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FC: More on intelligence community & ECHELON

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Date:          Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:30:41 -0400
To:            politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From:          Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject:       FC: More on intelligence community & ECHELON
Reply-to:      declan@well.com

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>From: "Niall McKay" <niallmc@csi.com>
>To: <declan@well.com>
>Subject: Re: Intelligence community on ECHELON spying charges & US Congress
>Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:43:56 +1000
>Organization: www.niall.org
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300
>
>Hi Declan, though you might be interested in these. cheers Niall
>
>http://www10.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/articles/27network.html
>Questions Raised About Spy Network
>Thursday, May 27, 1999 A surveillance network established by the National
>Security Agency and British intelligence services has come under scrutiny in
>recent weeks, as lawmakers in the United States question whether it could be
>used to monitor American citizens. (NEW YORK TIMES)
>
>
>http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/1999/0604/tech4.htm
>Technology a threat to right of privacy
>Friday, June 4, 1999 WIRED ON FRIDAY:Last week, the US Congress requested
>that its intelligence services provide a detailed report about a global
>electronic eavesdropping system know as Echelon. They refused. Now congress
>is moving to make its request law. (IRISH TIMES)
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>Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:37:51 -0700 (PDT)
>From: [snip]
>To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>Subject: AFIO Intelligence Notes Issue 12 (fwd)
>Organization: Home for retired social engineers & unrepented cryptophreaks
>
>Declan,
>
>Keep me anonymous if you submit this, The AFIO back in June thought
>that the Echelon network was basically a bunch of bullshit.
>
>Enjoy!
>
>http://www.his.com/~afio/notes21.htm
>
>                   AFIO Intelligence Notes Issue 21
>
>                              2 June 1998
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>GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CONSPIRACY?
>According to this site, the government of New Zealand is in cahoots
>with the American NSA to eavesdrop on nearly everyone's phone, e-mail,
>and fax communications. A lot of (doubtful and inflammatory) details
>-- worth a look. http://www.dis.org/erehwon/echelon.html
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>From: "Patrick S. Poole" <pspoole@hiwaay.net>
>To: declan@well.com
>Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 16:20:47 -0500
>Subject: Re: FC: Intelligence community on ECHELON spying charges & US

>
>Declan,
>
>The real story is that the NSA is now making an attorney-client 
>privilege claim to deny Congress oversight of certain areas - 
>particularly the agency's criteria for domestic surveillance. See my 
>story on the matter in last Friday's WorldNetDaily:
>
>http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19990604_xex_us_s
>py_agenc.shtml
>
>Porter Goss, chair of the House Intel Committee, has issued a 
>report on the NSA's refusal to cooperate with their ECHELON 
>inquiry:
>
>http://jya.com/nsa-clash.txt
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>My Free Congress report on ECHELON is online as well:
>
>http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html
>
>Patrick

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