Worldwide spying network is revealed

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon May 28 09:40:25 PDT 2001


Ian Murray wrote:


>source: www.euobserver.com, 16.5.01
>
>ECHELON COMMITTEE SUSPICIONS GROW
>
>The Echelon committee delegation set up by the European Parliament
>travelled to Washington last week with the objective of allowing the
>US to respond to the numerous allegations made about the Echelon
>system.

It's nice to have this confirmed and all, but is this fundamentally news? Did anyone ever doubt that the U.S. and its allies - and any other government with the technical capacity to do so - eavesdropped on whatever media they could?

Doug



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