Newsgroup: it.scienza.ambiente
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said, "Another important safeguard to the privacy of communications
!   was the continuous review of NSA's activities by the Senate and House
!   intelligence committees."
Congressional oversite in real-time was non-existent.
Remember Ronald "I am a Contra" Reagan?
#   U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, March 13, 1987
#   
#   Dear [Guy],
#   
#       Your letter of February 25th in which you inquired about the
#   association between Mr. Frank Varelli and the FBI has been received.
#   
#       An internal FBI inquiry is currently ongoing into the activities of
#   an Agent associated with Mr. Varelli who left the FBI following an earlier
#   administrative inquiry. For that reason, it would be premature at this
#   point to respond to any questions concerning the matter.
#   
#   Sincerely,
#   
#       William M. Baker
#       Assistant Director
#       Office of Congressional and Public Affairs
#
#   Bicentennial of the United States Constitution (1787-1987)
*   [NJ] The Star-Ledger, Friday, January 29, 1988
*   
*   The documents, released Wednesday, showed that the original target of the
*   FBI probe was CISPES, but that the investigation broadened to include
*   more than 100 other groups that opposed Reagan administration policy in
*   Nicaragua and El Salvador.
*   
*   Despite the long investigation, no criminal charges were ever brought
*   against any of the groups or their members.
*   
*   An FBI statement issued Wednesday said the agency only investigated
*   suspected crimes, not political beliefs or constitutionally protected
*   freedom of speech.
*   
*   Oliver Revell, the FBI's executive assistant director, said that the
*   FBI did not investigate CISPES because of its political activities,

*
*   Due to their new 'Mexicanization policy':
*   Mexico became the main gateway into the United States for illegal
*   narcotics, with the amount of cocaine making the journey climbing to
*   an estimated 210 tons last year.
*
*   Mexico's drug arrests plunged nearly 65 percent, from 27,369 the year
*   before the policy changes to 9,728 last year, according to data that
*   the Mexican government supplied to the State Department.
*
*   Cocaine seizures in Mexico were cut in half, dropping from more than
*   50 tons in 1993 to slightly more than 24 tons in each of the last two
*   years -- the smallest amounts since 1988, Mexican government figures
*   show.
*
*   The GAO report charges that Mexico's greatest problem is, in
*   fact, the "widespread, endemic corruption" throughout its law
*   enforcement agencies. Earlier this month, in an indictment of his own
*   department, Attorney General Lozano fired 737 members of his federal
*   police force -- 17 percent of his entire corps -- saying they did not
*   have "the ethical profile" required for the job. In a recent meeting
*   with foreign reporters, Lozano said it could take 15 years to clean up
*   the force.
*
*   In November 1993, President Clinton signed Presidential Decision Directive
*   No. 14, shifting U.S. anti-drug efforts away from intercepting cocaine as
*   it passed through Mexico and the Caribbean, and, instead, attacking the
*   drug supply at its sources in Colombia, Bolivia and Peru.
 
The President himself ordered them to stop checking!!! This is in the same
leadership vein as Reagan declaring himself a "Contra".
 
And why did President Clinton change strategy?
 
He didn't have much choice. The Mexicans didn't want to work with us anymore.
 
We greatly pissed them off. U.S. law enforcement literally knows no limits.
 
*   The United States subsequently arranged for a Mexican doctor involved
*   in a murder, Humberto Alvarez Machain, to be kidnapped from Mexico and
*   spirited to the United St


:   Date: 05 Jun 1997 19:01:58 -0400
:   Subject: EPIC: Clinton Endorses Privacy Rights
:   
:   In a commencement address at Morgan State University on May 18,
:   President Clinton called privacy "one of our most cherished freedoms"
:   and said that technology should not "break down the wall of privacy and
:   autonomy free citizens are guaranteed in a free society."
Is President Clinton being honest?
He supports Clipper III and ECHELON's legal domestic extension CALEA.
The Washington Post, July 7, 1996: the Clinton Administration has sharply
increased use of Federal telephone wiretaps and other electronic surveillance
and officials estimate it will continue to grow.
What do you think?
    Whitfield Diffie, Distinguished Engineer---Security at Sun Microsystems:
    "An essential element of freedom is the right to privacy, a right that
    cannot be expected to stand against an unremitting technological attack."
One cannot come up with a more 'unremitting technological