emergence quotes Abdel Hakim AL-Douri's unemployment

lobbyist for CALEA was Louis Freeh, the aggressive new
* director of the FBI. The government's most important investigative
* tool, Freeh said, was "wiretapping, court-authorized 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 Ti