The Human Homeworld
Thus, in 1977, during an investigation by the House Government
: * Operations Committee, Admiral Inman could claim, with a straight face, : * that "there are no U.S. Citizens now targeted by the NSA in the United : * States or abroad, none." : * : * Since the targeting was done not by NSA but by employees of British : * GCHQ, he was literally telling the truth. [snip] : * : * According to a former special agent of the FBI, the you-spy-on-mine, : * I'll-spy-on-yours deal has been extended to other Western partners, : * particularly Canada and Australia. The British, with the help of : * sophisticated NSA computers, can bug just about anyone anywhere. The : * electronic search for subversives continues, particularly in the U.S. : * : * The NSA conceded precisely that point when the U.S. Justice Department : * investigated its wiretapping of American protesters during the Vietnam : * War. : * : * The NSA assured the Justice Department that the information was : * acquired only *incidentally* as part of a British GCHQ collection : * program. : * : * The "incidental" British exception has become the rule. : * : * To this day Congress does not realize that the British liaison officers : * at the NSA are still free to use American equipment to spy on American : * citizens. And, in fact, they are doing just that. Congress has been kept : * in the dark deliberately. : * : * This is a fact, not a matter of conjecture : * or a conclusion based on anonymous sources. : * : * In the early 1980s, during the Reagan administration, one of the authors : * of this book submitted to the intelligence community a draft of a : * manuscript that briefly described the wiretap |
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