Posted on 11/15/2012 1:18:21 PM PST by neverdem
“To review naked.....pictures of your wife”? Ohhhhh.....disclothesure.
“Of course they can. Remember Carnivore?”
And Echelon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
ECHELON was capable of interception and content inspection of telephone calls, fax, e-mail and other data traffic globally through the interception of communication bearers including satellite transmission, public switched telephone networks (which once carried most Internet traffic) and microwave links.
The other day Obama praised everyone EXCEPT the FBI... I don’t think I want to stand with Obama and the democrats. We don’t know the truth here - and we need to take the time to find out who’s good and who’s dirty.
“To review naked.....pictures of your wife”? Ohhhhh.....disclothesure.
If your name was Bill Clinton that would be mental
cruelty.
Thanks for the ping!
No, it was about Dick Nixon sweating whether Ted Kennedy was secretly preparing to jump into the Democrat nomination race that year (1972). He'd have been a threat to Nixon (who'd been beaten by Jack Kennedy), even with the Chappaquiddick thing hanging over his head.
As it turned out, the working journalists who were surveyed about their votes, answered that they'd voted 9:1 for George McGovern, in the teeth of a national landslide for Nixon. So Nixon was right to worry about Kennedy, who'd have had the media jump instantly to his side had he declared.
FWIW, it also appears from media accounts that the FBI agent who Mrs. Kelley contacted was well-known as a political conservative, and he contacted a Republican congressman out of concern this was being covered up. It wouldn't surprise me in the least bit if the FBI agent is a Freeper or is reading this thread. (And no, I have zero inside info and never heard of the FBI agent before, so if he's reading, don't think I'm doing anything more that making a good guess about the influence of Free Republic in conservative circles. I've seen firsthand that lots of conservatives, both nationally known figures and well-placed government or GOP officials, are Freepers or regular lurkers here.)
Where the article is right is calling attention to the incredible idiocy of people who write things expecting privacy when they have no reasonable expectation that what they write will stay private. The real issue here is the level of surveillance which people themselves are making possible. There was a day when private investigators were making lots of money to hunt down things that people today put on Facebook.
A secondary issue is that for the mistress of the director of the CIA not to know that email is not a secure medium of communication, and not to take some of the most basic security precautions, indicates many things about her own level of competence. I would hope that most Army Reserve LTCs with intelligence training would know more about how to cover their tracks than this woman did.
However, the facts are that even if she had worked harder to cover her tracks, there are ways she could have been tracked down. The basic rule still applies — if you don't want to have somebody read it, don't write it down.
Of course, not saying or doing something you want to hide is the best solution of all.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/us/petraeus-e-mail-investigation.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y&_r=0
Veteran F.B.I. Agent Helped Start Petraeus E-Mail Inquiry
DOVER, Fla. — The F.B.I. agent who spurred the investigation that led to the resignation of David H. Petraeus as C.I.A. director is a “hard-charging” veteran who helped investigate the foiled millennium terrorist plot in 1999, colleagues said on Wednesday.
The agent, Frederick W. Humphries II, 47, is also described by former colleagues as relentless in his pursuit of what he sees as wrongdoing, which appears to describe his role in the F.B.I. investigation involving Mr. Petraeus. Suspecting that the case involved serious security issues and was being stalled, possibly for political reasons — a suspicion his superiors say was unjustified — he took his concerns to Congressional Republicans.
Yes. Really, why would any government turn their exclusive global intel communications network over to the “little people”?!!
This is why I don’t use computers or the internet for anything!!!
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