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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 means a constant State of War.


Here's a new war: "cyberwar".

#  "Head of CIA Plans Center To Protect Federal Computers"
#  By Tim Weiner, The New York Times, 6/26/96
#  
#  John Deutch, Director of the CIA, is building a "cyberwar" center in the NSA.
#  
#  Mr. Deutch said cyberwar could become a 21st-century national security threat
#  second only to nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
#  
#  "The electron," Mr. Deutch warned, "is the ultimate precision-guided weapon."

Haven't I heard bad dialogue like this on Mystery Science Theater 3000?

It is simply another in an endless series of requests for funding, for misuse
of our tax money.


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Louis Freeh's FBI:

*   "FBI Scare Tactics", By Richard Moran, The New Yo