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Re: [FYI] European Parliament votes against inquiry committee on Echelon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Guy Briggs)
Fri Jul 7 14:16:28 2000
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:55:46 -0400
From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@conscoop.ottawa.on.ca>
To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: horns@pobox.com, cryptography@c2.net
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On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 02:17:20AM -0500, John Kelsey wrote:
> At 11:09 PM 7/5/00 +0200, PA Axel H Horns wrote:
> >http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/6891/1.html
> ...
> >The Greens believe the big political parties have bowed for the=20
> >individual EU governments wishes not to take a strong position on the=20
> >Echelon issue. 'The vote proved that most of the conservative,=20
> >socialists and liberals member of parliament are unwilling to go=20
> >against the wishes of certain EU governments,' according to the=20
> >Greens. =20
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> The other possibility is that the bigger parties occasionally get a tidbit
> of useful information from Echelon on their political rivals, irritating
> journalists about to make them look bad, or similar stuff. =20
Or they have enough skeletons that they are worried Echelon might
expose...
> --John
slainte mhath, RGB
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