[FedCom] White House criticizes news media for "reporting [that] was based on listening to a police scanner"

[kennyblues at aol.com]

I see this as one more excuse for them to go to 100% encryption. 
Someone in the media overheard the exercise on a scanner and reported 
this as a real word activity.
I can remember back in the mid 80's listening to an FBI surveillance in 
Miami that led to two agents shot and killed. The Miami Herald then 
published a transcript of radio traffic overheard on a scanner a few 
days later, very shortly after that all radio channels for the Miami 
Field Office went 100% encrypted.
It is not necessarily the majority of dedicated Federal radio 
monitorists that have forced agency's to go to full time encryption but 
rather the incompetent, irresponsible media.










Well was anyone on this list or another list actually monitoring the
exercise and was the term used after transmission "this is an exercise" 
and
"simulated" (simulating)  gun fire etc????

As far as encryption goes, with the federal law enforcement agencies
including DHS units, you can expect to see (hear) that (encryption) 
pretty
consistently in the future -- this has little impact on the use & 
remember
if someone observes a lot of activity they might also call in a news 
tip
which would produce similiar media results.    I'm very surprised that 
the
USCG was using a VHF marine channel because they have plenty of their 
own
federal VHF frequencies assigned for their use.

Ken


----- Original Message -----
From: "ed" <bernies at netaxs.com>
To: <phillyscanner at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:05 PM
Subject: [FedCom] White House criticizes news media for "reporting 
[that]
was based on listening to a police scanner"


> When the White House criticizes the news media for "reporting [that] 
was
> based
> on listening to a police scanner", it doesn't bode well for the 
future of
> unencrypted public-safety radio communications.
>
> Doubtless this incident will be used by government radio encryption
> proponents
> to push for more encryption of open, clear government radio
> communications.
>
> -bernieS
>
>
> 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091101740.html
>
> Radio Traffic Led to False Reports of Gunfire on Potomac
>
> Coast Guard Responds to 'Routine Exercise'
>
> CNN anchor Kyra Phillips said on-air that a CNN employee in 
Washington
> called
> the Coast Guard about the scanner report, "and they said, 'We don't 
know
> what
> you're talking about.' " So we went forward with what we learned."
> Phillips,
> reporting in Atlanta, cited CNN employees in Washington for her
> information.
>
> In one transmission that CNN recorded and broadcast, a Coast Guard 
member
> can be
> heard saying, "Vessel, if you don't slow down, stop your vessel in an 
R
> zone,
> you will be fired upon." He was apparently referring to a restricted 
zone.
>
> Coast Guard Petty Officer Nick Cangemi said in an interview, "We use 
a
> frequency
> reserved for the Coast Guard and reserved for training."
>
> Currier said it was possible that Coast Guard personnel had reported 
shots
> fired
> on the radio as part of the exercise, but he stressed that protocol 
is to
> preface any such transmissions by announcing that they are part of a
> drill.


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