From: Pubkeybreaker on
group called CISPES, which
was against the United States' support of the El Salvador government.

The El Salvador government was torturing and killing people.

* "Officers held in Salvador Abductions", By James LeMoyne, NYT, 4/25/86
*
* One of those arrested was accused of killing the head of the Salvadoran
* Land Reform Institute and two AMERICAN agrarian advisors.

So the FBI had one of their agents infiltrate CISPES using a Frank
Varelli, who was born in San Salvador and served in the U.S. Army.

# "How the FBI infiltrated CISPES and Assisted the Salvadoran Right Wing"
# By James Ridgeway, The Village Voice, NYC
#
# Varelli met with the Salvadoran National Guard, best known for its
# death squads. They gave him a "hit list" of people they wanted.
#
# When the INS stopped a Salvadoran immigrant, it would call the FBI and
# check the name against the list.
#
# If the detained person's name was on the list, the INS would institute
# deportation proceedings, opposing bail on "national security" grounds.
#
# Varelli would call the Salvadoran National Guard to let them know the
# individual was on his way home. In this way, the FBI assisted, over a
# three-year period, the work of the Salvadoran death squads.

That's right: the FBI murders people.

* "FBI Killed Unarmed Man, Inquiry Shows", The New York Times, 1/14/97
*
* A 21-year-old murder suspect who the FBI said they shot only after he
* opened fire on them, was unarmed when he was killed.
*
* A spokesman for the FBI, Ann Todd, declined to discuss the discrepancy
* between the FBI's initial report that Mr. Byrd had shot at


From: fortune.bruce on
less crime.
*
* In a May 1994 speech to the American Law Institute Freeh made an
* IMPASSIONED plea on behalf of a controversial change in the nation's
* wiretap law that he was then trying to persuade Congress to approve.
*
* "If you think crime is bad now," he warned the assembled lawyers, "just
* wait and see what happens if the FBI one day is no longer able to conduct
* court-approved electronic surveillance."

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WE ARE NOW AT AN HISTORICAL CROSSROAD ON THE ENCRYPTION ISSUE.

THE SAFETY OF ALL AMERICANS [is at stake].

ANY SOLUTION THAT IGNORES THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND
NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS RISK GRAVE HARM TO BOTH.

Louis Freeh is lying.

* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* The FBI attributes to wiretaps less than three percent of all judgements.
* Thus the FBI assertion that electronic surveillance is essential to
* investigating crime and nabbing spies and terrorists cannot be taken
* at face value.

Monitoree John DeLorean sends his regards.

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From: quasi on
-1987)


* [NJ] The Star-Ledger, Friday, January 29, 1988
*
* The documents, released Wednesday, showed that the original target of the
* FBI probe was CISPES, but that the investigation broadened to include
* more than 100 other groups that opposed Reagan administration policy in
* Nicaragua and El Salvador.
*
* Despite the long investigation, no criminal charges were ever brought
* against any of the groups or their members.
*
* An FBI statement issued Wednesday said the agency only investigated
* suspected crimes, not political beliefs or constitutionally protected
* freedom of speech.
*
* Oliver Revell, the FBI's executive assistant director, said that the
* FBI did not investigate CISPES because of its political activities,
* but for a "wide range of possible crimes."


% The New York Times, Thursday, February 4, 1988
% "Reagan Backs FBI Over Surveillance"
%
% President Reagan is satisfied that the Federal Bureau of Investigation
% conducted a proper surveillance campaign against groups opposed to his
% policies in Central America, the White House said today.
%
% The new FBI Director William S. Sessions assured Reagan that there was
% a solid basis for the investigation: "We knew CISPES was established
%


From: Pubkeybreaker on
out
* interception orders in order to fight organized crime and for the
* protection of national security.
*
* Interception of telecommunications should reach all the way down
* to the design stage of the equipment.
*
* The next generation of satellite-based telecommunications systems
* should be able to "tag" each individual subscriber in view of a
* possibly necessary surveillance activity. All the new systems have
* to have the capability to place all individuals under surveillance.
*
HA Unfortunately, initial contacts with various consortia...has met with
HA the most diverse reactions, ranging from great willingness to
HA cooperate on the one hand, to an almost total refusal even to discuss
HA the question.
*
* It is very urgent for governments and/or legislative institutions to
* make the new consortia aware of their duties. The government will
* also have to create new regulations for international cooperation
* so that the necessary surveillance will be able to operate.


# "Made in America?", Wired Magazine, June 1997
#
# Japan's Justice Ministry is rallying support for an anticrime bill that
# would give police extensive wiretap powers---a major departure given the
# country's constitutional guarantees for "secrecy of any means of communi-
# cations." According to activist Toshimaru Ogura, Japanese cops are
# modeling their proposals on US wiretap law, specificall


From: Gerry Myerson on
employees would go to jail for ten years for describing the effectiveness
of DICTIONARY's keyword monitoring.

I am not an NSA employee.

I wrote it myself.


> P48, "Secret Power", by Nicky Hager
> The best set of keywords for each subject category is worked out over time,
> in part by experimentation.
>
> The staff sometimes trial a particular set of keywords for a period of time
> and, if they find they are getting too much 'junk', they can change some
> words to get a different selection of traffic.
>
> The Dictionary Manager administers the sets of keywords in the Dictionary
> computers, adding, amending and deleting as required.
>
> This is the person who adds the new keyword for the watch list, deletes a
> keyword from another because it is not triggering interesting messages,
> or adds a 'but not *****' to a category because it has been receiving too
> many irrelevant messages and a lot of them contain that word.

Wow, people whose only job is to edit the keywords.

What a cushy job!

What I can imagine accomplishing with billions of dollars of support, instead
of just little ol' me doing everything, is a truly nightmarish vision.


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