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From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 19:42 (CALEA). The NSA helped # sculpt CALEA's language, which begs the question: Is Japan's wiretap bill # another one of the NSA's covert operations? * "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe * http://www.aci.net/kalliste * * The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is the government * corporation that insures deposits at U.S. member banks. The FDIC * improvement act of 1991 required the FDIC to study the costs and * feasibility of tracking every bank deposit in the U.S. * * The notion was it was necessary to compute bank deposit insurance * requirements in real time. * * Not everyone thought this was a good idea. The American Bankers' * Association noted it was inconceivable that such data would "be * used only by the FDIC in deposit insurance coverage functions." * * Even though the FDIC argued against it, FinCEN then proposed in * its draft report to Congress in June 1993 a "Deposit Tracking * System" (DTS) that would also track deposits to, or withdrawals * from
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 18:34 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 monitor HUGE amounts of our phone calls. And when the judiciary found out about NSA monitoring U.S. citizens' overseas telephone calls without a warrant: they approved the loss of our Fourth Amendment rights. Giving Presidential Directives the same force of law as the Constitution. Congress has lost it too. * The New York Times, undated * * The House is not expected to vote on the search-and-seizure bill until * at least Wednesday. But tonight the Republicans defeated a Democratic * amendment that SIMPLY REITERATED THE WORDS OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT OF * THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. * * The vote was 303 to 121. * * The Democrats were trying to portray the Republicans as wanting to * eliminate the constitutional protection against unlawful searches. * * Indeed, they cornered the Republicans into saying that the measure * containing the Fourth Amendment would gut the seizure bill. Just what is
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 19:37 was enough to justify the seizure. [ We have Federal laws against terminating someone's benefits based solely (automatically by computer) on "computer matching" hits of possible ineligibility. But NOTHING to protect us from this nearly IDENTICAL use of computer data to terminate "benefits". ] * To the government, the question of whether the money had been legally * earned or was the product of a nefarious drug sale was of no concern. * * Maybe worse than the nebulous structuring provision is a feature of the * same group of laws that places the burden of proof on the victim. In * other words, rather than the government having to prove that Alvarez * had violated the statute before it seized his money, Alvarez had to * prove that he was innocent of any wrongdoing before he could get it * back. Further adding to the profound unfairness of the seizure process * is an incredible provision that anyone who wants to challenge an action, * who wants his day in court, must file a bond with the government of * either $5000 or 10 percent of the value of the seized property. Alvarez * had to borrow the money from his credit cards. * * The Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathon R. Howden, flooded by financial * statements by Alvarez's defense attorney (who was a retired career * criminal investigator with the IRS), admitted he would not take the * case to court. That step took seven months. * * However, Howden made an astonishing attempt to keep half of the $88,000 * the government had seized from Alvarez's bank account. Howden offered * Alvarez two options: settle the matter by agreeing to a 50 percen
From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 20:14 granted the special powers of the court by Congress, noone was arrested and tried for this MASSIVE abuse of power, which was granted by Congress in the good faith that the government would not trade off the Bill of Rights in order to pursue political objectives. It was a worst-case disaster. Even after investigating, Congress basically yawned: "The CISPES case was an aberration, it was lower-level FBI employees who got carried away by their national security mandate. It was not politically motivated" --- The Senate Select Intelligence Committee. * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * ...something much more sinister was at work. In his carefully documented * analysis of the CISPES matter, 'Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: the * Covert War Against the Central American Movement', Boston writer Ross * Gelbspan argues that a much more extensive conspiracy may have been at * work. Far from being a low-level operation, Gelbspan reports, hundreds * of documents in the CISPES file had been initialed by Oliver "Buck" * Revell, then the number two official in the FBI. [Further evidence * implicates the CIA] Congress is unable to investigate the FBI, let alone the NSA. # "U.S. Recruited Ex-Rebel Despite Links to Deaths, Report Says" # By Tim Golden, The New York Times, January 21, 1997 # # A former Salvadoran guerrilla commander was recruited by American officials # as a paid informer and allowed to resettle in the United States despite # intelligence information from half a dozen rebels that he had planned a # 1985 attack in El Salvador in which SIX AMERICANS and seven others were # killed, newly released Government reports show. It doesn't matter to our gove
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 20:30
Set it up, push a button, check search results. I picked up so many people in 'resume condition' at Salomon, they ended up saying they didn't need that report: "We know current conditions." * "Secret Power", by Nicky Hager * * P125 The main computer systems are UNIX-based. So is my code!!! Runs under SunOS/Solaris UNIX on a Sun Microsystems SPARC 5 or SPARC 10. Small world, in so many ways, ain't it? : ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- : Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, : tcmay(a)got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero : W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, : Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. : "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." If you put the same fixed text in your traffic to trigger "noise" pickup: it is put into the exclusion logic. Don't bother. Of course, if you are Cypherpunk Tim M |