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THE NECESSITY FOR STRONG PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN LOCAL, STATE,
!   FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IS MORE URGENT.


*   Electronic Privacy Information Center, http://www.epic.org
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*   "As a means of espionage, writs of assistance and general warrants
*   are but puny instruments of tyranny and oppression when compared
*   with wiretapping."  ---Mr. Justice Brandeis, 277 U.S. 438 (6/4/1928)
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*      European Union and FBI launch a global surveillance system
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*   The EU, in cooperation of the FBI of the USA, is launching a system of
*   global surveillance of communications to combat "serious crime" and to
*   protect "national security".
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*   But to do this they are creating a system which can monitor everyone
*   and everything.
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*   At the first meeting of the new Council of Justice and Home Affairs
*   Ministers in Brussels on 29-30 November 1993 they adopted the following
*   Resolution on "the interception of telecommunications" which speaks for
*   itself and reproduced here in full:
*
#   CONFIDENTIAL MEMO
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#   "COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON THE INTERCEPTION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS"
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#   The Council:
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#   1) calls upon the expert group to compare the requirements of the Member
#      States of the Union with those of the FBI;
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#   2) agrees that the requirements of the Member States of the Union will be
#      conveyed to the third countries which attended the FBI meeting in
#      Quantico and were mentioned in the memorandum approved by the Ministers
#      at their meeting in Copenhagen (Sweden, Norway, Finland [countries
#      applying for accession to the European Communities], the USA and
#      Canada), in order to avoid a di