This is just an example of what the FBI really is. Peace,
Arlene Johnson Publisher/Author http://www.truedemocracy.net -----Forwarded Message----- >From: John Perna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jul 9, 2006 10:59 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [TheIlluminati] FBI plans new Net-tapping push > > FBI plans new Net-tapping push > (A move to make current practices legal) > > By Declan McCullagh >http://news.com.com/FBI+plans+new+Net-tapping+push/2100-1028_3-6091942.html >Story last modified Sat Jul 08 06:48:47 PDT 2006 > >The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service >providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers >of networking gear to build in backdoors for eavesdropping, CNET News.com has >learned. > FBI Agent Barry Smith distributed the proposal at a private meeting last > Friday with industry representatives and indicated it would be introduced by > Sen. Mike DeWine, an Ohio Republican, according to two sources familiar with > the meeting. > The draft bill would place the FBI's Net-surveillance push on solid legal > footing. At the moment, it's ensnared in a legal challenge from universities > and some technology companies that claim the Federal Communications > Commission's broadband surveillance directives exceed what Congress has > authorized. > The FBI claims that expanding the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law > Enforcement Act is necessary to thwart criminals and terrorists who have > turned to technologies like voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP. > "The complexity and variety of communications technologies have dramatically > increased in recent years, and the lawful intercept capabilities of the > federal, state and local law enforcement community have been under continual > stress, and in many cases have decreased or become impossible," according to > a summary accompanying the draft bill. > Complicating the political outlook for the legislation is an ongoing debate > over allegedly illegal surveillance by the National Security > Administration--punctuated by several lawsuits challenging it on > constitutional grounds and an unrelated proposal to force Internet service > providers to record what Americans are doing online. One source, who asked > not to be identified because of the sensitive nature of last Friday's > meeting, said the FBI viewed its CALEA expansion as a top congressional > priority for 2007. > Breaking the legislation down >The 27-page proposed CALEA amendments seen by CNET News.com would: > � Require any manufacturer of "routing" and "addressing" hardware to offer > upgrades or other "modifications" that are needed to support Internet > wiretapping. Current law does require that of telephone switch > manufacturers--but not makers of routers and network address translation > hardware like Cisco Systems and 2Wire. > � Authorize the expansion of wiretapping requirements to "commercial" > Internet services including instant messaging if the FCC deems it to be in > the "public interest." That would likely sweep in services such as in-game > chats offered by Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming system as well. > � Force Internet service providers to sift through their customers' > communications to identify, for instance, only VoIP calls. (The language > requires companies to adhere to "processing or filtering methods or > procedures applied by a law enforcement agency.") That means police could > simply ask broadband providers like AT&T, Comcast or Verizon for wiretap > info--instead of having to figure out what VoIP service was being used. > � Eliminate the current legal requirement saying the Justice Department > must publish a public "notice of the actual number of communications > interceptions" every year. That notice currently also must disclose the > "maximum capacity" required to accommodate all of the legally authorized taps > that government agencies will "conduct and use simultaneously." > Jim Harper, a policy analyst at the free-market Cato Institute and member of > a Homeland Security advisory board, said the proposal would "have a negative > impact on Internet users' privacy." > "People expect their information to be private unless the government meets > certain legal standards," Harper said. "Right now the Department of Justice > is pushing the wrong way on all this." > Neither the FBI nor DeWine's office responded to a request for comment > Friday afternoon. > DeWine has relatively low approval ratings--47 percent, according to > SurveyUSA.com--and is enmeshed in a fierce battle with a Democratic > challenger to retain his Senate seat in the November elections. DeWine is a > member of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee charged with overseeing electronic > privacy and antiterrorism enforcement and is a former prosecutor in Ohio. > A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., decided 2-1 last > month to uphold the FCC's extension of CALEA to broadband providers, and it's > not clear what will happen next with the lawsuit. Judge Harry Edwards wrote > in his dissent that the majority's logic gave the FCC "unlimited authority to > regulate every telecommunications service that might conceivably be used to > assist law enforcement." > The organizations behind the lawsuit say Congress never intended CALEA to > force broadband providers--and networks at corporations and universities--to > build in central surveillance hubs for the police. The list of organizations > includes Sun Microsystems, Pulver.com, the American Association of Community > Colleges, the Association of American Universities and the American Library > Association. > If the FBI's legislation becomes law, it would derail the lawsuit because > there would no longer be any question that Congress intended CALEA to apply > to the Internet. > > > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/vseplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! 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