[AGL] Fwd: DRANT #182: BUBBEMEISE

[Frances Morey]

This fits with Wayne's salvo: They all must go.
  
FM
  
David Rubinson <rubinson at kab.com> wrote:
  From: David Rubinson <rubinson at kab.com>
Subject: DRANT #182: BUBBEMEISE
Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 11:55:16 -0700

DRANT DAILY
Number 182
May 13, 2006
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A friend just wrote me about how "the Republicans" were destroying 
our civil liberties.
And I realized that many of us must be unaware or uninformed -
Domestic surveillance goes back to The Revolution, but this 
particular type of NSA operation has its roots not in Bushzism, but 
with Uncle Bill, and dontcha ever forget it.
It ain't "The Republicans" friends. Its ALL the self-appointed 
guardians of our security, and unless we all rise up -- while we 
still can -- and Do something -- the concept of personal privacy 
will be a charming archaic Bubbemeise our grandchildren chuckle about.
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Big Brother Was Listening In A Long Time Ago
Does anyone remember Echelon?
(This is a short excerpt. PLEASE click on the following links for 
the complete info)
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | May 12 2006

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/120506bigbrother.htm


We really do hate to keep having to repeat ourselves and with the NSA 
story it's a total bore. This time I am going to put it in large 
capital letters to try and get the point across.

THE NSA HAS BEEN RECORDING PHONE CONVERSATIONS FOR OVER A DECADE. THE 
PROGRAM IS CALLED ECHELON. THE USA TODAY STORY ABOUT THE NSA STORING 
PHONE NUMBERS IS NOT NEWS.

Why should it worry you unless you have something to hide?

These were the arguments sampled by the Associated Press, who told us 
once again that the nation was "split" on NSA record collecting. This 
is another example of 'forced balance' in journalism, to the point 
where it misses out the truth completely. A Computer World survey 
found that 71% of respondents said that government wiretaps were 
"never acceptable" and 76% believed that anonymity is important and 
that surveillance methods should not store any personal information.

The early morning Fox and Friends show, always first to run defense 
for the government on whatever scandal is breaking that particular 
day, assured us that the NSA only keeps records of phone numbers, not 
details of conversations.

The Echelon program, run by the NSA, has been recording phone calls 
and storing numbers for over two decades.

The joint NSA / Government Communications Head Quarters of England 
(GCHQ) Project Echelon was first exposed in the mid nineties and then 
again most prominently by author James Bamford in his 1999 book Body 
of Secrets. Bamford comments, "The cooperation between the Echelon 
countries is worrying. For decades, these organizations have worked 
closely together, monitoring communications and sharing the 
information gathered. Now, through Echelon, they are pooling their 
resources and targets, maximizing the collection and analysis of 
intercepted information."

In the greatest surveillance effort ever established, the NSA global 
spy system captures and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax, 
email and telex message sent anywhere in the world. Quite obviously 
they cannot listen to everyone anywhere ALL the time, but they have 
the capability to choose when to listen and who to listen to, 
wherever they may be.

James Bamford famously recalled how the NSA successfully intercepted 
satellite calls from Osama Bin Laden in the late nineties as he was 
talking to his mother.

"I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know 
the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we 
must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this 
technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so 
that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which 
there is no return." - Senator Frank Church, quoted in
ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network
Under the Clinton Administration Echelon certainly turned its 
attention to citizens of countries everywhere and monitored millions 
of calls and other communications.

Echelon expert Mike Frost, who spent 20 years as a spy for the 
Canadian equivalent of the National Security Agency, told CBS's "60 
Minutes" that the agency was monitoring "everything from data 
transfers to cell phones to portable phones to baby monitors to ATMs."

Domestic spying is nothing new, there has been at least half a 
century of such activity in America. The naïveté of the public is at 
an all time high as they would rather switch off than engage in the 
mess that is modern day politics in America. The general public will 
believe that government spying on them is new, and secondly, they 
will just accept it because they are being told in a very 
unsophisticated fashion, that it is keeping them safe.
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ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network
Copyright 1999/2000 Patrick S. Poole

(This is a short excerpt. PLEASE click on the following linksfor the 
complete info)

http://fly.hiwaay.net/%7Epspoole/echelon.html

Be sure to visit my ECHELON Research Resources page for hundreds of 
news articles and other ECHELON related materials.

Read this previous Privacy Paper by Patrick Poole:
Inside America's Secret Court: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance 
Court

Read some of the press clippings on this ECHELON report:
National Post/Canada (February 19, 2000): The New Space Invaders
NY Times (May 27, 1999): Lawmakers Raise Questions About 
International Spy Network
La Monde Diplomatique (Jan. 1999): How the United States Spies on us all
Federal Computer Week(Nov. 17, 1998): EU May Investigate US Global 
Spy Network
Inter at ctive Week (Nov. 16, 1998): ECHELON: Surveilling Surveillance
WorldNetDaily (Nov. 12, 1998): Push for Hearings on ECHELON
Wired (October 27, 1998): Spying on the Spies
Baltimore Sun (October 18, 1998): Putting NSA under scrutiny


Executive Summary

In the greatest surveillance effort ever established, the US National 
Security Agency (NSA) has created a global spy system, codename 
ECHELON, which captures and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax, 
email and telex message sent anywhere in the world. ECHELON is 
controlled by the NSA and is operated in conjunction with the 
Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) of England, the 
Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada, the Australian 
Defense Security Directorate (DSD), and the General Communications 
Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand. These organizations are bound 
together under a secret 1948 agreement, UKUSA, whose terms and text 
remain under wraps even today.

The ECHELON system is fairly simple in design: position intercept 
stations all over the world to capture all satellite, microwave, 
cellular and fiber-optic communications traffic, and then process 
this information through the massive computer capabilities of the 
NSA, including advanced voice recognition and optical character 
recognition (OCR) programs, and look for code words or phrases (known 
as the ECHELON “Dictionary”) that will prompt the computers to 
flag the message for recording and transcribing for future analysis. 
Intelligence analysts at each of the respective “listening 
stations” maintain separate keyword lists for them to analyze any 
conversation or document flagged by the system, which is then 
forwarded to the respective intelligence agency headquarters that 
requested the intercept.

But apart from directing their ears towards terrorists and rogue 
states, ECHELON is also being used for purposes well outside its 
original mission. The regular discovery of domestic surveillance 
targeted at American civilians for reasons of “unpopular” 
political affiliation or for no probable cause at all in violation of 
the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the Constitution – are 
consistently impeded by very elaborate and complex legal arguments 
and privilege claims by the intelligence agencies and the US 
government. The guardians and caretakers of our liberties, our duly 
elected political representatives, give scarce attention to these 
activities, let alone the abuses that occur under their watch.
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