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From: fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: long-distance monitoring
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Date: 15 Apr 88 21:39:18 GMT
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In <8804151949.AA15453@bu-cs.bu.edu> Barry Shein writes:
> I suppose part of the problem for NSA et al is not so much hiding the
> fact that they are doing such snooping but hiding any actions they are
> taking based upon such information .. the question of how certain
> information was obtained. It seems like a tightrope walk ..
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Earlier in the 80's analysts/pundits/etc were predicting a wave
of terrorism in the US, and certainly the conditions motivating
terrorists have not changed, but this "wave" never materialized.
How come ?  (I'm not complaining, mind you.)

In newspaper accounts of some trials, there are cryptic referen-
ces to the sources of tips, or to how the government arrived at a
lucky guess about what the bad guys were up to.  If the NSA
*were* dropping hints in the feds' ears, wouldn't there be
various and sundry pressures, and alibis, to camouflage such a
role ?

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