[…] he was about to make to the Ervin Watergate Committee. Such evasive tactics do not mean very much in today’s age of computerised intelligence. Revelations about Army surveillance of U.S. citizens before another of Senator Ervin’s Committee in 1970 had led to the formal termination of that programme on June 9, 1970, which we […]
[…] on 26 Oct. 2001, greatly expands the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tap phones, monitor email and internet traffic and conduct other forms of surveillance in pursuit of terrorists. A key feature is its provisons requiring increased sharing of information among law enforcement and national security personnel at all levels of […]
[…] of the lowest form of human behaviour.’ (Redden, p.5) Redden’s Snitch Culture is an enormously detailed and documented account of the history and practice of the state’s surveillance of the domestic population in America. It covers everything from the apparently trivial – campaigns to get kids still in primary school to snitch on their […]
[…] in 1985 that I was granted a low level of security clearance. Throughout the 1980s I had the distinct feeling I was under some sort of covert surveillance, through my awareness of odd phone calls, and strangers acting suspiciously near my home. Later, following my trial, it was admitted that MI5 had put me […]
[…] Kemp and Christine Bott.(14) Lee discovered that an investigation as far back as 1971 had been getting near the truth but had collapsed when the gang under surveillance by the Thames Valley Squad and Customs were robbed of money and drugs by officers of the Met.! According to Detective Constable Martyn Pritchard of the […]
[…] Meanwhile, Kevin J. Lawner ruminates on the impact that the Echelon interception system might have on the right to privacy, concluding that the National Security Agency’s ‘…… surveillance activities in Europe must be subject to rigorous oversight, and guarantees must be provided to safeguard against abuse’. Alan A. Block, ‘The National Intelligence Service […]
A history of ASIO and National Surveillance Frank Cain Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, p/b, $39.95. ISBN 978 1 921509 322 Frank Cain was just a name to me but a little googling showed that he is Australia’s leading academic historian of intelligence and security history. This history of ASIO and its antecedents – […]
[…] European Parliament’s Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee, and prepared by the Omega Foundation in March 1997, the report comprehensively examines all aspects of political control, including surveillance technologies, telecommunications interception (including ECHELON – see elsewhere in this issue); crowd control and ‘less than lethal’ weapons including MW and accoustic disabling systems; prisoner control […]
[…] ‘the badger’ is responsible for scheduling the Gardai border patrols. Through ‘the badger’s’ knowledge of Gardai operational details, the RUC’s paramilitary Special Support Unit and E4A covert surveillance team, and Loyalists on orders from the SMIU were able to launch a series of cross-border incursions which, according to Holroyd, involved one murder, two attempted […]
[…] front organisation. And if an organisation is committed, ultimately, to overthrowing the government, this must make any and all of its members and sympathisers legitimate targets for surveillance. They may not appear to be up to very much, but keep watching: after all, ‘we do not know today what we will need tomorrow’, in […]
