The discussion highlights the surveillance implications of two-way communication capability in every electrical outlet, with appliance manufacturers already developing chips that could monitor household activity. Several countries including Japan and the Netherlands have already rejected BPL after testing revealed severe interference problems.
In the second half, Bannon discusses his nearly 20 years working for Interpol in a secretive subdirectorate code-named Archangel, tasked with tracking international child sex trafficking rings. Bannon reveals that his team functioned as assassins targeting those involved in the trade, and discusses the moral complexities of vigilante justice within an international law enforcement organization.
Key Moments
FEMA warns BPL would knock out emergency comms: Jim Haney of the ARRL says FEMA wrote that its own emergency transmitters wouldn't be able to operate if Broadband over Power Lines is rolled out - radiation from neighborhood power lines would blanket the HF spectrum.
Interpol agents demand affidavit, supervisor killed: Bannon claims after his book published, Interpol officers came to his home pressuring him to sign an affidavit denying the book; his supervisor Jacques Defer gathered 256 pages of documentation to protect him and was shot and killed in Marseille on May 10 of the prior year during the resulting struggle.
Archangel: Interpol unit that 'eliminated' child traffickers: Bannon names the subdirectorate Archangel, says his three-man team was tasked with locating buyers and sellers in international child sex slavery, and once Rosetta delivered a dossier they would 'eliminate the target' - which Art names directly as vigilantism.
Time cover: CIA's authorized terrorist hit list: Bannon points to the Feb 3 (2003) Time magazine cover story 'CIA Secret Army' which identified that the agency holds a list of terrorist leaders it is authorized to kill - arguing this hit-list mentality has long existed in covert agencies including Interpol.
Admission of routine torture for intel: Asked if Interpol tortures detainees, Bannon says 'no doubt whatsoever' - that working North Korean terrorists who funded operations through child pornography or producers of child sex slavery rings, his teams 'would frequently torture them to acquire information about the network.'