[IP] Rummy LOVES covert citizen-tracking!

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:49:08 -0800
To: "<Dave Farber:;>"
Subject: Rummy LOVES covert citizen-tracking!

Remember the TIA - Total Information Awareness - program pursued by
Irangate's Poindexter, a few years ago ... to collect comprehensive
information on all [previously presumed innocent] American citizens?
That was begrudgingly killed after word of it leaked [flooded] all
over the Internet, and eventually even dribbled onto Fox News?

Well ... you didn't REALLY think this administration's political
appointees were going to give up on such a wonderful
citizen-profiling scheme as that ... did you?

And apparently without any knowledge or approval by Congress, either.
Apparently, the much-tauted "rule of law" doesn't apply to those in
power.

--jim


>USA
>
>RUMMY'S PERSONAL SS BRANCH IN THE NEWS
>
>
>"Rummy", US Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, has, once
>again, gotten himself into serious trouble by ignoring the US
>Congress despite the fact that it is dominated by his right-
>wing Republican Party colleagues. Powerful Republican Senator
>John McCain (R-Ariz.) made his usualy understated concerning
>Rummy by saying: "I'm always sorry to read about things in 'The
>Washington Post' when they affect a committee [the Senate Armed
>Services Committee] that I am a member of."
>
>Yes, Rummy has created a new and secret Pentagon espionage unit
>called the Strategic Support Branch, and forgot to tell anyone.
>   ...(cut)...
>------------------
>
>It had no more than the above so I did a Google search:
>
>http://www.google.com/search?q=Strategic+Support+Branch
>
>Start your morning out right...
>
>D
>
>
>"No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it
>all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one
>exactly the functions he is competent to. Let the national government be
>entrusted with the defence of the nation, and its foreign and federal
>relations; the State governments with the civil rights, laws, police, and
>administration of what concerns the State generally; the counties with the
>local concerns of the counties, and each ward direct the interests within
>itself. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the great
>national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the
>administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every one
>what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. What
>has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has
>ever existed under the sun?"
>
>-- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
>
>http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch4s34.html


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