BE: Journalistic (and national) ADHD

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Hi Monte!

My parents were harassed by the FBI for years because of their political affiliations. They always warned us that our phone was probably tapped. So most of these revelations had a ho-hum quality for me, including speculations about that building.

LK  

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Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Some may recall that I posted a passage from Rick Perlstein (and before him  NSA historian James Bamford and others) about the Church Committee's discovery in 1975 that the NSA had "been monitoring both the phone calls and the telegrams of American citizens for decades."
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>https://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=1408&msg=181355
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>So then FISA and other stern safeguards were put into place until -- surprise! -- Snowden clued us in that the Bad Behavior had not only continued for decades, but expanded in step with the internet. 
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>Today we get this breathless revelation about a building in the heart of Bleeding Edge territory. 
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>Trust me: when that building was one year old, using analog/radio rather than digital/fiber optic dragnets, there was enough leakage from committee staff that I and many thousands of other people in NYC (hi, Laura!) knew about its... enhanced functions. I'm not talking tinfoil-hat speculation, I'm talking matter-of-fact daylight certainty, something half the high-end electronic installation mavens in the city were winking and nudging about.
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>It makes P's snarking at the Times in BE even more entertaining, but it is not the kind of "been there done that" I enjoy.
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