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SIGINT and the prisoner "rendition" scandal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Jan 10 16:18:39 2006
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:42:44 -0500
Without going into the details of the purported CIA "rendition" of
prisoners to other countries ("it's not torture; we're just outsourcing
interrogration to places with less legal overhead"), there may be a
SIGINT connection. The following text appeared in an AP wire story
today about a purported Egyptian government document:
But Dick Marty, a Swiss senator leading the probe on behalf of the
Council of Europe, said it was still not clear that the
document -- a fax reportedly sent by satellite transmission from
Egypt's Foreign Ministry to its embassy in London -- was
genuine.
...
Marty also said he wondered how Swiss intelligence intercepted a
fax allegedly sent from Egypt to London.
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