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From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 18:34 Canada and Australia. What follows is a precise description of how the system works, the first time it has been publicly described. [Buy the book for full details] After entering their security passwords, the analysts reach a directory that lists the different categories of intercept available, each with a four digit code; 4066, for instance, might be Russian fishing trawlers, 5535 Japanese diplomatic traffic in the South Pacific, 4959 communications from South Pacific countries and so on. They type in the code for the category they want to use first that day. As soon as they make a selection, a 'search result' appears, stating the number of documents which have been found fitting that category. The day's work begins, reading through screen after screen of intercepted messages. If a message appears worth reporting on, the analyst can select it from the rest and work on it out of the Dictionary system. He or she then translates the message - either in its entirety or as a summary called a 'gist' - and writes it into the standard format of all intelligence reports produced anywhere within the UKUSA network. This is the 'front end' of the Dictionary system, using a commercially available program (called BRS Search). It extracts the different categories of intercepted messages (known just as 'intercept') from the large GCSB computer database of intercept from the New Zealand stations and overseas agencies. [ I interrupt this book excerpt to bring you retrieval results for "BRS Search" from the www.altavista.digital.com search engine:
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 18:44 emailing their resume, etc. Anyone giving a clear indication they were looking for another job I called in "resume condition". When it is a risk management person saying he "wants to explain how it works here", I write it up as a security incident. It was extremely rare for a company to use a resume report for anything. However, there is no description of what to do for any given variation of this report, so... When a team of people sent their resumes to a business, including that of a Managing Director, some discreet calls were made to see if we were losing a whole department. (No, it was for a joint business deal.) ---- * The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision, p459 * * When searching for derogatory references to President Richard M. Nixon * [ "I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate break-in," said President * Nixon looking straight at the camera on a national television address, * "It's that simple." ], for example, technicians would have to program * a variety of keywords, such as "Tricky Dicky." This, according to the * former NSA G Group chief, would be converted to 'ky----ky." * * Should this selection process still produce a considerable amount of * traffic, the data could then undergo 'secondary testing',
From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 21:57 is in the helicopter with the agent who identified marijuana growing on the property from an identical helicopter fly-over. The agent said he specializes in that sort of thing, and he was flown over the property for an evaluation. He told the other federal agents that he could not determine that there was any. The G-MEN flew him over again: "they pressured me to change my evaluation, and I did, even though I couldn't detect any marijuana. They got me to say 'maybe I see some for sure'." A large multi-departmental group of federal and county agents stormed the house, and shot the male owner to death. The widow continues to live there. Before moving in, law enforcement had the property appraised for its value. Eventually, the county admitted it wanted the property. This is our Drug War for national security reasons. The government now says it regrets calling it a Drug War. Then appointed a retired Military General as Drug Czar. Drug Czar William Ben
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:28 Oklahoma City bombing, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick * and FBI Director Freeh announced that they had decided to reinterpret * twenty-year-old Justice Department guidelines originally put in place to * restrain the FBI from violating the constitutional rights of political * dissidents. * * "If those guidelines are interpreted broadly and proactively, as opposed * to defensively, as has been the case for many many years, I feel confident * ...we have sufficient authority," Freeh told a Senate Committee. * * William Safire, the conservative New York Times columnist with libertarian * leanings, was appalled, asking if there wasn't anyone in the government * who remembered how the FBI played the game in the bad old days? * * "To the applause of voters fearful of terrorism," Safire wrote, "the pro- * activists declare their intention to prevent crime. This would be followed * by surveillance of suspect groups by using new technology, the infiltra- * tion of political movements deemed radical or violence prone; and the * stretching of guidelines put in place 20 years ago to restrain yesterday's * zealots." Fear, loathing, hysteria, and a massive misdirection of resources: * At about the same time that the FBI agent was knocking on Mrs. Bernard's * door, the bureau had 21,000 allegations of savings and loan fraud it was * unable to investigate, and at least 2,400 inactive financial crime inves- * tigations awaiting consideration. In the San Diego area, for example, * lack of available agents meant the FBI would not even consider investi- * gating bank fraud cases unless they involved losses of at least one * million dollars. ******************************************************************************
From: Tim Smith on 18 Apr 2008 19:18
: Newsgroups: alt.cypherpunks,talk.politics.crypto,comp.org.eff.talk : Organization: NYC, Third Planet From the Sun : : This is a heavily annotated book. : : Massive domestic spying by the NSA. : : Including our phone calls. : : * "The Secret War Against the Jews" : * Authors: John Loftus and Mark Aarons : * 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 c |