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"Gentlemen do not read one another's mail." So said Secretary of State Henry Stimson (at least according to myth) in 1929 as he shut down the famous Black Chamber MI-8 code-breaking operation. But this time it seems to be more a problem of funding than of honor. Keystone Kops Alert from AP, with thanks to Anon:
WASHINGTON - Mail for convicted terrorists and other dangerous federal inmates isn't being fully read by prison authorities, and that is a risk to national security, a Justice Department review concluded Tuesday.The U.S. Bureau of Prisons is supposed to translate and screen all mail to and from the highest-risk inmates — including terrorists, gang members and spies — for evidence of criminal activity. But that target was not being met consistently at 10 federal prisons and detention centers surveyed by the Justice Department's inspector general.
"The threat remains that terrorist and other high-risk inmates can use mail and verbal communications to conduct terrorist or criminal activities while incarcerated," concluded the report by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine. It urged the Bureau of Prisons to correct quickly the security gap, including putting tracking systems in place to ensure all high-risk inmate mail is read and analyzed.
A Bureau of Prisons spokesman said the agency agrees with the review's recommendations in whole or in part. But it is largely too cash-strapped to afford enough staff to sort through the thousands of letters and other pieces of mail federal prisons receive each week — what Bureau of Prisons Director Harley G. Lappin described to inspectors as searching for "a needle in a haystack."
Experts fear that a new generation of homegrown terrorists is being bred in prison and, after release, they will seek guidance from Islamic extremists still behind bars.
The Justice Department's mail investigation was spurred, in part, after three convicted terrorists at a federal maximum-security prison in Florence, Colo., were found to have written an estimated 90 letters between 2002 and 2004 to Islamic extremists — some with links to the March 11, 2004, attacks on commuter trains in Madrid. Some of the letters later surfaced in the hands of a terror suspect who used them to recruit suicide operatives.
Posted by Robert at October 3, 2006 8:13 PM
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Cukoo! Cukoo! Why not open a government funded school for these people-put them all together so they can share info and improve their learning skills? And make sure they all get a Koran to keep inspiring them too. Insane!
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at October 3, 2006 8:28 PM
Um... why do terrorists get mail?
Posted by: computernerd at October 3, 2006 8:59 PM
Was it not Matthew Prior, he of "Matt's Peace" (the Treaty of Utrecht, for those who might not know what I'm talking about) and he who now lies, hopefully at peace, in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey, who wrote:
"...letters, soft interpreters of love."
If only we could be sure that the letters received by the barbarian moslems in gaols worldwide were indeed 'soft interpreters of peace'. Somehow, I doubt it. They are more probably instructions for, and discussions of, further violent acts.
Dominic.
(P.S. I think that the quote I used is from 'Henry and Emma' written by Matthew Prior - an English diplomat of the time - [1664(?)-1721], but I'm not sure. Check it on Google if your interested.)
D.
Posted by: necessitasnonhabetlegem at October 3, 2006 10:12 PM
One answer is that English speaking prisonors must send and receive mail in English, and there will be only ___ pieces of mail per inmate per week. (Fill a reasonable number in the blank) They are in prison and have forfeited most of their rights. For prisoners who cannot speak English, mail will be translated as time and manpower permit.
at October 3, 2006 10:36 PM
Um... why do terrorists get mail?
Uh, cuz Moslem activists are perceived by Marxists to be victims that have exploited by the dogmatic racist running dogs who created the rich economy and culture surrounding the prisons in which they squat.
Almost all American universities are islands of Marxism and, therefore, almost all American lawyers (and, thereby, judges) are also Marxist. Been like this for 30 yrs or so. Marxism is predicated on victimism, putative exploitation, and a false plan for redress of supposed wrongs.
So, that's whey the "terrorists" (i.e., the Moslem activists) not only get mail, but also email, and Korans, and Hadiths, and other sacralized Islamic texts, and Sharia codes, and anything else they goddamn want.
Does this make sense?
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at October 3, 2006 10:38 PM
Speaking of Marxists I think Mao once said something to the effect that making war is not a tea party. Judging from articles like these you could have fooled me.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at October 3, 2006 10:42 PM
when ever the "West" get serious to win this war on terror, things will change for the better!
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at October 3, 2006 10:43 PM
Um... why do terrorists get mail?All idiocy aside, unless you're reading every letter and listening to every phone call to and from every inmate, it is impossible to block information flow to the terrorists. You could, I suppose, impose solitary confinement on every supposed terrorist, but that would be impractical. Posted by: aynrandgirl
at October 3, 2006 11:18 PM
You could, I suppose, impose solitary confinement on every supposed terrorist, but that would be impractical.
Someone had better find a way to make this practical and fast before we're completely overrun by these crazies.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at October 3, 2006 11:28 PM
You could, I suppose, impose solitary confinement on every supposed terrorist, but that would be impractical.
Why would doing this be impractical? Cut back on the Jizyah to Egypt and Iraq and we could build plenty of solitary cells for every Moslem activist we capture.
Remember, America has by far the best construction infrastucture on Earth. So let's put them all in the Hole, and without the Koran.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at October 3, 2006 11:58 PM
But there is plenty of money for building schools and roads in Iraq, or for diversity/sensitivity training at the CIA and countless other programs that harm America.
Posted by: george_rem at October 4, 2006 12:14 AM
george_rem/
"...that harm America.
And the UK, and Europe, and Russia, and Japan, and India, and China, and Mongolia, and Australia, and Canada, and New Zealand, and Mexico, and South Africa, and ... , and ..., and ... .
The list is practically endless.
Tell me, is there a single country, or a single people, or a single non-islamic belief system, that the barbarian moslem horde has not at some point attacked and offended? Is there even just one?
As far as the devil worship of islam and its misled believers are concerned everybody in the long march of humanity is out of step but them. If that doesn't tell us all that we need to know about this disgusting death-cult called islam then I don't know what will!
Dominic.
at October 4, 2006 12:29 AM
Our sense of self preservation has been polluted by political correctness and the desire to appear "better that that, better then they are." What that means is we'll sure look good from our lofty, self righteous perch in heaven! (six feet under). This suicidal, nice nice attitude is a symptom/result of the man-hating feminist agenda.
Remember when you were a kid and some bully pushed you around? You went home and told your dad and he taught you how to throw a punch. He told you "I don't want you to start anything but if he pushes you around again, let him have it!" Feminism put an end to that. No more, "My dad's better that your dad, my dad can beat your dad." Men, chauvinistic pigs were at the root of all evil. Testosterone baaaad, progesterone goooood. Aggression baaad, sensitivity to one's "feelings" gooood.
Maybe Freud was right..
Now they have conflict resolution teams. You sit down and talk about it -- just like we're doing in the UN. Iran says they want to kill us and we want to talk about it some more. What can we do to make it work? Please like us...
WTF?? What ever happened to Never Again?
The sick, perverted, reality is this attitude, this suicidal cowardice has permeated our military. G-d help us..
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52247
at October 4, 2006 1:00 AM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=842219646390515565
A moving video on the plight of kashmir pandits.
Posted by: GS400 at October 4, 2006 1:48 AM
The Prison authorities need to focus on the mail most likely to cause the most harm. Even if time and resources are scarce, they still need to read 100% of the Muslim prison mail. I fear Political Correctness is calling for reading ALL prison mail and if that can't be acheived, the unread mail would consequently be distributed randomly between Muslims and non-muslim inmates alike.
Posted by: Xero G at October 4, 2006 2:10 AM
Look at someone that he wants to be called 'European'
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3826939174933765674
He caused me laugh but also it rings an alarm. Beware of the Muslims bearing gifts for Europe (actually them selves are the supposed gift)!!!
at October 4, 2006 2:18 AM
OF COURSE THEY READ IT ALL !
They want the word out that they dont/cant.
Imagine the Intel they have gleemed from the mail!
If they want whomever is writing to these folks to slip up and think it wont be read then good on them.
Posted by: Churchill1939 at October 4, 2006 7:11 AM
Why do we let prisoners get mail or phone calls at all?
If they want mail and phone calls, they can be good and get paroled (some day). All we are getting now is crime lords running their empires , jihadists coordinating more attacks, pedophiles/stalkers harassing thier victims, prisoners running internet scams, all from behind the wall.
Just no contact with the outside world until you get paroled.
Sift through the mail to weed out the plots in progress and torch the rest.
And the ACLU be damned.
Walt
at October 4, 2006 10:54 AM
Even if time and resources are scarce, they still need to read 100% of the Muslim prison mail.Sure. I agree with that. What about converts? We know imams troll for converts, mostly disaffected blacks who hate the system and want to get back at whitey (if I were a hate-filled violent person I too would convert to a religion that conveniently approves of hate and violence; probably why Muhammed was so successful at converting Arab warlords). They could easily disguise their conversion. I conclude that either you have to read every piece of mail and listen to every phone call going into and out of the prison, just in case there's a covert channel to the Muslim prisoners, or you must stop all mail and phone calls to all prisoners. Posted by: aynrandgirl
at October 4, 2006 3:24 PM
It would appear to me from the article that, as usual, the mainstream media is attempting to bait the government by making this big fuss over the fact that the mail going to these muslim prisoners is not being read. So what happens when the government starts reading the mail? Then we have the poor muslim's "rights" suddenly being violated, their "privacy" invaded, and the press screaming bloody murder about the Gestapo like tactics of the Bush administration having the gall to read these victims' mail. Give me a break. Soak the mail in pig blood, give it to them, and when they ask what's all over it, say, "Pig blood. By the way, you're free to go." They'll be afraid to jihad anyone anymore, for fear of where their defiled bodies will wind up, and our problems will be solved.
Posted by: Excalibur at October 4, 2006 11:28 PM
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