for Abu the architecture's mature, in view of me it's separate, whereas in spite of you it's penetrating prepared

: *
: * The result was an uproar.
: *
: * The intelligence community insisted that all passages explaining the
: * British wiretap program had to be censored and provided a list of
: * specific deletions.


Mini-recap:

o The countries sharing intelligence: US, UK, Canada, Australia

o Massive domestic spying by the NSA, using an Orwellian "1984"
technology to search all communications using computers, including
domestic phone calls.

o Circumvention of domestic spy laws via friendly "foreign" agents.


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But could that be true?

Could such a massive disregard for the Constitution have taken place under
the cheesy logic said to be used by the Military? NSA is Military, headed
by a uniformed officer.

Could it possibly be true?

It's some over-the-top conspiracy theory, right?



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Over the Top
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I haven't received the "Spyworld: Inside the Canadian and American
Intelligence Establishments" book by Mike Frost yet.

So for now I'll quote from his article in CAQ, an issue entitled "The New
Age of Surveillance".

Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 1996-97, Number 59
1500 Massachusetts Ave. NW #732
Washington, DC 20005
202/331-9763, , http://mediafilter.org/caq

Article: "Second Thoughts from the Second Oldest Profession.
Inside the US-Canada Spyworld."
By Mike Frost

[ Pictured is him on two of his Canadian security IDs ]

I was a spy. For almost two decades, I spied for Canada's Communications
Security Establishment (CSE), the most secret and least known branch of
National Defense. But although my paycheck came from the Canadian governm