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diff --git a/books/puzzle-palace.mdwn b/books/puzzle-palace.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 176f000..0000000 --- a/books/puzzle-palace.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta title="Puzzle Palace"]] - - For reasons of security, as well as the fact that the State De- - partment's portion of the budget could not by law be spent within - the District of Columbia, Yardley set up shop in New York City. - After first considering a building at 17 East 36 Street, he finally - settled on a stately four-story brownstone at 3 East 38 Street, - owned by an old friend. - - --- page 13 (pdf) e 25 (book) - - The key to the legislation could have been dreamed up by Franz Kafka: the - establishment of a supersecret federal court. Sealed away behind a - cipher-locked door in a windowless room on the top floor of the Justice - Department building, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is most - certainly the strangest creation in the history of the federal Judiciary. Its - establishment was the product of compromises between legislators who wanted the - NSA and FBI, the only agencies affected by the FISA, to follow the standard - procedure of obtaining a court order re- quired in criminal investigations, and - legislators who felt the agencies should have no regulation whatsoever in their - foreign intelligence surveillances. - - [...] - - Almost unheard of outside the inner sanctum of the intelligence - establishment, the court is like no other. It sits in secret session, holds no - adversary hearings, and issues almost no public opinions or reports. It is - listed in neither the Government Organization Manual nor the United States - Court Directory and has even tried to keep its precise location a secret. "On - its face," said one legal authority familiar with the court, "it is an affront - to the traditional American concept of justice." - - -- page 453 - - [...] - - Then there is the last, and possibly most intriguing, part of the definition, - which stipulates that NSA has not "acquired" anything until the communication - has been processed "into an intelligible form intended for human inspection." - NSA is there- fore free to intercept all communications, domestic as well as - foreign, without ever coming under the law. Only when it selects the "contents" - of a particular communication for further "proc- essing" does the FISA take - effect. - - -- page 458 - - Like most things in Britain, the practice of eavesdropping is - deeply rooted in tradition and probably dates back at least to - 1653. In that year Lord Thurloe created what was known as - "The Secret Office," which specialized in clandestinely opening - and copying international correspondence. That custom later - carried over to telegrams and finally the telephone shortly after - it was first introduced in England in 1879. - - -- page 487 - |