On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 04:10:40PM -0700, Joseph McAllister wrote: > > I have no idea of where these programs have gone since 1990. I believe that > the GRAB and TK programs were and are now contained in one bird for FLIR, > SLIR, ELINT and KEYHOLE are all built into whatever they call the satellite > recon. they are now using. I do know that Alice Springs is still a viable > part of it. I suspect they are listening to your cellphone calls and texting > and data linking, so smile high as you do so, you may end up on someone's > desk tomorrow!
Oh, I'm sure the NSA and friends keep half an electronic eye on my witterings. I'm a foreign national, resident in the USA, so I call (and travel to) Europe more than the average US national. I'm also in their security database, as I was vetted for working as a consultant on a handful of government contracts at Mitre, Lockheed/Sanders and Lawrence Livermore. Nothing anywhere near as classified as the stuff you worked on, but at the level where the fact that my passport was issued by the UK was an important factor. I was also vetted in the UK when a close university friend of mine got a job working at Northolt providing intelligence data to SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe) - I'm sure the NSA got a copy of that vetting, too. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
