Full story at http://www2.thestar.com/thestar/back_issues/ED19980406/news/980406NEW01d_NA- SPY6.html OTTAWA - Canada's ultra-secret spy agency is not eavesdropping on the private conversations of Canadian citizens, Quebec's former chief justice says. <P> For the past 20 months, Claude Bisson has scrupulously monitored the activities of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), a half-century-old agency that operates so clandestinely its very existence was not even publicly acknowledged until 1983. <P> ``My mandate is to assure that the CSE is abiding by the Constitution and after 20 months I can assert it is abiding by the law,'' Bisson, commissioner of the CSE, said during his first interview since taking on the task of reviewing the agency's activities in June, 1996. <P> ``There is no targeting of Canadians in general and Quebecers in particular. I am satisfied and I can assure the Canadian people that CSE abides by the law.'' ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.