[MilCom] Broadband Comms Monitoring for Presidential Security?

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Hi Chris, Ken & all
While I have not read Steve's article, the capability to collect all those
signals has existed since at least the mid-70s, if not since the 60s.
However, the ability to process & analyize this collection of signals in
real-time, as far as I know, still remains beyond the combined abilities of
all the services and the various and numerous federal agencies to include
even the NSA/CIA/FBI/DEA just to list a few (there are not enough people to
do it in a real-time manner even using computers keying on key words.)
Could it be done on a NON-real-time base?  Yes, but would it cost-effective
to do so?  I think not especially being that you can only re-use a tape a
finate number of times.

Now I shall go back into slumber-mode. (here little B-2s, come out to play
:~)

73
clear 6
walt
----- Original Message ----- 
Chris  wrote @  Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:47 PM:
Message text written by "Ken"
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So does anyone have an opinion on these theories???

Ken
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Hi, Ken...

I also read Steve's column and thought he was jumping to a real far fetched
conclusion when he mentioned that. He simply took two unrelated events (he
and his friend talking on the radio and a Texas DPS car running by them at
high speed) and decided they must be related.

While I have no direct knowledge that this type of monitoring does not
happen, I would think that it would be very impractical in a real-time
basis. If an aircraft at altitude was to try and monitor all the possible
communications bands that might be used on the ground, there would be so
much to listen to that they wouldn't  have enough SIGINT & COMINT folks to
try and listen to everything. How would they weed out real threats and just
two guys talking? Also, how would they locate two people on FRS that might
be anywhere in a large radius from the aircraft's position?

At least for the time being, I'm not buying it...

- Chris

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Chris Parris
Fed Files Columnist
Monitoring Times Magazine
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