Re: Australia Admits to Echelon

["Me Uh, K." <pram512@yahoo.com>]

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if you're going to go to all the trouble of
circumventing the law, wouldn't it just be easier to
outright break it, and not get caught?

I mean, c'mon, we ARE talking about the Federal
Government here, who've never been famous for being
law-abiding, and who've REALLY never been famous for
doing unnessecary work.

-mia k. (dis-information is a way of life)

--- Cipher <cipher@mindspring.com> wrote:
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> 
> On  11/9/99, sam ==- logged on  and ended up
> relaying this through a
> little-known Microsoft open mail server to the North
> Korean Central
> Committee who in turn forwarded it to me:
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> >
> > > This past weekend i met a .gov guy who also
> openly confirmed the
> > >existence -- he explained that since it is
> illegal in the US -- the
> >
> > It is 'illegal' for the US Gov to spy on US
> Citizens ... So, Echelon nodes
> > can exist in the US - but they can only intercept
> foreign 'intelligence' ...
> 
> The deal is a reciprocal agreement.  They give
> England intel on theirs,
> England gives them intel on ours...  We foot the
> bill...
> 
> Neat.  Sweet.  And a total circumvension of the law.
> 
> Cipher
> 
> 
> 
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