > So Cummings was being held on a quarter of a million dollars because he > was thought to have taken batteries o |