December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Bloodgate
by Joseph 'Anonymous' Howe 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Vince Foster suicide linked to Arkansas tainted plasma sales Mark Kennedy The Ottawa Citizen The controversy over how a U.S. firm collected tainted blood from Arkansas prison inmates and shipped it to Canada has spread to Vince Foster -- U.S. President Bill Clinton's personal confidant who committed suicide in 1993. Mr. Foster, a boyhood friend of Mr. Clinton's, was one of the president's most trusted advisers. As a corporate lawyer in Arkansas, he worked in the same law office as Hillary Rodham Clinton and became a close colleague of hers. When Mr. Clinton left Arkansas for the White House in early 1993, he called on Mr. Foster -- known as an earnest individual with high ethical standards -- to join him as deputy White House counsel. Mr. Foster obliged, also remaining the Clintons' personal lawyer. Now, five years after his mysterious death, two developments have prompted questions about Mr. Foster's knowledge of the U.S. company's prison-blood collection scheme: - There are signs that Mr. Foster tried to protect the company called Health Management Associates (HMA) more than a decade ago in a lawsuit. - And a major U.S. daily newspaper recently reported that Mr. Foster may have been worried about the tainted-blood scandal, which was just emerging as a contentious issue in Canada, when he killed himself in July 1993. Mr. Clinton was governor of Arkansas when the Canadian blood supply was contaminated in the early and mid-1980s. He was familiar with the operations of the now-defunct HMA, the Arkansas firm given a contract by Mr. Clinton's state administration to provide medical care to prisoners. In the process, HMA was also permitted by the state to collect prisoners' blood and sell it elsewhere. HMA's president in the mid-1980s, Leonard Dunn, was a friend of Mr. Clinton's and a political ally. Later, Mr. Dunn was a Clinton appointee to the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission and he was among the senior members of Mr. Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial re-election team. The contaminated prisoners' plasma -- used to create special blood products for hemophiliacs -- is believed to have been infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. As well, it's likely the plasma was contaminated with hepatitis C. Any information linking Mr. Foster to HMA and its blood program is bound to raise more questions about how much Mr. Clinton knew. Michael Galster, a medical practitioner who did contract work for the prison system, has revealed to the Citizen that Mr. Foster once approached him in the mid 1980s to ask for a favour. At the time, Mr. Clinton's administration and HMA were facing a $12-million lawsuit from a prisoner whose infected leg had been amputated at the hip in 1982. The inmate was claiming that poor medical care by an HMA doctor -- who had been working in the prison despite being denied a permanent licence to practice by the state medical board -- had resulted in the needless amputation. Mr. Galster, an expert in prosthetics, says HMA's medical director had asked him to build a special artificial leg for the prisoner in the hope that it would lead to an out-of-court settlement. Mr. Galster refused to get involved, and was visited several weeks later at his office by Mr. Foster, who appealed again for his assistance. "The purpose of his being there was to convince me to take this, smooth it over and everybody would be happy," says Mr. Galster, who has written a fictionalized account of the prison-blood collection saga, called Blood Trail. "I refused him. He said, 'I understand your predicament, but this could make it difficult for you to get a future state contract.' "If it's like the past state contracts I've had, I don't need any," Mr. Galster says he replied. "He (Foster) kind of laughed and said 'OK, I appreciate your time.' " It was the only time the two met, but Mr. Galster now says he believes Mr. Foster was trying to protect both Mr. Clinton and HMA from public embarrassment. The questions surrounding Mr. Foster became even more intriguing when, several days ago, the New York Post published an article entitled "The tainted blood mystery" by one of its columnists, Maggie Gallagher. She reported on how the Citizen had broken a lengthy story in mid-September about the Arkansas prison-blood scheme. Most significantly, Ms. Gallagher wrote that the story suddenly cast new meaning upon "a strange little memory fragment" that had been "meaningless in itself." Citing a source who asked not to be identified, Ms. Gallagher reported that a day or two after Mr. Foster died on July 20, 1993, someone called a little-known phone number at the White House counsel's office where Mr. Foster had worked. "The man said he had some information that might be important," wrote Ms. Gallagher. "Something had upset Vince Foster greatly just days before he died. Something about 'tainted blood' that both Vince Foster and President Clinton knew about, this man said." Mr. Foster's mysterious death spawned a political controversy from the moment that police, responding to an anonymous 911 caller, found his body in a national park in Washington, D.C. Police concluded that Mr. Foster had stood there coatless in the late-afternoon heat, inserted the muzzle of an antique Colt 38. revolver into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Immediately, conspiracy theorists began spreading rumours that Mr. Foster had been murdered. But independent counsel Robert Fiske (a special prosecutor who examined the Whitewater scandal before being replaced by Kenneth Starr) conducted his own review and agreed with police that it was suicide. It was believed that Mr. Foster had been suffering from depression and was especially perturbed by a brewing scandal in which he was embroiled. In the so-called Travelgate fiasco, Clinton aides had fired several veteran White House travel-office employees as part of an alleged attempt to give the lucrative travel business to Arkansas cronies. However, Ms. Gallagher's column has raised questions over whether Mr. Foster was distressed about something he knew regarding tainted blood, and whether this anxiety contributed to his suicide. In Canada, the summer of 1993 was a critical period. A Commons committee, which had conducted a brief review of the tainted blood scandal, had just released its report in May. Its first recommendation called for a major "public inquiry" to conduct a "full examination of the events of the 1980s" when the Canadian blood supply became contaminated with AIDS. Indeed, on Sept. 16 -- eight weeks after Foster's death -- the federal government announced the public inquiry, to be headed by Justice Horace Krever. During the course of his work, Justice Krever unearthed the Arkansas prison-blood collection scheme and wrote about it in his final report last year. However, no mention was made of Mr. Clinton until last month's story in the Citizen, which drew on documents obtained from Arkansas State Police files.

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IP: A Poll / A Thousand Lies (satire)
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: "Tom Simmons" <simmons(a)camasnet.com> Subject: IP: A Poll / A Thousand Lies (satire) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:48:22 -0700 To: "Ignition Point" <ignition-point(a)pobox.com> Editor, I took my own cross-sectional, wholly "scientific" poll on Clinton's impeachment/resignation. In order to be truly "scientific", I followed these rules: 1) Choose a densely populated area of a major city in order to get a poll result that is not one-sided. 2) There are 25 known minority cultures in the U.S., including, in "random" order, but not limited to Indian, African, Mexican, Oriental, Caucasian, gray wolf, spotted owl, and grizzly bear. In order to ensure that minorities are not treated as minorities, enforce strict parameters of 96 percent combined minority and 4 percent Caucasian. 3) Eliminate the following from the poll to preclude prejudice: a.) anyone who did not vote for Clinton. It would not be fair to include those who are obviously biased already. b.) anyone who thinks a Newt Gingrich is a slimy lizard. c.) anyone who doesn't think Newt Gingrich is a slimy lizard. d.) all who believe there is such a thing as "sin". e.) all who have ever used or heard the phrase " moral authority ". f.) anyone who believes that a document as old as the Constitution should matter, at this point. g.) anyone who believes someone with the nickname Slick Willy, caught in a thousand lies, might not be telling the truth now. h.) anyone who has ever questioned the actions of the government and is still living or is not imprisoned. Using these guidelines as promoted by the United Pollsters / Young Urban Research Specialists, commonly known as UPYURS, the results were astoundingly accurate. When asked if Clinton is doing a good job, 7335 percent answered "yes", although when asked to be more specific, 8223 percent hadn't the foggiest idea what his job duties are. As to whether he should resign, 14243 percent answered " no ". A breakdown analysis revealed that, among those not eliminated by the above fairness rules, 62,786,091 work for the Clinton administration, 24,892,456 cannot speak English, 12,873,612 bear fur, and there was one token conservative. In a completely unrelated question, the same broadband group was asked whether Hitler should be posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...... Tom Simmons ***************************************************************** ***** The most formidable weapon against oppression and tyranny is not bullets, for their use is as a last resort, nor hiding in the mountains, for there is no safe haven from tyranny, nor foolish martyrdom for freedom's sake. It is an informed and involved citizenry. This IS our only hope.Get involved. Tom Simmons ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Different Approaches to Privacy Issue: OECD
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Different Approaches to Privacy Issue: OECD Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 16:28:03 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: USIA http://www.usia.gov/current/news/latest/98100904.clt.html?/products/washfile /newsitem.shtml 09 October 1998 OECD CONFERENCE ACCEPTS DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO PRIVACY ISSUE (Resolved authentication issue on electronic signatures) (400) By Bruce Odessey USIA Staff Correspondent Ottawa -- A conference of 29 industrialized countries for promoting electronic commerce has resolved a controversy between the United States and the European over Internet privacy by accepting both points of view. The United States contended industry should be left to manage the problem by itself, but the European Union had demanded a government regulatory approach. "The adversity of views can produce compatible solutions," said John Manley, Canadian minister of industry, who presided over the October 7-9 conference of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The language approved by the OECD said the governments "encourage the adoption of privacy policies, whether implemented by legal, self-regulatory, administrative or technological means." In a statement issued in Washington U.S. Commerce Secretary William Daley praised the conference work. "Our self-regulatory approach can co-exist with approaches taken by other governments so long as we focus on our common objective -- effective privacy protection," Daley said. Again, on the issue of authenticating e-commerce signatures and enforcing Internet contracts, the OECD was comfortable with different approaches. The governments declared they would "take a non-discriminatory approach to electronic authentication from other countries." The three-day conference held in Ottawa, Canada, was the first one held by the OECD to include representatives from business, labor and consumer groups as well as non-member governments. Business representatives expressed satisfaction with the outcome, but representatives of consumer groups were skeptical or hostile. The OECD staff is required to complete draft guidelines in 1999 on consumer protection. The OECD emphasized development "of effective market driven self-regulatory mechanisms that include input from consumer representatives." But consumer advocates insisted that only government-to-government agreements can protect consumer interests when shoddy goods are ordered over the Internet and delivered across national borders. The conference also took some crucial decisions on taxation. Notably the governments agreed to apply existing taxes to electronic commerce and not to develop new taxes. They also agreed to impose taxes at the place of consumption and not at the place of production and to work out problems in defining the place of consumption. OECD Director-General Donald Johnston said he expected some sort of follow up meeting at the working level and not at the ministerial level within a year. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Congress Poised To Approve Digital Copyright Law
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Congress Poised To Approve Digital Copyright Law Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 18:41:50 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Fox News - Reuters Congress Poised To Approve Digital Copyright Law 3.08 p.m. ET (1909 GMT) October 9, 1998 WASHINGTON Congress was expected to complete work later Friday on legislation to update copyright law for the digital age, after removing a controversial provision granting new rights to databases. The bill, which the Senate approved Thursday and the House will consider Friday, implements provisions of two international treaties adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 1996. Software makers, movie studios, book publishers and other creators of copyrighted works have pushed hard for the legislation. They feared that as their products increasingly became available on the Internet in digital form, pirates and criminals would be able easily to make and sell illegal copies. The legislation creates criminal penalties for anyone who disables high-tech, anti-piracy protections, such as encryption, used to block illegal copying. The bill forbids the manufacture, import, sale or distribution of devices or services used for circumvention, as well. "This was a huge win for us,'' said Richard Taylor, spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America. The movie industry will depend heavily on anti-piracy technology for movies distributed in all manner of formats, he said. A variety of exceptions were also included at the request of libraries, scientists and universities as well as some manufacturers of consumer electronic devices. They feared the law would prevent some kinds of research and would unfairly limit "fair use,'' the central principle of existing copyright law allowing copies to be made for educational and other noncommercial purposes. The exceptions include allowing circumvention if done for computer security testing, encryption research or limited kinds of computer software development. Internet surfers could also circumvent in limited ways to protect their privacy and parents could circumvent to monitor their children's travels through cyberspace. "What we've really been fighting about for the last few months was the exceptions,'' said Jonathan Band, a lawyer at Morrison & Foerster who worked with groups seeking to protect fair use. Band criticized Congress for criminalizing devices instead of actions only and for ignoring a person's motives for circumventing. "Given that Congress chose to go about it entirely the wrong way, it ended up pretty well,'' he said. In addition, at the urging of Band's group and others, the anti-circumvention laws will not go into effect for two years, until the Librarian of Congress, with advice from the Commerce Department, decides whether additional exceptions need to be made. Such exceptions would be reconsidered in a recurring process every three years, at which time new exceptions could also be created. The bill also defined broad freedom from liability for online and Internet service providers, like America Online , which otherwise might have been held financially liable for copyright infringement by one of their millions of customers. Under the bill, service providers will not be held liable for violations they do not know of but if notified by a copyright holder, must take rapid action to shut down the alleged violator. However, if the copyright holder fails to pursue the claim in court within a few weeks, the alleged violator has the right to demand that online access be restored. The controversial database provision, that was added at the last minute to the House version of the bill by North Carolina Republican Rep. Howard Coble, was dropped by a conference committee of members of both chambers. The provision would have overturned a Supreme Court ruling and granted copyright protection for the first time to databases assembled out of facts that themselves were common knowledge and not protected by copyright law. "The library community is extremely grateful that a sea change in American law was not made,'' Adam Eisgrau, lobbyist for the American Library Association, said. © Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: Oops! Police Fire Tear Gas Into Wrong House
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Oops! Police Fire Tear Gas Into Wrong House Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 17:21:40 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: St. Paul, Minnesota Pioneer Planet News http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/004072.htm Published: Friday, October 9, 1998 Suspect captured; incident probed Tear gas fired into neighbor's house by St. Paul police ROBERT F. MOORE STAFF WRITER A 12-hour search for a man who shot at St. Paul police in Highland Park ended Thursday morning when a police dog found him hiding in a tool shed. And a couple living next door to the suspect was temporarily moved by the city into a hotel after police fired tear gas into their home. Police Chief William Finney said Thursday night he didn't know whether the action was planned by the Critical Incident Response Team, or CIRT. ``I suspect it was an accident,'' Finney said. ``Overall it was an excellent operation. No one was hurt. They held the position for 12 hours and they made the arrest. But they have some explaining to do.'' Dr. Daniel Lutz, the owner of the house, was not looking for explanations Thursday night. He just wanted to get back into the home he has shared with his wife for the last five years. ``I saw my house in the dark last night, but I don't even know the extent of the damage,'' said Lutz, 28, a chiropractor in Circle Pines. ``Right now, I'm not trying to point fingers. I don't know if it was justified or not. I just want my house put back in order.'' Lutz said the city has begun decontaminating the house and that he planned to move back in early next week. He and his wife had been evacuated and were at a neighbor's home before the tear gas operation began just after 1 a.m. Meanwhile, Finney has scheduled a meeting with supervisors of the operation today to determine what happened. Other neighbors who took cover in their basements before the operation said a contractor was at the scene late Thursday afternoon to replace the windows of the Lutz home. Finney said the city attorney was working with the family to repair the damage. Neither Finney nor Lutz knew the extent of the damage Thursday night. Despite the incident, however, neighbors agreed police responded appropriately, simply because the suspect was apprehended. At about 8:30 a.m. Thursday, a police dog discovered Wa Lee Her, 51, in a rusty tin shed next to a residence on the 2300 block of Edgcumbe Road. Her was treated at Regions Hospital for dog bites on a leg and released to police custody, pending a decision on multiple aggravated assault charges. Police said the dog, Ranger, was sent into the shed after Her ignored orders to come out. The suspect did not draw a weapon during his capture, though police recovered a shotgun and a rifle. One of those weapons was allegedly used the night before to threaten his wife and also to fire a shot at police. Her's stepson told a 911 dispatcher his stepfather was threatening to shoot his mother. Her was apprehended just blocks away from his family's St. Paul Avenue house. Finney praised the two officers, Tina Kill and Jeffrey Levens, who responded to Her's home on the 1100 block of St. Paul Avenue just before 9 p.m. Wednesday. ``I'm real proud of those two officers,'' Finney said. ``They did exactly what they were trained to do. They contained the situation, evacuated the residents of the house, called for additional resources and kept the suspect bottled up all night.'' Police blocked off the area soon after Her allegedly fired a shot at Levens and fled into the neighborhood between Howell Street and Edgcumbe Road. Levens had shined a flashlight on the suspect and ordered him to put his hands in the open, when Her fired at the officer, police said. Levens returned fire. No one was hit. Later in the night, officers decided to use tear gas after hearing what police said was a muffled sound, possibly a gunshot, come from the suspect's house. Police first fired tear gas into the Lutz home and then the suspect's. Officers from CIRT and the K-9 unit waited until about 7 a.m. to conduct a ground search of the area. It was a move Finney said was intended to protect both the public and the between 40 and 50 officers in the area. ``It doesn't make sense to search a wooded area in the dark when the suspect has such firepower,'' Finney said. ``We don't want citizens caught in the cross-fire.'' Neighbors knew little about the suspect, but longtime residents thought the family moved into their home less than two years ago. ``It was the most frightened I have ever been in my life,'' said Bonnie Rodriguez, 49, who lives next door to the house where Her was found. ``I was getting ready to go to my doctor and I heard police officers crawling on my roof and walking on my patio. Some had bulletproof vests, some were dressed in camouflage. They had their guns drawn, so they must have known the man was close. I thought there would be a shootout in front of my house and someone would die in my yard.'' _ Rodriguez, who has lived on Edgcumbe Road for 15 years, said police were searching around her house for about 30 minutes Thursday morning. ``I feel better that he is not out here right now, but it terrifies me that he was out there all night and could have broken into my house,'' she said. Pat Sellner, who also lives in the neighborhood, viewed the assault and manhunt as isolated incidents. Sellner, however, admitted being nervous when he heard a helicopter flying overhead Wednesday night. ``I called 911 when the helicopter got lower,'' he said. ``The dispatcher just told me to lock the doors and to stay inside.'' _Cmdr. Doug Wills viewed the entire situation with relief, reflecting on the deaths of two St. Paul police officers gunned down four years ago. ``Whenever you get in a situation like this, you have to remember the day those officers were killed,'' Wills said. ``It dictates how you do business, because you want to make sure nothing like that will happen again.'' St. Paul police officer Ron Ryan Jr. was fatally shot at 7 a.m. Aug. 26, 1994, in the parking lot of an East Side church. Three hours later, officer Tim Jones and his police dog, Laser, were shot and killed by Ryan's assailant as they and others searched for him in the neighborhood. Guy Harvey Baker was caught, convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the slayings. Robert F. Moore, who covers crime and public safety, can be reached at rmoore(a)pioneerpress.com or at (651) 228-5591. ©1998 PioneerPlanet / St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press - All Rights Reserved copyright information ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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IP: This Country *Needs* to Come to a Screeching Halt!
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Patricia Neill <pnpj(a)db1.cc.rochester.edu> Subject: IP: This Country *Needs* to Come to a Screeching Halt! Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 15:44:42 -0400 To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com This Country *Needs* to Come to a Screeching Halt! by Patricia Neill (c) 1998 All week I've had to listen to the ever more irritating mass media clones droning on about how Americans want "the country to move on" and how all these polled citizens want the President and Congress "to get back to the business of running the country." The media droids (and they have such a droidic quality that they're beginning to sound all alike to me) have of course used their boring technique of repeating these dimwitted phrases over and over and over and over in the bright hope that we get the message. As always, I have to wonder who the hell these media people poll. It surely isn't me nor the millions upon millions like me! My bet is that the pollagandizers (a newly minted, wonderful fresh coinage from the pen of Publius Press) ask each other what they think, and use that as their statistically significantly absolutely similar population. Or maybe they ask the animals at the Washington Zoo and take the calls, snarls and roars for the dulcent tones of assent and consent to their pollaganda (lifted from the same place, today's Federalist Digest). But what I do know is that they are not asking *anyone* who remotely disagrees with their bias, and if they mistakenly call someone like me, I'm probably one of the ones they would simply ignore, as not statistically significant, or at least not significant, to their wizened little minds. As for me, do I want "the country to move on?" Hell, NO! I want it to come to a screeching halt! I want everything else to stop, cease, desist until the American people and those spurious Spongelords down in Congress have a chance to fully investigate Mr. Clinton and his White House. I don't care if no other "business of the country" gets handled. I don't care if NO federal agencies get funded. In fact, I'd just as soon they weren't. Let's not fund them for a year, and see if we miss any of them. I doubt it. We'd all be a lot happier if they disappeared off the face of the earth. Ain't that the truth. I don't even care if Congress has to close down. That'd be another blessing in my book. They can all meet outside of Congress and hold their investigation. They don't need to be under oath--they never pay any attention to it anyway. In fact, why doesn't the Republican majority shut down Congress while they go about checking out those lying sacks of gas up on 1600 Pennsylvania. They can rent the Watergate Hotel--it'd be a fitting touch. I want to know every little detail of what Mr. Clinton did, and when. I want to know how Hillary's billing files for the Rose Law Firm "disappeared" and then "showed up." I want to know about all the millions Bill and Hillary and gang stole from Madison Guaranty. I want all the myriads of scandals of this White House--both Clintons and ALL their cohorts--laid open for the public to see--and I know it will be ugly, real ugly. Actually, my bet is it will be pretty fascinating in a sick kind of way. Like watching a huge spider crawl up the wall if you have arachnaphobia. One fatheaded demagogue (I think it was Barney Frank) was quoted on NPR this morning as saying (and this is not exact, as I was busy trying to get the escaping smoke back into my ears). In the whining, puling tones, characteristic of this particular specimen of Congress: "We should censure Clinton, but he did nothing impeachable. Do you *really* want this thing to drag on for a year, while the 'business of the country' is waiting?" Short answer to that is, there is absolutely no reason under the sun for this to take a year, you dissembling, mammering twit! You could do it in a day, an hour, a nanosecond.You ALREADY know the crimes of Bill Clinton and his wife. You already *know* he lied, he lied to you, he lied to the grand jury, he lied to the American people. And my question for you is, what the hell is your *problem.* Do you honestly think Bill Clinton should be allowed to get away with not only his adultery and lying, but with all his other malfeasances, offenses, violations, felonies, torts, misconduct, misdeeds, sins, transgressions, iniquities and outrages--did I miss anything? Oh yes, murders! You have six years worth to sort through. In fact, Bill Clinton is such a crook that he should have been impeached, tried, convicted and jailed *before* he became president. You have his Washington crimes, but if you go back to his Arkansas years, you'd really have a bonanza! So, please, stop everything else and deal with this impeachment, immediately. The financial global crisis can go right on crisis-ing, for all I care. You all created that problem in the first place, and you ain't gonna get my money to solve it by bailing out Wall Street again. The heck with that. So put everything else to the side, and yes, bring this country to a screeching halt. And see to Mr. Clinton's crimes. My respect for the government is already a mere wisp at this point, if that. If Congress does not impeach--and do a serious job--then ALL my respect for government and what you folk cynically call "rule of law" will be gone. That's a promise. ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer **********************************************

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A Scud in California!
by William Knowles 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From another one of the several lists I'm on, I figured someone might know who the new pseudo-proud owner of a fully-operational SS-1C Scud missle *WITH* moblie launcher is... Cheers! William Knowles erehwon(a)dis.org Intelligence, N. 86, 5 October 1998, p. 12 USA THE SCUD THAT DIDN'T GET AWAY At "Intelligence", we're taking bets that you won't hear about the unidentified British firm which used an unnamed British freighter to import a fully-operational SS-1C Scud missile -- complete with launcher, but missing its warhead -- into the United States. According to a 25 September report in the "Washington Times", special investigators from HM Customs and Excise have been asked to determine how paperwork sent with the system came to be falsified, but they're probably going to run into ... the Pentagon because the Scud missile and its mobile transporter-erector launcher were seized on 2 September by the US Customs Service at Port Hueneme, California, about 56 km. north of Los Angeles and ... next door to the US Navy Point Mugu Pacific Missile Range, and ... the closest military port to the Vandenburg US Air Force Base where all classified US military launches take place. The Russian-designed, Czech-manufactured missile system was licensed for importation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), but ... it was wrongly described. Although addressed to a wealthy -- but so far unnamed (and bets are he will never be named) -- US citizen, who is regarded as a bona fide weapons collector rather than an arms dealer, the missile system had not been made inoperable as required by import rules. This is, of course, of interest to the Pentagon. "This is a full-blown missile," stated John Hensley, a senior agent of US Customs Service in Los Angeles. "The only thing missing is the warhead." The launch chassis is a MAZ-543 truck, commonly used by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces. "The guidance system was totally intact and the engine was ready to go," Mr. Hensley said. "All you needed to do was strap on a garbage can full of C-4 high-explosive and you had a weapon." The guidance system and engine would, of course, be of intense interest to Pentagon intelligence, and the Israeli Mossad, particularly if the weapon is a later date or recent model. Hensley said the buyer, who lives in Palo Alto, had previously purchased a Scud missile that had been properly demilitarized. Under US law, such weapons may be imported, provided they are first cut up with a blowtorch so that they can never be reassembled. But in this case, in an effort to fool customs officials, a photograph of the first -- cut up -- missile to be imported was attached to the illegal -- intact -- system, which was seized on 2 September. If the "buyer" really wanted his missile, then the San Francisco Bay, which Palo Alto overlooks, is a much better port of entry. Bets at "Intelligence" are also out on the "buyer" being associated with the military- funded Stanford Research Institute (SRI) or similar Pentagon- dependent firms in nearby Silicon Valley. COMMENT -- The SS-1C Scud is a liquid-fueled missile which is among the most widely deployed weapons in the world. It is in service in 16 nations. Iraq's military forces were able to extend the range of the missile ("with baling wire and plywood", according to certain specialists), and used it extensively during the 1991 Gulf war. International transfers of such missiles, which normally have a range of 300 km., are banned under the Missile Technology Control Regime. Although the major media suggested the seizure would embarrass the Clinton administration, currently engaged in a major international diplomatic effort to halt exports of weapons of mass destruction and missile-delivery systems by Russia and China to the Middle East, it would seem more likely that the affair will "drag out indefinitely" in a California court, unless an appropriate "buyer" can be "sacrificed" publicly. --------------------------------------------- Olivier Schmidt, Editor of "Intelligence" <oschmidt(a)francenet.fr>

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by submitsoft＠premiumproducts.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Hidden WebTV signatures
by pgut001＠cs.auckland.ac.nz 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

For those of you who don't read sci.crypt, Robert Ames <gnome(a)istar.ca> has posted an article in which he observes that all WebTV posts contain an X-WebTV-Signature: line containing base64-encoded data. For samples of WebTV-generated posts, try the alt.weemba newsgroup, which is filled with WebTV-user drool (caution: remember to employ protection when exposting your mind to the content of the messages). Some samples: X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAsAhQDqtur/jfleJ2CDOnNrVoeyALEQAIUOQyCBbzjx5HHfxeMERDgCjztXOU= X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhUAmCCzQt+Tqt6fNX+L9+gDCECaqQkCFA0YCPz5tk85mUgq7iX/u4vWvOgG These decode into ASN.1-encoded DSA signatures, eg: 1 30 45: SEQUENCE { 3 02 21: INTEGER : 00 98 20 B3 42 DF 93 AA DE 9F 35 7F 8B F7 E8 03 : 08 40 9A A9 09 26 02 20: INTEGER : 0D 18 08 FC F9 B6 4F 39 99 48 2A EE 25 FF BB 8B : D6 BC E8 06 : } for the second one. The key isn't included in the header, presumably the @webtv.net address can be tied to the hardware which contains some hardcoded DSA key. I wonder if WebTV users know they're signing each message they send? Peter.

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Hello from Miami,
by ginadi＠topchat.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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