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Subject: FBI dogs and morons spying without being able to see

Date: Jan 26, 2008 6:35 AM

[ELLIOT COHEN ARTICLE BELOW]

The fact of the matter is, you can't call the FBI and walk them
through a crime,
over the phone, because they don't have access to the internet. I
tried again
yesterday. The FBI in New Haven did not have access to the internet
so that I could
show them the fact that David Volkman flat out called Henry Feder,
UConn, Yale,
and New York Medical College, LIARS and FRAUDS.

Note how important that would be to the FBI or the USDOJ as a witness
against these
criminals?
http://www.actionlyme.org/USDOJ_COMPLAINT_RICO.htm

So we wonder, what is this really all about, if the FBI are such
incompetent morons,
you can't walk them through a simple thing like:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/358/4/428
David Volkman said the Lyme cabal (UConn, Kaiser-NYMC-Yale, the www.
ALDF.com Inc
ARE LYING ABOUT EVERYTHING, and that he and Ray Dattwyler proved it:


"To the Editor: *** The article by Feder et al. on the proper therapy
of chronic
Lyme disease addresses a very timely concern. Unfortunately, the
authors' statement
that there are no "scientific data" that support persistent B.
burgdorferi
infection in the face of negative serologic test results is erroneous.
In 1988,
we reported on 17 patients who had all had erythema migrans, received
inadequate
antibiotic therapy, had vigorous T-cell blastogenesis to borrelia
antigens, and
were seronegative on the basis of enzyme-linked immunoassay.1,2 The
majority of
these patients had improvement after definitive antibiotic
therapy.**** Seronegative
infection was confirmed by other laboratories using polymerase-chain-
reaction (PCR)
assays to document the presence of microbes in seronegative patients.
3,4 Abrogation
of a humoral response by removal of the bulk of microbial antigens has
been seen
in other settings, including infection with Treponema pallidum.
Although the use
of repeated courses of antibiotics for a putative borrelia infection
is unsupported
and may cause serious morbidity,5 persons with evidence of previously
inadequately
treated Lyme disease may be seronegative and may benefit from adequate
antibiotic
therapy. Fortunately, erythema migrans is now more readily recognized,
and occult
Lyme disease is rarer. In the absence of antibiotic treatment, most
persons become
seropositive."

David J. Volkman, M.D., Ph.D.
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794

=========

He, David Volkman said the Lyme cabal is lying about EVERYTHING, and
that he and
Ray Dattwyler proved it.

The FBI and USDOJ are dangerously stupid.

KMDickson
====================

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/25/6625/
Published on Friday, January 25, 2008 by TruthDig.com
The End of Privacy
by Elliot Cohen

Amid the controversy brewing in the Senate over Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance
Act (FISA) reform, the Bush administration appears to have changed its
strategy
and is devising a bold new plan that would strip away FISA protections
in favor
of a system of wholesale government monitoring of every American's
Internet activities.
Now the national director of intelligence is predicting a disastrous
cyber-terrorist
attack on the U.S. if this scheme isn't instituted.

It is no secret that the Bush administration has already been spying
on the e-mail,
voice-over-IP, and other Internet exchanges between American citizens
since as early
as and possibly earlier than Sept. 11, 2001. The National Security
Agency has set
up shop in the hubs of major telecom corporations, notably AT&T,
installing
equipment that makes copies of the contents of all Internet traffic,
routing it
to a government database and then using natural language parsing
technology to sift
through and analyze the data using undisclosed search criteria. It has
done this
without judicial oversight and obviously without the consent of the
millions of
Americans under surveillance. Given any rational interpretation of the
Fourth Amendment,
its mass spying operation is illegal and unconstitutional.

But now the administration wants to make these illegal activities
legal. And why
is that? According to National Director of Intelligence Mike
McConnell, who is now
drafting the proposal, an attack on a single U.S. bank by the 9/11
terrorists would
have had a far more serious impact on the U.S. economy than the
destruction of the
Twin Towers. "My prediction is that we're going to screw around with
this until
something horrendous happens," said McConnell. So the way to prevent
this from happening,
he claims, is to give the government the power to spy at will on the
content of
all e-mails, file transfers and Web searches.

McConnell's prediction of something "horrendous" happening unless we
grant government
this authority has a tone similar to that of the fear-mongering call
to arms against
terrorism that President Bush sounded before taking us to war in Iraq.
Now, Americans
are about to be asked to surrender their Fourth Amendment rights
because of a vague
and unsupported prediction of the dangers and costs of cyber-
terrorism.

The analogy with the campaign to frighten us into war with Iraq gets
even stronger
when it becomes evident that along with the establishing of American
forces in Iraq,
the cyber-security McConnell is calling for was, all along, part of
the strategic
plan, devised by Dick Cheney and several other present and former high-
level Bush
administration officials, to establish America as the world's supreme
superpower.
This plan, known as the Project for the New American Century,
unequivocally recognized
"an imperative" for government to not only secure the Internet against
cyber-attacks
but also to control and use it offensively against its adversaries.
The Project
for the New American Century also maintained that "the process of
transformation"
it envisioned (which included the militarization and control of the
Internet) was
"likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing
event-like a new
Pearl Harbor." All that appears to be lacking to make the analogy
complete is the
"horrendous" cyber-attack-the chilling analog of the 9/11 attacks-that
McConnell
now predicts.

Apparently, the Bush administration had hoped to continue its mass
surveillance
program in secret, but as many as 40 civil suits were filed against
AT&T and
other telecoms, threatening to blow the government's illegal spying
activities wide
open. Unable to have these cases dismissed in appellate court by once
again playing
the national-security card, the administration drafted and tried to
push through
Congress a version of the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 that gave
retroactive immunity
to telecom corporations for their assistance in helping the government
spy en mass
on Americans without a court warrant. The administration's plan was to
use Congress'
passage of this provision of immunity to nullify any cause of civil
action against
the telecoms, thereby pre-empting the exposure of the administration's
own illegal
activities.

Two versions of the FISA bill emerged, one from the Senate
Intelligence Committee
drafted largely by Cheney himself, which contained the immunity
provision, and another
from the Senate Judiciary Committee that did not contain the
provision. Although
Senate Majority leader Harry Reid inauspiciously chose the former to
bring to the
Senate floor, the bill was surrounded by much controversy. There had
been well organized
grass-roots pressure to stop it from passing, and the House had
already passed a
version that did not include the retroactive immunity provision. Thus,
in the face
of a filibuster threat by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Reid postponed
the discussion
until the January 2008 session.

Now Reid has tried to put off the FISA Amendments Act once again by
asking Republicans
to extend, for one more month, the Protect America Act of 2007, an
interim FISA
reform act that is due to sunset in February. However, Cheney has
urged Congress
to pass his version of the FISA Amendments Act now. "We can always
revisit a law
that's on the books. That's part of the job of the elected branches of
government,"
Cheney said. "But there is no sound reason to pass critical
legislation ... and slap
an expiration date on it."

Cheney's point about the possibility of later revisiting the FISA
Amendments Act
after it becomes law may foreshadow replacing it in the coming months
with a law
based on McConnell's plan, which is due to emerge in February. This
would mark a
gradual descent into divesting Americans entirely of their Fourth
Amendment right
to privacy-first by blocking their ability to sue the telecoms for
violating their
privacy and then by giving the government the same legal protection.
After all,
the FISA Amendments Act still requires the government to get warrants
for spying
on American citizens even if it does not afford adequate judicial
oversight in enforcing
this mandate. McConnell's proposal, on the other hand, would make no
bones about
spying on Americans without warrants, thereby contradicting any
meaningful FISA
reform.

President Bush has already made clear he would veto any FISA bill that
did not give
retroactive immunity to the telecoms. However, if McConnell's soon to
be unveiled
spy-at-will plan is turned into law, a separate law giving retroactive
immunity
to the telecoms would be unnecessary. All Bush and Cheney would need
to do to protect
themselves from criminal liability would be to make the new spy-at-
will law retroactive
in effect from the inception of the illegal NSA surveillance program.
This would
also be sufficient to deflate the civil suits filed against the
telecoms because
the past illegal spying activities that these companies conducted on
behalf of the
government would then become "legal." Indeed, the Bush administration
has already
done this sort of legal retro-dating and nullifying of civil rights
and gotten it
through Congress. For example, the Military Commissions Act of 2006
conveniently
gave Bush the power to decide whether someone-including himself-is
guilty of torture,
irrespective of the Geneva Conventions, and it made this authority
retroactive to
Nov. 26, 1997.

Whatever the final disposition of FISA in the coming weeks or months,
the administration
is now bracing to take a much more aggressive posture that would seek
abridgement
of civil liberties in its usual fashion: by fear-mongering and
warnings that our
homeland will be attacked by terrorists (this time of the menacing
hacker variety)
unless we the people surrender our Fourth Amendment right to privacy
and give government
the authority to inspect even our most personal and intimate messages.

It would be a mistake to underestimate the resolve of the Bush
administration. But
it would be a bigger mistake for Americans not to stand united against
this familiar
pattern of government scare tactics and manipulation. There are grave
dangers to
the survival of democracy posed by allowing any present or future
government unfettered
access to all of our private electronic communications. These dangers
must be carefully
weighed against the dubious and unproven benefits that granting such
an awesome
power to government might have on fending off cyber-attacks.

Elliot D. Cohen, PhD, is a media ethicist and critic. His most recent
book is "The
Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-Hungry Government Are
Turning America
Into a Dictatorship." He is a first-prize winner of the 2007 Project
Censored Award.

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