How much power?

• What do the enforcers know? Understand?
• How much power will the enforcers have?
• How to recast material laws for a new world

Who are they?- Private Companies

• New generation of security, anti-theft agencies
• They will always stress how dangerous things have become

Who are they?- Public Agencies (I)- Public Crime

• FBI- charged with thwarting inter-state crime
• often deals with public; centralized crime databases
• Secret Service- does more than protect officials
• Treasury Dept (cf. ATF)- protect financial well being of country
• Operation Sun Devil- getting the evil hackers and expanding the Tresury Dept.'s mandate.

Who are they? Public Agencies (II)- Intelligence Community -

• National Security Apparatus
• 35 billion dollar intelligence budget- hard to trace
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• To collect information for informed decisions- by whom?
• Covert action, or just "passive" collection?
• National Security Agency (NSA)
• Larger than CIA! 5 billion dollar budget
• In charge of US 'communication' security and apparatus
• Cryptography; surveillance technology
• NSA- 'No Such Agency?' History of Highest Secrecy. Some abuse.
• Others- Air Force 'National Reconnaissance Office' (NRO)
• $15 billion dollar budget- for satellites, but can you trace it?