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what was a critical public safety and national security
item the FBI insisted on in the first version of CALEA?

They wanted all cellular phones to continually monitor
the location of the owner, EVEN WHEN NOT IN USE.

Every cellular phone would become a location
tracking monitor for the government.

And why would this be a critical public safety and national security item?

Because:

The NSA/FBI are raving rabid frothing-at-the-mouth lying looneys.

I hope you understand that by now.



*   "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
*   A few months after his appointment as the new director of the Federal
*   Bureau of Investigation, Louis J. Freeh delivered a speech at the National
*   Press Club in Washington.
*   
*   More than two hundred Washington-based reporters, congressional staffers
*   and interested lobbyists had come, and because the speech was carried by
*   C-Span, National Public Radio and the Global Internet Computer Network,
*   and would be the basis for articles in newspapers all over the United
*   States, Freeh was also delivering his message to a much larger national
*   and international audience.
*   
*   "The people of this country are fed up with crime," Freeh declared. "The
*   media report it, the statistics support it, the polls prove it."
*   
*   To drive home his point and authenticate the national menace, Freeh said,
*   "the rate of violent crime has increased 371 percent since 1960 --- that's
*   nine times faster than our population has grown. In the past 30 years,
*   homicides have nearly tripled; robberies and rapes each are up over 500
*   percent; aggravated assaults have increased more than 600 percent."
*   
*   Crime is a white-hot public issue that has been shamelessly exploited by
*   cynical leaders for their own politi