Norris
August 14th 07, 06:18 AM
not announce this addition
: to its investigative bag of tricks: a citywide network of hidden sensing
: devices that pick up signals from a moving vehicle and immediately project
: the precise location on a large illuminated map located in the FBI's New
: York command post.
:
: When the FBI's technology head was asked how the new tracking system was
: working, he looked surprised, and didn't answer the question. "How did you
: know about that?" he asked.
:
: The FBI denied a request for a tour of its Manhatten command post, where
: the output from its instantaneous tracking system is displayed for the
: brass.
:
: In 1993, however, the FBI allowed a reporter who was working on what the
: bureau expected would be a friendly article to visit the inner sanctum.
:
: The command center, she later wrote, "looks not unlike the Starship
: Enterprise, of 'Star Trek.' On the rear wall of the room are three giant
: screens on which neighborhood maps, live field surveillance, and graphs
: charting the progress of a manhunt can be projected.
:
: Law enforcement officials, at stations in three semicircular tiers of
: desks, can watch---and direct---as criminals are caught in the act.
:
: Their computer mouse screen pointers are a gun icon.
OH MY GAWD!!!!
WHAT'S NEXT, THE WHOLE DAMN COUNTRY???
What is this?
* Subject: Air Force News Service 01oct96
* From: (Veterans News & Information Service)
* Date: 1996/10/01
* Newsgroups: soc.veterans
*
* Night vision lasers go to court
*
* KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFNS) -- More drug and
* smuggling convictions may soon result from a laser optics research
* agreement signed here Sept. 25 between the Air Force Phillips
* Laboratory and FLIR Systems, Inc.
*
: to its investigative bag of tricks: a citywide network of hidden sensing
: devices that pick up signals from a moving vehicle and immediately project
: the precise location on a large illuminated map located in the FBI's New
: York command post.
:
: When the FBI's technology head was asked how the new tracking system was
: working, he looked surprised, and didn't answer the question. "How did you
: know about that?" he asked.
:
: The FBI denied a request for a tour of its Manhatten command post, where
: the output from its instantaneous tracking system is displayed for the
: brass.
:
: In 1993, however, the FBI allowed a reporter who was working on what the
: bureau expected would be a friendly article to visit the inner sanctum.
:
: The command center, she later wrote, "looks not unlike the Starship
: Enterprise, of 'Star Trek.' On the rear wall of the room are three giant
: screens on which neighborhood maps, live field surveillance, and graphs
: charting the progress of a manhunt can be projected.
:
: Law enforcement officials, at stations in three semicircular tiers of
: desks, can watch---and direct---as criminals are caught in the act.
:
: Their computer mouse screen pointers are a gun icon.
OH MY GAWD!!!!
WHAT'S NEXT, THE WHOLE DAMN COUNTRY???
What is this?
* Subject: Air Force News Service 01oct96
* From: (Veterans News & Information Service)
* Date: 1996/10/01
* Newsgroups: soc.veterans
*
* Night vision lasers go to court
*
* KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFNS) -- More drug and
* smuggling convictions may soon result from a laser optics research
* agreement signed here Sept. 25 between the Air Force Phillips
* Laboratory and FLIR Systems, Inc.
*