open letter to misc.kids.moderated readers
Rat...@misc.kids.moderated
as payers, payees, and
* intermediaries. This type of arrangement would allow NSA computers
* to use keyword monitoring to scan for any names in which they were
* interested.
! FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, Senate Judiciary Committee, June 4, 1997
!
! NOT THAT LONG AGO, NO ONE PERCEIVED THAT TELEPHONE SYSTEMS COULD BECOME
! UNTAPPABLE, THE NECESSITY FOR STRONG PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN LOCAL, STATE,
! FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IS MORE URGENT.
* Electronic Privacy Information Center, http://www.epic.org
*
* "As a means of espionage, writs of assistance and general warrants
* are but puny instruments of tyranny and oppression when compared
* with wiretapping." ---Mr. Justice Brandeis, 277 U.S. 438 (6/4/1928)
*
*
* European Union and FBI launch a global surveillance system
* -------- ----- --- --- ------ - ------ ------------ ------
*
* The EU, in cooperation of the FBI of the USA, is launching a system of
* global surveillance of communications to combat "serious crime" and to
* protect "national security".
*
* But to do this they are creating a system which can monitor everyone
* and everything.
*
* At the first meeting of the new Council of Justice and Home Affairs
* Ministers in Brussels on 29-30 November 1993 they adopted the following
* Resolution on "the interception of telecommunications" which speaks for
* itself and reproduced here in full:
*
# CONFIDENTIAL MEMO
#
# "COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON THE INTERCEPTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS"
#
# The Council:
#
# 1) calls upon the expert group to compare the requirements of the Member
# States of the Union with those of the FBI;
#
# 2) agrees that the requirements of the Member States of the Unio
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Ja...@misc.kids.moderated
to include a
* purpose of payment in all messages, as well as payers, payees, and
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Mor...@misc.kids.moderated
*
* 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 funding by the Communist Party, U.S.A."
Well, Reagan didn't like a peaceful Texas based 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 Voi
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La...@misc.kids.moderated
safety and national
security'.
: * "Above the Law"
: * ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
: * by David Burnham
: *
: * The suspicion that the government might one day try to outlaw any
: * encryption device which did not provide easy government access was
: * reinforced by comments made by FBI Director Freeh at a 1994 Washington
: * conference on cryptography. "The objective for us is to get those
: * conversations...wherever they are, whatever they are", he said in
: * response to a question.
: *
: * Freeh indicated that if five years from now the FBI had solved the
: * access problem but was only hearing encrypted messages, further
: * legislation might be required.
: *
: * The obvious solution: a federal law prohibiting the use of any
: * cryptographic device that did not provide government access.
: *
: * Freeh's hints that the government might have to outlaw certain kinds
: * of coding devices gradually became more explicit. "The drug cartels
: * are buying sophisticated communications equipment", he told Congress.
: * "Unless the encryption issue is RESOLVED soon, criminal conversations
: * over the telephone and other communicat
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Pi...@misc.kids.moderated
followed the Attorney General's request.
Other Federal and state government officials were SHOCKED that
it passed and made angry noises and tried to interfere.
* The New York Times, Aug 29 1996, Ventura, California, By Katharine Seelye
* "Dole Criticizes Clinton as Lax On a Policy to Combat Drugs"
*
* Dole, speaking out against Proposition 215, which would allow marijuana
* to be used as medicine: "If somebody, say from Mexico or any other country,
* aimed a missile at California, you would do something about it. And they're
* aiming millions and millions of missiles right at these young people right
* here, whether it's a needle, whether it's a cigarette, whatever the delivery
* system is. It's poison [at least it's not paraquat!], and it's got to stop
* in America. My view is that drugs are wrong, you shouldn't use drugs, you
* shouldn't smoke cigarettes---let's just throw them all out at the same
* time."
*
* Mr. Dole later qualified his remarks: "I didn't say anything about
* cigarettes." [what???]
Proposition 215 passed into law.
It was a major repudiation of Drug War hysteria.
A major repudiation of the Schedule I Substances classification of marijuana.
DEA: "Drugs
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