other glad allied compensations will attach in general from stones

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* lamps, telephone poles, parking meters and empty automobiles parked near
* locations where its targets sometimes strolled. Such an outdoor array
* of surveillance devices planted near the Mulberry Street headquarters
* of John Gotti, for example, was an important weapon on the FBI's long
* and eventually successful investigation of one of New York City's most
* arrogant Mafia bosses.

Jeez, that sounds like plenty of electronic surveillance spy-power to me!

How about you?

The FBI has since come up with a briefcase with a 'targetable array of
microphones' to pick up conversations outside at a long distance.


* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* The leading lobbyist for CALEA was Louis Freeh, the aggressive new
* director of the FBI. The government's most important investigative
* tool, Freeh said, was "wiretapping, court-authorized wiretapping."
*
* Unless remedial steps were taken, he continued, "the country will
* be unable to protect itself from terrorism, violent crime, drug
* trafficking, espionage, kidnapping and other grave crimes."
*
* But is Freeh's frightening vision true?
*
* In fact, at the same time the FBI was telling Congress and the public
* that the new technologies were already preventing them from conducting
* essential wiretaps, senior FBI officials from cities across the United
* States were telling FBI headquarters in Washington THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
* We know this because...[buy the book! Burnham is an American hero.]


Additionally, the FBI/NSA has briefcase-sized devices that can be attached
to any digital telephone company transmission line, and can monitor many
conversations simultaneously.

# "The FBI's Latest Idea: Make Wiretapping Easier"
# By Anthony Ramirez, The New York Times, April 19, 1992
#
# One telecommunications equipment manufacturer said he was puzzled by the
# FBI proposal. "The FBI already has a lot of technolog


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