Starting with Ted Stevens? -- William Sutton
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Greg Brown wrote: > This sounds dangerous. We'd better start syping on everyone that uses > Internets right away. > > On 10/19/06, WA Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-10-16T210812Z_01_N16404472_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-CHERTOFF.xml&src=rss&rpc=22 > > > > > > Web could be terror training camp in U.S., politician says > > Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:08pm ET > > > > > > BOSTON (Reuters) - Disaffected people living in the United States may > > develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet > > and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S. Homeland > > Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday. > > > > "We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the > > Internet," Chertoff said on the sidelines of a meeting of International > > Association of the Chiefs of Police. > > > > "They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to > > necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that > > diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like > > bomb-making is a dangerous combination," Chertoff said. "Those are the kind > > of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and satellites." > > > > Chertoff pointed to the July 7, 2005 attacks on London's transit system, > > which killed 56 people, as an example a home-grown threat. > > > > > > > > To help gather intelligence on possible home-grown attackers, Chertoff > > said Homeland Security would deploy 20 field agents this fiscal year into > > "intelligence fusion centers," where they would work with local police > > agencies. > > > > By the end of the next fiscal year, he said the department aims to up that > > to 35 staffers. > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
