Echelon Update
>
> If you believe the NSA`s denial here, I have some
> "Oceanfront Property in
> Nevada", you need to buy sight unseen...
>
>
>
>
> From The Washington Post,
>
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8357-2000Apr24.html
> -
> Back Channels: The Intelligence Community
>
> By Vernon Loeb
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Tuesday, April 25, 2000; Page A21
>
> Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), chairman of the House
> Permanent Select
> Committee on Intelligence, held an open hearing this
> month on what he called
> "substantial" concerns about the National Security
> Agency's possible misuse
> of its global system for intercepting phone calls,
> faxes, e-mails
> and other electronic communications.
>
> "These concerns were dramatized quite notably in the
> recent film 'Enemy of
> the State,' a very exciting motion picture," Goss
> said. "Considering the
> fact that the character playing me was killed off in
> the first half-hour of
> the film, I am pleased to report that the movie was
> nothing more than a
> very entertaining work of fiction, and we'd like to
> keep it that way."
>
> "Does NSA spy on the lawful activities of
> Americans?" Rep. Heather A. Wilson
> (R-N.M.) asked bluntly.
>
> "No. The answer is we do not," replied the NSA's
> director, Lt. Gen. Michael
> V. Hayden.
>
> Rep. Robert L. Barr Jr. (R-Ga.), Congress's leading
> NSA skeptic, questioned
> whether the NSA is able to safeguard the civil
> liberties of Americans under
> laws and regulations written before the Internet
> existed.
>
> "Any blurring of the heretofore bright line between
> the gathering of true
> foreign intelligence and surreptitious gathering of
> evidence of criminal
> wrongdoing by our citizens must be brought into
> sharp focus and, if present,
> eliminated," said Barr.
>
> But Hayden insisted that the line between
> intelligence and law enforcement
> remains sacrosanct, especially when it comes to the
> protected category of
> "U.S. persons."
>
> "We are required to guard American privacy at every
> step in the intelligence
> process," Hayden said, explaining that American
> citizens, U.S. firms or
> permanent legal residents cannot be targeted for
> intelligence collection
> anywhere in the world without a court order or
> written authorization from
> the attorney general.
>
> And once a foreign terrorist walks onto U.S. soil,
> Hayden added, the same
> standard applies.
>
> "Let me put a fine point on this," Hayden said. "If,
> as we are speaking here
> this afternoon, Osama bin Laden is walking across
> the Peace Bridge from
> Niagara Falls, Ontario, to Niagara Falls, N.Y., as
> he gets to the New York
> side, he is an American person. And my agency must
> respect his rights
> against unreasonable search and seizure, as provided
> by the Fourth Amendment
> to the Constitution."
>
> SPY v. SPY: Aldrich Ames, the former CIA officer and
> convicted spy, has been
> incarcerated for several years in the same prison as
> Edwin P. Wilson, the
> former CIA operative serving a 52-year sentence for
> smuggling guns and
> explosives to Libya.
>
> Now, they have more company at Allenwood Federal
> Penitentiary in
> Pennsylvania: John A. Walker Jr., the former Navy
> communications officer who
> recruited his family to spy for the Soviets.
>
> "Walker's here," Wilson confided in a recent
> interview at the maximum
> security pen. "He just rolled in. I was with him
> seven years at Marion, one
> year at Atlanta, and now here. I can't get away from
> the guy."
>
> But there won't be any swapping of spy stories,
> Wilson added.
>
> Dealing with Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is one
> thing, he said, but
> selling secrets to the Soviets is quite another.
>
> Vernon Loeb may be reached by e-mail at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> � 2000 The Washington Post Company
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