open letter to alt.toys.transformers.classic.moderated readers
Isab...@alt.toys.transformers.classic.moderated
's former subordinate Michael Kahoe admitted he destroyed key
* documents on the Ruby Ridge assault. The Justice department reports
* documents were destroyed and missing. "We are troubled by the apparent
* lack of a system to preserve such critical records."
*
* The Justice Department, in a March 18, 1993 memo stated, "the FBI's
* intransigence appears to EMANATE from Larry Potts level OR ABOVE."
Larry Potts was a buddy of Louis Freeh. Within the FBI, these special
people are called "FOL" - Friends of Louie. [NYT 5/11/97]
Janet Reno (who had veto power over the promotion) testified what happened
at Ruby Ridge wasn't enough to cause her to veto the promotion, foreshadowing
her actions at Waco.
After two months, controversy (as opposed to events) over Potts' role in
Ruby Ridge prompted Freeh to remove him from the position, to politically
cover his own tush.
Potts and four other top FBI officials have been suspended while a federal
criminal probe investigates the destruction of documents related to the
incident.
A total of twelve agents were disciplined. None have yet been prosecuted.
The Federal government subsequently named after a U.S. Marshal who was
killed, but who also shot Randy Weaver's son dead in the back: a new
Marshals training center.
The Federal government's behavior in the incident can only be described as
sickening: targeting a citizen (a veteran, no less) who
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Rob...@alt.toys.transformers.classic.moderated
had broken into her Detroit office and
# stolen a mailing list, several files and two books. [snip]
#
# A free-lance journalist has brought a suit in Federal District Court
# charging that when he returned from Nicaragua the Customs Bureau detained
# him until FBI agents came and seized his diary and address book.
#
# The FBI admitted to interviewing more than 100 people who visited
# Nicaragua, but said they were acting under Presidential Executive Order.
#
# Two women have come forward to complain the IRS audited them IMMEDIATELY
# AFTER RETURNING FROM NICARAGUA.
#
# The IRS denied it had anything to do with political views: "One woman has
# never earned more than 12,000 a year, and we found that suspicious."
FBI director Sessions ended up apologizing BIG TIME on C-SPAN,
saying that sort of thing would NEVER happen again. "We have put
procedures in place so that that will NEVER happen again".
But, after having been granted the special powers of the court by
Congress, noone was arrested and tried fo
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Ch...@alt.toys.transformers.classic.moderated
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 personnel with the British
: * government
: *
: * His innocuous few sentences threatened to disclose a larger truth.
: *
: * By the 1960s the "temporary" British personnel at Fort Meade had
: * become a permanent fixture. The British enjoyed continued access
: * to the greatest listening post in the world.
: *
: * The NSA is a giant vacuum cleaner. It sucks in every form of
: * electronic communication. from telephone calls to telegrams,
: * across the United
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Wil...@alt.toys.transformers.classic.moderated
box' - a simpleton tone device that can fool
telco computers into making free calls even though the same computers
spot its usage:
> In the words of Ed Cummings, "I was forced to make a deal with the devil."
>
> The government had found data on a commercial diskette in his possession
> which they say was related to cellular fraud in California. While Ed says
> he has no idea what it is they're referring to, the odds of a jury being
> able to understand how someone could have a diskette and not be held
> accountable for every bit of data on it seemed uncomfortably slim.
>
> Also, by pleading guilty at this point and in this manner, Bernie will be
> sentenced in 10 days and will most likely be released at that time since
> he has already served the time he would probably be sentenced to.
>
> Of course, the down side to this is the fact that the federal government
> will interpret this as a green light to lock up anyone in possession of
> simple electronic and/or computer tools. And, as has been so aptly
> demonstrated by the Ed Cummings case, if they choose to treat the suspect
> as a terrorist and lock him/her up for six months with no bail, they won't
> have much of a problem finding a judge willing to do this.
>
> Sentencing took place on October 10 and Ed Cummings was sentenced to
> seven months in federal prison. The seven month period ended 4 days later.
Okay, so he pled guilty to having a red box, and was sentenced to time served.
Bad enough that any of that happened in the first place.
Now comes the extra vile persecution part...
Three months later, Cummings was in court on violation of probation charges,
because of
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Ne...@alt.toys.transformers.classic.moderated
Internet. And endless amount of this material left the firm.
I caught Internal Audit alone transferring proprietary/confidential
material three times.
********** begin excerpt from 'Corruption at Salomon Brothers' **********
*****************************************************************************
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SECURITY INCIDENT REPORT, 8/25/96
--INTERNAL AUDIT: Fred Hamburger--
HOSTNAMES / USERNAMES / PASSWORDS
SALOMON INTERNAL DOCUMENTATION
---------------------------------
This is a security incident report regarding the Internet (a public wire)
traffic of Salomon Brothers, which is monitored for security/compliance.
Internal Audit member Fred Hamburger has repeatedly transferred passwords
to Salomon systems over the unprotected Internet, one system is a Yield
Book system, and also transferred a highly detailed internal document on
'EMERGING MARKETS DEBT WHOLE LOANS SUPPORT PROCEDURES' to an individual's
external ISP (Internet) account.
: *********************************
: Filename: Aug_22_96/dfAA09397 Size: 51729, Dated: Aug 22 15:25
: Sender: fhamburger@rocky
: Recipient: smys...@ix.netcom.com
: Subject: PSOPROC.DOC
: **** UUencoding, Filename='PSOPROC.DOC'
:
: Some of the procedures you wanted information on are documented here.
:
: Fred.
: *********************************
:
: Microsoft Word 6.0 Document
: Salomon Internal Audit#H:\AUDITOR\AB12345\WORD\PSOPROC.DOC
:
: EMERGING MARKETS DEBT WHOLE LOANS
: SUPPORT PROCEDURES
:
: Fred Hamburger
:
: EMERGING MARKETS DEBT LDC LOANS
:
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