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▐ Point, Click ... Eavesdrop: How the FBI Wiretap Net Operates
The FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act.

The surveillance system, called DCSNet, for Digital Collection System Network, connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled by traditional land-line operators, internet-telephony providers and cellular companies. It is far more intricately woven into the nation's telecom infrastructure than observers suspected. ►More here ....

▐ Weazle's Revenge
Is this for real? Out of the closet! - get to know your republicans! ►A lot more here ...

▐ Social networks, dummy corporations and the many faces of teh CIA
The CIA has long used both shell companies (or dummy 'front' companies) and operating companies (and there is a difference). Shell companies are corporate entities in name only, hollow false-fronts which own no real assets. They're essentially an exercise in fraud designed to keep the CIA's involvement a secret from at least cursory prying eyes. Operating companies, on the other hand, are actual entities owned and operated by the agency. The most notorious of these would be Air America, the company whose forebear, Civil Air Transport was created by war hero Claire Chennault of Flying Tigers fame, and which allegedly ended its days running drugs in exchange for arms in support of various right-wing guerrilla causes. ► More here ...

▐ CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits
People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program. ►More here ...