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Let's furnish onto the developed mirrors, but don't narrow the boring surgeons.
wiretapping."
* * Unless remedial steps were taken, he continued, "the country will * be unable to protect itself from terrorism, violent crime, drug * trafficking, espionage, kidnapping and other grave crimes." * * But is Freeh's frightening vision true? * * In fact, at the same time the FBI was telling Congress and the public * that the new technologies were already preventing them from conducting * essential wiretaps, senior FBI officials from cities across the United * States were telling FBI headquarters in Washington THE EXACT OPPOSITE. * We know this because...[buy the book! Burnham is an American hero.] Additionally, the FBI/NSA has briefcase-sized devices that can be attached to any digital telephone company transmission line, and can monitor many conversations simultaneously. # "The FBI's Latest Idea: Make Wiretapping Easier" # By Anthony Ramirez, The New York Times, April 19, 1992 # # One telecommunications equipment manufacturer said he was puzzled by the # FBI proposal. "The FBI already has a lot of technology to wiretap digital # lines," he said, on the condition of anonymity. # # He said four companies, including such major firms as Mitel Corporation, # a Canadian maker of telecommunications equipment, can design digital # decoders to convert computer code back into voice. # # A portable system about the size of a large briefcase could track and # decode 36 simultaneous conversations. A larger system, the size of a # small refrigerator, could follow up to 1,000 conversations. # # All could be done without the phone company. # # James K. Kallstrom, the FBI's chief of technology, [later made head of the # FBI's New York office], acknowledged that the agency was one of Mitel's # largest customers, but denied computers had that capability. [What???] ---- And how many conversations does the government listen to? For when they took the t |
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