-- Nathan Newman
----- Original Message ----- From: "siddharta5" <siddharta5 at yahoo.com> To: friendswbainj at yahoogroups.com Subject: [FRIENDSWBAINJ] Old PNB's Internet Spies Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 17:01:38 -0000
>From Rafael Renteria, a Free Pacifica activist, this commentary on
information provided by the Pacifica Campaign -- so that you know the
type of people who were involved in the destruction of the Pacifica
Network --:
The old guard PNB spent a quarter million dollars, it seems, spying on the plaintiffs and on the movement via the web and by accessing data in more than questionable ways.
I'm sure there are any number of us who would like to know which computers may have been raided, and to have full details of any and all spying and disruptive techniques used against us as a movement and as individuals. It's our right to know all of this, and the iPNB should make this information available to us in full detail at the earliest possible moment.
More below;
Rafael Renteria
The Pacifica Campaign Wrote:
In an extraordinary development, we have learned that a firm called Decision Strategies has a bill due for $230,000. Decision Strategies is a high-end corporate security and "intelligence" firm, which touts its use of "multijurisdictional online and onsite searches with the involvement of overt and covert field operatives." According to a USA Today article, the firm hires "ex-FBI, CIA, IRS, DEA, and Secret Service agents; former police, prosecutors, customs agents, federal marshals and military intelligence experts; veterans of Britain's MI6, Europe's Interpol or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; and lawyers, forensic accountants, database specialists and journalists."
Pacifica's use of this firm points to even deeper corruption and total abandonment of the network's mission than heretofore understood.
See the firm's site at http://decision-strategies.com
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