Re: Jesse Jackson Warns Wall Street. We Gonna March.

familiar' with the
incident, come to believe that it was an [informer] tip about a possible
threat, and not an anonymous hoax threat?

The American people are not the only ones the NSA/FBI lie to...

Notice how secrecy keeps playing a major part in all this...June 28, 1996,
NYT, "Lawmaker Tells of High Cost of Keeping Secret Data Secret", the House
intelligence committee said, not even including the CIA, the U.S. spends
FIVE POINT SIX BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR (twice the annual combined budgets of
the FBI and DEA) on "a document classification system stuck on autopilot,
indiscriminately stamping 'Top Secret' on thousands of documents every year."

ECHELON generates 90% of those documents. Machines.

5/24/1992 The Washington Post Parade Magazine:
The Pentagon even labelled as not only SECRET but NOFORN---which means
they cannot even be shared with our allies---anti-American cartoons that
ran in IRAQI newspapers, even more than a year later [when or if they ever
declassified them I don't know]. One typically ludicrous cartoon depicts
drunken GIs lounging in the Saudi sand with shapely U.S. servicewomen
dressed in unusual military attire: bras, shorts and high heels.

NOFORN level security for IRAQI cartoons. Clueless autopilot secrecy.

The ultimate in bureaucratic capture:

# "Failures of Leadership on Land Mines", NYT editorial, 6/21/97
#
# Land mines are responsible for killing 10,000 people worldwide each year,
# most of them innocent civilians, including children.
#
# Never before has the momentum to ban all land mines been so strong. A high
# percentage of battlefield casualties among American troops are by mines.
#
# Yet President Clinton and Vice President Gore are meekly yielding to the
# wrongheaded opposition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, even though th