[103968] in Cypherpunks
American Justice Threat List
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Wed Oct 7 11:12:29 1998
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 10:26:47 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Reply-To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Some of the Justice/FBI Wish List legislative requests,
outlined by Rep. Bob Barr a few days ago, are being
implemented in two recent docs:
1. House/Senate Conference Report on HR3694,
Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 1999:
http://jya.com/hr105-780.txt (108K)
An excerpt from this report, Foreign Intelligence and
International Terrorism Investigations, describes
expanded wiretap and encryption provisions:
http://jya.com/fiiti.htm (36K)
Note the planned use of "volunteers" to assist Justice
with encryption and other features added to original bills
by the House/Senate conference, in line with Barr's
prediction.
2. The International Crime and Anti-Terrorism
Amendments for 1998, expands foreign action
powers, broadens seizures and other provisions:
http://jya.com/s2536.txt (38K)
What these confirm is the use of the threat of terrorism
to rapidly eliminate the separation between foreign and
domestic intelligence, military and law enforcement
powers.
While still mostly aimed at foreign-originated threats,
the provisions now make it possible to turn the full
kennel of the dogs of war loose on disobedient US
citizens lumped with foreigners impossible to
understand except as threats to American Justice.
