Do we need a George Orwell app?

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Postby fruhmenschen » Thu Dec 26, 2013 12:49 am

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT HOW TAXPAYER FUNDED FBI AGENTS CONTROL WHO GETS APPOINTED TO JUDGESHIPS READ CLOAK AND GAVEL by Attorney Alec Charns




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Federal judge rules that TSA, FBI can detain and arrest you for carrying Arabic flashcards
By Scott Kaufman
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

A former college student detained at Philadelphia International Airport after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials discovered he was carrying Arabic language flashcards lost his bid to sue the federal agents who detained him.

Nicholas George alleged that the TSA agents violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights when they arrested him as he tried to board a flight from his Philadelphia home to Pomona College in 2009.

According to Chief Judge Theodore McKee’s ruling, despite the fact that George clearly had the right to carry the flashcards, the TSA agents were “at the outer boundary” of justifiability in detaining him. In addition to everyday words and phrases like “day before yesterday,” “fat,” “cheap,” and “pink,” the deck of flashcards also contained and phrases like “bomb,” “terrorist,” “explosion,” and “to target.”

Judge McKee believes that those words and phrases warranted further investigation, even though George told the officers that he was using the flashcards in order to learn Arabic for a study abroad program in which he would be traveling to Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan.

“I want to serve my country using my Arabic language,” George told CNN. “And it just seems crazy to me that for that I was arrested and treated like a criminal.”

George claimed that after the first two officers discovered the cards, they swabbed his person and cell-phone for explosive residue, then called a supervisor. George alleged that when the supervisor arrived, she subjected him to an aggressive interrogation.

TSA AGENT: Do you know who did 9/11?

GEORGE: Osama bin Laden.

TSA AGENT: Do you know what language he spoke?

GEORGE: Arabic.

TSA AGENT: Do you see why these cards are suspicious?

While this TSA agent was questioning George, a Philadelphia police officer entered the room, handcuffed him and led him through the terminal to the Airport Police Station, where he was detained for an addition four hours. George claimed that no officers questioned him during that time, nor did any inform him as to why he had been arrested.

Eventually, two agents from the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrived and questioned him, asking whether he was a member of a “Pro-Islamic” or “communist” group, or whether he had ever met “anyone in his travels who was overtly against the U.S. government.” After questioning him for 30 minutes, the FBI agents determined George was not a threat and released him.

Neither the TSA nor the FBI disputed George’s account of the facts, and Judge McKee ruled that “George’s factual allegations do not establish that [the TSA and FBI agents] violated a Fourth Amendment right.”

“Once TSA Officials were satisfied that George was not armed or carrying explosives, much of the concern that justified his detention dissipated. However, it did not totally vanish or suggest that further inquiry was not warranted,” he wrote.

“Thus, the actions of the TSA Officials corresponded to the level of concern raised by the flashcards.”
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Re: Do we need a George Orwell app?

Postby fruhmenschen » Thu Dec 26, 2013 3:58 am

We brought Sigmund Diamond to speak at our conference on crimes committed by FBI agents.

TWO STORIES


1st story

Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955 [Hardcover]
Sigmund Diamond (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Compromised-Campu ... 0195053826

2nd story


National Security Higher Education Advisory Board
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The National Security Higher Education Advisory Board (NSHEAB) was created by American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert S. Mueller III on December 15, 2005.[1] Operated by the FBI and paneled by approximately 20 American university presidents and chancellors, the expressed purpose of the board is "to foster outreach and to promote understanding between higher education and the Federal Bureau of Investigation." The board also facilitates communication between universities and federal authorities on "national priorities pertaining to terrorism, counterintelligence, and homeland security." NSHEAB meets approximately three times yearly and includes representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency and other security agencies.[2]

The National Security Higher Education Advisory Board is a part of "IARPA's mission to invest in high-risk/high-payoff research programs that have the potential to provide the United States with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries."
– FBI National Press Release, 2009[3]

A stated goal of NSHEAB is to prevent the theft of sensitive research conducted at American universities.[4]

Since its creation NSHEAB has brought university and FBI officials together to discuss weapons of mass destruction, bioterrorism, threats to university research facilities, and "the promotion of strategic national security partnerships with academia [in] the United States."[5] NSHEAB has also been a forum within which Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has encouraged universities to engage in "high-risk/high-payoff" research intended to "provide the United States with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries."[6] Some academics have expressed concern over the collaboration between FBI and university officials due to the agency's past espionage directed against individuals in the academic community.[7] NSHEAB's work and the increased cooperation between federal authorities and academia is facilitated by the political framework brought about by the war on terror.[8]

NSHEAB is currently chaired by Lou Anna K. Simon, president of Michigan State University. Notable members of NSHEAB include or have included former United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, MIT president Susan Hockfield,[9] and U.C. Davis chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi.[10]
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Re: Do we need a George Orwell app?

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Re: Do we need a George Orwell app?

Postby fruhmenschen » Thu Dec 26, 2013 3:36 pm

fruhmenschen » Thu Dec 26, 2013 3:58 am wrote:We brought Sigmund Diamond to speak at our conference on crimes committed by FBI agents.

TWO STORIES


1st story

Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945-1955 [Hardcover]
Sigmund Diamond (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Compromised-Campu ... 0195053826

2nd story


National Security Higher Education Advisory Board
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search

The National Security Higher Education Advisory Board (NSHEAB) was created by American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert S. Mueller III on December 15, 2005.[1] Operated by the FBI and paneled by approximately 20 American university presidents and chancellors, the expressed purpose of the board is "to foster outreach and to promote understanding between higher education and the Federal Bureau of Investigation." The board also facilitates communication between universities and federal authorities on "national priorities pertaining to terrorism, counterintelligence, and homeland security." NSHEAB meets approximately three times yearly and includes representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency and other security agencies.[2]

The National Security Higher Education Advisory Board is a part of "IARPA's mission to invest in high-risk/high-payoff research programs that have the potential to provide the United States with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries."
– FBI National Press Release, 2009[3]

A stated goal of NSHEAB is to prevent the theft of sensitive research conducted at American universities.[4]

Since its creation NSHEAB has brought university and FBI officials together to discuss weapons of mass destruction, bioterrorism, threats to university research facilities, and "the promotion of strategic national security partnerships with academia [in] the United States."[5] NSHEAB has also been a forum within which Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has encouraged universities to engage in "high-risk/high-payoff" research intended to "provide the United States with an overwhelming intelligence advantage over future adversaries."[6] Some academics have expressed concern over the collaboration between FBI and university officials due to the agency's past espionage directed against individuals in the academic community.[7] NSHEAB's work and the increased cooperation between federal authorities and academia is facilitated by the political framework brought about by the war on terror.[8]

NSHEAB is currently chaired by Lou Anna K. Simon, president of Michigan State University. Notable members of NSHEAB include or have included former United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, MIT president Susan Hockfield,[9] and U.C. Davis chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi.[10]




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see link because website is run by current and former FBI agents

a smart criminal justice consumer will notice the spin .....

http://www.ticklethewire.com/2013/12/26 ... n-in-2013/

Feds Misbehavin’ in 2013



FBI agent Adrian Johnson got 18 months in prison this year after he was convicted of multiple charges including vehicular manslaughter after he drove drunk and crashed into a car in suburban D.C., in Prince George’s County. He killed an 18-year old and man and seriously injured the man’s friend in 2011.

Oklahoma FBI agent Timothy A. Klotz confessed to dipping into the FBI cookie jar. Authorities allege that he embezzled $43,190 that was earmarked for confidential informants for tips on criminal activities from 2008-2011. He acknowledged in a signed statement that he falsified 66 receipts during a scheme that went undiscovered for more than four years. He was sentenced earlier this month to six months in prison and three years of supervised released. He was also ordered to pay a restitution of $43,190.
FBI agent Travis Raymond Wilson, 38, of Huntington Beach, Calif., apparently had a little gambling jones and didn’t want the big guys at the FBI to know. Unfortunately for him, he got busted. Wilson pleaded guilty to structuring financial transactions in violation of the federal Bank Secrecy Act. The feds say between January 2008 and February 2013, Wilson regularly gambled at casinos in California, Nevada, Arizona, and West Virginia, authorities said. In total, Wilson structured more than $488,000 in cash. Sentencing is set for March 3.
Kenneth Kaiser, former head of the FBI’s Boston office, found that ethics still apply when you leave the bureau. The choked up ex-agent appeared in court where he was fined $10,000 for violating an ethics charge. Kaiser was accused of meeting with former FBI colleagues about his company that was under investigation. Federal law prohibited him from having professional contact with former FBI colleagues within a year of leaving government service.

FBI agent Arthur “Art” Gonzales of Stafford County, Va. is charged with shooting his estranged wife to death in April. He told dispatchers he was acting in self-defense when he shot his 42-year-old wife, Julia Sema Gonzales. He says his wife attacked him with a knife.

Gonzales was a supervisory special agent-instructor at the FBI’s National Academy at Quantico. Court records show bond was granted. Trial has been set for March.



FBI agent Donald Sachteren who leaked information to the Associated Press was recently sentenced to more than three years in prison for possessing and disclosing secret information. Sachteren, 55, was accused of disclosing intelligence about the U.S. operation in Yemen in 2012. What made him a far less sympathetic character in this whole mess was the fact he was also sentenced to more than 8 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography in an unrelated case.
- See more at: http://ticklethewire.com/#sthash.kqxzNYul.dpuf
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12-26 2013
Was the CIA involved in the Jonestown Massacre?
1978: Photograph of military personnel carrying bodies of the victims of the Jonestown massacre out of a helicopter.

1978: Photograph of military personnel carrying bodies of the victims of the Jonestown massacre out of a helicopter.

Photo credit: © "Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple", a website published by San Diego State University \ Creative Commons license

By Yury Fedorovsky

On November 18, 1978 in the jungle of Guyana, a gruesome event occurred, one which the most authoritative Western source, The Guinness Book of Records, qualifies as the largest simultaneous mass suicide in the world.

A total of 918 U.S. citizens, members of the quasi-religious organization and agricultural commune the "Peoples Temple," were found dead in Jonestown, a small city named in honor of the leader of the Peoples Temple, Jim Jones. The "freest" American press, from the very first days after the tragedy, began to repeat the formula "obvious ritual of mass suicide," the "Jonestown suicide cult," "mass suicide in Guyana," etc., with surprising unanimity. Then came the corresponding books, like Charles Krause's Guyana Massacre (Washington, 1978), and films, like The Story of Jim Jones(1980). Tribute to the "suicide" version was paid even by Soviet authors L. Borisoglebsky, D. Furman, L. Timoshin, B. Vakhtin, and A. Andreev, for whom this event became one more illustration of the "deepening decay of Western culture." But what actually happened at Jonestown? Who was Jim Jones? If we reject the American "monopoly on the truth" currently imposed on the whole world by the transnational mass media, then a host of details will be explained that do not fit into the official version.

Jim Warren Jones was born in 1931 in Crete, Indiana. The American Midwest is a highly conservative area (the Ku Klux Klan even arose in Indianapolis). That is why when a 19-year-old Jim during his studies at Indiana University, Bloomington declared himself a Marxist, later heading the local committee on human rights, "society" viewed him as a dangerous freethinker. At 22 years old, being an assistant to the pastor at a church "for whites," he invited African Americans to the service, and when the church council fired him, he declared "any church where I will be pastor will be open to people of all races." At 22 years old he founded the independent "Church of the Word of Christ," which after a year was renamed the "Peoples Temple."

The religiosity of the Peoples Temple was largely relative, however. As eyewitnesses recall, "his sermons quickly became political protests. During one service Jones turned around to the American flag hanging behind his back, threatened it with his fist, and said, 'Just wait, nation of fanatics, racists, imperialists, and KKK members! Your time to pay for your evil deeds will come. I have this book in my hands. A Bible, do you see? It's this that for almost two thousand years has been distracting people from real work, getting in the way of our fight with injustice! Watch me throw it on the ground, do you see? Watch me spit on it!" As one author emphasized, by forming the organization as a church, the practical American Jones simply was taking advantage of tax benefits, for he himself (according to the recollections of Marceline Jones) had been a determined atheist from an early age.

In contrast to other local churches, which strictly observed the principles of "apartheid" and "racial segregation," the Peoples Temple united representatives of all races. Jones himself adopted several little children of different skin colors. In 1965, the group consisted of about 80 people, the majority of whom were outcasts from capitalist society: the poor, minorities, and the homeless. But after a move to California, where the climate (socially and temperature-wise) was warmer, the ranks of the Peoples Temple began to grow quickly, and it soon exceeded 20,000 people (10,000 in San Francisco, where the headquarters was located from 1972, 10,000 in Los Angeles, and 1,000 in Ukiah). Many people were attracted to the social programs of the Peoples Temple: free cafeterias for the poor, playgrounds, and doctors (for the capitalist United States, a most unusual occurrence). In the 1970s, the Peoples Temple had 9 hospices and 6 schools, and operated the "International hotel," which housed more than 3000 people who had been fired from their jobs for participating in demonstrations. In newspapers it was called at the time "one of America's fastest growing religious movements."

However, a conflict with capitalist society eventually emerged. Jones clearly positioned himself and his movement as fundamental opponents of the existing system. In the Peoples Temple newspaper, he recklessly criticized everyone and everything—from the racist discrimination of the southern states to the undercover dealings of their "their own" Kissinger and Rockefeller, and morally and materially supported those victimized by the powers they opposed: the famous Angela Davis, members of the "Wilmington 10," headed by Ben Chavis, the widow Laura Allende, and the Indian leader Dennis Banks. In 1976, Jones raised $20,000 in bail to free Banks's wife Kamook from prison in Kansas. In 1977, together with A. Cane, he created a section of the World Peace Council in California, and paid a visit to Cuba, defying the longtime American blockade. In 1976, he supported the election campaign of George Moscone, mayor of San Francisco, and Mervyn Dymally, Lieutenant Governor of California.

Jones also communicated with Communists like Mike Davidow, Kendra Alexander, and Angela Davis. It was natural that the Peoples Temple and Jones were subjected to powerful pressure. A bomb was placed in one of the organization's buses, and a meeting house exploded in San Francisco. Several members of the community were beaten and killed, including Jones's assistant, Louis. Attempts were made to bribe people to testify against Jones's community. Some, like Grace Stoen, accepted such bribes, while others did not. On September 6, 1977, the aforementioned David Banks spoke out with an official "declaration" about the attempt of some representative of the U.S. federal system, David Conn, to bribe him for evidence of Jones' guilt, in exchange for dropping criminal charges.

The pressure building up against Jones explains why in 1974 he decided to emigrate to Guyana, a small, non-aligned, Latin American country, the government of which announced its policy of building "cooperative socialism." Guyana allocated 3,824 acres of land to the colonists near Port Kaituma. There, thanks to the active work of the colonists, an entire city soon rose: Jonestown. More than one thousand Peoples Temple members moved there. The document of the "Governing Committee of the Jonestown Commune" has been saved with a detailed census of the colonists. Here there are around 200 proletarians, 200 farm workers, 150 medical workers, 100 drivers and mechanics, as well as representatives of other professions: lawyers (14), artists (15), musicians (21), accountants (7), programmers (7), and others. A full 25% were children, 30 of whom were even born in Jonestown. Let us cite several typical biographies:

Richard Tropp - born in 1940. He graduated with honors from Rochester University. Starting in 1965 he taught at Berkeley and Fisk University, was researching a new "hippy" social phenomenon, and became a socialist. In 1970, he joined Jones.

Henry Mercer - born in 1885. From age 16 he participated in revolutionary activities, and was an activist in the unemployment movement. In the 1930s, he was a participant in "hunger marches" and was arrested more than once. After WWII, he was a trade unionist and an organizer of strikes.

Sharon Amos - born in 1936. In the 1950s, she participated in the "Beatnik" movement and studied in the California trade union movement school until it was closed during the years of "McCarthyism." From the 1960s, she was in the "New Left" movement.

As the Methodist minister D. Moore wrote to Congress, "People were going to Jonestown with a hope born out of a loss of hope in the United States...People emigrated, for they lost hope that the American government or Congress would put an end to racial discrimination and injustice...The poor sought Jonestown to find freedom and escape oppression, things which our society denied to them."

Within a few years Jonestown became an exemplary agricultural commune. The colonists planted potatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, pineapples, sugarcane, pumpkins, and much more. Since there were several agronomists among the colonists, they carried out successful experiments on producing new cultivars in tropical conditions. They built a pig farm, a farmyard, and a poultry farm. They operated a sawmill, a furniture shop, a repair shop, a nursery, a kindergarten, a school, and a recreation center. Education was at a very high level (there were enough instructors). The library of the commune contained more than 10 thousand books (including full collections of the works of Marx and Lenin). The hospital was the best in the region, with an internist, a neurosurgeon, a pediatrician, a nutritionist, and a staff of certified nurses. The equipment allowed for recording an EKG, a full spectrum of tests, radio-photography, x-rays, and general screenings twice a year. There was a short wave radio station - for connection to the community in California and for broadcasting of their ideas. More than 2 thousand radio contacts were established around the whole world ("Our radio fans are fantastic ambassadors," said Jones). Understandably, the U.S. government did not like such a situation, and the Federal Communications Commission tried to strip the radio station of its license, but the community's lawyers defended their rights. In the commune there were no monetary relationships, although there was a "free store" where needed goods were issued according to need. The commune's net income amounted to around four million dollars a year.

Over the time the commune existed, it received more than five hundred visitors. Guyanese came, as did foreign citizens - officials, journalists, politicians, and workers of governments accredited in Guyana. In the guestbook, according to the Soviet consul, Fedor Mikhailovich Timofeyev, there was not one negative comment. Employees at the U.S. Embassy in Guyana visited the commune three times from 1974 to 1976, and after that frequented it often: from 1977 to 1978 six times for "performance of consular services and confirmation of the welfare and whereabouts of American citizens." In fact consular officers were meeting the demands of the State Department to "research allegations of holding American citizens against their will." These visits, not having revealed any criminals, prompted internal communiqués from local State Department officials back to Washington, expressing the fear that continuing their visits to the colony "could become an occasion to reproach the Embassy and State Department for 'disturbing actions.'" The State Department agreed with this, and ordered one employee to be sent no more than once a quarter, as "visits implemented without any obvious aim may serve to strengthen suspicions that the commune is being monitored." There is not even one word about any negative events at the commune in even one of the official reports. Supportive articles kept appearing in American newspapers (San Francisco Bay Guardian,March 31, 1977) as well as local ones (Guyana Chronicle,April 14, 1978).

The question arises: from where were the stories about "concentration camp conditions" taken, stories which from repetition over time practically became dogma? (The works of "cult experts" D. Boyle and A. Dvorkin come to mind here). In 1977, the Peoples Temple legal advisor, Timothy Stoen, was driven out from the commune on suspicion of being a CIA agent. Documents confirm that at the beginning of the 1960s he still was carrying out orders from the CIA in Berlin, and was even arrested by the East German police. Having been kicked out of the Peoples Temple, Stoen immediately amassed a group of so-called "Concerned Relatives" (many of these were so "concerned" that in earlier years they had not remembered their family members in the "Temple," neither visiting them nor even writing them), who filed complaints to official institutions. The complaint Stoen filed on August 1, 1977 inspired a severely critical article in the newspaper "New West" about Jones. However, the aforementioned visits to the community by State Department representatives did not reveal any confirmation of these facts.

Stoen organized a different kind of entry into Jonestown. In September 1977, he hired Joe Mazor, the owner of a private detective agency, to form a squad of mercenaries and attack and "liberate" the children of Jonestown. But when the men approached the settlement, they were shocked by how they found neither barbed wire nor armed guards. Moreover, they saw that the children whom they were supposed to liberate were running around and enjoying themselves without a care in the world while their parents worked in the fields. After monitoring the life of the settlement for two days from a secret post in the jungle, they understood they were being "used," refused to finish the job, and returned the United States. Mazor himself informed Jones and the colonists at Jonestown about the assignment, and his confession was later tape recorded by the lawyer Mark Lane. In January 1979, he gave another interview to a Los Angeles Times reporter.

The pro-Soviet sentiments of the Peoples Temple leadership were intensified by a visit to the embassy of the USSR in Georgetown (the capital of Guyana) in December 1977. Deborah Touchette, Sharon Amos, and Michael Prokes had a talk with consul Fedor Mikhailovich Timofeyev. They handed over a number of the commune's documents to him and received press in the Soviet Union. Then Jones' wife, Marceline, made a visit. She outlined the history of the creation of the Peoples Temple and the biography of "Reverend Comrade" Jim. During the consul's subsequent visits, he was informed about cases of harassment by the CIA, FBI, and other U.S. federal agencies. Then the conversation transitioned to the main question, "how would Soviet authorities react if members of the Peoples Temple appealed to the Soviet embassy in Guyana for permission for them all to emigrate to the USSR?"
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Anti-Israel group slams bill that would strip state aid from colleges tied to them
State Senate Co-leader Jeffrey Klein (D-Bronx) and Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) announced legislation that would give the state’s public and private colleges 30 days to end ties to academic groups, such as the American Studies Association, that boycott Israel, or face the loss of state funding and bonding privileges.
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ALBANY — A national academic group that has called for a boycott of Israel ripped into a proposed law Saturday that would strip state aid from colleges that maintain ties with the organization.

In response to the controversial boycott by the American Studies Association, state Senate Co-leader Jeffrey Klein (D-Bronx) and Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) announced Friday legislation that would give New York’s public and private colleges 30 days to end associations with academic groups that boycott Israel or face the loss of state funding and bonding privileges....
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January 3-5, 2014
Judge Pauley and the NSA
Orwell on the Bench
by CHRISTOPHER BRAUCHLI

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.

– George Orwell, 1984

It was easier to write the opinion by ignoring history. And it was only one part of his opinion. Nonetheless, he thought it was so important that it became the first thing he said right out of the box, as it were.

Judge William H. Pauley III, a District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York, dismissed a complaint filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and others. The A.C.L.U. complaint alleged that what is known as the N.S.A.’s bulk telephony metadata collection program is unconstitutional. Judge Pauley found it was not and, in so finding, wrote an opinion that in all important aspects arrived at the opposite conclusion from an opinion issued 11 days earlier by Judge Richard J. Leon in Washington. Judge Leon said the N.S.A. program was “almost Orwellian” and was probably unconstitutional.

Judge Pauley begins his opinion with the following sentences: “The September 11th terrorist attacks revealed, in the starkest terms, just how dangerous and interconnected the world is. While Americans depended on technology for the conveniences of modernity, al-Qaeda plotted in a seventh-century milieu to use that technology against us. It was a bold jujitsu. And it succeeded because conventional intelligence gathering could not detect diffuse filaments connecting al-Qaeda. “

Judge Pauley discussed how the N.S.A. was unable to capture the phone number of one of the highjackers living in San Diego who the N.S.A. mistakenly believed was living overseas. With telephony metadata, the judge observed, the agency would have known the highjacker was living in San Diego and could have given that information to the F.B.I. Presumably, although not stated by the judge, that might have enabled it to thwart the 9/11 attack. Judge Pauley then observed that the government “learned from its mistake” and, among other things, launched “a bulk telephony metadata collection program” which, he said: [O]nly works because it collects everything.”

In concluding as he did that “conventional intelligence gathering could not detect diffuse filaments connecting al-Qaeda” Judge Pauley chose to ignore post 9/11 reports that the intelligence community had plenty of information to “detect diffuse filaments” without metadata collections. What was lacking was the competency citizens had a right to expect from those charged with protecting the country.

According to a report in the Washington Post, the F.B.I. had been aware for many years before 9/11 that suspected terrorists were receiving training in American flight schools. It took no action to apprehend or specifically identify them. According to a report in the New York Times, Abdul Hakim Murad (who was convicted in 1996 of conspiring and attempting to blow up 12 commercial airliners while flying over the ocean) confessed to authorities following his arrest in the Philippines that he planned to use his flight training to “fly a plane into C.I.A headquarters in Langley, Va. or another federal building.” Rodolfo Mendoza, a Philippine intelligence investigator, told CNN that that information was shared with the F.B.I. in 1995. A 1999 analysis prepared for the National Intelligence Council said: “Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al Qaeda’s Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives . . . into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House.

In July 2001 an F.B.I. agent in Phoenix told F.B.I. headquarters it should investigate Middle Eastern men enrolled in American flight schools and mentioned Osama bin Laden by name. In his memo he suggested men in flight school might be planning terrorist attacks. A CBS report describes in considerable detail other clues the government had that terrorist attacks might be contemplated, giving specifics as to the kinds of activities contemplated. In a press conference following 9/11 Ari Fleischer, the press secretary said: “It is widely known that we had information that bin Laden wanted to attack the United States or United States interests abroad.”

What is now known is that it was not the absence of a program ignoring Americans’ constitutional rights that permitted 9/11. Collecting “bulk telephony metadata” does nothing to correct the intelligence failures that permitted 9/11 to happen. Those intelligence failures were failures by those in charge to do what citizens had a right to expect them to do.

Judge Pauley concludes: “No doubt, the bulk telephony metadata collection program vacuums up information about virtually every telephone call to, from, or within the United States. That is by design, as it allows the N.S.A. to detect relationships so attenuated and ephemeral they would otherwise escape notice. As the September 11th attacks demonstrate, the cost of missing such a thread can be horrific. . . . ” The judge could have simply observed that the cost of missing the other threads that have been widely discussed is equally horrific. Correcting the reasons for those failures can be taken without creating what Judge Leon so aptly described as “Orwellian.” As Judge Leon said in his ruling: “I have little doubt that the author of our Constitution, James Madison, who cautioned us to beware ‘the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power’ would be aghast.” So are many citizens. Whether members of the U.S. Supreme Court are aghast, only time will tell.

Christopher Brauchli is a lawyer living in Boulder, Colorado. He can be emailed at brauchli.56@post.harvard.edu.
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Appeals court rules that opinion on FBI phone surveillance can remain secret

January 3 2014
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a confidential Justice Department legal opinion on the scope of the FBI’s surveillance authority can remain secret.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected an effort by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to make public a January 2010 memo from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) that allowed the FBI to informally gather customer phone call records from telecommunications companies.
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Postby fruhmenschen » Mon Jan 06, 2014 3:16 am

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FBI Drops Law Enforcement as 'Primary' Mission

JANUARY 5, 2014

The FBI's creeping advance into the world of counterterrorism is nothing new. But quietly and without notice, the agency has finally decided to make it official in one of its organizational fact sheets. Instead of declaring "law enforcement" as its "primary function," as it has for years, the FBI fact sheet now lists "national security" as its chief mission. The changes largely reflect the FBI reforms put in place after September 11, 2001, which some have criticized for de-prioritizing law enforcement activities. Regardless, with the 9/11 attacks more than a decade in the past, the timing of the edits is baffling some FBI-watchers.

"What happened in the last year that changed?" asked Kel McClanahan, a Washington-based national security lawyer.

McClanahan noticed the change last month while reviewing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the agency. The FBI fact sheet accompanies every FOIA response and highlights a variety of facts about the agency. After noticing the change, McClanahan reviewed his records and saw that the revised fact sheets began going out this summer. "I think they're trying to rebrand," he said. "So many good things happen to your agency when you tie it to national security."

Although a spokesman with the agency declined to weigh in on the timing of the change, he said the agency is just keeping up with the times. "When our mission changed after 9/11, our fact sheet changed to reflect that," FBI spokesman Paul Bresson told Foreign Policy. He noted that the FBI's website has long-emphasized the agency's national security focus. "We rank our top 10 priorities and CT [counterterrorism] is first, counterintel is second, cyber is third," he said. "So it is certainly accurate to say our primary function is national security." On numerous occasions, former FBI Director Robert Mueller also emphasized the FBI's national security focus in speeches and statements.

FBI historian and Marquette University professor Athan Theoharis agreed that the changes reflect what's really happening at the agency, but said the timing isn't clear. "I can't explain why FBI officials decided to change the fact sheet... unless in the current political climate that change benefits the FBI politically and undercuts criticisms," he said. He mentioned the negative attention surrounding the FBI's failure in April to foil the bomb plot at the Boston Marathon by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Whatever the reason, the agency's increased focus on national security over the last decade has not occurred without consequence. Between 2001 and 2009, the FBI doubled the amount of agents dedicated to counterterrorism, according to a 2010 Inspector's General report. That period coincided with a steady decline in the overall number of criminal cases investigated nationally and a steep decline in the number of white-collar crime investigations.

"Violent crime, property crime and white-collar crime: All those things had reductions in the number of people available to investigate them," former FBI agent Brad Garrett told Foreign Policy. "Are there cases they missed? Probably."

Last month, Robert Holley, the special agent in charge in Chicago, said the agency's focus on terrorism and other crimes continued to affect the level of resources available to combat the violent crime plaguing the city. "If I put more resources on violent crime, I'd have to take away from other things," he told The Chicago Tribune.
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Re: Do we need a George Orwell app?

Postby MacCruiskeen » Mon Jan 06, 2014 10:14 am

fruhmenschen wrote:Blogging is not behaviour. Behaviour is truth.


fruhmenschen wrote:Do we need a George Orwell ap?


fruhmenschen wrote:Time for yet another shave and yet another haircut and yet another dump on the board


Three in a row.

Three in a row.

Three in a row. Day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after dayafter day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after fucking day.

You just keep blatantly misusing this board by bumping your own nonsensically-titled threads at random with completely random droppings.

To put the cherry on the turd, you also have a user-name drawn from an alleged FBI programme that is clearly a crock of shit and a piece of deliberate disinformation. (As if the FBI hadn't committed enough real crimes worth publicising and discussing.) This has been pointed out to you. Here. Long ago. You never responded and you don't give a damn.

Nordic was wondering a couple of days ago why this place is turning into a Ghost Town. Questions, questions... Certainly it doesn't help that this is fast becoming a place I'm embarrassed to direct anyone else to.
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Re: Do we need a George Orwell app?

Postby fruhmenschen » Mon Jan 06, 2014 2:39 pm

Professor Mathew Cecil just sent me this email

I just wanted to let you know that my book, Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau’s Image, is coming out later this month. Here’s the Amazon page:

http://www.amazon.com/Hoovers-FBI-Fourt ... 0700619461

And here’s the University Press of Kansas page:

http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/cechoo.html
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Re: Do we need a George Orwell app?

Postby fruhmenschen » Tue Jan 07, 2014 3:32 pm

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January 7 2014


http://abcnews.go.com/US/huge-911-fraud ... d=21445783

Huge 9/11 Fraud Case Accuses Retired New York Cops, Firefighters

Huge 9/11 Fraud Case Accuses Retired …

Scores of retired New York City police, fire and corrections officers were arrested today in a crackdown on disability fraud stemming from the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The fraud cost taxpayers millions of dollars, prosecutors claim.

The Manhattan district attorney's office accuses the retired workers, along with their lawyers and doctors, of faking work-related stress, including feigned psychiatric disorders related to 9/11.

Among those busted today was John Minerva, the disability consultant for the Detectives Endowment Association, officials said.

Today's arrests cap a two year investigation, aided by federal investigators, the city's Department of Investigation and the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau.

The alleged fraud cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in improper Social Security benefits.

None of the accused actually suffered from debilitating stress, officials claim. Many were caught working after retirement, a violation of disability benefits.

And some of the retired officers retained their gun permits. Retired officers cannot possess guns if they are being treated for stress.

Most of the arrests in the fraud sweep took place in the city, with others being busted in Florida and elsewhere in New York State.

It was the second 9/11 scam to be revealed this week. On Monday, two New Jersey men pleaded guilty to raising and keeping $50,000 for a Sept. 11 charity that was supposed to help families who lost loved one in the catastrophe.

Thomas Scalgione and Mark Niemczyk never gave any of the more than $50,000 in proceeds to the victims' families or to charities as promised, they told the court.
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Re: Do we need a George Orwell app?

Postby fruhmenschen » Tue Jan 07, 2014 11:39 pm

FBI agents helped murder Vince Foster for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
You do know what to do?

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http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/PO ... foster.php


The Death of Vincent Foster
By Michael Rivero

Evidence Of A Cover-up
INTRODUCTION
This is the story that nobody dares touch.

Despite having reported the discovery of Dr. Haut's signed report confirming the existence of a second wound to Vincent Foster's neck, radio host Rush Limbaugh to this very day refers to Vincent Foster's death as a suicide.

Even Matt Drudge, when presented with the FBI records proving that the FBI fraudulently manufactured Lisa Foster's recognition of the gun found at Fort Marcy Park, refused to get involved, opting instead for a story accusing Sidney Blumenthal of domestic violence (for which Drudge was then sued).

NEW!

Pat Knowlton's audio tapes of Miguel Rodriguez confirming the deceptions and cover-up in the Vince Foster Case.

Part 1 (RealAudio)

Part 2 (RealAudio)

Part 3 (RealAudio)

Part 4 (RealAudio)

Allan Favish's FOIA yields more photos.
Allan Favish's Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit achieved a breakthrough recently when a Federal District Judge ordered 5 of the 10 crime scene Polaroid photographs released. One of these is no doubt the photo of the dark blued steel revolver and Foster's hand previously leaked by the White House to Reuter's News Service. But the other four are photos not publicly seen before.

Here is the judge's order.

[Page 1]Click for full size page 1.

[Page 1]Click for full size page 2.
THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE DEATH OF VINCENT FOSTER
On July 20, 1993, six months to the day after Bill Clinton took office as President of the United States, the White House Deputy Council, Vincent Foster, told his secretary Deborah Gorham, "I'll be right back". He then walked out of his office, after offering his co-worker Linda Tripp, the leftover M&Ms from his lunch tray.

That was the last time Vincent Foster was seen alive.

Contrary to the White House spin, Vincent Foster's connection to the Clinton's was primarily via Hillary, rather than Bill. Vincent and Hillary had been partners together at the rose law firm, and allegations of an ongoing affair had persisted from the Little Rock days to the White House itself.

Vincent Foster had been struggling with the Presidential Blind trust. Normally a trivial matter, the trust had been delayed for almost 6 months and the U.S. trustee's office was beginning to make noises about it. Foster was also the keeper of the files of the Clinton's Arkansas dealings and had indicated in a written memo that "Whitewater is a can of worms that you should NOT open!"

But Vincent's position at the White House did not sit well with him. Only days before, following a public speech stressing the value of personal integrity, he had confided in friends and family that he was thinking of resigning his position. Foster had even written an outline for his letter of resignation, thought by this writer to have been used as the center portion of the fake "suicide note". Foster had scheduled a private meeting with Bill Clinton for the very next day, July 21, 1993 at which it appeared Foster intended to resign.

Vincent Foster had spent the morning making "busy work" in his office and had been in attendance at the White House announcement of Louis Freeh as the new head of the FBI earlier in the day (passing by the checkpoint manned by White House uniformed guard Styles).

This is a key point. The White House is the most secure private residence in the world, equipped with a sophisticated entry control system and video surveillance system installed by the Mitre Corporation. Yet no record exists that Vincent Foster left the White House under his own power on July 20th, 1993. No video of him exiting the building exists. No logbook entry shows he checked out of the White House.

Several hours after he was last seen inside the White House, Vincent Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park, in a Virginia suburb just outside Washington D.C.

The death was ruled a suicide (the first major Washington suicide since Secretary of Defense James Forrestal in 1949), but almost immediately rumors began to circulate that the story of a suicide was just a cover-up for something much worse.

The first witness to find the body insisted that there had been no gun near the body. The memory in Foster's pager had been erased. Critical evidence began to vanish. Many witnesses were harassed. Others were simply ignored. There were even suggestions that the body had been moved, and a Secret Service memo surfaced which reported that Foster's body had been found in his car! The official reports were self-contradictory.
The Looting of Foster's office
While the U.S. Park Police (a unit not equipped for a proper homicide investigation) studied the body, Foster's office at the White House was being looted. Secret Service agent Henry O' Neill watched as Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, carried boxes of papers out of Vincent Foster's office before the Park Police showed up to seal it. Amazing when you consider that the official identification of Vincent Foster's body by Craig Livingstone did not take place until 10PM! Speaking of Craig Livingstone, another Secret Serviceman saw him remove items from Vincent Foster's office in violation of the official seal. Witnesses also saw Bernard Nussbaum in Foster's office as well. Three witnesses noted that Patsy Thomason, director of the White House's Office of Administration, was desperate to find the combination to Vincent Foster's safe. Ms. Thomason finally opened the safe, apparently with the help of a special "MIG" technical team signed into the White House in the late hours. Two envelopes reported to be in the safe by Foster's secretary Deborah Gorham, addressed to Janet Reno and to William Kennedy III, were never seen again. When asked the next day regarding rumors of the safe opening, Mack McLarty told reporters Foster's office did not even have a safe, a claim immediately shot down by former occupants of that office.

The next day, when the Park Police arrived for the official search of Vincent Foster's office, they were shocked to learn that Nussbaum, Thomason and Williams had entered the office. Conflicts channeled through Janet Reno's Department of Justice resulted in the Park Police merely sitting outside Foster's office while Bernard Nussbaum continued his own search of Foster's office. During this search, he opened and upended Vincent Foster's briefcase, showing it to be empty. Three days later, it would be claimed that this same briefcase was where the torn up suicide note was discovered.

The boxes of documents removed from Foster's office by Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, were taken to the private residence area of the White House! Eventually, only 54 pages emerged.

One set of billing records, under subpoena for two years, and thought to have originated in Foster's office, turned up unexpectedly in the private quarters of the White House, with Hillary's fingerprints on them!

So, who ordered the office looting?

Bill Clinton was unavailable, being on camera with Larry King. But Hillary Clinton, who had only the day before diverted her planned return to Washington D.C. to Little Rock, was on the phone from Little Rock to someone at the White House in the moments before the looting took place.
The initial reactions
Back in Little Rock, Foster's friends weren't buying it. Doug Buford, friend and attorney, stated, "...something was badly askew." Foster's brother-in-law, a former congressman, also did not accept that depression was what had been behind the "suicide": "That's a bunch of crap." And Webster Hubbell, former Clinton deputy attorney general, phoned a mutual friend to say, "Don't believe a word you hear. It was not suicide. It couldn't have been."

Outside experts not connected the official investigation also had their doubts.

Vincent J. Scalise, a former NYC detective, Fred Santucci, a former forensic photographer for NYC, and Richard Saferstein, former head of the New Jersey State Crime Lab formed a team and did an investigation of the VWF case for the Western Journalism Center of Fair Oaks, Calif. They arrived at several conclusions:

(1) Homicide cannot and should not be ruled out.

(2) The position of the arms and legs of the corpse were drastically inconsistent with suicide.

(3) Neither of VWF's hand was on the handgrip when it was fired. This is also inconsistent with suicide. The investigators noted that in their 50 years of combined experience they had "never seen a weapon or gun positioned in a suicide's hand in such an orderly fashion."

(4) VWF's body was probably in contact with one or more carpets prior to his death. The team was amazed that the carpet in the trunk of VF's care had not been studied to see whether he had been carried to the park in the trunk of his own car.

(5) The force of the gun's discharge probably knocked VF's glasses flying; however, it is "inconceivable" that they could have traveled 13 feet through foliage to the site where they were found; ergo, the scene probably was tampered with.

(6) The lack of blood and brain tissue at the site suggests VF was carried to the scene. The peculiar tracking pattern of the blood on his right cheek also suggests that he was moved.

Despite numerous official assurances that Vincent Foster really did commit suicide, more and more Americans, over 70% at the last count, no longer believe the official story. TV specials, most notably the one put out by A&E's "Inside Investigations" with Bill Kurtis, have failed to answer the lingering questions, indeed have engaged in deliberate fraud to try to dismiss the evidence that points to a cover-up.
This website
This web site is built primarily from official records, newspaper reports, and other hard data. Careful analysis of those records reveals a pattern of deliberate obfuscation surrounding Vincent Foster's death. This pattern of obfuscation, this cover-up, is a matter that should concern all Americans, not because of what it means for Vincent Foster, but because of what it means for the rest of us.

One thing is for certain. As we approach the fifth anniversary of this crime, it is clear from the amount of resources being brought to bear by the government that there is something about this particular crime that has made those in power very afraid.

With the latest Zogby Poll revealing that the majority of Americans no longer believe the official claim of suicide, the perpetuation of the cover-up must be to prevent an examination of the motive, why was Vincent Foster murdered and his body dumped in Fort Marcy Park?
NEW! Photo of Vince Foster's shirt after he way removed from Fort Marcy Park proves Foster had to have been shot where he was found.

One of the many false trails put out by government disinformation operatives was the claim that Vince Foster really did kill himself but did so someplace embarrassing and his body was moved to Fort Marcy Park post-mortem, explaining away the many inconsistencies in the evidence of a suicide at Fort Marcy Park itself. Contradicting that claim was the observation that, while the body was rather bloodless as found (suggesting that Foster was already dead by other means when a gun was fired into his mouth to simulate a suicide) once paramedics moved the body, blood poured from the wounds, staining Foster's shirt.

The above photo is of Vince Foster's shirt after it had been removed from his body at the Morgue. As can clearly be seen, the process of moving the body resulted in a great deal of blood flow from the head wounds. This proves that the gunshot wound to the head, although most likely post-mortem, was inflicted exactly where the body was found at Fort Marcy Park.
The ABC TV Photograph.
Where's the blood?
On Friday, March 11, 1994, in response to rumors which were even then beginning to circulate regarding Foster's death, ABC News broadcast the following photograph, which had been leaked by the White House to Reuter's news agency. The intent was to reinforce the claim that Foster's death had indeed been a suicide.

The photo did not have the intended effect.

[Foster's Hand]Click for full size picture.

I was not a political activist at the time, nor did I ever intend to become one. My career is in feature film and TV visual effects, which I have been doing for almost thirty years. I know about film fakery. And the instant I saw the above photo on TV I turned to my wife and said to her half jokingly, "This is staged! If I did work this sloppy I wouldn't be working." But the more I thought about it, the less funny it all seemed.

There are several troubling aspects in this photograph, which reveal it to be a staged shot. First and foremost among them the total lack of blood anywhere in the scene.

This lack of blood is the single, strongest proof that Vincent Foster did NOT put the gun into his own mouth and pulls the trigger. Had he done so, the blowback from the gunshot would have coated the gun, hand, and white sleeve of Foster's shirt with a spray of blood and organic matter. None appears in the photo anywhere.

The FBI lab report reveals that even with the most sensitive chemical test available, no blood was found on the gun that Foster (we are told) inserted into his mouth and fired. Not only that, Foster's fingerprints were not on the gun.

This is the crux of the suicide theory put forward by the government, that Vincent Foster, under stress, on a hot July day, put the barrel of a .38 revolver into his mouth and pulled the trigger, and did not leave blood OR FINGERPRINTS on that gun.

Click here for the official documents.
The lack of blood.
Was Foster already dead when the headshot was fired?
One of the key pieces of information that argued against suicide was the lack of blood at the scene.

When the brain is destroyed, the heart will continue to beat on its own, for as long as it has oxygenated blood to feed it. This is why head trauma victims provide most donor hearts. The heart remains alive as long as blood is still in the body.

In the case of a gunshot into the mouth, the bullet has to pass through the sinus cavities. Any child who has been in a schoolyard fight knows how easy it is for the nose to start bleeding and how hard it can be to stop.

Had Foster really shot himself in the mouth, his heart would have continued to beat, pumping most of his blood out through the shattered sinus cavities and the entrance wound in his mouth, as well as out through the supposed exit wound.

But this did not happen. Witnesses at the scene reported a "trickle" of blood from the mouth and nose (one of the tracks appeared to have flowed up hill).
ACTUAL VIDEO OF A SUICIDE BY SHOOTING IN THE MOUTH. (Warning: extremely graphic depiction, not for kids)
As can be seen by the above video, after a gunshot through the head, the heart continues to pump blood out the mouth and nose.

The front of Foster's clothing should have been soaked with blood as the heart continued to beat. This did not happen. This indicates that Foster's heart was already stopped when the gunshot into the mouth was fired to mask the real cause of death.

References regarding how the heart behaves following traumatic brain death.

Brain Damage In Heart Surgery

Ethics in Cardiac Surgery

LIFE CONNECTION OF OHIO -- "Brain Death"

BRAIN DEATH - Diagnosis/clinical bibliography

First Aid Book: Sudden Death
The Fiske Report.
Robert Fiske was the first Independent Council appointed to investigate the Whitewater scandal. For a variety of reasons, including his past association with BCCI (a failed bank involved with the laundering of drug money), Fiske was considered by many unsuitable to investigate the various failed S&L in the Whitewater affair (many of which also appear to have been involved with the laundering of drug money) and Fiske was eventually replaced by Kenneth Starr.

The Preliminary Report On Vincent Foster by Robert Fiske.

Note that Fiske's report was only preliminary. His final report on Vincent Foster remains sealed. When the Wall Street Journal filed a Freedom Of Information Act request to force the release of Fiske's final report, the court, in an unprecedented prior restraint, ordered the Wall Street Journal not to report on the case, or to even mention what the final ruling actually was.

This illegal prior restraint is one of the indicators, which reveals how terrified the government is of the facts behind the death of Vincent Foster.
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Re: Do we need a George Orwell app?

Postby fruhmenschen » Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:20 am

When the FBI asks you to weaken your security so it can spy on your users

Thu, Jan 9, 2014

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Nico Sell is the CEO of Wickr, a privacy-oriented mobile messaging system that's been deliberately designed so that the company can't spy on its users, even if they're ordered to do so. As we know from the Snowden leaks, spooks hate this kind of thing, and spend $250M/year sabotaging security so that they can spy on everyone, all the time.

After a recent presentation, she was approached by an FBI agent who asked her if she'd put a back-door into Wickr.

She declined. What's more, she lectured the agent on the First and Fourth Amendments, and on her family tradition of upholding liberty (her ancestor was a drummer boy in Washington's corps: "Washington thought it was very important to have freedom of information and private correspondence without government surveillance.").

Her lecture concluded, she proceeded to grill the agent. "I asked if he had official paperwork for me, if this was an official request, who his boss was," said Sell. "He backed down very quickly."

Though she didn't budge for the agent, Sell makes it clear that surveillance and security is a complicated issue. "Ten years ago, I'd have said yes," said Sell. "Because if law enforcement asks you to catch bad guys, who wouldn't want to help?"
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