If I were standing in one of the places where NSA has it's taps of the Net - what would I see? Alligator clips across terminal strips, leading to a bunch of T3 lines? Is there any open source - or otherwise - knowledge or speculation about which words/phrases the Terra-cycle cpu's are text-searching *for*? If it were your responsibility to eavesdrop on Iranian terrorists - or French Commercial Attache reports to Paris - or to have UK nationals, off in their private room of your building, write down the name of every in America who expresses a libertarian dissatisfaction with the Republicrat regime - would you know for sure which words/phrases to key on? It doesn't sound like a tractable problem to me. Of course, some people don't need to worry about the GAO doing their own evaluation of how well an agency is doing its assigned mission! Alan Horowitz alanh@norfolk.infi.net