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*   The GSA opposed CALEA [FBI code name: "Operation Root Canal"], stating
*   "the proposed bill would have to have the FCC or other agency approve or
*   reject equipment mainly on the basis of whether the FBI had the capacity
*   to wiretap it. The GSA further stated this would weaken security." [40]

The FBI and Military are EXEMPT from any Key Recovery crypto requirements,
BECAUSE IT WOULD SERIOUSLY WEAKEN NATIONAL SECURITY.

CALEA even directs cable TV companies to restructure themselves for spying.
What??? Why does the government want to see traffic BEFORE it reaches the
Internet or public telephone networks?


CALEA will give the FBI "legal" domestic listening posts.

:   The Washington Post Magazine, June 23 1996
:   "Government surveillance, terrorism and the U.S. Constitution"
:   from Main Justice, by Jim McGee and Brian Duffy, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9
:   
:   The FBI is growing in tandem with the NSA. With the help of the National
:   Security Agency, the U.S. eavesdropping bureaucracy that spans the globe,
:   the FBI operates a super-secret facility in New York code-named Megahut
:   that is linked to the other FBI listening posts.
:
:   After the OKC bombing, Janet Reno and Louis Freeh asked Congress to raise
:   to 3,000 the number of FBI agents working counter-intelligence and counter-
:   terrorism.
:
:   With the new legislation, the funding for just the FBI's counter-intelli-
:   gence/terror goals is now ONE BILLION DOLLARS a year, and their activities
:   will rise to a LEVEL HIGHER THAN AT ANY TIME DURING THE COLD WAR.

1984


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