The UK Sunday Times article claims that there is a unit in the Department of Commerce that receives NSA Echelon interceptions of economic data for massaging and passing on to interested US parties. Any information on this unit and how it decides who gets which secrets?
At 7:48 PM -0400 on 6/1/98, John Young wrote:
Any information on this unit and how it decides who gets which secrets?
It helps if you're Chinese or Indonesian... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' Philodox: <http://www.philodox.com>, e$: <http://www.shipwright.com/> <mailto: rah@philodox.com> <mailto: rah@shipwright.com>
Robert Hettinga wrote: | > Any information on this unit and | > how it decides who gets which secrets? | | It helps if you're Chinese or Indonesian... I am shocked, shocked, to hear you suggest such a thing about our government. They don't care about these people's ethnicity, only their wallets. Thus, its helps if you're rich or stinkin' rich. That it came from the sweat of the peasants doesn't matter a whit. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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