--- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 16:31:37 -0700 To: declanat_private From: David Theroux <DTherouxat_private> Subject: Re: FC: I've left Wired News and have a new job Dear Declan, Congratulations on your new post! Please also forward me your snail mail addresses in DC and SF. Also, could you please post a notice for the C-SPAN2 airings of our recent Independent Policy Forum with JAMES BAMFORD on the NSA? For your review, I am adding below the info. Best regards, David -- David J. Theroux Founder and President The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA 94621-1428 510-632-1366 Phone 510-568-6040 Fax DTherouxat_private http://www.independent.org ---------------- Dear Friend, With the recent revelations about U.S. intelligence failures regarding the tragedy of 9/11, we are pleased to announce that starting this Sunday, C-SPAN2/Book TV will begin showing our very timely Independent Policy Forum event, "Big Brother is Watching," <http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/020606ipf2.html> held before a capacity crowd at The Independent Institute with investigative journalist JAMES BAMFORD (author of BODY OF SECRETS: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385499086/theindepeende-20>): * Sunday, June 16, at 6:35 a.m. Pacific Time (9:35 a.m. Eastern) * Sunday, June 16, at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time (6:30 p.m. Eastern) * Monday, June 17, at 3:35 a.m. Pacific Time (6:35 a.m. Eastern) Changes in the schedule may be posted at: <http://www.booktv.org/>. Among the many highlights of Bamford's talk: * An overview of the little-known National Security Agency, which monitors communications around the globe, and -- with more than 30,000 employees and an annual budget exceeding $5 billion -- is by far the world's largest intelligence agency. * For more than three decades prior to 1975, but without a search warrant, the NSA monitored every telegram sent to or from the United States through Western Union. * During Bamford's research for his book, BODY OF SECRETS, he obtained documents related to "Operation Northwoods," a plan drawn up and approved by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in the early 1960s to commit covert terrorist assaults upon Americans to generate popular support for a war against Cuba. * The creation of a new Department of Homeland Security will accelerate the threat to civil liberties posed by the government's "security-industrial complex." * Despite its size and budget, the volume of electronic communications worldwide routinely overwhelms the bureaucratic NSA's ability to process the information it gathers in enough time to protect Americans. Indeed, the day following Bamford's talk at The Independent Institute, a news report claimed that the NSA monitored a pre-Sept. 11th telephone conversation between hijackers Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and Mohamed Atta, and this information was never passed along. See "Another U.S. agency had clues before Sept. 11, some officials say," (MERCURY NEWS, 6/7/02) at <http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/news/3419903.htm>. If you don't have television access to C-SPAN2/Book TV, you can watch the program on-line at the scheduled time at: <http://www.booktv.org/watch/>. In addition, transcripts, audio tapes, and videos of this program can be ordered directly from The Independent Institute by visiting the following web page: <http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/020606ipf2.html>. We hope that you will find this important and very timely program of particular interest and value. Best regards, David J. Theroux Founder and President The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA 95621-1428 510-632-1366 Phone 510-568-6040 Fax Dtherouxat_private http://www.independent.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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