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   From: miniter@attglobalZZ.net   
      
   Tim Bruening wrote:   
      
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   > "Francis A. Miniter" wrote:   
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   >>Tim Bruening wrote:   
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   >>>Is anyone from the CIA reading this post?:)   
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   >>No, No, NO. Not the CIA.  Not DDI.  The NSA.  (W has them reading all our   
   >>communications  - without warrants, which the Foreign Intelligence   
   Surveillance   
   >>Act punishes on conviction with a 5 year prison sentence.  In other words, he   
   >>has committed an impeachable offense.)   
   >>Read Bamford, "Body of Secrets".  The NSA is using computers capable of   
   >>extracting from the enormous flow of audio communications (in virtually any   
   >>language) as well as digital commuications, those which contain certain   
   words,   
   >>e.g., assassinate, president, etc.  You can probably make the NSA watch list   
   >>just by having a test phone conversation in which you use enough sensitive   
   >>words.  Think of it, be the George Carlin of the electronic era - publish a   
   >>monologue on Seven 'Dirty War' Words.  Maybe in place of "fuck", we now have   
   >>"hijack" [and always remember to be careful greeting friends at airports].   
   >>Maybe "Allah" gets the No. 2 spot on the banned word parade.   
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   > Why did the government have so much trouble finding some of the hurricane   
   victims   
   > with all that surveillance?   
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   The phones were out - washed out, literally.  So were the cell towers that   
   would   
   pick up cell phone calls (electricity to run them was gone).  It was the worst   
   modern communications breakdown that I can think of.  On 9-11 a similar, but   
   much smaller, problem occurred in southern Manhattan.  Ground type phone   
   service   
   and everything that depended on it went out for some time.  But because the   
   attack was limited, cell phone service remained open.  It was at least a month   
   before I could contact the federal courts in Manhattan.  If I remember   
   correctly, even the NYSE had to run out of an emergency location in Greenwich,   
   Connecticut.  But they were at least prepared for disaster.  New Orleans was   
   just hanging out there, and, sadly, still is.   
      
      
   Francis A. Miniter   
      
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