Cempaka Belanda: Dutch law enforcement stops tapping lawyers’ phones

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“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

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“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Monday, March 22, 2010

Dutch law enforcement stops tapping lawyers’ phones

NRC International, By Jan Meeus and Merel Thie, 22 March 2010 14:12

For years, Dutch law enforcement has been listening in on conversations between lawyers and their clients. The prosecutor’s office itself now wants to put an end to the practice once and for all.

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What do a miracle doctor, a shrink, a lawyer and an imam have in common? Their professions are all on a list of words compiled by the Dutch public prosecutor for what is its biggest inquiry ever. All over the Netherlands, millions of transcripts of phone taps are currently being screened for phone calls between suspects and their lawyers, doctors or psychiatrists. A list of search terms has been compiled that could indicate a confidential conversation has taken place.

If prosecution officials find transcripts from specific conversations involving suspects who were speaking to a confidante, the prosecutor has a problem. Dutch law requires that tapped phone calls between suspects and their lawyers, dentists, psychiatrists, pastors or imams need to be destroyed.

Cases overturned

The large-scale inquiry by the Dutch prosecutor’s office comes after several high-profile cases in the Netherlands were upended by judges who found the prosecution had illegally tapped suspects’ lawyers in recent years. In 2005, a judge tossed out a case against a Rotterdam drug dealer because the police had acted on information ascertained from a phone call between him and his lawyer. In 2007, a group of Amsterdam Hells Angels walked after charges of criminal conspiracy when the judge because conversations between the bikers and their lawyers had been tapped and transcribed for years. In 2008, the court in Amsterdam tossed out a case against a mugger who was arrested in his lawyer’s office after the police had listened in on a conversation between the two.

To avoid this from happening again, the public prosecution now wants to make a clean sweep. A committee led by Arnhem public prosecutor Nicole Zandee has proposed some rigorous measures. For one, the prosecutor’s office should block a number of phone numbers belonging to people suspects should be able to communicate with in confidence. If this becomes the norm, prosecutors will no longer destroy the tapped conversations after these have taken place, they will never have access to it. ” We don’t want to hear these talks at all,” Nicole Zandee explained.

Such a system would not solve all the problems the prosecution faces. Suspects also communicate through email and instant messaging, which raises new questions. Is a report a lawyer sends to his client still confidential if he forwards it to third parties?

Lawyers not satisfied yet

The Netherlands Bar Association has cited a “common interest” in tackling the issue, but it also foresees the new measures will be anything but airtight. The blocked numbers list won’t include the switchboard number for large law firms. The Dutch justice department wants to still be able to tap these lines. Criminal defence attorneys’ direct numbers will be blocked, but if a lawyer initiates a conversation, this is commonly done through the switchboard number, meaning the conversation could still be tapped.

The prosecutor’s office wants lawyers to limit their business calls to blocked numbers. But the Dutch Bar has countered that this is not always possible. A client calling a law firm’s switchboard from jail would be susceptible to phone taps for instance.

Will calls really be destroyed?

Registries of confidential phone calls that slip through the cracks of the new system will have to be destroyed. But will they really? Frank Paauw, a deputy police commissioner and a member of the committee chaired by Zandee, explained how the destruction process works. “A conversation that needs to be destroyed is ripped apart, torn to digital shreds. The remnants are stored on the server. The computer is then told to overwrite all the bits at random as soon as new information is stored,” he said. But is that “destruction” as required by the law? To Paauw, the matter is one of semantics. “It is unthinkable a conversation like that can be reconstructed,” he said.

The prosecutor’s office hopes to have determined how many conversations it has illegally transcribed nationwide by the end of the year. The proposed measures should take effect within the next couple of months.

Dutch like to tap

Phone taps are quite common in the Netherlands. In the first half of 2009 for instance, Dutch law enforcement listened in on an average of 2,254 calls a day. France boasts similar numbers, even though its population is almost four times larger. (Source: RNW)

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