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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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I loved this piece by Les Levine, the way it engages the viewer, and I love this picture, 12 speakers playing recorded phone calls. I recorded an audio file of one of the speakers, which unfortunately I lost it. It would have been a nice company to the picture.
Antonello Giacomelli
Martina Pennisi
Stefano Quintarelli
Marco Viviani
C’è un filo rosso che unisce la legge sull’editoria del 2001 alle parole del presidente dell’Antitrust Pitruzzella quindici anni dopo: l’idea che la Rete rappresenti una minaccia. Dall’istituzione del ROC nel 2007 fino ad oggi, si è assistito a una strisciante retorica da parte dei dirigenti politici, spesso ospiti sulla carta stampata e in trasmissioni televisive, che addita il web come luogo di ”prostituzione e auto distruttività”, “aggravante” per la mancanza di sicurezza dei cittadini; dal famigerato emendamento D’Alia , i j’accuse di Gabriella Carlucci, Giorgia Meloni, Ignazio La Russa, Angelino Alfano, e poi Laura Boldrini, il ministro Andrea Orlando in tempi più recenti, passando da lunghe serie di disegni di legge sulle intercettazioni che hanno scatenato contro-manifestazioni con tanto di bavaglio riverberate nel resto del mondo: l’Italia è un paese laboratorio di discussioni colpevoliste a proposito di Internet già prima dei social network. Poi è arrivata la post-verità, un termine che sembra aver convinto la classe dirigente ad accelerare: bisogna metter mano con un intervento pubblico alla “eccessiva libertà” con la quale la gente comune condivide contenuti, si informa, finisce per credere alle bufale che circolano in questi habitat online e che condizionerebbe il corretto svolgersi democratico. Ma è davvero così? E sono migliori le democrazie a basso rumore di fondo di Internet? Ma soprattutto: fra tutte queste proposte ce n’è qualcuna davvero applicabile? Organizzato in collaborazione con Webnews.it.
There is a fil rouge connecting the 2001 law on publishing and the words of the President of the Antitrust Authority, Pitruzzella, fifteen years later: the idea that the Internet is a threat. Since the establishment of the ROC in 2007, a creeping rhetoric has been pursued by political leaders which targets the web as a place of “prostitution and self-destructiveness,” aggravating the lack of citizens’ security; from the notorious D’Alia Amendment to a long series of draft laws on wiretapping. Then came so-called post-truth, a notion that seems to have convinced the establishment of the need to speed up: with a new law, they want to tackle the “excessive freedom” with which citizens share content and inform themselves, and in consequence end up believing hoaxes circulating online. But this proposed law would affect the proper conduct of democratic processes. Furthermore, are democracies really better off when the Internet noise is left low in the background? And above all, are the proposed measures really the right ones?
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/time-to-legis...
I had several photo's in my archive for stupidity, but I thought I would wait it out and see if something happened during the month. Well my waiting paid off. For those of you that have no idea who this is, He is Elliot Spitzer, former governor of New York State as of last week. He resigned on march 12th after admitting to using a prostitution ring 8 times in the past 8 months totalling up a bill around $80,000. Everything he did was caught on a federal wiretap. The whole story can be found here:
www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/12/spitzer.intl/index.html?i...
Submitted for March's MSH # 17 - Stupidity
Submitted for April's THC # 1 - April Fool - Not only is he an April fool, but also a May, June, July...and so on
Submitted for Novemeber's THC # 12 - Village Idiot
Submitted for January's THC # 5 - Juggling Fool - Apparently it's pretty difficult for the fool to juggle his work, family, and his hooker.
President Obama listening to a question from a White House correspondent on the AP wiretapping incident. - Photo/Koenig
It is worth noting at the outset that if Mr. Brown Pelican doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. Did you know that some lethargic oligarchs want to help Mr. Pelican wiretap all of our telephones and computers? Mr. Pelican is like a pigeon. Pigeons are too self-absorbed to care about anyone else. They poo on people they don't like; they poo on people they don't even know. The only real difference between Mr. Pelican and a pigeon is that Mr. Pelican intends to sully a profession that's already held in low esteem. Don't trust him, though; he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Before you know it, he'll condone illegal activities. Not only that, but Mr. Pelican has the nerve to call those of us who say "no" to his predaceous hatchet jobs "conspiracy theorists". No, we're "conspiracy revealers" because we reveal that Mr. Pelican is terrified that there might be an absolute reality outside himself, a reality that is what it is, regardless of his wishes, theories, hopes, daydreams, or decrees.
Mr. Pelican keeps telling everyone within earshot that genocide, slavery, racism, and the systematic oppression, degradation, and exploitation of most of the world's people are all entirely justified. I have to wonder about him. Is he utterly insincere? Is he simply being grumpy? Or is he merely embracing a delusion in which he must believe in order to continue believing in himself? The complete answer to that question is a long, sad story. But there is a further-reaching implication: He is known for walking into crowded rooms and telling everyone there that individual worth is defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. Try, if you can, to concoct a statement better calculated to show how caustic Mr. Pelican is. You can't do it. Not only that, but we are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: Mr. Brown Pelican.
The front page of the Washington Post May 19, 1972 reporting on the bomb that exploded in the Pentagon protesting the U.S. role in Vietnam.
The reporting is muted compared to the bombing of the Capitol a year earlier.
Shortly before the blast, the Washington Post and New York Times received a call from a man identifying himself as a “Weatherman” and warning of the bomb at the Pentagon.
A later communiqué from the group noted the date was the birthday of the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and declared resistance to the war in Vietnam.
The investigation and pending charges were later dropped against Weather Underground members due to the U.S. refusal to disclose wiretapping sources. Bill Ayers, a fugitive at the time of the bombing, later claimed he was a participant in the Pentagon bombing.
The blast destroyed the women’s restroom and caused water damage to computers and property in the rooms below.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/2Mq65M
The circle in the image represents the blast area of a bomb planted by the Weather Underground that exploded May 19, 1972 in a women’s restroom located on the fourth floor of the building’s E-ring.
Shortly before the blast, the Washington Post and New York Times received a call from a man identifying himself as a “Weatherman” and warning of the bomb at the Pentagon.
A later communiqué from the group noted the date was the birthday of the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and declared resistance to the war in Vietnam.
The investigation and pending charges were later dropped against Weather Underground members due to the U.S. refusal to disclose wiretapping sources. Bill Ayers, a fugitive at the time of the bombing, later claimed he was a participant in the Pentagon bombing.
The blast destroyed the women’s restroom and caused water damage to computers and property in the rooms below.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/2Mq65M
The photographer is unknown. The image is an auction find.
Sneak inside my bedroom Brother
Put me on your lists
Watch me while I’m sleeping Brother
Help me keep my wits
Spy on my seclusion Brother
Tape record my scorn
Wiretap my movements Brother
Catalog my porn
Eavesdrop on my protests Brother
Debase me in your data
Analyze my sperm count Brother
Sterilize me later
Catch me in your crosshairs Brother
Brand my critiques treason
Categorize my distaste Brother
Pretend you need a reason
Bathe me in your mistrust Brother
Fear my supposition
Paranoid my passions Brother
Terrorize my suspicion
Clinton Fein, www.Annoy.com
i've never seen such a fuss for telling the truth as when the crazies went nuts over gore's "bush broke the law when he illegally wiretapped americans."
Sunglasses
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- Romeo2.0 (Carbon/Gold Iridium)
- Juliet (Polish/G30 Iridium)
- XX (Tio2/Black Iridium)
- Jupiter LX
- Wiretap Silver
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