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Victory for Justice for Colombia!
GEORGETOWN STUDENTS SERVE URIBE SUBPOENA TO SPEAK UNDER OATH ABOUT PARAMILITARY TIES
Last week, students at Georgetown University in Washington, DC succeeded in serving Colombia's ex-president Álvaro Uribe with a subpoena to testify about paramilitary ties in Colombia. The Adios Uribe Coalition has campaigned since September to get Georgetown to drop Uribe as a 'Distinguished Scholar'. Following a rally at Georgetown's Red Square of over 100 students, teacher and activists, former SOA Watch Prisoner of Conscience (serving 6 months in a federal prison in 2003) and current Georgetown law student Charity Ryerson served Álvaro Uribe with a subpoena, directing him to testify under oath in a case against Drummond Mining Company.
The importance of this action cannot be overstated. Uribe will have to talk about his knowledge of paramilitary collusion with the transnational Drummond and with the Colombian Armed Forces. Drummond is being sued by close to 500 families of victims of paramilitary terror, who claim that the coal company worked with the Colombian paramilitaries to murder, torture and disappear their loved ones. Augusto Jiménez, the president of Drummond in Colombia, is a distant relative of Álvaro Uribe.
Under the regime of Álvaro Uribe, close to 35,000 Colombians were killed, with thousands being presented as guerrilla fighters killed in combat. He has been accused of wiretapping his political opponents, attacking social movements and many in his party have been tied to the paramilitary infrastructure. While the Jesuits have been outspoken defenders of the poor and the marginalized in Latin America, Georgetown University continues to try to clean the image of Uribe by employing him as an academic. SOA Watch remembers the thousands of disappeared, displaced and massacred in Colombia and across the Américas, and calls on Georgetown to drop Uribe.
Colombia, ¡PRESENTE!
Adios Uribe Coalition webpage: uribe-georgetown.org
Drummonds Dark Ties to Uribe:
www.soaw.org/category-table/3549-drummonds-dark-ties-to-u...
Stand up for justice: SOAW.org/take-action/november-vigil
The Watergate complex is a group of five buildings next to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. in the United States. The 10-acre (40,000 m2) site contains an office building, three apartment buildings, and a hotel-office building. Construction was delayed for several months while the developer, government officials, and others debated the appropriateness of the complex's architectural style and height. Construction began in August 1963, and, after additional controversy over the height and siting of the fifth building, was completed in January 1971. Considered one of Washington's most desirable living spaces, the Watergate has been popular with members of Congress and political appointees in the executive branch since it opened. The complex has been sold several times since the 1980s. In the 1990s it was split up and its component buildings and parts of buildings were sold to various owners.
In 1972, the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, then located on the sixth floor of the Watergate Hotel and Office Building, were burglarized, documents were photographed, and telephones were wiretapped. The investigation into the burglary revealed that high officials in the Nixon administration had ordered the break-in and then tried to cover up their involvement. Additional crimes were also uncovered. The ensuing Watergate Scandal, named for the complex, led to the resignation of Nixon on August 9, 1974. The name "Watergate" and the suffix "-gate" have since become synonymous with political scandals in the United States and in other English- and non-English-speaking nations as well.
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Victory for Justice for Colombia!
GEORGETOWN STUDENTS SERVE URIBE SUBPOENA TO SPEAK UNDER OATH ABOUT PARAMILITARY TIES
Last week, students at Georgetown University in Washington, DC succeeded in serving Colombia's ex-president Álvaro Uribe with a subpoena to testify about paramilitary ties in Colombia. The Adios Uribe Coalition has campaigned since September to get Georgetown to drop Uribe as a 'Distinguished Scholar'. Following a rally at Georgetown's Red Square of over 100 students, teacher and activists, former SOA Watch Prisoner of Conscience (serving 6 months in a federal prison in 2003) and current Georgetown law student Charity Ryerson served Álvaro Uribe with a subpoena, directing him to testify under oath in a case against Drummond Mining Company.
The importance of this action cannot be overstated. Uribe will have to talk about his knowledge of paramilitary collusion with the transnational Drummond and with the Colombian Armed Forces. Drummond is being sued by close to 500 families of victims of paramilitary terror, who claim that the coal company worked with the Colombian paramilitaries to murder, torture and disappear their loved ones. Augusto Jiménez, the president of Drummond in Colombia, is a distant relative of Álvaro Uribe.
Under the regime of Álvaro Uribe, close to 35,000 Colombians were killed, with thousands being presented as guerrilla fighters killed in combat. He has been accused of wiretapping his political opponents, attacking social movements and many in his party have been tied to the paramilitary infrastructure. While the Jesuits have been outspoken defenders of the poor and the marginalized in Latin America, Georgetown University continues to try to clean the image of Uribe by employing him as an academic. SOA Watch remembers the thousands of disappeared, displaced and massacred in Colombia and across the Américas, and calls on Georgetown to drop Uribe.
Colombia, ¡PRESENTE!
Adios Uribe Coalition webpage: uribe-georgetown.org
Drummonds Dark Ties to Uribe:
www.soaw.org/category-table/3549-drummonds-dark-ties-to-u...
Stand up for justice: SOAW.org/take-action/november-vigil
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
In Mussolini's Italy, in Nazi Germany, in communist East Germany, in communist China - in every closed society - secret police spy on ordinary people and encourage neighbours to spy on neighbours. The Stasi needed to keep only a minority of East Germans under surveillance to convince a majority that they themselves were being watched.
In 2005 and 2006, when James Risen and Eric Lichtblau wrote in the New York Times about a secret state programme to wiretap citizens' phones, read their emails and follow international financial transactions, it became clear to ordinary Americans that they, too, could be under state scrutiny.
In closed societies, this surveillance is cast as being about "national security"; the true function is to keep citizens docile and inhibit their activism and dissent.
Warrantless wiretapping in place before 9/11.
Wiretapping in America: The Moment of Decision Is Near
Feds appeal ruling against wiretap program
Government moves to delay judge’s order calling for halt to program
The lens is disguised as a button. The camera is hidden under a coat and operated by a shutter release cable. It dates from the 1950s–60s. On the shelf below is a toolkit for installing bugs and wiretaps and suchlike.
Just got word that our bit will be on Wiretap (CBC Radio 1), Sunday @ 1pm. Give me that turkey!
Update: The episode in question is now online at odeo.com/episodes/23768651-WireTap-20081214-Meet-The-New-...
Open hand raised, Stop Wiretapping sign painted, multi purpose concept - isolated on white background
Stuart “Stew” Albert burns a subpoena on the New Haven Green May 21, 1971 that summoned him to appear before a grand jury investigating a conspiracy to bomb banks in New York.
Albert was a prominent Yippie and one-time editor of the Berkley Barb, an alternative California newspaper, who was in New Haven for the murder trial of Panther leaders Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins. Days later after a jury voted 10-2 for acquittal of Huggins and 11-1 for acquittal of Seale, the judge dismissed the case against the two
Albert said the grand jury was an attempt to link him to the bombing at the U.S. Capitol that had taken place March 1, 1971.
The FBI blamed some of the antiwar organizers of the Mayday demonstrations conducted in Washington, D.C. May 1-5 for the blast, specifically Stew Albert, Judy Gumbo and Leslie Bacon.
Bacon was arrested and spirited out of Washington, D.C. where she was held incommunicado for six weeks until her attorneys secured her release after her refusal to testify before a Grand Jury.
The U.S. Court of Appeals later voided contempt charges against her after the government refused to turn over transcripts of illegal wiretaps.
Albert ultimately appeared before the grand jury June 14th along with Walter Teague, James Retherford, Judy Gumbo and Sandra Ward, but all refused to testify.
The so-called Piggy Bank Six were alleged to have plotted to bomb several branches of First National City Bank in Manhattan the previous year.
Albert was also questioned about the Capitol bombing by another grand jury.
Albert, Gumbo and Bacon were not charged in the Capitol bombing and no one was charged in the alleged New York plot either.
In the early 1970s, Albert and Judy Gumbo sued the FBI for planting an illegal wiretap in their house. They won a $20,000 settlement and, in 1978, two FBI supervisors were fired for this action.
Gumbo disclaimed any role for Albert, Bacon and herself and says she was “exultant” when she heard the news, but that they played no part in the bombing.
Weather Underground member Bill Ayers later took credit for the Capitol bombing.
The Weather Underground also planted bombs at the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon in the Washington, D.C. area as well as dozens of other sites across the U.S. mainly in protest of U.S. actions abroad and hoping to spark a revolutionary upsurge in the U.S.
Their bombs were always preceded by telephoned warnings and the only casualties were three of their own that were killed while make explosives in 1969 in New York City.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskgJjpPP
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photo housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Beloved Cousin X
Hey there cousin - how are you?
Cuz’n David
hey
Beloved Cousin X
What are you up today (tonight?)
Cuz’n David
just took a break for web-development to respond to Alternet article
about rock band GodSmack's support of the military
in other words: the usual
you?
you dear??
Beloved Cousin X
flipping out -running around like mad
also - the usual
Cuz’n David
some fun associated with this all?
Beloved Cousin X
Of course!
I was just thinking about you as I attempt to answer an essay
question “What is an essential paradox that defines your life? “
Cuz’n David
wow …great question
i suppose YOUR cant answer: "1000 passions – 1 penis"?
Beloved Cousin X
Ha!!!!
I could translate that a bit...
Cuz’n David
*awaits her version of same*
Beloved Cousin X
1000 penises - too bad I'm married?
Cuz’n David
ROFL
Ah brilliant minds...
Are you are school/work?
Beloved Cousin X
I am at home right now, working on an application for the (please
don't kill me) Miami Ad school boot camp (to take place in Mpls this
summer)
Cuz’n David
got a lot of fun pix to share......will email ya
Beloved Cousin X
Yes - please do
Cuz’n David
"dont kill you"
what is that about??
that PR nightmare you keep considering professionally having?
Beloved Cousin X
I'm thinking about trying my hand at brand planning
Cuz’n David
BRAND THIS MOFO.....
*mooz his cuz!*
Beloved Cousin X
You!
are!
Too!
Funny!
I wish you were here to moon me!
Then you could help me answer another crazy question:
Cuz’n David
ps: www.alternet.org/wiretap/36118/
(last comment: yours T)
*winces and awaits her question*
Beloved Cousin X
Question: “If you had to explain to someone what ain increasing
divorce rate, cable television, the space shutttle challenger
disaster in the 1980's, the populatirty of south parkk and the rise
of IM all have in comon, what would you say? “
Cuz’n David
Answer: hitting of the transpersonal wall of cultural novelty as the
dynamic convergence/divergence tension of so-called "(post)modern"
life goes eschatologically asontotic
Sorry,....you HAD to ask?!
;))
Beloved Cousin X
Hold on... I need to look up 10 of those words in my dictionary.
Will return later...
Cuz’n David
riiiiight
(admits he had to google for 2 spellingz)
Beloved Cousin X
Actually I'm reading your response to the Godsmack article...
Cuz’n David
but really?
Beloved Cousin X
Oh shit...my ride is here... early... must put on bra before leaving
house...
later babe!
Beloved Cousin X disconnected
Cuz’n David
Well then, if only to amuse myself… another stable at your what? MMPI
question there?
... I feel that all of those speak in, one way or another, of the
phantasmagoric magnification of, and fall out from, the ego's endgame
as its number, being soon "up" as it were (er, will be), casts
shadows back in time from some place (not so far off) there at the
upcoming end of history.
Cuz’n David disconnected
Former Department of Justice Attorney Thomas Tamm and Project On Government Oversight Executive Director Danielle Brian. Tamm, who blew the whistle on the Bush administration's warrantless wiretap program, was featured in the documentary War on Whistleblowers. POGO and the DC Labor FilmFest sponsored a screening at the K Street Busboys and Poets.
I was already making more macros of printed circuit boards. This has in the past always worked quite well, but as close as here I am never approached due to the then low depth of field, it lacked the viewer just a lot of information about the board.
In these images, I've done two things differently:
Setup as shown us by Tilo Gockel (Thanks Tilo, cool idea!) Supplemented with slight brightening by a flash with blue gel. So I wanted to make the PCB a bit upbeat.
Then 15-20 photos made with migratory sharpness, which were afterwards rendered with a Stacking software into a single image.
So beautiful can electronic waste be
I find especially the blurry photos quite aesthetically.
Here's some examples (with making-of).
If you want to take a look to my spin doctor, voila: www.flickr.com/photos/galllo/14347373239
A screenshot of my main desktop from April, 2005, featuring a photo of John Taylor, bass player for Duran Duran, edited by me.
Victory for Justice for Colombia!
GEORGETOWN STUDENTS SERVE URIBE SUBPOENA TO SPEAK UNDER OATH ABOUT PARAMILITARY TIES
Last week, students at Georgetown University in Washington, DC succeeded in serving Colombia's ex-president Álvaro Uribe with a subpoena to testify about paramilitary ties in Colombia. The Adios Uribe Coalition has campaigned since September to get Georgetown to drop Uribe as a 'Distinguished Scholar'. Following a rally at Georgetown's Red Square of over 100 students, teacher and activists, former SOA Watch Prisoner of Conscience (serving 6 months in a federal prison in 2003) and current Georgetown law student Charity Ryerson served Álvaro Uribe with a subpoena, directing him to testify under oath in a case against Drummond Mining Company.
The importance of this action cannot be overstated. Uribe will have to talk about his knowledge of paramilitary collusion with the transnational Drummond and with the Colombian Armed Forces. Drummond is being sued by close to 500 families of victims of paramilitary terror, who claim that the coal company worked with the Colombian paramilitaries to murder, torture and disappear their loved ones. Augusto Jiménez, the president of Drummond in Colombia, is a distant relative of Álvaro Uribe.
Under the regime of Álvaro Uribe, close to 35,000 Colombians were killed, with thousands being presented as guerrilla fighters killed in combat. He has been accused of wiretapping his political opponents, attacking social movements and many in his party have been tied to the paramilitary infrastructure. While the Jesuits have been outspoken defenders of the poor and the marginalized in Latin America, Georgetown University continues to try to clean the image of Uribe by employing him as an academic. SOA Watch remembers the thousands of disappeared, displaced and massacred in Colombia and across the Américas, and calls on Georgetown to drop Uribe.
Colombia, ¡PRESENTE!
Adios Uribe Coalition webpage: uribe-georgetown.org
Drummonds Dark Ties to Uribe:
www.soaw.org/category-table/3549-drummonds-dark-ties-to-u...
Stand up for justice: SOAW.org/take-action/november-vigil
Anthony Scoblick talks with his wife, Mary Cain Scoblick, outside the federal building in Harrisburg, Pa. April 30, 1971 after she was indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to blow up government buildings in Washington, D.C. and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.
Anthony Scoblick had already been indicted and was conducting a fast outside the federal building in protest of the government’s use of the grand jury.
Ultimately seven defendants stood accused of conspiring to raid federal offices, to bomb government property, and to kidnap Kissinger in 1971. Prosecutors accused them of planning to use the heating tunnels beneath Washington, D.C. to carry out the plot.
The group was primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
--Partially excerpted from Wikipedia
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm9Xu4r5
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press wire photo obtained via an Internet sale.
I created this logo because of the comments made by Jerry West who prior to Game 1 of the 2010 NBA Finals stated that Kobe is the Best Laker...
See here: realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/66982/20100603/west_tabs_...
So for those of you that don't know... The current NBA Logo is a silhouette of Jerry West in his playing days.
Be careful what you say Mr. West.
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615 Folsom Street, South of Market, San Francisco
built 1972
McCue Boone & Tomsick, archtects
Location of alleged NSA (National Security Agency) tap using a Narus supercomputer for mass-surveillance of national and international telephone and internet communications.
A point of interest in the warrantless-wiretapping scandal.
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After Microsoft acquired Skype, we looked at a Microsoft patent called "Legal Intercept" meant for monitoring and recording VoIP communications. At that time, there were questions about if Microsoft would ruin Skype by making a backdoor for easy spy and pry government and law enforcement access. But a California-based company called VoIP-Pal already had such a surveillance patent that is meant to "allow government agencies to 'silently record' VoIP communications."
The Microsoft patent was filed in December 2009, but a company called Digifonica (International) Limited had filed a similar wiretapping VoIP patent in 2007. Then, in May 2012, VoIP-Pal attained five VoIP patents from the acquisition of Digifonica Gibraltar. One of the five patents is called "Lawful Intercept" and is meant for "intercepting VoIP and other data communications."
According to Infonetics Research, the VoIP services market will grow to 410 million subscribers and will be a $74.5 billion market by 2015. VoIP-Pal quoted that forecasted dollar amount in May when the company successfully beta-tested the newly patented technology on its ground-based server. Then in August, Voip-Pal completed a successful beta test of 'soft switch' VoIP network framework. The company defined Lawful Intercept as:
a revolutionary technology that addresses the national and international demands by governments to enable law agencies the ability to perform scheduled and live intercepts (wiretaps) on Digital Voice telephone conversations. Network Service providers such as Skype may soon want to be in compliance with government regulations regarding Lawful Intercept.
Dennis Chang, President of Voip-Pal, said, "In addition to our ability to license these patents to major players in the VoIP industry, we will have the ability to license our proprietary framework to other VoIP companies to enable them to meet and/or exceed current and future regulatory requirements with respect to areas such as Lawful Intercept and Emergency Services. While our Licensing focus will target significant Partner/Subscribers, Voip-Pal will also be able to generate licensing revenue from the competition as well."
On the VoIP-Pal news page, under the August 9th soft-switch testing press release, it talks about all five patents, including Rating-Billing-Routing engine that will "allow Licensees to setup and deploy Digital Voice solutions virtually anywhere in the world in a matter of days, without fear of infringing on mainstream VoIP patents." It also links to an old 2007 CNET article about Vonage being ordered to pay $58 million to Verizon for infringing on a Verizon Communications patent. Could Chang, formerly an IBM employee, be ready to go head-to-head with Microsoft over the Legal Intercept patent?
According to a press release this month, Chang pointed out that Microsoft's Legal Intercept patent application was filed two years after the Lawful Intercept and that "there are substantial similarities between Voip-Pal/Digifonica's Lawful Intercept Patent Application and Microsoft's 'Legal Intercept' Patent Application."
Chang added:
Federal law enforcement agencies have expressed frustration in trying to track and record criminal and terrorist internet conversations. Our Lawful Intercept technology would allow government agencies to 'silently record' VOIP communications. CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) requires telecommunications carriers and makers of communications equipment to enable their equipment so it can be used for surveillance purposes by federal law enforcement agencies.
If it makes Microsoft feel any better, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said Microsoft may have become more innovative than Apple. At TEDx Brussels, Woz said:
I've seen more of the type of innovation (from Microsoft) where you see something: 'Whoa - they really changed things drastically. Whoa - they aren't even going the same direction as everyone else' - meaning the iPhone and Android operating systems.
And a couple days ago I read an article where Microsoft has a machine -- you'll speak into it in English and it'll come out in Mandarin. If they're making strides in this valuable voice recognition area, I fear that Microsoft might've been sitting in their labs trying to innovate. ... They might've been doing that for three years while Apple was just used to cranking out the newest iPhone and falling a little behind, and that worries me greatly.
If some of that Microsoft innovation was the Legal Intercept of VoIP such as Skype, then Voip-Pal may be about to burst that Microsoft bubble.
(Article taken from www.networkworld.com/community/node/81847)
The Bush administration has done an about face on insisting upon engaging in wiretapping of American citizens without a warrant from the Fedral Intelligence Surveillance Court. The administration says that it will now seek a warrant before engaging in snooping.
Local politician making an appeal at demonstration against default data traffic surveillance proposed law, why should my new digital phone be anymore of a danger to the state than the old analog one?
Liked she kept speak notes not in the digital gadget but in old school notebook, not so easy to wiretap that! And she got style, notebook is a Moleskin (tm) :-)
Striking a New Balance
Renewing and Reviewing the PATRIOT Act
Full Event Video:
www.americanprogressaction.org/events/2009/10/PatriotAct....
“The expiration this year of several provisions of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act…has prompted fresh debate in Congress over the appropriate balance of counterterrorism authorities for U.S. law enforcement agencies and the need to preserve American civil liberties and privacy,” said Rudy deLeon, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event last Tuesday.
In light of the PATRIOT Act debate the Action Fund hosted a discussion with Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) and Ken Gude, Associate Director of CAP Action’s International Rights and Responsibility program, about how the government could ensure national security without compromising civil liberties.
Controversial items in the PATRIOT Act up for debate this year include the ease of access to business records, roving wire tapping provisions applicable to today’s digital technology, and surveillance of individual or “lone wolf” suspects who are unconnected to any terrorist organization. The panelists discussed the effectiveness of these provisions and whether they violated an individual’s right to privacy.
Rep. Harman has served as a member of the House Intelligence Committee for eight years and is currently chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment. She explained that a strong national security system could not come at the expense of civil liberties. “Security and liberty are reinforcing values…it’s not more of one and less at the other—it’s more of both or less of both.”
Rep. Harman lauded the Obama administration for its national security policies, but she said further steps are necessary. She praised President Barack Obama’s commitment to closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp, too, and his limiting the overclassification of material by the Homeland Security department. But she called for more debates over State Secrets Privilege—a legal precedent under which a court is asked to omit evidence based on government affidavit stating that court proceedings might release information that could jeopardize national security.
Harman commended the current House version of PATRIOT Act revisions because it would prohibit a person’s reading habits from being used as evidence of terrorist activity or intent.The bill would also change the target of a roving wiretap to a single individual rather than a single phone. Rep. Harman pointed out that the current rules are incongruent with new technology that allows a person to use disposable cell phones. New technology has made the need for a court order on every tapped phone inefficient.
Gude supported the expiration of the Lone Wolf Provision, which allows Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigations of lone terrorists that are not connected to a specific organization. He explained that FISA was created to monitor people connected to foreign powers or terrorist groups and therefore the threshold for obtaining a surveillance warrant was lower. He and Rep. Harman agreed that the Lone Wolf Provision leaves individuals vulnerable to a violation of privacy by the government.
Gude explained that his objection to the Lone Wolf Provision isn’t that the government should be prohibited from conducting surveillance on individuals. However, he thought traditional criminal wiretaps were more appropriate when no evidence links the person to a foreign terrorist group.
Harman said that now “we have the opportunity to debate new rules in a new environment” since after 9/11, legislators did not take time to “get [counterterrorism] laws right.” She spoke about to the “authorization to use military force” on groups connected to 9/11 that “gave the president the right to act unilaterally.” She called for a new balance of power between branches of government regarding national security issues, and said that the laws after 9/11 gave the president too much power to make counterterrorism decisions without congressional or public debate.
In the spirit of checks and balances, Gude said there was hope for bipartisan consensus on counterterrorism reforms. “On an issue like this there is probably more room for bipartisan commitment than on almost any other issue on the Hill right now,” he said. Gude and Rep. Harman recognized a need for robust debate and strong cooperation on national security reform. Rep. Harman noted that “the terrorists are not going to check our party registration before they blow us up, so we really better be in this together.”
Macedonians protest against police brutality and government murder cover-up of a young boy in 2011 after Zoran Zaev, leader of opposition, released the phone calls between government officials that are part of the huge wiretapping scandal.
Eqbal Ahmad, flanked by co-defendants Neil McLaughlin (second from left) and Anthony Scoblick, answers reporters’ questions February 22, 1972 during a break in their trail for conspiracy to blow up Washington, D.C. government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.
Seven defendants stood accused of conspiring to raid federal offices, to bomb government property, and to kidnap Kissinger in 1971. Prosecutors accused them of planning to use the heating tunnels beneath Washington, D.C. to carry out the plot.
The group was primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
--Partially excerpted from Wikipedia
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