From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 18:06:24 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Request for illegal electronic surveillance examples and cases
In-Reply-To: <199710020349.FAA06007@basement.replay.com>
Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971002003347.006e2b74@popd.ix.netcom.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain



>Declan writes:
>>So I'm putting together a special report featuring examples of illegal
>>wiretapping by governments -- to show why we shouldn't trust them with
>>mandatory domestic key escrow. Also illegal electronic surveillance,
>>generally speaking. Especially more recent ones. Maybe non-U.S. examples
>>too.
>>Any suggestions? I'm thinking things like: MLKjr, Mrs. Roosevelt, _Irvine_,
>>_Socialist Workers Party_, Dewey-FBI alliance, mail opening, Emma Goldman,
>>Brownell's blanket microphone surveillance, _Katz_, _Alderman_, CISPES.

The year before the Supreme Court mandated the Exclusionary Rule back
in the 60s (go ask Mike Godwin for specifics :-), the New York City
Police Department didn't bother getting any search warrants.
They just searched, and if they found something, they used it.
The year _after_ the Exclusionary Rule, they got warrants.

Obviously the Feds don't keep statistics of illegal wiretaps,
just legal ones.  And they certainly don't keep stats of cellphone
conversations local police pick up with scanners.

				Thanks!
					Bill
Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Regular Key PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF  3C85 B884 0ABE 4639