-- On 27 Feb 2005 at 18:53, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
March 7 issue - Aviation obsessives with cameras and Internet connections have become a threat to cover stories established by the CIA to mask its undercover operations and personnel overseas. U.S. intel sources complain that "plane spotters"-hobbyists who photograph airplanes landing or departing local airports and post the pix on the Internet-made it possible for CIA critics recently to assemble details of a clandestine transport system the agency set up to secretly move cargo and people-including terrorist suspects-around the world.
Brinworld: They may be watching us, but we are also watching them. The large number of surveillance cameras popping up in American cities has turned out to be no threat to liberty. Most of them are privately owned, and their private owners have no inclination to review their records, unless a real crime has been committed, and no inclination to hand over to authorities records that would primarily reveal their own activities. In recent incidents where private surviellance camera records were given to authorities, the authorities received only selected excerpts, only what the owner of the records chose to reveal. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG PS5fDA87MKS6uCbiF0gJ/R+39ekRuwLazrAsTyAa 4MxSlekoFzNrLXER1RoAItoikUPxKn3udKQokRxkB