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Re: ABC News mentions Echelon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Wed Sep 12 09:41:05 2001
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:39:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
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--- Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com> wrote:
>
> They must be referring to echelon. What's interesting
> is that ABC news is saying that they have echolon
> like capabilities in the Continental US.
>
> This is much rumoured but always denied and probably
> technically illegal.
Hogwash. The US laws prevent only the US Agency from spying on it's
citizens. There is nothing that prevents the other Echelon partners (I
beleive they are Austrailia, Britian, and New Zealand) from doing the
spying and sharing the results.
-Jim P.
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