Weird message from someone named "NIPC"
John Ashcroft's Persecuting Penis
George at orwellian.org
Thu Jul 26 01:42:39 PDT 2001
Declan, I finally realized what you were talking
about when you wrote this:
DM wrote:
#
# [Vatis'] reported comments are a little, well, unusual.
This was apparently what you were referring to:
Tim May receives NIPC internal notes:
#
# Michael Vatis, deputy assistant director and chief of the Federal
# Bureau of Investigation's National Infrastructure Protection Center
# (NIPC) created February 26, 1998, told the Senate Judiciary
# Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information June
# 29 that 'crypto anarchists" see Washington's computers as "the final
# exam, the ultimate challenge, the enemy which must be destroyed."
# Agents are advised to seek out means of forcing these persons out of
# the public debate.
Notice the closing quotes on Vatis's testimony.
I immediately read and attributed that last sentence to another voice.
We are looking at an FBI agent's internal notes, recounting events.
Who said this:
# Agents are advised to seek out means of forcing these persons out of
# the public debate.
General Ashcroft, of course.
Here, I'll combine it with the smoking gun:
# Agents are advised to seek out means of forcing these crypto
# anarchists out of the public debate. NIPC has been tasked to
# assist in the take-down of a high-profile hacker terrorist at
# the DefCon conference next week in Las Vegas. The take-down is
# being planned for maximal public impact, as per AG Ashcroft's
# memo of 24JUN01. Full assistance will be provided by NIPC. Plain
# clothes agents will be at the conference to render assistance.
Oh my gawd, he's a "terrorist"!!!
----
All that boring traffic Tim got.net, that
is what most traffic is: boring.
Don't believe my "traffic analysis"?
Ask Tim what the SMTP headers say.
You've got a major story on your hands.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Sat in your lap.
Why didn't cypherpunks think of this virus?
I guess we're not predatory, like the DOJ.
"Watch carefully those you lend power to."
---Newt Gingrich
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