RE: History Channel television show on NSA (fwd)
I agree, most of it was like a bad history of cryptography in America. I wish I had stuck watching Boston Public. Last year (1999/early 2000) Congress tacked a requirement onto an appropriations bill which required the NSA to report on Echelon and monitoring of American citizens. This was shortly after the director plead attorney client privilege with the NSA's Chief Counsel. Does anyone know what happened with this report? Were there any sections not classified? -----Original Message----- From: Declan McCullagh To: Jim Choate Cc: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com; The Club Inferno; austin-cpunks@einstein.ssz.com; sci-tech@einstein.ssz.com Sent: 1/8/01 10:57 PM Subject: Re: History Channel television show on NSA (fwd) Watched it, ET giving me a 3 hr advantage over you golden staters. A definite passover except for last 10 minutes, Echelon-dodging making the spooks limber enough to Macarena with Clipper Chip-endorsing Al with dispatch. "Trust us," DIRNSA proudly proclaims, with Church bells ringing in the near distance. Of note is latest permutation of horsemen riding in on backs of Defcon-going hackers as justification for existence of The Agency That Shall Not Be Named. -Declan, channeling JYA On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:18:24PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:38:19 -0500 (EST) From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us> To: cryptography@c2.net Subject: History Channel television show on NSA
The 'History Channel' cable TV network will air a show about the NSA tomorrow night January 8, at 8 pm Eastern. Their website says this
it:
America's Most Secret Agency
The National Security Agency, America's most secret and controversial agency, is charged with safeguarding the nation's strategic intelligence information and decoding the secret communications of our enemies. For only the second time in its nearly 50 year history, the N.S.A. allowed cameras inside its Ft. Meade, Maryland, headquarters, and the
about director,
Lt. General Michael V. Hayden, sits for a rare interview and addresses issues such as privacy. Tune in and find out if Big Brother is watching you!
Ah, yes, I remember this. According to one article (http://208.201.97.5/ref/hottopics/security/background/web-clinton-12-08-99.h...) it was in FY2K appropriations, so report was long due. --- According to language in a report on the bill, the CIA and NSA must address the following in their report to congress: The legal standards for interception of communications to or from U.S. citizens. The legal standards for intentional targeting of the communications to or from U.S. citizens. The legal standards for receipt from non-U.S. sources of information pertaining to communications to or from U.S. citizens. The legal standards for dissemination of information acquired through the interception of the communications to or from U.S. citizens. --- I recall it was sent to the relevant intel committees around Feb 00. -Declan On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:13:21PM -0500, Daniel Orr wrote:
I agree, most of it was like a bad history of cryptography in America. I wish I had stuck watching Boston Public.
Last year (1999/early 2000) Congress tacked a requirement onto an appropriations bill which required the NSA to report on Echelon and monitoring of American citizens. This was shortly after the director plead attorney client privilege with the NSA's Chief Counsel.
Does anyone know what happened with this report? Were there any sections not classified?
-----Original Message----- From: Declan McCullagh To: Jim Choate Cc: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com; The Club Inferno; austin-cpunks@einstein.ssz.com; sci-tech@einstein.ssz.com Sent: 1/8/01 10:57 PM Subject: Re: History Channel television show on NSA (fwd)
Watched it, ET giving me a 3 hr advantage over you golden staters. A definite passover except for last 10 minutes, Echelon-dodging making the spooks limber enough to Macarena with Clipper Chip-endorsing Al with dispatch. "Trust us," DIRNSA proudly proclaims, with Church bells ringing in the near distance. Of note is latest permutation of horsemen riding in on backs of Defcon-going hackers as justification for existence of The Agency That Shall Not Be Named.
-Declan, channeling JYA
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:18:24PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
____________________________________________________________________
Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it.
"Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski
The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'-
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:38:19 -0500 (EST) From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us> To: cryptography@c2.net Subject: History Channel television show on NSA
The 'History Channel' cable TV network will air a show about the NSA tomorrow night January 8, at 8 pm Eastern. Their website says this
it:
America's Most Secret Agency
The National Security Agency, America's most secret and controversial agency, is charged with safeguarding the nation's strategic intelligence information and decoding the secret communications of our enemies. For only the second time in its nearly 50 year history, the N.S.A. allowed cameras inside its Ft. Meade, Maryland, headquarters, and the
about director,
Lt. General Michael V. Hayden, sits for a rare interview and addresses issues such as privacy. Tune in and find out if Big Brother is watching you!
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Declan McCullagh