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To: Cactus Jack who wrote (27)	6/6/2002 11:48:35 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

New FBI must be fast, flexible maintaining balance between security and freedom The Arizona Republic / Editorial June 05, 2002 The restructuring of the FBI, an agency beset by investigative lapses in recent years, is a wise and overdue response to its failure to heed the intelligence warnings before Sept. 11. Director Robert Mueller says the FBI's main mission will change from going after drug dealers and kidnappers to rooting out terrorists before they strike. Mueller's plan to transfer 400 agents to anti-terrorism activities is an appropriate response to the need for heightened domestic security. Other welcome changes include a decentralization of decisionmaking, greater analytical capability and sharing intelligence information with the CIA and other agencies. It's vital that the FBI be transformed from a stiff bureaucracy that resists change and protects its turf to an agency that is flexible, puts together information and responds swiftly to threats. Recent revelations leading up to Sept. 11 point to the need for a major shakeup in the FBI. They include: • Minneapolis agents who arrested Zacarias Moussaoui before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon told superiors that Moussaoui was a threat, but Washington resisted seeking a warrant to search his computer. • In Phoenix, agent Kenneth Williams warned about Arabs taking flight training, but his memo wasn't acted upon at FBI headquarters. • And yesterday, as the House and Senate intelligence committees convened, it was disclosed that as early as January 2000, two of the hijackers had attended an al-Qaida meeting in Malaysia, but the CIA shared information with the FBI only about one of them, and neither agency alerted authorities to watch for the two at U.S. ports of entry. To complement the shuffling of duties inside the FBI, Mueller and Attorney General John Ashcroft also want new investigative powers. Civil libertarians have denounced them as an erosion of our freedoms. The FBI wants to more closely monitor the Internet. It also wants the authority to monitor and conduct surveillance on religious groups, a plan that critics say would undermine constitutional protections. The world is different today. If our intelligence community is to keep pace with the sophistication of terrorists, some of the restrictions imposed in the aftermath of civil rights abuses by J. Edgar Hoover should be loosened. There's a delicate balance between loss of our individual freedoms and enhanced security. It's one that Congress must monitor closely. arizonarepublic.com

To: Cactus Jack who wrote (27)	6/6/2002 11:54:34 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Respond to of 89467

Miner hedge covering trend JUST GETTING STARTED, cool but I expect miners will be sacrificed by central bankers and gold bankers (gold banker means bullion bankers -- nobody carries 2 tons) the Fed is soon gonna be forced to manage its PR exposure they will allow miners to go bankrupt, like Barrick Barrick is doomed with gold over #350, deadmeat JPMorgan, Citibank, and GoldSachs will continue to call it loaned gold, margin calls by any other name got a full list of the bullion bankers USA: JPMorgan, Citibank, GoldmanSachs EUROPE: UBS, AIG, Deustchebank really surprised about Union Bank of Switzerland these guys have several 100 years of banking tradition they turned into money whores, allowing fiat currencies but among all the fiats, SwFranc and Euro will do well perhaps the best of all will be the SwFranc imho / jw