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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: H-Man who wrote (25514)	12/21/2003 11:29:08 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) of 25898

<But this is the most compelling piece of evidence that we have found so far.> It is one of the oldest political ploys in the world. Old it may be, but it keeps right on working. The ploy goes like this. An (apparently) immense and dangerous crisis blows up outside the nation. Politicians galore scream about a great danger and then promise to protect the public. An army marches and an armada sails. There follows a stunning military advance to strangle the danger and to institute a regime in the newly "pacified" area which will be just as good as the one back home. The general public, now scared out of its wits, follows each twist and turn with spellbound fascination. And while the public is fixated on the external dramatics, the leader quietly pulls a fast one. In this case, with the public fixated on the capture of Saddam, President Bush signs into law the new US intelligence budget. Wrapped inside this latest US intelligence spending bill are a set of new provisions that allows the FBI to obtain an individual's financial records from pawn shops, casinos, car dealers and travel agents - all without a court order. These new measures in the intelligence authorization bill expand the number of those who can be served with "National Security Letters" which demand private financial information during investigations relating to terrorism or counterintelligence. These National Security Letters do not require any judicial review or approval. Once any National Security Letter has been issued to search any individual's financial records, those providing these records are prevented - by law - from notifying the person being investigated. These National Security Letters are exempt from any traditional court reviews as well as from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA).

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