From: MICHAEL SPITZER 
Subject: IUFO:  Al Gore presses for the bugging of every American
Date: 3 Aug 2000 04:29:24 -0400
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WorldNetDaily
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2000 

Al Gore bugs America? 

By Charles Smith

The written proof that Vice President Al Gore worked to bug
America is freely available; the documentation was obtained from
the Justice Department, the CIA and the Commerce Department
through the Freedom of Information Act.

In 1993, Vice President Gore and Attorney General Janet Reno were
ordered to form an IWG or "interagency working group" in a secret
White House memo. The sign off sheet on the secret memo
specifically sought Gore and Reno's signature.

Included in the working group were White House Counsel Vince
Foster and convicted Whitewater figure Webster Hubbell. Gore
quickly went to work with the secret group of Clinton advisers
and delivered a report to the president.

"Simply stated, the nexus of the long term problem is how can the
government sustain its technical ability to accomplish electronic
surveillance in a advanced telecommunications environment
characterized by great technical diversity and many competing
service providers (numbering over 1500, some potentially
antagonistic) who have great economic and political leverage,"
states the top secret report prepared by Gore's Interagency
Working Group.

"The solution to the access problem for future telecommunications
requires that the vendor/manufacturing community translate the
government's requirements into a fundamental system design
criteria," noted the Gore report.

"The basic issue for resolution is a choice between accomplishing
this objective by mandatory (i.e., statutory/regulatory) or
voluntary means."

This chilling conclusion, that there is no choice but to be
monitored by Big Brother is backed by several other documents.
One such document released by the Justice Department is a March
1993 Justice memo from Stephen Colgate, assistant attorney
general for administration. According to the Colgate memo, Vice
President Al Gore was to chair a meeting with Hubbell, Reno,
Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, and Leon Panetta in March 1993. The
topic of the meeting was the "AT&T Telephone Security Device."

According to Colgate, AT&T had developed secure telephones the
U.S. government could not tap. The Clinton administration
secretly contracted with AT&T to keep the phones off the market.
Colgate's memo noted that the administration was determined to
prevent the American public from having a private phone
conversation.

"AT&T has developed a Data Encryption Standard (DES) product for
use on telephones to provide security for sensitive
conversations," wrote Colgate. "The FBI, NSA and NSC want to
purchase the first production run of these devices to prevent
their proliferation. They are difficult to decipher and are a
deterrent to wiretaps."

Buried in the Colgate memo is the first reference to government
developed monitoring devices that would be required for all
Americans. According to the March 1993 Colgate memo to Hubbell,
"FBI, NSA and NSC want to push legislation which would require
all government agencies and eventually everyone in the U.S. to
use a new public-key based cryptography method."

In 1993, the "public-key" system referenced by Colgate had
already been developed by the Federal government. The system, a
special computer chip called "Clipper," provided the Federal
government with an "exploitable feature" allowing a wiretap of
any secure phone communications.

However, the only way to force "everyone in the U.S. to use" the
new Clipper chip was to enact "legislation" which would require
that it be manufactured into all phones, fax machines and
computers.

There was a final solution to the problem. According to a
presidential directive of April 1993 on the Clipper project,
"Should (U.S.) industry fail to fully assist the government in
meeting its requirements within a reasonable period of time, the
Attorney General will recommend legislation which would compel
manufacturers to meet government requirements."

Al Gore quickly embraced the Clipper chip and the concept of
monitoring America at all costs. In 1994, Gore wrote a glowing
letter supporting the Clipper chip and the government approved
wiretap design.

According to Gore, "As we have done with the Clipper Chip, future
key escrow schemes must contain safeguards to provide for key
disclosures only under legal authorization and should have audit
procedures to ensure the integrity of the system. Escrow holders
should be strictly liable for releasing keys without legal
authorization."

"We also want to assure users of key escrow encryption products
that they will not be subject to unauthorized electronic
surveillance," wrote Gore in his July 20, 1994 letter to Rep.
Maria Cantwell.

However, Gore did not tell the truth. In 1994, federal officials
were keenly aware that the Clipper chip design did not have
safeguards against unauthorized surveillance. In fact, NASA
turned down the Clipper project because the space agency knew of
the flawed design.

In 1993, Benita A. Cooper, NASA associate administrator for
management systems and facilities, wrote, "There is no way to
prevent the NSA from routinely monitoring all (Clipper) encrypted
traffic. Moreover, compromise of the NSA keys, such as in the
Walker case, could compromise the entire (Clipper) system."

Yet, Al Gore pressed ahead, continuing to support a flawed
design, despite warnings that the design could "compromise" every
computer in the U.S. A 1996 secret memo on a secret meeting of
DCIA Deutch, FBI Director Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno
states, "Last summer, the Vice President agreed to explore public
acceptance of a key escrow policy but did not rule out other
approaches, although none seem viable at this point."

According to the 1996 report to Gore, by then CIA Director
Deutch, Ms. Reno proposed an all-out federal takeover of the
computer security industry. The Justice Department, proposed
"legislation that would ... ban the import and domestic
manufacture, sale or distribution of encryption that does not
have key recovery. Janet Reno and Louis Freeh are deeply
concerned about the spread of encryption. Pervasive use of
encryption destroys the effectiveness of wiretapping, which
supplies much of the evidence used by FBI and Justice. They
support tight controls, for domestic use."

The move to tighten domestic controls has so far failed. The
Clipper chip was canceled in 1997 after wasting over a billion
dollars. Yet, history often repeats itself, especially for those
who refuse to learn from it. The FBI recently aroused much
trouble in July by unveiling a new program called "Carnivore."
The FBI Carnivore software is designed to monitor e-mail by
intercepting all mail at the Internet provider.

The FBI installed the Carnivore software initially at several
Internet providers with little requirements for legal authority.
Testimony by software expert Matt Blaze revealed the FBI
Carnivore program might not be smart enough to recognize a
target's e-mail, thus false prosecutions are possible. In
addition, the Carnivore programs scoops up all data without
regard to legal problems.

Carnivore is clearly open for abuse. While Federal law does
provide for an audit trail to prevent abuse of Carnivore data,
the audit only occurs if there is a federal prosecution. No
prosecution -- no audit trail. Data acquired by the FBI e-mail
tap could be accumulated on anyone without an audit.

The problems of privacy, e-mail and government wiretapping are
not unfamiliar to Vice President Al Gore. The Clinton-Gore White
House recently lost a large portion of the vice president's
e-mails and is now unable to deliver them to investigators
involved in the 1996 campaign finance probe.

The vice president has a darker side yet to be covered by the
media. Al Gore knows much about the federal government efforts to
wiretap every home and office in America. He should. Al Gore has
led that effort to bug America since 1993. As part of the Clinton
administration, Al Gore made the policy that endorsed the Clipper
chip and created the FBI Carnivore software program.


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