up conversations outside at a long distance.
* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* The leading lobbyist for CALEA was Louis Freeh, the aggressive new
* director of the FBI. The government's most im****tant investigative
* tool, Freeh said, was "wiretapping, court-authorized wiretapping."
*
* Unless remedial steps were taken, he continued, "the country will
* be unable to protect itself from terrorism, violent crime, drug
* trafficking, espionage, kidnapping and other grave crimes."
*
* But is Freeh's frightening vision true?
*
* In fact, at the same time the FBI was telling Congress and the public
* that the new technologies were already preventing them from conducting
* essential wiretaps, senior FBI officials from cities across the United
* States were telling FBI headquarters in Wa****ngton THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
* We know this because...[buy the book! Burnham is an American hero.]
Additionally, the FBI/NSA has briefcase-sized devices that can be attached
to any digital telephone company transmission line, and can monitor many
conversations simultaneously.
# "The FBI's Latest Idea: Make Wiretapping Easier"
# By Anthony Ramirez, The New York Times, April 19, 1992
#
# One telecommunications equipment manufacturer said he was
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