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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (265794)	6/20/2002 11:44:13 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

The NSA (among others) has access to hundreds of agencies repositories, virtually anything they wish ... Read Bamford's books on "Puzzle Palace" and "Body of Secrets". He has hundreds of credible reports including accounts from agents directly involved. It is much too late to question the access of information within the secret branches of government. The "repository" is the capability of the all-powerful secret government to gain information, and the rest of the current legislation is a smokescreen, like the "bungling" excuse that comes up with every 'misfortune'. The challenge is to defuse that secret capability. The way that is done is simple: allow all already-captured electronic information to be made available to the public in its current form. Everything, except bona-fide military secrets, of which there is very little. People like Ms Fitts will latch onto financial information that is available and begin audits, others will decode legacy databases, and thousands will decode the mess, no huge government funding required. In fact, it is likely that huge government funding will only further suppress and disguise the people's information on government that they pay for.