ABC News mentions Echelon

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 12 13:39:55 UTC 2001


--- Marshall Eubanks <tme at 21rst-century.com> wrote:
> 
> They must be referring to echelon. What's interesting
> is that ABC news is saying that they have echolon
> like capabilities in the Continental US. 
> 
> This is much rumoured but always denied and probably
> technically illegal.

Hogwash.  The US laws prevent only the US Agency from spying on it's
citizens.  There is nothing that prevents the other Echelon partners (I
beleive they are Austrailia, Britian, and New Zealand) from doing the
spying and sharing the results.  

-Jim P.

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