This discussion is beginning to resemble one about the telephone system about 50 years ago. A national phone system was considered an impossibilty by many. This is because even if AT&T employed every female >18 years old as a telephone operators there weren't enough to plug and unplug all the connections on the all the switchboards. Regards: -arc Arley Carter Tradewinds Technologies, Inc. email: ac@hawk.twinds.com www: http://www.twinds.com "Trust me. This is a secure product. I'm from <insert your favorite corporation of government agency>." On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, Moroni wrote:
There is and probably never will be a shortage of people to carry on wire tapping . The term agent could be all encompassing in the future to include but not be limited to the hiring of ex-federally employed personnel with the talents or capacity for the talent to do wiretapping. In other words there are any number of ex-CIA ,DEA, ex-military who if were hired would actually save the government investigation time and costs because they have allready gone through security clearance. Add to that the fact that most if not all FBI personnel have gone through a light wiretap course to famililarize them with the rudiments of the craft. All these figures add up to cover the taps in case a disaster of the terroristic kind should happen. I feel that numbers are there to worry people but that what the FBI is worrying about is whether it can cover large ground if there is a siege like state in this country.HOWEVER, there will allways be those that opportunistically take advantage of circumstances to set up their own invisible little feifdoms along the political and social terrain. If you ask me if there is something for them to worry about I have to in all good conscience say yes , if you ask if there is something for us to worry about again I have to say yes. I don't know if there is even a common ground for both sides to work towards because terrorism has grown to include the homegrown variety .
Deirdre