Re: [Raven] WSJ-Europe: NSA Defends Listening Post

[Ed Stone <estone@synernet.com>]

At 01:10 PM 4/14/2000 , you wrote:

>Today in the Wall Street Journal Europe, p29
>
>
>   NSA Defends Listening Post
>
>   U.S. Agency Chief Says Rigid Controls Privacy
>
>[Hey, where have we heard that before, The Netherlands?]
>
>   Echelon System and 'Urban Myths' of Universal
>   Eavesdropping
>
>   WASHINGTON
>
>   Under attack from privacy advocates in the U.S. and
>   Europe, the director of the National Security Agency
>   said that his agency snoops on Americans only under
>   rigid controls and never engages in foreign economic
>   espionage for U.S. corporations.

Note the wording, along the lines of "I did not have....."

So they don't do FOREIGN (but do it when the packets enter US space, 
including embassies and the atmosphere anywhere above 50,000 feet) economic 
espionage FOR US CORPORATIONS (rather the economic espionage is done for 
the benefit of the national security apparatus, and product is conveyed 
after laundering to domestic economic entities?)...

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estone@synernet.com
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