PIML 96062607 / Forwarded to Patriot Information Mailing List: =================================================================== Date: 25 Jun 96 13:02:44 EDT From: Mike Johnson <102052.3716@CompuServe.COM> Subject: MJN:Wiretaps too Apparently people in the current administration and/or within the FBI may be playing fast and loose with wiretaps as well as files. Why am I not surprised? - Mike/North Central Florida Regional Militia It is safe to assume that any traffic going to or from this address is being recorded, stored and analyzed somewhere by government employees. Any other assumption is *not* *safe*. ----Forwarded Message(s)---- 24-Jun-96 17:16 EDT Sb: Wiretaps, too? Fm: BRENDA JINKINS 383-4248 > INTERNET:BJINKINS@a1.stim.tec.tn.us Can anyone please provide more information about the contents of the Washington Post Magazine article referenced in this post? crossposted from alt.politics.org.fbi Subject: FBI Black Bag Jobs Continue Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 20:52:47 GMT From: shanklin@idsonline.com (carter shanklin) Last year the Justice Department authorized almost 700 wiretaps, outside normal judicial review, as called for in the 4th Amendment to the constitution. This little known but increasingly used authority stems from the authority vested in the Attorney General to authorize wiretaps where national security may be involved. Within ;the Justice Department there is a secretive and not much talked about special section known as the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review. This organization is empowered to issue secret wiretaps under the authority granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. The real problem is that this office has targeted US Citizens and organization who have not been accused or even suspected criminal activity, much less espionage. These kinds of wiretaps, fewer than a 100 a decade ago are becoming increasingly a method of choice for the FBI to use when it wants a quick and dirty surveillance job done which is totally secret and the victim may in fact never know it occurred. While most of the targets of these wiretaps and surveillance techniques are foreign embassies or foreign terrorists groups, increasingly American citizens and organizations have been targeted, usually without reasons which would sufficient to obtain a wiretap through the normal judicial process. Congress knows about this, but for now has chosen not to do anything to reign in the Department of Justice. A more complete story about this matter is reported in the June 22, 1996 issue of the The Washington Post Magazine, by Jim Mcgee and Brian Duffy. I highly recommend that you obtain a copy of this publication and read all about it for yourself. ============================================================================= This mailing list is processed through Majordomo at Oakland University. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send electronic mail to majordomo@oak.oakland.edu. In the message body put: unsubscribe okcty =================================================================== * Patriot Information Mailing List * http://constitution.org/piml/piml.htm * A service to help inform those who have an active interest in * returning our federal and state governments to limited, * constitutional government * Send messages for consideration and possible posting to * butterb@sagenet.net (Bill Utterback). * To subscribe or unsubscribe, send message with subject line * "subscribe patriot" or "unsubscribe patriot" * Forwarded messages sent on this mailing list are NOT verified. * See World's Smallest Political Quiz: www.self-gov.org/quiz.html * Libertarian is to LIBERTY as librarian is to library (DePena) * PIML grants permission to copy and repost this message * in its entirety with headers and trailers left intact.