Senators Focus on Wiretapping Program ~ WSJ notes....

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ( Todays Free Feature ) ^ | January 18, 2006; | NEIL KING JR. Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

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Nice!

Need to capture that ....

ww2-censor

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World War II Government Censorship Franklin Delano Roosevelt establishes the Office of Censorship in 1941 to censor communications between the United States and foreign countries and to prevent news organizations from publishing information the enemy might be interested in. Roosevelt appoints Byron Price, a respected journalist, to run the office. Price accepts the post on the condition that the media can voluntarily agree to self-censorship. The office employs 14,462 civilians to monitor cable, mail, and radio communications between the United States and other nations. The office closes in 1945. The Office of War Information (OWI) is established in 1942 to control the flow of information between government agencies and manage the release of war news. The OWI opens an overseas branch and successfully transmits news and propaganda over the radio. The office closes in 1945. Correspondents are allowed to travel with troops provided all writing is submitted to military censors prior to publication. In 1942 the press voluntarily accepts a Code of Wartime Practices. No photographs of American dead are released to the public for the first two years of World War II. In 1943 the ban on photographs of the dead is partially lifted in an attempt to galvanize public support for the war. Graphic photographs and pictures showing faces of the dead are still censored.

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Continuing from the above link regarding reporting from WWII:

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World War II Censorship | Technology | Dangers Technology Used by Media Radio allows the sounds of war to enter American homes. Americans learn of the bombing of Pearl Harbor over the radio; they hear accounts of the bombing of London, D-Day, and the liberation of the concentration camps. Radio communicates information regarding husbands, fathers, and sons serving overseas to millions of Americans. Edward R. Murrow wins acclaim for his vivid news accounts of the war. Sound is added to film during the interim between World War I and World War II. Newsreels playing in movie theaters vividly portray the sights and sounds of American foreign battlefields, combat footage, and invasions. The liberation of the German concentration camps in Dachau and Buchenwald is filmed.

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World War II Censorship | Technology | Dangers Dangers to Media The Nazis execute Associated Press correspondent Joe Morton, age 33, without trial in 1944. He had been captured far behind enemy lines. The U.S. War and Navy departments record 1,646 news correspondents as officially covering the war. More than 120 are women, some reporting from the front lines. In 1945 Ernie Pyle, a popular news correspondent, is killed by Japanese machine gun fire. Pyle's stories were published in column format in more than 200 newspapers across the United States. He won a Pulitzer Prize for excellence in reporting from the European battlefront in 1944.

[Logical me]

"I'm probably the only one annoyed by this, but the NSA program was not a wiretap. It was a satellite communications intercept. No alligator clips/recording devices/forwarding transmitters were used. < / analretention >"

Absolutely right. It actually is a radio transmission. Each transmission is a unique frequency so every phone, citizen band, etc, etc, could be monitored by existing equipment. There is no privacy. Maybe an easier explanation is when you turn on your radio, you turn to a unique frequency to receive the transmission. Each transmission is given a unique bandwidth for transmission and easily intercepted. Some transmissions require decoding. With the advent of computers, many bandwidths can be monitored at any time. But to intercept all communications would require a computer the size of a building and to monitor all calls would probably require hundred of thousands of people. I'm sure there is more to this than I understand since I only had 2 years of electronic education many years ago. But the physics of it is the same.