[FYI] (Fwd) FC: The Echelonization of America: NSA to spy domestically?

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject:        	FC: The Echelonization of America: NSA to spy domestically?
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The head of the National Security Agency said last week that Congress
might want to aim the most powerful surveillance system in the world
at American citizens.

Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, in a rare public appearance before the Senate
Intelligence committee, said the ongoing terrorist threat means
America needs to debate where to draw the line between foreign and
domestic surveillance. Currently the NSA is prohibited from spying
domestically.

Here's an excerpt:

"Where do we draw the line between the government's need for 
(counter-terrorism) information about people in the United States and
the privacy interests of people located in the United States? This
line-drawing affects the focus of NSA's activities, foreign versus
domestic... the type of data NSA is permitted to collect and how, and
the rules under which NSA retains and disseminates information about
U.S. persons."

Until the 1970s, when the Senate's Church Committee revealed what had
been going on in secret, the CIA and the NSA conducted illegal
surveillance on American citizens. In response, Congress enacted a
series of reforms, notably the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

"These are serious issues that the country addressed, and resolved to
its satisfaction, once before in the mid-1970's," Hayden said. "In
light of the events of September 11th, it is appropriate that we, as a
country, readdress them. We need to get it right."

Statement:
http://intelligence.senate.gov/0210hrg/021017/hayden.pdf

-Declan




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