-Caveat Lector- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K ----- Click Here: <A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:578781">NSA to Spy with FBI - but wont tell CIA who's in charge!</A> ----- Subject: NSA to Spy with FBI - but wont tell CIA who's in charge! From: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ">[EMAIL PROTECTED] </A> (E Right) Date: Tue, 07 December 1999 12:23 AM EST Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NSA to Spy with FBI - but wont tell CIA who's in charge! NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Security Agency is now drafting "memoranda of understanding" to clarify ways in which it can help the FBI track terrorists and criminals in the United States, territory in which it is generally off-limits, Newsweek has learned. -- www.newsweek.com ER> NSA is going to spy on Americans? You know, the NSA, the ones who have a system allegedly called ECHELON, which can monitor everyone's phone calls everywhere? They want to monitor the internet now. They will be working with the FBI who required the telephone companies to install wiretap friendly (CALEA *) relays, and of course they have protected "SECRET EVIDENCE" which no one can cross examine... ER> Our intelligence oversight committees don't have a clue what's going on by the way, since they still haven't been told if ECHELON exists or not, and what it has been doing over the last decade. ER> Is this "terrorism" boogey man (which has been decreasing by the way!) creating a totalitarian secret police state? It appears so. The NSA swears they wont share their database and info with the CIA, but folks, our intelligence agencies allegedly were centralized under the CIA years ago. The Director of the CIA is supposed at the top of the intelligence gathering hierarchy, so we are to assume they wouldn't know what they are in charge of? Preposterous! Read more closely: NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Security Agency is now drafting "memoranda of understanding" to clarify ways in which it can help the FBI track terrorists and criminals in the United States, territory in which it is generally off-limits, Newsweek has learned. The FBI, never known for its technical know-how, welcomes the help from the high-tech NSA, but some senators are uneasy about letting the NSA eavesdrop more in the United States <ER: MORE???>.... While a secret court must approve any national-security wiretaps on U.S. citizens, there is still the risk of abuse. Under pressure to perform better, the NSA and CIA could overreach. Under the existing rules, the NSA and CIA are supposed to spy on foreign threats while the FBI tends to crime at home. But the Internet has blurred boundaries, and as the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 demonstrated, foreign terrorists have targeted the United States. ER> Clue, shooting the wrong civilians, bombing the wrong aspirin factories, and burning the wrong church CAUSES TERRORISM! The Oklahoma terroristic attack would NOT have happened if Ruby Ridge and the Waco massacre never happened. But the NSA may be losing its grip on the technology front. "The agency has got to make some changes," because "by standing still, we are going to fall behind very quickly," concedes Air Force Lt. Gen. Mike Hayden, the new chief of the NSA, in an interview with Newsweek. The old tools, such as spy satellites and global-listening stations to pick up broadcast transmissions and massive computers to sort and decipher them, are relatively ineffective on the new Info Highway. <Oh here it is - they want to SPY ON THE INTERNET! WINK, LIKE THEY NEVER DID THAT BEFORE?> The agency's problems have already been costly. The intelligence community's failure to predict that India would test a nuclear weapon in 1998 <NO AGENT ON GROUND PROBLEM?> suggests that the NSA is becoming hard of hearing. <BECAUSE THEY HAVE BECOME LAZY THINKING MACHINES WILL TELL THEM EVERYTHING?> Some intelligence experts speculate that Washington has had difficulty finding its most-wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden, because Islamic extremists use European-made encrypted mobile phones, reports Newsweek in the December 13 issue (on newsstands Monday, December 6). <ER: The Maxwell Smart excuse, the old complicated gadget trick? Did these folks consider they might find Bin Laden if they look outside our border?> SOURCE Newsweek - Web Site: <A HREF="http://www.newsweek.com">http://www.newsw eek.com</A> ER> Why don't the intel.govs start working on bombing the right enemy buildings overseas and work your way up from there before you do try this on US civilians... xxx EXCERPTS: NSA Patents New Technology To Monitor Millions Of Phones Calls The US National Security Agency has designed and patented a new technology that could aid it in spying on international telephone calls. The NSA patent, granted on 10 August, is for a system of automatic topic spotting and labeling of data. The patent officially confirms for the first time that the NSA has been working on ways of automatically analyzing human speech. The NSA's invention is intended automatically to sift through human speech transcripts in any language. The patent document specifically mentions "machine-transcribed speech" as a potential source. Bruce Schneier, author of Applied Cryptography, a textbook on the science of keeping information secret, believes the NSA currently has the ability to use computers to transcribe voice conversations. "One of the holy grails of the NSA is the ability automatically to search through voice traffic. They would have expended considerable effort on this capability, and this indicates it has been fruitful," he said. To date, it has been widely believed that while the NSA has the capability to conduct fully automated, mass electronic eavesdropping on e-mail, faxes and other written communications, it cannot do so on telephone calls. <WINK> While cautioning that it was difficult to tell how well the ideas in the patent worked in practice, Schneier said the technology could have far-reaching effects on the privacy of international phone calls. "If it works well, the technology makes it possible for the NSA to harvest millions of telephone calls, looking for certain types of conversations," he said. "It's easy to eavesdrop on any single phone call, but sifting through millions of phone calls looking for a particular conversation is difficult," Schneier explained. "In terms of automatic surveillance, text is easier to search than speech. This patent brings the surveillance of speech closer to that of text." <ER: Translation - they are going to monitor ALL PHONE CALLS to find interesting ones to concentrate on!> The NSA declined to comment on the patent. As a general policy, the agency never comments on its intelligence activities. Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties UK, warned that with the new patent and a proposed AT&T and BT joint venture, which will allow US law enforcement agencies to tap the new communications network: "We might have a picture in which all British communications are monitored by the NSA." <ER: DUH!> By Suelette Dreyfus <A HREF="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Features/spies151199.shtml">ht tp://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Features/spies151199.shtml</A> 11-17-99 --- * CALEA Federal Communications Commission 1919 M St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 In October 1994, Congress passed and the President signed the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA or the Act). The Act was designed to respond to rapid advances in telecommunications technology and enable law enforcement personnel to continue to conduct electronic surveillance efficiently and effectively. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. 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