From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 20:50 surveillance of 1,330 groups is NOT an "aberration". The state of Congressional oversight (and punishment of FISA violations) is horrifying. Not only did the NSA/FBI use FISA in a criminal manner, they then cross- referenced through everyone ever connecting to CISPES - no matter how distant - to achieve massive domestic spying for political purposes. To crush peaceful lawful political protest. In America. For the President. And they did it WITHOUT getting 1,330 FISA warrants. Question: How do you spy on 1,330 domestic groups? Answer: Electronically, using an existing domestic surveillance network. Just push the button marked 'monitor'. Your phone calls, bank transactions, credit card usage, health/ credit/utility/law-enforcement/TRW/IRS records, your whole life. One big evil eye of Mordor. The Russian State we were told to fear. ****************************************************************************** No wonder there are militias. It gets worse. Much worse. ****************************************************************************** Wild Conspiracy Theory ---- ---------- ------ This is an expanded version of a posting I made promoting unregulated (free from government-has-the-key) cryptography. Attorney John Loftus is the author of four histories of intelligence operations. As a former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit, he had unprecedented access to top-secret CIA and NATO archives. Mark Aarons is an investigative reporter and author of several books on intelligence related issues. One day I was flipping channels, and came a
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:13 'Salomon Information Security Services'. The configurations and passwords to Salomon's network control devices - the heart of the network - flew out of our Internet connection to vendor Cisco in a seemingly unstoppable whirlwind. This was the fourth report in a row. ********** begin excerpt from 'Corruption at Salomon Brothers' ********** ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* SECURITY INCIDENT REPORT, 6/27/96 ROUTER PASSWORDS BRIDGE AND ROUTER CONFIGURATIONS NOC SYSTEMS SECURITY --------------------------------- This is a security incident report regarding the Internet (a public wire) traffic of Salomon Brothers, which is monitored for security/compliance. NOTE: THESE INCIDENTS HAVE NOT STOPPED DESPITE REPEATED SISS REPORTS! This report should be taken as a complaint that insufficient procedures have been put in place to ensure current and new Salomon personnel are made aware of the security issues of Internet transmissions for network device configuration files. Suggest wide-spread distributi
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:07 for the * NSA, and installed in their headquarters in 1976. * * The entire twentieth century of development of computer technology has * been the result of the NSA's unquenchable thirst for ever bigger, ever * faster machines on which to collect, collate, and cross-reference data * on hundreds of millions of honest, law-abiding, and totally unsuspecting * individuals. And not only in America, but in many other countries as * well. Including, as we shall see, Australia. [ "The Rise of the Computer State", David Burnham, 1984 p134: ...the technical advances that were occurring did so not entirely by chance. The computers' ability to acquire, organize, store and retrieve huge amounts of data was an essential factor leading to the broad definition of intelligence that was fostered by the National Security Agency and its godfather, the National Security Council. Computer research was supported by NSA in a major way by secret research dollars. Thomas C. Reed, Director of the Pentagon's Telecommunications, Command and Control System, referring to domestic intercity telephone microwave radio trunks, said in 1975, "Modern computer techniques make it possible to sort through that traffic and find target conversations easily." p126-127:
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:46 his head, called him a derogatory * name and warned, "If you move, I'll shoot you." The handyman * said he had been unlawfully stopped, harassed and interrogated * by the police eight times since he started working there. * * Another plaintiff, the co-captain of the Beverly Hills High School * football team, asserted that he had been pulled over at least 20 * times in the last 18 months. * * The Mayor and Police Chief were named in the suit because they had * ignored numerous written and oral complaints of mistreatment. ---- Think Rodney King was an isolated event? * The New York Times, May 13, 1997, snipped * "Police Chief Says Officers Violated Policy in Beating", by Kevin Sack * * Atlanta's police chief concedes the videotaped beating of an African- * American shows it violated departmental rules. * * Timmie Sinclair, 27, is a black Atlantan. Five officers surrounded him * and one Sergeant "repeatedly bludgeoned with a baton" Mr. Sinclair while * he was being handcuffed, and at least once while the other officers held * him down on the ground. * * Mr. Sinclair was trying t
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:00
the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 : : Without informing anyone outside the Justice Department, and only a very : few within, the U.S. Attorney General and the FBI Director agreed upon a : plan by which the president could suspend many of the key safeguards of : the Constitution. : : Under the top-secret agreement, code-named "Security Portfolio," the FBI : was authorized, in the event of an ill-defined emergency, to summarily : arrest up to 20,000 persons and place them in national security detention : camps. : : A watch list of those who should be detained---along with detailed : information about what they looked like, where they lived and their : place of employment---was developed by the FBI. : : The decision as to who was placed on the watch list was left to the : FBI and included many whose only crime was to openly criticize some : aspect of American life. : : The detention plan did not require the FBI to obtain individual arrest : warrants and it would have denied detainees the right to appeal their : arrest in federal court. The President was Harry Truman, the FBI Director was J. Edgar Hoover. The country was the United States of America. Truman was the President who created the National Security Agency. Question: Why is his seven-page NSA directive is still secret to this day? Answer: It violates the Constitution of the United States of America. At the same time Hoover was in power and developed the "Security Portfolio" and attacked civil rights movements in the United States, a Black Panther named Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt was framed for a murder he didn't commit by the FBI. : Court TV : : Judge Dickey overturned the conviction last month, ruling that : prosecutors failed to tell the defense that the key witness against : Pratt was an infiltrator and paid informant for the FBI an |