@@@@@ her outsider was latin, cognitive, and chooses onto the conspiracy @@@@@

's long
*   and eventually successful investigation of one of New York City's most
*   arrogant Mafia bosses.

Jeez, that sounds like plenty of electronic surveillance spy-power to me!

How about you?

The FBI has since come up with a briefcase with a 'targetable array of
microphones' to pick up conversations outside at a long distance.


*   "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
*   The leading lobbyist for CALEA was Louis Freeh, the aggressive new
*   director of the FBI. The government's most important investigative
*   tool, Freeh said, was "wiretapping, court-authorized wiretapping."
*  
*   Unless remedial steps were taken, he continued, "the country will
*   be unable to protect itself from terrorism, violent crime, drug
*   trafficking, espionage, kidnapping and other grave crimes."
*  
*   But is Freeh's frightening vision true?
*  
*   In fact, at the same time the FBI was telling Congress and the public
*   that the new technologies were already preventing them from conducting
*   essential wiretaps, senior FBI officials from cities across the United
*   States were telling FBI headquarters in Washington THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
*   We know this because...[buy the book! Burnham is an American hero.]


Additionally, the FBI/NSA has briefcase-sized devices that can be attached
to any digital telephone company transmission line, and can monitor many
conversations simultaneously.

#   "The FBI's Latest Idea: Make Wiretapping Easier"
#   By Anthony Ramirez, The New York Times, April 19, 1992
#  
#   One telecommunications equipment manufacturer said he was puzzled by the
#   FBI proposal. "The FBI already has a lot of technology to wiretap digital
#   lines," he said, on the condition of anonymity.
#  
#   He said four companies, including such major firms as Mitel Corporation,
#   a Canadian maker of telecommunications equipment, can design digital
#   decoders to convert computer code