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   From: tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   "Francis A. Miniter" wrote:   
      
   > 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?:)   
   > >>>   
   > >>   
   > >>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?   
   > >   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   So all Al-Qaida need do is blow up the cell phone towers, and they're home   
   free!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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