James Bamford, 1983 revision
*
* P229: "There's your smoking pistol right here." Watters says it is tied
* into the local telephone company circuits, which are interconnected with
* the national microwave telephone system owned by AT&T. Other specialists
* testified to the same thing: purely domestic intercepts.
I would say a MINIMUM of 100 million purely domestic U.S. conversations
are run through NSA keyword monitoring each year.
And who is listening to all our court authorized conversations?
* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* Under a little-noticed section of a 1986 law, Congress dropped the
* requirement that only the FBI's high-priced Special Agents could
* listen to the tapes. The FBI now hires low-cost clerks for what must
* be extremely tedious work.
An army of low-cost clerks are listening to our private conversations?
I feel sick.
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Conclusion: Louis Freeh is a manipulative liar.
Louis Freeh is a Scary Man with the morals of a styrofoam cup.
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National ID Card
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* C-SPAN Congressional Television: outside coming down the Senate building's
* steps, Senator Biden with Senator Simpson in tow proclaims: "What's wrong
* with a National ID Card? It's the same tired old arguments against it."
As if sane people shouldn't be paranoid about a National ID Card.
* "New Rules Mean Job-Hunters Need Proof of Identity", The New York Times
*
* Passports, driver's licenses, Social Security cards or birth certificates
* will be allowed to serve as identity papers.
*
* A 1982 proposal to catch illegal ali
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