It was nothing...thank you,yes...thank you....remember I want you all out
there next big hit.
From: "Thomas Leavitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Declan McCullagh"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FBI "on the ball" (not) about "domestic
terrorism"? Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 14:42:49 -0800 Declan, On October 19th,
2002 a message calling for "an explicit and direct attack upon the war
machine" involving monkey wrenching type activities and/or disruptive
"civil disobedience" aimed at various corporate institutions) and
potentially Department of Defense facilities) was posted to Infoshop News.
The posting itself had no specific information about any actual planned
activities, it simply called on the movement as a whole to engage in them,
starting on December 15th.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/10/19/8397714 At a
guess, with little effort, I could find literally dozens of postings in a
similar vein. On December 4th, 2002 (a full month and a half later), the
FBI's Awareness of National Security Issues and Response (ANSIR) program
posted an email advisory about this posting... perhaps in response to some
repostings of it elsewhere three weeks later. Note the utter and complete
lack of any substantive postings on Infoshop in response to this posting
prior to the email advisory being circulated - in fact, a post criticizing
it for a conflict with another call to action on a separate topic was made
on November 25th. In fact, no substantial traffic was posted in response to
this prior to the Tom Paine article calling attention to the FBI warning on
December 16th, and most of the postings subsequent to that dismiss it as a
the product of an "agent provacateur".
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6918 Does a single individual have
the capability to provoke a national alarm? (apparently, yes) Does the FBI
do any serious level of threat evaluation before distributing alerts?
(apparently no) Exactly what value does highlighting such a post have for
security professionals? (none that I can see) Regards, Thomas Leavitt
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04272.html
"...At a guess, with little effort, I could find literally dozens of
postings in a similar vein..."
Oh Yeah? Where? The 1996 Archives?
