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first time, NSA had begun turning its massive ear
inward toward its own citizens. With no laws or legislative charter to block its path, the ear continued to turn. P319: The Secret Service, the CIA, the FBI and the DIA submitted entries for the NSA's watch list. The names on the various watch lists ranged from members of radical political groups to celebrities to ordinary citizens involved in protest against their government. Included were such well-known figures as Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverand Ralph Abernathy, Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, and Chicago Seven defendants Abbie Hoffman and David T. Dellinger. A frightening side effect of the watch list program was the tendency of most lists to grow, expanding far beyond their original intent. This multiplier effect was caused by the inclusion of names of people who came in contact with those persons and organizations already on the lists. Because of the NSA's vacuum cleaner approach to intelligence collection --- whereby it sucks into its system the maximum amount of telecommunications and then filters it through an enormous screen of "trigger words" --- analysts end up reviewing telephone calls, telegrams, and telex messages to and from thousands of innocent persons having little or nothing to do with the actual focus of the effort. And when a person made the watch list, any conversations EVEN MENTIONING that person are scooped up. P333: By now, the names of U.S. citizens on NSA's many watch lists for fightin |
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