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Newsweek: National Security Agency Drafts 'Memoranda of Understanding' To
Work With FBI in the U.S.;
NEWSWEEK This is the cover for the December 13 issue of Newsweek (on
newsstands Monday, December 6 ). Newsweek looks at last week's WTO meetings
in Seattle and the new face of protests in the U.S. There are also reports
on the Internet "Brain Drain" and its effects on main stream businesses,
troubles at the National Security Agency behind the "techno-curve," rapper
Jay Z's arrest after last week's stabbing of a record executive, Columbine
principal speaks about his school's recovery from last spring's shooting
rampage and the mystery surrounding the death of billionaire Edmond Safra.
(PRNewsFoto)[KI] NEW YORK, NY USA 12/04/1999
May Be Falling Behind the Techno-Curve in Surveillance Techniques
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,
report Washington Correspondent Gregory Vistica and Assistant Managing
Editor
Evan Thomas in the current issue of Newsweek.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991204/HSSA003 )
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.
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. The agency's problems have already been costly. The
intelligence community's failure to predict that India would test a nuclear
weapon in 1998 suggests that the NSA is becoming hard of hearing. 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).
SOURCE Newsweek
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