January 2004 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Vengeance Libertarianism
by Major Variola (ret) 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

At 08:45 PM 12/31/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: > >You do know she's been trying the same scheme for several hundred thousand >years, right? As an artist, I think she's in a creative decline. Ebola is >picturesque and flashy, but not all that scary unless your funeral rites >involve lots of contact with the blood of your dearly departed. I think E. is a bit more contagious than you recognize. It just hasn't had the chance to play in dense pops. AIDS is >more subtle, rather like syphlus before good antibiotics, but it's not her >best work. Yeah but the meatbots do love to spread it, and here you again fail to recognize Her subtlety. Even SARS is Yet Another Coughed Contagion. If I recall >correctly, smallpox got 90% of the American Indians who were exposed, and >measles killed something like 1/3 of Roman citizens. Smallpox would reduce real estate prices by 1/3 at least, possibly more in cities. An interesting question is what decline (and what rate of decline) west.civ. can tolerate these days. Still, looking at the Roman Empire (aka paleo-cons) disease isn't necessary, though it sure helps. Famine and war are pretty good cards in Her Hands too. Guns, germs, and steel, baby.

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Re: Vengeance Libertarianism
by Major Variola (ret) 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

At 08:45 PM 12/31/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: > >You do know she's been trying the same scheme for several hundred thousand >years, right? As an artist, I think she's in a creative decline. Ebola is >picturesque and flashy, but not all that scary unless your funeral rites >involve lots of contact with the blood of your dearly departed. I think E. is a bit more contagious than you recognize. It just hasn't had the chance to play in dense pops. AIDS is >more subtle, rather like syphlus before good antibiotics, but it's not her >best work. Yeah but the meatbots do love to spread it, and here you again fail to recognize Her subtlety. Even SARS is Yet Another Coughed Contagion. If I recall >correctly, smallpox got 90% of the American Indians who were exposed, and >measles killed something like 1/3 of Roman citizens. Smallpox would reduce real estate prices by 1/3 at least, possibly more in cities. An interesting question is what decline (and what rate of decline) west.civ. can tolerate these days. Still, looking at the Roman Empire (aka paleo-cons) disease isn't necessary, though it sure helps. Famine and war are pretty good cards in Her Hands too. Guns, germs, and steel, baby.

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Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey
by Major Variola (ret) 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

At 12:14 AM 1/1/04 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: >Of >course, they still need one to determine who gets the shit-hauling jobs, >and the usual method of doing this is to hide the class system in the >education system. Now you don't get the shit-hauling job because you are >an untouchable. You get it because you "didn't do well" in school, or >you "dropped out, and "you could have been successful if you had just >tried harder." Seems that someone has a problem grasping natural variation. Perhaps you would prefer that the majority starve, or live in pre-agricultural poverty, rather than accept a comfy (if low-status) niche made possible by large foreheads. Tsk tsk.

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RE: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey
by Major Variola (ret) 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

At 11:51 AM 1/1/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >"Stay In School!" > >In other words, schools keep the crime rates down, as is a well-known >statistic. They are basically storage facilities. For real schools we white >folks with $$$ can move out to the suburbs or send our kids to private >school. Right. And the value of an uneducated result of an unaborted fuck 18 years ago is so useful that schooling is unnecessary, just part of the Man (tm) keeping the People (tm) down. Ayup. Plenty of grubs to be dug if that's what you prefer. The rest of us prefer personal capitalism, ie investment, ie education. There's a reason the Jews and Asians (etc) suceed and other --often more fluent-- cultures don't, and it has to do with the value some cultures put on education. The truth will set you free, or not. Your choice.

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Re: Vengeance Libertarianism
by Major Variola (ret) 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

At 08:45 PM 12/31/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: > >You do know she's been trying the same scheme for several hundred thousand >years, right? As an artist, I think she's in a creative decline. Ebola is >picturesque and flashy, but not all that scary unless your funeral rites >involve lots of contact with the blood of your dearly departed. I think E. is a bit more contagious than you recognize. It just hasn't had the chance to play in dense pops. AIDS is >more subtle, rather like syphlus before good antibiotics, but it's not her >best work. Yeah but the meatbots do love to spread it, and here you again fail to recognize Her subtlety. Even SARS is Yet Another Coughed Contagion. If I recall >correctly, smallpox got 90% of the American Indians who were exposed, and >measles killed something like 1/3 of Roman citizens. Smallpox would reduce real estate prices by 1/3 at least, possibly more in cities. An interesting question is what decline (and what rate of decline) west.civ. can tolerate these days. Still, looking at the Roman Empire (aka paleo-cons) disease isn't necessary, though it sure helps. Famine and war are pretty good cards in Her Hands too. Guns, germs, and steel, baby.

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Fwd: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey
by Tim May 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

I composed and sent this message, and one following it, last night. Lne.com has not yet forwarded either, 10 hours later. I checked Eric's message and he said new _subscriptions_ will no longer be accepted after 04-01-01 and mail will no no longer be forwarded after 04-01-15. Perhaps he is halting operations early. All things must end. Begin forwarded message: > From: Tim May <timcmay(a)got.net> > Date: January 2, 2004 12:03:39 AM PST > To: cypherpunks(a)lne.com > Subject: Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey > > > On Jan 1, 2004, at 10:06 PM, Riad S. Wahby wrote: > >> "J.A. Terranson" <measl(a)mfn.org> wrote: >>> Why the BedSty student Tim? >> >> Uhh, read more carefully. He was responding to a specific point from >> Tyler Durden. >> >>> You have some incredible moments of lucidity and insight, and >>> occasionally, >>> we are the lucky recipients of these fleeting events - but then, >>> just as sure >>> as the sun coming over the horizon every morning of every day, you >>> slip back >>> into the pseudo-intellectual racist crap. What's wit dat? >> >> I don't think Tim is racist as such. He hates everyone equally. :-) >> But seriously, calling it racism seems wrong-headed. Racism is "I >> hate black people because they're black." Tim hates (some, most, >> all?) black people because he percieves them as benefitting unfairly >> from his hard work. I'm pretty sure, all other things being equal, he >> wouldn't hate a black person who, through his own hard work and >> without taking a penny from the government, turned himself into a >> successful, tax-paying "source." Or, at least, I'm not convinced he >> would hate such a person, which is to say I'm not convinced he's a >> racist. > > I admire many negroes. Shelby Steele, who wrote "The Content of our > Character," for example. And Thomas Sowell, an even more prolific > author (and Stanford professor). And Niger Innes (son of the lefty Roy > Innes...a lot of children of 60s liberal negroes are now libertarian > or conservative, e.g., Adam Clayton Powell's son). And Clarence Thomas > (who has argued forcefully that the Supremes ought to do a very > thorough review of gun laws, with the hint that the right decision > would be to restore the Second Amendment to first class status). And a > bunch of others, including Ward Connerly, of California, who has been > leading the effort to have "race" removed as the basis for _any_ > government actions, including hiring quotas, special admissions > requirements for negroes and Asians (at opposite ends of the test > score spectrum), and so on. > > I don't admire the politics of Condie Rice and Colin Powell, but there > is little doubt that they are accomplished, bright people. > > My problem is that negroes are 80% in solidarity on a bunch of > disgusting, anti-liberty things: affirmative action, racial quotas, > minority setasides (but not for successful minorities--they want > limits on the number of Asians admitted to UC schools), welfare, > increased benefits, etc. > > Further, they, as a whole, have a "plantation mentality": always > demanding that Massa in the Big White House give them more stuff. > Instead of excelling and grabbing the stuff for themselves, as Chinese > and Korean and Indian people have done in America, they think > setasides and quotas and special favoritism is "owed" to them. > > I used to not care much about what they did or thought. When I entered > college in 1970 I expected to mix with a bunch of different sorts of > people. What I found was that the negroes all sat at the same tables > in the dining halls, that whites who sat near them were chased off, > and that we non-blacks, including Asians, Indians, South Americans, > whites, etc., could mix with each other, but not with the "Panthers." > > And they ghettoized themselves into "Black Studies," which they had > "demanded" a couple of years earlier and had just gotten in 1969. > > In 1972 they formed various militant groups on campus. One obnoxious > woman named Judy became the student association president. When she > didn't like a decision, she ordered the Panthers, her enforcers, to > bar the doors and not let anyone out until the decision was reversed. > It was. > > I am not exaggerating. I included this, and the theft of ASU funds, > and the henchmen, and similar leftist actions by others (including the > MeCHA "Aztlanos"), in a letter to the Regents of the University of > California. It was published in the school newspaper, in a full-paged > spread, and I got replies from the governor of the state, Ronald > Reagan. I met with the Chancellor and he agreed that the situation at > the campus was deplorable, but that in the interests of keeping the > peace with the negroes and Mexicans, given the time (1973), there was > little they could do. He promised that his office was looking into the > allegations and already knew about most of them. > > When I joined Intel in 1974, I saw plenty of Chinese, Indians, a > handful of Koreans and Vietnamese (more later), but only one negro > engineer. And he had a major chip on his shoulder. When he was let go > in one of the RIFs, he claimed discrimination on the basis of his > melanin levels. > > Meanwhile, the excuses mounted all around about how "science is sexist > and gynophobic," about how the ancient Egyptians were actually black > Africans and had their advanced civilization (electricity, flying > cars, etc.) stolen by the "ice people" and similar such malarkey. The > Reverend Jesse Jackson, a racist hustler, tried to shake down Silicon > Valley corporations for payoffs to his Rainbow scam. (Meanwhile, > negroes avoided science, math, engineering, technology and preferred > to focus their efforts on lawsuits to get standards lowered, via "race > norming." The bullshit went on and on.) > > I look at the 75% bastard rate (compared to about 25% for whites and > about 5% for Asians in America), the black on white crime, the black > on black crime, the crack hoes, the disrespect for learning....all > this and I can draw only one conclusion" that though there are many > fine, competent, bright negroes, on the whole it is a gutter race. > > Harsh phrase, but true. A race that, in America in the last 40 years, > has become a race of beggars, whiners, wheedlers, chiselers, whores, > crack addicts, dropouts, and unwed mothers. > > Charles Murray laid out a lot of the reasons in his book "Losing > Ground." ("Dat be a racist book!," said his detractors.) > > The seminal event was the arrival on the scene of the collectivist > JFK. Kennedy ordered his bunch of eastern elitists to look into the > "relief" system which had provided very limited and very temporary > economic assistance to folks in bad situations. For those few here old > enough (I am, just barely), this used to be called "general relief," > and it was mostly administered at the county level, in the states that > offered it. What Kennedy's brain trust found was that "relief" was > seen as an embarrassment, as a negative thing, something to avoid > getting on if at all possible and to get off of just as fast as one > could. Which is as it should be, of course. > > So Kennedy's liberals scratched their heads and came up with a new > plan. "Relief" would be converted to a series of state and national > programs, no longer handled locally. And the bad connotations of > "relief" would be changed by the new and positive name "entitlement." > > Money handed out to various folks would be their "entitlement," > something they were _owed_. Other related names would be "social > services" and, of course, liberal mention of "children" and > "nutrition." Ergo programs like WIC ("Women, Infants, and Children"). > Ergo, "Head Start." Oh, and meddling in foreign countries with things > like the Peace Corps (which, the feministas are slowly coming to > realize, did much to break "primitives" of things like breast-feeding, > while giving the baby formula industry a new world market). > > Kennedy got zapped for his many crimes, but the Good Ole Boy who took > over turned out to be just as big a collectivist as Kennedy had been, > and LBJ continued the Kennedy welfare/entitlements/handouts and called > it "The Great Society." (I don't recall if Kennedy had formally named > his progressive plan.) > > And that year was the year that negroes got to vote in all 50 states, > which of course was a good thing. The part of the Civil Rights Act > that dealt with voting rights was good. The Constitution applies to > all people. > > However, most of the Civil Rights Act was terrible, for obvious > reasons. Between it and new interpretations of the 14th Amendment > (lawyers can quote the language), and some terrible Warren Court > decisions (*), the effect was to interfere in the ability of people to > choose who to do business with, who to rent to, who to associate with, > all of the things which liberty means. > > (* The Supreme Court took a case where a negro had been denied service > at a diner in the south and used a weird series of logical steps to > argue that if negroes couldn't buy food at this diner then napkin and > ketchup and hot dog sales might be affected, and since some of that > stuff came from other states, that would be interfering in interstate > trade and only Congress can regulate that, blah blah, and so racial > discrimination was outlawed under the fucking Commerce Clause of the > Constitution! Of course, by the same logic, if Apple decides to change > suppliers of disk drives, and this means Illinois gets the business > instead of Idaho, this has also changed interstate trade. But logic > was not the point of what the Court was doing...they were looking for > any excuse to stop "discrimination.") > > OK, what of discrimination itself? Good or bad? > > Most of us probably agree that telling a black person he cannot shop > in some bookstore, told by the bookstore owner that is, is not cool, > to use a technical phrase. We might call it tacky, or unethical, or > just plain dumb. (And if the government tried to say blacks could not > enter a bookstore, this would be both interfering with the property > rights of the bookstore owner AND violating the colorblind standards > of the Constitution.) > > But libertarians argue--and this was the natural system for 170 > years--that what a property owner does with his property is, assuming > he is not violating real rights (*) of others, up to him to decide, > whether his decisions are uncool, stupid, unwise, etc. > > (* I mean real rights, as in property, personal safety, economic > ownership, etc., not some "right to enter the stores I wish to enter." > No more so than anyone has a "right" to be invited into someone's > house, or into a club, etc.) > > So, during just a couple of years of the Great Society, this > confluence of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the new interpretations of > the 14th Amendment, and Supreme Court decisions, the ability of people > and corporations to choose whom they wished to deal with, or hire, or > fire, ended. "Racial discrimination" became the new word to demonize > anyone or any group. When civil libertarians like Barry Goldwater said > this restriction on liberty was a bad direction to move in, he was > dubbed a "racist." > > I could write much more on this whole sorry episode. It's a sorry > episode not because I have any desire to exclude negroes or women or > cripples or queers or any other of the "protected groups" (added over > the years), but because it erases the concept of liberty. If I can't > rent to whom I choose, I have no control over my own belongings. > > If I can be told I must hire a certain percentage of negroes (later > dubbed "tokens'), this not only interferes with freedom of association > (which applies to groups and corporations, obviously) but it also has > a corrosive effect on those hired and how those around them think > about them. ("Token blacks" in departments of companies are often > thought of as having been hired to get the EEOC stooges off the > company's back.) > > I have the fundamental right, via ownership of my property and my > freedom of association, to hire or fire based on merit, based on whim, > based on astrology, whatever. It may not be wise, but it's my choice. > > I have the fundamental right to have only Muslims in my company, or > only Jews working in my bookstore, or to have only buxom women working > at my strip club. (Recall the "discrimination" suits filed over such > policies, including males claiming they were discriminated against, > women in wheelchairs or with mastectomies claiming they have a "right" > to be hired by a strip club that doesn't want them, and so on.) > > The can of worms that was opened when liberty was cancelled is still > with us, getting worse and worse. Feminista attorney sued a California > gym for excluding women, and the courts ordered gyms to admit > women....ah, but the same order did not ban women only gyms, and these > are now common in California. > > A church which refused to hire a Satanist was ordered to do so. (This > was later rescinded...apparently even the courts can't deal with the > Alice in Wonderland-like situation where discrimination is banned.) > > This is what Shelby Steele, the black I referred to earlier, is saying > in "The Content of our Character," that blacks should be judged on the > content of their character, not the color of their skin. (He is > quoting Martin Luther King, of course.) This does NOT mean that this > maxim gets enforced by the government, and that discriminating on the > basis of color should be illegal. He, and King (some think), is > arguing that this is the "right" thing to do, but is not something > government should be enforcing. > > Note of course that most businessmen will not turn away customers. > Things in the deep south were skewed by the War of Northern > Aggression, and it took time for sentiments to change. But in many > cases the apartheid in the south was managed and enforced by local > _governments_, with the public restrooms being "White" and "Colored." > > (As in South Africa, where companies like IBM wanted to hire blacks > but were ordered not to by the RSA government.) > > Anyway, I resent deeply being told I may not associate as I wish, may > not rent or sell my property as I wish, must meet certain hiring > quotas or face EEOC fines, must promote based on race not character or > skills, and so on. I resent deeply the whole can of worms that > involves "discrimination against gays" and "handicapped-friendly" > policies, and the whole enforced "niceness" bullshit (which is not > actually making people nicer...just the opposite, as when I had to > deal with a token we had in our department and was ordered to not do > anything that might cause him to file a discrimination lawsuit against > us). >> > > I see the success the Chinese and Indians and other Asians have had in > America...none of it do to quotas, to forced hiring, to the nonsense > the negroes keep pulling. > > (I haven't talked much about Mexicans, by the way. Many Mexicans are > perfectly fine...hard-working, friendly, etc. Often they are not very > academically-oriented, so few are in engineering positions. And many > are as bad as many of the negroes. Worse, the issue of "illegal > aliens." As Tom McClintock pointed out so cogently in his debate with > Schwarzenegger, et. al., the real issue is that these illegal aliens > (perhaps as many as 10 million now) are CUTTING IN LINE, cutting in > line ahead of those waiting patiently and legally to enter the U.S. > from Russia, Romania, India, Thailand, etc. And we gave the Mexican > and Latin American illegals an "amnesty" in the mid-90s: > Simpson-Mozzoli, a promised one time only deal. Ah, but the cynics, > including me, were right: more aliens swarmed in, looking for another > amnesty. As a pure libertarian I would have no problem with truly open > borders, provided there were absolutely no taxpayer-funded programs or > services, and provided the piles of rotting corpses were not used as > an excuse to give "services." But open immigration is not going to > happen. Meanwhile, giving these illegal aliens permanent residency > status would be a fucking disaster. As with the Simpson-Mazzoli > illegals, once amnestied they have a strong tendency to sign up for > all of the "entitlements" JFK and LBH and RMN established. Which is > why my local town has a hospital that is facing insolvency, as the > swarms of Mexicans use the services mandated by law and collection is > nearly impossible. And the State of California is facing insolvency, > as you all know. Enough about Mexicans.) > > So, to wrap this up, I see plenty of brown-skinned people from India, > Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. doing very well without chanting about > "racist discrimination" and demanding that some version of "Ebonics" > be used to teach their children (just the opposite, they really WANT > their children to be fluent and precise in standard English). And I > see Chinese, Korean, and other Asian immigrants doing well, not > bellyaching that the reason they're failing is because The Man is > holding them down, that Massah has passing out enough freebies. > > And the black libertarians and conservatives I cited earlier share > this view. They don't put it quite as bluntly as I do, that the negro > in America is becoming a gutter race, but they obviously think the > trends of the past 40 years are disturbing and not good for the bulk > of their fellow negroes. > > --Tim May > > "According to the FBI, there's a new wrinkle in prostitution: suburban > teenage girls are now selling their white asses at the mall to make > money to spend at the mall. > ... > Now, you see, the joke here, of course, is on White America, which > always felt superior to blacks, and showed that with their feet, > moving out of urban areas. "White flight," they called it. Whites > feared blacks. They feared if they raised their kids around blacks, > the blacks would turn their daughters and prostitutes. And now, > through the miracle of MTV, damned if it didn't work out that way! " > > --Bill Maher, "Real Time with Bill Maher," HBO, 15 August 2003 > > #1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim (Gentiles) is like killing a wild animal." #2. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated." #3. Yebamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age." #4. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed." #5. Yebamoth 98a: "All gentile children are animals." #6. Schulchan Aruch, Johre Deah, 122: "A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has touched, because the touch has made the wine unclean." #7. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."

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RE: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey
by Major Variola (ret) 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

At 11:51 AM 1/1/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >"Stay In School!" > >In other words, schools keep the crime rates down, as is a well-known >statistic. They are basically storage facilities. For real schools we white >folks with $$$ can move out to the suburbs or send our kids to private >school. Right. And the value of an uneducated result of an unaborted fuck 18 years ago is so useful that schooling is unnecessary, just part of the Man (tm) keeping the People (tm) down. Ayup. Plenty of grubs to be dug if that's what you prefer. The rest of us prefer personal capitalism, ie investment, ie education. There's a reason the Jews and Asians (etc) suceed and other --often more fluent-- cultures don't, and it has to do with the value some cultures put on education. The truth will set you free, or not. Your choice.

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Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey
by Major Variola (ret) 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

At 12:14 AM 1/1/04 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: >Of >course, they still need one to determine who gets the shit-hauling jobs, >and the usual method of doing this is to hide the class system in the >education system. Now you don't get the shit-hauling job because you are >an untouchable. You get it because you "didn't do well" in school, or >you "dropped out, and "you could have been successful if you had just >tried harder." Seems that someone has a problem grasping natural variation. Perhaps you would prefer that the majority starve, or live in pre-agricultural poverty, rather than accept a comfy (if low-status) niche made possible by large foreheads. Tsk tsk.

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Brazilians reciprocate on US travel policy
by Michael Kalus 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimes/newsst/newsst1073024337.asp SAO PAULO - Brazilian police photographed and fingerprinted all arriving Americans on Thursday - tit-for-tat for a similar US program that begins next week. In all, 230 American citizens were thus identified Thursday at Brazil's largest international airport here under what a federal police spokesman called a "judicial decision." That decision was handed down earlier in the week by Judge Julier Sebastiao da Silva of the federal bench in the central Brazilian city of Mato Grosso based on "the principle of reciprocity," although it could still be annulled by the federal government. The identification measures were not immediately put into effect at the airport in Rio de Janeiro, where federal police said they had not yet received official instructions, according to the Brazilian press agency, Agencia Brasil. Beginning January 5, immigration officials at all US international airports will vet visitors' passports and visas and pose the usual questions - before taking their fingerprints and photographs. That is phase one of US-VISIT, a 380-million-dollar effort to track down terrorists. Visitors from 27 countries whose citizens do not need visas to enter the United States - mostly in Europe, are exempted. By 2005, every port-of-entry on land, sea and air will have the fingerprint and photographic technology. All US visas and passports will eventually include photos and fingerprints - called "biometric identifiers." The program takes effect after the United States raised its terror alert to its next-to-highest level in December. Intelligence indicated that al-Qaeda was planning to hijack airliners for a repeat of its September 11 attacks in which 3,000 died. /AFP/ -

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Statement on H.R. 2417
by Michael Kalus 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/12/20031213-3.html Statement on H.R. 2417 Statement by the President Today, I have signed into law H.R. 2417, the "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004." The Act authorizes funding for United States intelligence activities, including activities in the war against terrorists of global reach. Section 506A(c) of the National Security Act of 1947, as enacted by section 312(b) of the Act, purports to require the President to request that the Congress enact laws appropriating funding for a major intelligence system procurement in an amount set as a cost estimate by an entity subordinate to the President or to explain why the President instead requests amounts below those levels. Moreover, beginning with the submittal to the Congress of the President's budget for FY 2006, section 312(d)(2) of H.R. 2417 purports to condition the obligation or expenditure of funds for development or procurement of a major intelligence system on the President's compliance with the requirements of section 506A. The executive branch shall construe these provisions in a manner consistent with the Constitution's commitment to the President of exclusive authority to submit for the consideration of the Congress such measures as the President judges necessary and expedient and to supervise the unitary executive branch, and to withhold information the disclosure of which could impair the deliberative processes of the Executive or the performance of the Executive's constitutional duties. Section 341(b) purports to require the Attorney General and the Director of Central Intelligence, acting through particular offices subordinate to them respectively, to establish certain policies and procedures relating to espionage prosecutions. The executive branch shall implement this provision in a manner consistent with the authority committed exclusively to the President by the Constitution to faithfully execute the laws and to supervise the unitary executive branch. Similarly, sections 1102(a) and 1102(c) of the National Security Act, as enacted by section 341(a) of the Act, purport to mandate that the Director of Central Intelligence use or act through the Office of National Counterintelligence Executive to establish and implement an inspection process for all agencies and departments of the U.S. Government that handle classified information. The executive branch shall implement this provision in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch. The executive branch shall construe and implement section 376 of the Act, relating to making available classified information to courts, in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to classify and control access to information bearing on the national security and consistent with the statutory authority of the Attorney General for the conduct of litigation for the United States. Many provisions of the Act, including section 106 and subtitle D of title III of the Act, seek to require the executive branch to furnish information to the Congress on various subjects. The executive branch shall construe the provisions in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to withhold information the disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, national security, the deliberative processes of the Executive, or the performance of the Executive's constitutional duties. The executive branch shall implement section 319 of the Act in a manner consistent with the requirement to afford equal protection of the laws under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Section 502 purports to place restrictions on use of the U.S. Armed Forces and other personnel in certain operations. The executive branch shall construe the restrictions -in section 502 as advisory in nature, so that the provisions are consistent with the President's constitutional authority as Commander in Chief, including for the conduct of intelligence operations, and to supervise the unitary executive branch. Section 106 enacts by reference certain requirements set forth in the joint explanatory statement of the House-Senate committee of conference or in a classified annex. The executive branch continues to discourage this practice of enacting secret laws and encourages instead appropriate non-binding uses of classified schedules of authorizations, classified annexes to committee reports, and joint statements of managers that accompany the final legislation. GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, December 13, 2003. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBP/VGomlCnxcrW2uuEQKyAgCbBvlu57NoR+uvNMgDIVT+mUYItRoAoOXj erAm6POoymt4dXbaxNKQbCN0 =Cfai -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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