Bob Graham, former Florida Senator said the Senate intelligence briefings were about new technology. I think we are looking at the NY Times revelations with our old fashion impressions from the 70’s movie “The Conversation”. A human being bugging the bad guys [or good guys] and not getting warrants to continue the eavesdropping.
Instead, Huge super computers and storage banks all over the world are hooked up to ALL electronic spectrums digital and analogue. Called Echelon; the complex programs decrypt and sort out messages by associations and key words. The computers cannot distinguish American origins or destination until after the fact. Since the computer programs associate messages together, 72 hours could easily pass before decrypted flagged signals are eyeballed by real human beings. There aren’t any warrants because all the old messages are all ready in the system and any future associated messages are just routed directly to whomever is interested. All electronic messages are being bugged.
.
NSA assets were spent on industrial spying, not on terrorism risks during the nineties. We’re a nation running corporate business, not concerned with damage control or collateral damage.
We just spread the Wings of the Eagle for some Lebensraum in the ME near recognizable landmarks.
So What’s New? – Electronic Spies
In 1946, Soviet school children presented a two foot wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States to Ambassador Averell Harriman.
Posted earlier in diary by Jefferson Democrat ::
NSA and the Bill Clinton Years
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
I linked to an Echelon article from the place I first learned of it, Covert Action Quarterly, a few days ago…
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/12/17/92823/230#17