Director LtGen HaydenSigInt's perils
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NSA Plan May Face Political Hurdles 6.6.00 Dan Verton Federal Computer Week
NSA to turn over non-spy tech to private industry NSA's "plan to hand over the bulk of its information technology support systems to industry may face hurdles on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have shown reluctance to approve large-scale outsourcing contracts that take away thousands of government jobs … 'Project officially announced 6/7/2000, help agency become more efficient by tapping into the private sector technology expertise."
10.21.99 Diane Frank Federal Computer Week
NSA Moves Workers to Private Sector 9.29.98 Vernon Loeb Wash.Post pA15
12.6.99 B.Brewin D.Verton & Wm Matthews Federal Computer Week p1
Report Urges Strategic Business Planning 5.7.98 Walter Pincus Wash.Post pA21 |
Most international Internet traffic is routed through the U.S. and through 9 known U.S.
NSA interception
sites. 3.24.00 AP Worldstream
5.10.00 Dan Verton Federal Computer Week 'Consequently, the organization begins the 21st century lacking the technological infrastructure and human resources needed even to maintain the status quo, much less meet emerging challenges.'"
1.30.00 & Walter Pincus WashPost pA2
NSA Blackout Reveals Downside Of Secrecy 3.13.00 David IgnatiusLATimes Where We Can't Snoop 4.17.00 Bob Drogin WashPost pA21
How the Digital Age Left Our Spies Out in the Cold 12.6.99 Seymour Hersh The New Yorker p58
11.25.99 David Ensor CNN
10.98 Robt K. Ackerman Signal p23-25
Spies, lies, ECHELON, economics & people |
NSA to Pursue Govt-
Industry
Partnership for Info Tech Infrastructure Services
6/7/2000.
also cf. InQTel
Advanced tech in core areas avail. for sharing at NSA Office of Research & Technology
Application R, 9800 Savage Rd, Ft Geo.Meade MD 20755-6000
Stephen E. Tate, the NSA's
chief of
corporate sourcing
NSA at trade shows NSA
Public
Affairs
301.688.0540
Kenneth Heath, chief of staff for NSA's Legislative Affairs Office
SAIC news & pubs
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LtGen. Michael V. Hayden Bio & photo |
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Responsible for a combat support agency of the Dept of Defense with military & civilian personnel stationed worldwide. |
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Director, NSA Chief, Central Security Services Fort George G. Meade, MD |
Acknowledged, "it is inevitable that NSA will inadvertently acquire
information
about U.S.
citizens in the course of its foreign intelligence collection activities."
2/17/2000 speech at Kennedy Political Union of
American University
May75-July75 Student, Academic Instructor School, Maxwell AFB AL
July75-Aug79 Academic Instructor & Commandant of Cadets, Reserve Officer
Training Corps
Program, St. Michael's College, Winooski, VT
{ taught for four years - what curriculum ? }
Aug79-June80 Student, Defense Intelligence School (Postgraduate Intelligence
Curriculum),
Defense
Intelligence Agency, Bolling AFB, WashDC
{ military academic or China wonk under Reagan ? }
June80-July82 Chief of Intelligence, 51st Tactical Fighter Wing, Osan AFB, South
Korea
{ first overseas assignment in 5yrs. Made major aka lifer & gets doctorate
in
espionage }
June82-Jan83 Student, Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA
Jan83-July84 Student, Air Attache Training, WashD.C.
July84-July86 Air Attache, U.S. Embassy, Sofia, People's Republic of Bulgaria
{ major career shift from FarEast to Europe; finally promoted after 5yrs, 3 as
student.
Embassy job= change from analyst to spy. Never again a student.}
July86-Sept89 PoliticoMilitary Affairs Officer, Strategy Div HQ USAF Pentagon
WashDC
{ finally becomes Beltway bureaucrat w/ end of Cold War }
Sept89-July91 Director for Defense Policy & Arms Control NSC WashDC
{ Bush/NSC - Iran-Contra involvement ? }
July91-May93 Chief, Secretary of the Air Force Staff Group, Office of the Secretary of the
Air
Force,
HQ U.S.A.F.Pentagon, WashDC
{ GulfWar. Same missions still fly at least weekly. H. missed Syndrome at
home.
}
May93-Oct95 Dir. Intelligence Directorate, HQ U.S. European Command, Stuttgart,
Germany
{ back to Europe after 7yrs in Beltway. Now in charge of foreign spies during
fall of
SovietUnion. }
Oct95-Dec95 Special Asst to Commander, HQ Air Intelligence Agency, Kelly AFB TX
{ home for Xmas after 2½ yrs on the hotseat }
Jan96-Sept97
Commander, Air Intelligence
Agency,
& Director, Joint Command and Control Warfare Center, Kelly AFB TX
{ now running the show at home; after 6mo. gets 2nd star }
Sept97-Mar99 Deputy Chief of Staff, United Nations Command and U.S. Forces Korea,
Yongsan
Army Garrison, South Korea
{ Last vacation before being chained to the
top of the power pyramid. }
March 1999
Director,
NSA / Chief, Central Security Service Ft. George G.
Meade MD
{ same job as Andropov & Putin before
they
became
Soviet emperors }
Col 11/1/90 Brig Gen 9/1/93 MajGen 10/1/96
LtGeneral 5/1/99
AFIO Natl Intelligence Symposium 10/6/2000
with Bill
Gates & Gilman Louie
Address to Kennedy Political Union of American University 2/17/2000 HTML & PDF vers.
His public coming-out on the Echelon controversy was supposed to have been before the
House
Government Reform Committee, chaired by the pugnacious Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.).
Burton had
agreed to investigate concerns of Rep.
Robert L. Barr R-GA that Hayden & Co. may be routinely violating the civil rights
of
American citizens by intercepting everything from Internet traffic to cellular phone
calls.
But Goss's committee ultimately became the venue for the Wednesday hearing, given its
oversight jurisdiction over intelligence gathering programs. The panel promises to be a far
less
adversarial environment. When Goss became embroiled with NSA lawyers last year over
the
agency's collection procedures, he was concerned they were being too restrictive in
applying legal
safeguards, not too loose.
Vernon Loeb Back Channels: The Intelligence
Community Washington Post 4.11.2000 p A21
Each Monday does a 15-minute closed-circuit TV show for NSA employees. He has
discussed his
testimony on Capitol Hill, done a stand-up in the NSA operations center and phoned in
from
Europe. He also sends out a classified e-mail message daily to NSA workers around the
world.
Recent "DIRGRAMS," as the director's messages are known, have explained how a new
"transformation office" will oversee modernization and have sought feedback on a new
strategic
plan.
Bob Drogin "NSA Blackout Reveals Downside Of Secrecy." L.A. Times
3/13/2000
As part of NSA's compliance with the Electronic FOIA (E-FOIA) requirements, NSA has
begun to
post
FOIA information that will inform the public of NSA's misions and functions.
Under the provisions of Executive Order 12958 (Classified National Security Information),
dated 17
April 1995, NSA is reviewing for declassification all permanently classified documents 25
years or
older. This declassification effort, which NSA has named OPENDOOR, will include
information
about all documents declassified and made available to the public under E.O. 12958.
As these documents are declassified, they will be turned over to the National Archives
and Records Administration. NARA declassified doc index. National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi
Road,
College Park, MD.
NSA will periodically release declassified documents or indexes to these documents on
the NSA
Homepage. The first release is known as project OPENDOOR, which provides an index of
4,923
entries containing approximately 1.3 million pages of previously classified documents from
the pre-
World War I period through the end of World War II, which have recently been released to
the
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Thos. Blanton, Michael Evans & Kate Martin NatlSecurity
Archive
Geo.WashUniv. DCNSA press
releases per
6/2000
Wm B. Black Jr (SCES) former NSA Employee, nominated New Deputy Director
7/10/2000
NSA Deputy Director Accepts
New
Assignment 4/27/2000
"UK Spied for US as Computer Bug Hit." Macintyre, Ben. London
Times
4/27/2000
According to NSA's deputy director, Barbara McNamara, "Britain kept the US supplied
with top
secret
information when America's main intelligence-gathering agency was paralysed by a
computer
glitch"
in late January.
"NSA 2nd-in-Command Is Transferred
toLondon." Sullivan, Laura. Baltimore Sun 4/28/2000
NSA deputy
director Barbara McNamara will be liaison to British authorities at the Govt
Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
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EU officials leave U.S. in huff over spy network 5.10.01 & Robt MacMillan Newsbytes
Wash. D.C. 2 prominent European Parliament officials are canceling the
rest of their trip to Washington, D.C., and returning to Europe after the State &
Commerce Depts, as well as the
CIA & NSA, rebuffed their efforts to learn more
about the Echelon spy system. U.S. input will be lacking, therefore, in an upcoming report
the EU Parliament intends
to release later this month regarding Echelon. The controversial intelligence network is
capable of intercepting
telephone & e-mail traffic across the world. "We are very disappointed by the last-
minute reluctance of
CIA & NSA to meet our delegation in spite of the advance preparations that had
been made," said Carlos
Coelho, EU Temporary Committee on the Echelon Interception System chair. "As a result,
we are cutting short our
visit to Washington and returning to Europe immediately."
Coelho said that the officials received a warmer welcome in Congress, where they met
with House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence Chairman Porter Goss, R-Fla., & Ranking Democrat
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. The
delegation also met with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) & the Electronic
Privacy Information Center to
discuss Echelon, a global surveillance system supposedly run by the NSA in tandem with the United Kingdom,
Canada, Australia & New Zealand. Coelho said the committee was designed to gather information on "a
number of allegations about existence & impact of Echelon on EU citizens" …
Coelho in testimony before the Intelligence Committee said " … political implications must be drawn from the
cancellation of so many important meetings at the last minute." … that surveillance systems can be important
defenses against terrorism & other criminal action, but "growing number of allegations suggest Echelon is not
only used for legitimate purposes. … told by industries & private companies spied upon through satellite
interception & other means, that industrial strategies have been deciphered … markets lost as result of
economic espionage," he said. "At the same time, after several months work, I must say that we have no hard
evidence to support such claims at this stage."
4.24.01 Declan McCullagh Wired
Last June, European parliament created temporary committee to investigate how extensive Echelon system,
operated by U.S., U.K., Australia and New Zealand, was, and whether it had been used to spy upon & give American firms an
advantage in intl business decisions. In November 2000, Temporary Committee on the Echelon Interception
System organized meetings to learn extent of Echelon's capabilities. Report scheduled to be finished by this
June or July. Dietl said that, during most of the hearings, spies and other intelligence analysts presented an
uncritical view of Echelon, and it was only in the "last few weeks" that critics were given an opportunity to testify. "I
think we can be quite happy with what we found out," Dietl said. "At one point it looked like we would find nothing at
all. We were disappointed with the special statute, which gives the members almost no power."
Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Wash.DC "It's a very important step," said
Rotenberg, who has a meeting scheduled with committee members. "It's a proactive effort by govt officials to
address problem of intl surveillance." European Parliament mandate that created committee to consider whether
Europeans' privacy rights are being violated, and "whether European industry is put at risk by the global
interception of communications." NSA general counsel Robert Deitz said in 1999 that: "I wish to make
clear that the agency does not violate the Constitution or the laws of the U.S. NSA operates under the eyes of Congress, the executive branch and the judiciary,
and an extensive oversight system regulates & limits its activities."
NSA, however, refused to provide certain documents to the House Intelligence Committee, resulting in an unusual
public tiff. Chairman Porter J. Goss R-FL wrote in a
committee report that NSA's rationale for withholding the legal memoranda was "recently, and perhaps for the first
time in the committee's history, an Intelligence Community element of the U.S. Govt asserted a claim of
attorney-client privilege as a basis for withholding documents from the committee's review. Similarly, various
agencies within the Intelligence Community have asserted, with disturbing frequency, a 'deliberative process' or
'pre-decisional' argument as a basis for attempting to keep requested documents from the committee's scrutiny.
These claims are unpersuasive &dubious. … NSA General Counsel's claim of a 'govt attorney-client
privilege.' The claim was made on behalf of the Director of the NSA, and the NSA,
corporately. Shortly thereafter, the committee was again advised by a NSA representative, at a budget
hearing concerning the NSA's fiscal year 2000 budget request, that the agency was working on the document
request, but that some documents would not be made available because of the operation of the attorney-client
privilege." "During addtl conversations with NSA General Counsel's Office employees, the Committee reminded the NSA lawyers of the agency's statutory obligations under section 502 of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended. That statute provides, in pertinent part, that the heads of all Intelligence Community elements are obligated to furnish 'any information or material concerning intelligence activities … which is requested by either of the intelligence committees in order to carry out its authorization responsibilities.' 50 USC Sec. 413a(2). These admonitions to the NSA about its responsibilities under the law were met by the argument that 'common law privileges,' i.e., the attorney-client privilege, survive even mandatory and unambiguous statutory language in the absence of express language to the contrary. NSA General Counsel's Office contended, therefore, that its legal opinions, decisional memoranda, and policy guidance, all of which govern operations & mechanisms of that federal agency, are free from scrutiny by Congress. This would result in the envelopment of the executive in a cloak of secrecy that would insulate the executive branch from effective oversight. |
When Clipper chip & CALEA pgms failed to achieve blanket surveillance in U.S., Echelon got intelligence
agency level rank & was made a military mission to import surveillance method & tech by first applying it
against foreign targets. All noncombat roles, esp. signals work, is cheaper to outsource; telecomm firms saw
chance to get into the black budget business plus cherrypick from the infostream on their foreign competition or for
their best clients, aerospace & mil R&D.
3.21.01 Mike Godwin Cryptome
6.21.01 Steve Kettmann Wired News ¹ "We've just had the Gotheberg Summit, and it was stressed again how important the relationship with the U.S. is," Elly Plooij-Van Gorsel, vice chairman of the Echelon committee, said at Wednesday afternoon's meeting. "We've had this great charm offensive from President Bush, but relations remain troubled.... We cannot stop the U.S. from spying on us." The committee seems likely to pull some punches in its final resolution and report, expected to be complete in early July. But it has avoided the trap of turning into a permanent temporary committee, forever issuing press releases everyone ignores, one more example of Eurobureacracy run amok. Other committees may be formed to follow up on the work this committee began last July, but the temporary Echelon committee will cease to exist once the full European Parliament votes on its resolution in early September, said its chairman, Carlos Coelho.
"It's very common with this kind of committee for the chairman to go and ask for another year, and a third year, and
so on and so on," he said this week. "We will fulfill our mandate. A lot of people said we were not going to deal with
this seriously, that we would be trying too hard to avoid disputes between member states. A lot of people said we
wouldn't approve anything." Based on media accounts, Coelho has a point. An article last July in the German
online publication Telepolis quoted outraged Green Party members calling the committee a "toothless talking
shop." But Ilka Schroeder, a German Green Party member of the Echelon committee, says there can be no doubt
about the overall value of the committee, which made headlines with testimony from a number of high-profile
witnesses. She expects the committee's report -- which will be sent to the U.S. once it is finalized -- to be influential.
"I think it's very good that the report states clearly that Echelon exists, so the work we've done is not in vain," she
said. "There were parts of the media that said this Echelon doesn't exist at all. So we are making a political point
here.
It also calls on the U.S. to sign this "Additional Protocol," so that individuals can submit complaints to the Human
Rights Committee "set up under the Covenant." It also calls on the American Civil Liberties Union and other NGOs
to "exert pressure on the U.S. administration to that end." The committee sometimes refers to the system known as
Echelon because that may or may not still be the name used by the govts who operate it. They include the U.S.,
Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Author James Bamford explains in Body of Secrets that the
National Security Agency created software in the 1970s to sort through the voluminous information coming in from
listening posts around the world, and dubbed the software Echelon. Coelho, a smiling, modest fellow who seems to
take pride in keeping a low profile, made clear this week where he stands on the question of purported U.S.
industrial espionage. His meaning was unmistakable, even if he kept his language somewhat vague. "If you have a
tool, and you can gain an advantage from using that tool, and no one is going to control your use of this tool, are
you going to use it? |
Coelho was at pains to assure Americans that the committee's expected year-long
investigation
springs from a groundswell of public concern in Europe. Since Campbell delivered his
report on
Echelon to the European Parliament last fall, he said, the topic of alleged U.S. spying on
European
businesses has been thrashed around in public at length. "There was huge debate in
European
Union countries," he said. "Everybody is very worried this system can work without being
under
the law, without being under judicial mandates, and it can be a kind of attack on privacy.
They are
worried that there are European enterprises in the situation of having unfair chances
because of
this system. For us, America is a friend. We know how important U.S. is for security. If you
want
the ideological point of view, we are not communists. We want the market economy and
the free
society like the Americans want. This is not a fight about that. What we have on our hands
is a
problem about how far can the systems of interception of telecommunications go."
German webzine Telepolis reported Dutch minister of Justice Benk Korthals recently said
even
without definitive proof of spying, steps should be taken against it. He added that
Germany &
France "are not innocent little children either," a suggestion many interpreted as an
indirect
accusation that those countries also use tech listening devices to intercept the
communications of
other countries' citizens. Telepolis reported in March that former CIA Dir. James Woolsey
confirmed at least some of European concerns were valid and U.S. does intercept
communications in Europe to keep abreast of potential economic bribery. "We have spied
on that
in the past," Woolsey said. "I hope ... U.S. govt continues to spy on bribery." …
"I don't believe for a moment the Parliament will do anything more than cloak this," said
John
Young, a New York privacy activist who operates an online database that has publicized
the
Echelon system. "Watch for hearings that don't go anywhere, just like the hearings in U.S.
earlier
this year. It's interesting that the U.S. still won't own up, except Woolsey or someone like
that,"
Young said. "So far as I know, no official of the U.S. govt has admitted this damn thing
exists.
That's interesting to me. It doesn't seem to be grabbing Americans very much, which I
guess
makes sense since they think it doesn't apply to them. But the sleeper issue is what other
forms of
Echelon are there for surveying Americans." …
1.26.00 Intelligence analysts Jeffrey Richelson &
Michael
Evans of National Security Archives at
Geo.Washington Univ. say … Echelon incl Naval Security Group Command at
a place
called Sugar Grove, West Virginia, a detachment of the Air Intelligence Agency's 544th
Intelligence
Group; Yakima and Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico (another COMSAT intercept site), host
detachments from the 544th IG as well as Menwith Hall in England, largest of nine known
NSA
interception sites, & six or seven other sites around the world.
History of the Air Intelligence Agency (AIA) for 1994 contains a section titled "Activation of
Echelon
Units." That section noted that, in 1994, the AIA, NSA, and the navy's SIGINT agency
"drafted
agreements to increase AIA participation in the growing [deleted, but apparently 'civilian
communications'] mission" and that AIA was to establish detachments of the 544th
Intelligence
Group to accomplish that objective.
"Desperately Seeking Signals," Jeffrey T. Richelson Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 56
no2 Mar.-
Apr. 2000 : 47-51
NSA defuses
Echelon
"Questions about Echelon have to be raised on '60 Minutes' 2/27/2000 because they are
not
publicly
addressed in Congress," Aftergood said. "Rep. Porter Goss,
Chairman of
the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, may be satisfied with the
accountability he
receives, but many members of the public obviously are not. This will have to change."
Steven Aftergood, intelligence specialist with Federation
of American Scientists' Project on Govt Secrecy
The lawyer who served as NSA's general counsel from 1992 to 1994 has spoken out in
response
to the allegations from a Canadian ex-intelligence officer that a secret international
network of
SIGINT sensor systems, led by NSA, spies on private American citizens. Mr. Stuart Baker,
a
lawyer with the Washington, D.C. firm of Steptoe & Johnson, informed UPI that ninety-
nine
percent of the information on Americans inadvertently picked up by NSA is thrown
out.
On the rare occasions when there is doubt whether an American's name should be
deleted from a
report, it is automatically elevated to the general counsel's office. There must be a warrant
issued
by a court to surveil a person inside the US; surveillance must be authorized on the same
grounds
of probable cause that a person is an agent of a foreign power by the Attorney General
when the
person is outside of the US. Baker said the NSA people are Americans like everybody
else and
that there is no monolithic conspiracy or ability to construct one in NSA. He also
emphasized the
many groups that watch over NSA to check for slip-ups.
"There must be 100 people whose careers would be golden if they could find intelligence
abuses
at
NSA," Baker said, noting the various inspector generals, presidential oversight boards,
congressional
committees and watch dog groups. "There hasn't been a credible claim from any of those
people
to find
those abuses," he said.
NSA Director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden has recently
spoken out
along the same line, saying
that there are rules that require NSA to minimize the retention and dissemination of
information
inadvertently collected in the course of foreign intelligence collection activities. Such
information
can
only be kept and disseminated, "when the life of the US person is in danger; they are the
target of
a
foreign power, or the agent of a foreign power."
Pamela Hess UPI
2/28/2000
Congressional investigation into NSA Project Shamrock, which, until its
termination in May 1975, gave U.S. intelligence officials access to telegrams leaving New
York
City
for foreign destinations. CIA has released a detailed account written by CIA
Inspector
General
Britt Snider and published last week in an unclassified edition of the agency's Studies
In
Intelligence, the article discusses the significant challenges the Church
Committee
faced
more than two decades ago in obtaining information about NSA's operations. Ultimately,
the
committee chaired by then-Sen. Frank Church (D-ID) and formally known as the
Senate Select
Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities,
determined
there was scant legal foundation governing NSA's operations.
The committee, as current NSA Director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden
diplomatically puts it, concluded the agency "had not given appropriate weight to privacy
considerations in conducting its signals intelligence mission."
Richard Lardner Defense Information and Electronics Report 3/24/2000
Echelon contradiction : On one
hand
hearing
that NSA & SIGINT business are being overtaken by the info tech revolution,
explosion in e-
mail,
faxes & other communications coupled with fiber optics & widespread
availability of
'unbreakable' encryption, is making SIGINT as we knew it ineffective. On other hand
hearing
hysteria
about 'Echelon,' which allegedly hears
everything.
John Macartney, retired
spook
& ed. AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes 11/18/99 46-99
NSA 8/10/99 patent on "a system of automatic topic spotting and labelling of data. Patent
confirms NSA has software, called
"Semantic Forests," for intelligent
searching
for
specific topics in computer-transcribed telephone conversations."
"This Is Just Between Us (and the Spies)" 11/15/99
"Spies in the 'Forests.'" 11/22/99 Suelette Dreyfus The
Independent UK
" I have wasted more U.S. taxpayer dollars trying to do that [word spotting in speech] than
anything
else in my intelligence career." Former NSA director Bobby Inman 1993
Nor has the capability been developed in the intervening years, according to Duncan Campbell in his 1999 report
to the
European Parliament, Interception
Capabilities 2000.
Jeffrey Richelson The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 3/4/00
Question: "Do you have anything to say about this hoo-haw that has erupted in
Europe
over -
especially in France about the Echelon program? "
JAMES RUBIN: "Yes, I do have something I would like to say about that, to the
surprise of
some of you. Although we never comment on actual or alleged, hold on, on actual or
alleged
intelligence activities, we have taken note that the European Union is looking at a report
which
deals
with this topic. Although we cannot comment on the substance of the report, I can say that
the
National
Security Agency is not authorized to provide intelligence information to private firms. That
agency
acts
in strict accordance with American law. As the Aspin/Brown Commission Report of
1996
explains, US intelligence agencies are not tasked to engage in industrial espionage or
obtain trade
secrets for the benefit of any US company or companies."
James Rubin U.S. State Dept Press Briefing 2/23/00
"250 years ago with pirates on the high seas, governments never admitted they sponsored
piracy,
yet
they all did behind the scenes. If we now look at cyberspace, we have state-sponsored
information
piracy. We can't have a global e-commerce until governments like the US stop state-
sponsored
theft of
commercial information."
Dr Brian Gladman, British former NATO computer expert.
In 1994, NSA intercepted phone-calls between France's Thomson-CSF and Brazil
concerning
SIVAM, a $1.4bn surveillance system for the Amazon rain forest. The company was
alleged to have bribed
members of the Brazilian government selection panel. The contract was awarded to the
US
Raytheon Corporation, which announced afterwards "the Department of Commerce
worked very hard in
support of US industry on this project", one of hundreds of "success" stories boasted by
Advocacy Ctr run by Trade Promotion Co-ordinating Committee. High-
security
Commerce Dept Office of Executive Support staffed by CIA officials, until
recently, was known, as
Office of Intelligence Liaison according to staff member Loch K Johnson of US
intelligence
reform commission set up in 1993.
Duncan Campbell & Paul Lashmar UK Independent via Drudge 7/2/00
Why We Spy
on Our
Allies Jas. Woolsey, former CIA Director 3/24/2000 "It's their own fault."
budget
11.23.99 JUDGE RULES INTELLIGENCE BUDGET CAN REMAIN SECRET
In a Nov 12 decision that was announced on 11/22/99, Federal District Judge
Thomas
Hogan ruled that the DCI can keep the intelligence community budget secret, dismissing a
lawsuit filed last year by FAS, the Federation of American Scientists. In 1997, DCI Tenet
released the spending figure, $26.6 billion, rather than fight a similar FAS lawsuit in court.
In
1998, Tenet again released the spending figure, $26.7 billion, but FY1999 (last year), he
declined to do so-prompting this latest FAS lawsuit. A CIA spokesperson says that the
DCI
may release spending amounts in the future but that the Agency is pleased that this ruling
establishes that the figure is not automatically releasable. On Nov20, the Post estimated
that
the FY2000 appropriation is "about $29.5. "
Governmentwide data mining agency tasked with supporting the intelligence community in
developing threat profiles of terrorists and world hot spots would be established under
legislation
that Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) plans to introduce as part of the fiscal 2001 Defense
Department budget. … The new National Operations … Analysis Hub
(NOAH)
would be "controlled at the highest levels of the White House," Weldon said, and would
support
high-level government policymakers by integrating the more than 28 intelligence
community
networks, as well as the databases from a vast array of federal agencies. … The
plan is
to model the new agency after the Army's Land Information Warfare Activity at
Fort
Belvoir, Va., which Weldon credits with one of the most effective "massive data mining"
capabilities in the intelligence community. As an example of LIWA's capabilities, the
agency has
produced for Weldon a large-format diagram of all the IT systems and networks in the
world, color-
coded by country and terrorist group."
Dan Verton Federal Computer Week 5/8/00
Amendment to fiscal 2000 Intelligence Authorization Act proposed last month by
Rep. Bob Barr
R-Ga.
7th, former
CIA analyst, requires director of Central Intelligence, director of NSA & the atty
general
must
submit report within 60 days of bill becoming law that outlines legal standards employed to
safeguard
of American citizens' privacy against Project Echelon.
In a clash between the authoritarian state and the libertarian vision, the Clinton
administration is
seeking draconian control of computers and encryption. … Virginia's soft-
spoken
4
term Republican congressman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, may come out of a no-nonsense
town in
the
Blue Ridge, but he has taken on virtually the entire defense establishment, the intelligence
community
and even the FBI with his bill HR850, the Security and Freedom through Encryption
Act,
or
SAFE. It is a simple concept, and it has 258 cosponsors in the House. What SAFE would
do is
guarantee every American the freedom to use any type of cryptography anywhere in the
world and
allow the sale of any type of encryption domestically. Not such a big deal, is it? How many
Americans
go around writing secret messages in disappearing ink after they grow up?. …
Actually, it is
one
of those edge-defying, generation-splitting, turn-the-world-upside-down moments in
history. It is a
struggle between two different visions of American society.
James Lucier Insight 9/13/99
Public Law #105-272 signed into law by President Clinton. One of the few
protesting was
Georgia Rep. Bob Barr. The new law makes it possible for
the FBI
to
have basically unrestricted wiretapping ability.
At one time each wiretap had to be approved by a court order; no more. The new wiretap
laws
allow
the government carte blanche under some perceived "emergency" as determined
by the
Attorney General without a court order. This has effectively shifted the power from
the
judiciary to the executive branch thus profoundly damaging what used to be called the
"separation
of
powers."
"Roving wiretaps are a major expansion of current government surveillance power," said
Alan
Davidson, staff counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology in
Washington. "To
take a controversial provision that affects the fundamental constitutional liberties of the
people
and
pass it behind closed doors shows a shocking disregard for our democratic process." Yet
the
Congress
has oversight of these alphabet agencies, but
continues to hand out blank checks whenever anyone screams "national security."
1995 establishment of another secret court by Congress and the Clinton administration,
the Alien
Terrorist
Removal Court. Just like it's brother court the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance
Court it is based on a statist political philosophy which creates the climate for secret
courts,
illegal
surveillance, and prosecution flying in the face of the 4th Amendment. Part of the Bill of
Rights,
which guarantees that citizens will not be subject to government abuse even in the name
of a
cause
deemed worthy by said government.
S.L.E.E.P. SPIES, LIES,
ECHELON,
ECONOMICS, & PEOPLE Diane Alden
One side sees the private use of encryption as a way to safeguard the records and
property of
U.S.
citizens from the prying eyes of computer hackers, thieves, terrorists and the U.S.
government. The other side is the U.S. government, which
sees itself
as
the guarantor of security in the newly discovered land of cyberspace. And to provide that
security
the
government says it has to have the power, at any given moment, to look into anyone's e-
mail,
bank
accounts, financial transactions, information exports and dangerous ideas.
Daniel Verton "Congress, NSA Butt Heads over Echelon." Federal Computer Week
6/3/99
Constitutional guarantees against unlawful search & seizure
Lt. Gen. Mike Hayden, chief of NSA, who says privacy should be protected from
government
snooping, worries about his once invisible spy outfit's poor public image. The public may
take an
even
dimmer view when it learns of a new alliance between the NSA and the FBI. NEWSWEEK
has
learned
that the NSA is now drafting "memoranda of understanding" to clarify ways in which the
NSA can
help the FBI track terrorists and criminals in the United States. In their zeal, will the
crimefighters
and
electronic sleuths illegally spy on U.S. citizens? It has happened before, during the civil
unrest of
the
1960s..... The timing could not be worse. Technology, America's ally in the cold war, has
become
the
nation's greatest national-security vulnerability. Weapons of mass destruction may soon
fall into
the
hands of terrorists, if they haven't already. Clever hackers, backed by outlaw states, could
disrupt,
if
not crash, the vast global communications network that's the lifeblood of the U.S.
economy in the
Information Age."
"Intelligence & Law Enforcement: 'Spies Are Not
Cops'
Problem." Arthur S. Hulnick Intl Journal of Intelligence & Counterintelligence 10 no.3
Fall
1997:
269-286
"Covert Counterattack" 9/15/00 James Kitfield
In other remarks, Barr noted that "some of the difficulties that arise in the Intelligence
Community's
cooperation with the Department of Justice result from different mission requirements: the
IntelligenceCommunity needs to protect sources and methods while Law Enforcement
needs to identify sources inorder to prosecute … In Mr. Barr's analysis, if
Intelligence is to support Law Enforcement,American intelligence agencies will have to
organize to improve dissemination."
The plan calls for the creation of a Federal Intrusion Detection Network, or Fidnet,
and
specifies that the data it collects will be gathered at the National Infrastructure Protection
Center, an interagency task force housed at the Federal Bureau of Investigation
beginning no later than the year 2003 … The plan focuses on monitoring data flowing
over
Govt and national computer networks. That means the systems would potentially have
access to
computer-to-computer communications like electronic mail and other documents,
computer
programs and remote log-ins. But an increasing percentage of network traffic, like
banking &
financial information, is routinely encrypted and would not be visible to the monitor
software.
Government officials argue that they are not interested in eavesdropping, but rather are
looking for
patterns of behavior that suggest illegal activity"
"John Tritak,
director of
the administration's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, said that the Fidnet plan has
not been
approved by President Clinton and is still undergoing legal review by the Justice
Department and
the White House's chief counselor for privacy, Peter Swire." Reuters
Plan not yet released to the public but leaked on-line by Wayne Madsen of the Intelligence
Newsletter, and subsequently covered by the New York Times, Wired, and other news
outlets-
calls for one software system to watch activity on non-military government networks and a
separate system to track the banking, telecommunications and transportation industries.
A host of
new monitoring agencies with a whole new can of alphabet soup names and acronyms is
also
called for.
The US Foreign
IntelligenceSurveillance Act of 1978 ( FISA ), which restricts government
surveillance related to terroristinvestigations, was massaged considerably during the
Millennium rollover to enable quick and dirtywiretaps of US residents who would
otherwise have been beyond the FBI's authority, National
Commission on
Terrorism Chairman Paul Bremer revealed during testimony before Senate
Intelligence
Committee. Bremmer would like the slack FISA standards in use during the Millennium
period, during
which every manner of terrorist attack had been envisaged, to become permanent.
Commission's
written report, "Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism", states
"during
period leading up to the Millennium, the FISA application process was streamlined.
Without
lowering the FISA standards, applications were submitted to the FISA Court by DoJ
promptly and
with enough information to establish probable cause.", a lot of official, soft-pedal rubbish.
Commission member Juliette Kayyem replied to Bremmer that it would be "a
terrible
mistake to permit the FBI to wiretap any American who was at one time, no matter how
long ago, a
member of an organisation that we now have deemed to be 'terrorist.'
Gregory Vistica Evan Thomas Newsweek 12/13/99
Stewart Baker "Should Spies Be Cops?" Foreign Policy 97 Winter94-95 : 36-52
Natl Journal
After years of resisting collaboration, the CIA, the FBI, and the Defense Dept now
concede that
federal
intelligence-gathering units must coordinate their efforts to counter threats from terrorists,
spies,
cybersnoops, and free-lancing criminal groups
Greg Zapp "Former Atty General Wm Barr
comments on Intelligence & Law Enforcement."
Periscope 18 no.6 1993
John Markoff New York Times
7/27/99
Thomas Greene The Register 7/11/2000
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1.27.01 Declan McCullagh Wired |
"Operating through a contractual relationship with a private corporation, the U.S. Secret
Service
was laying the groundwork until quite recently for a photo database of ordinary citizens
collected
from state motor vehicles departments. Utilizing the Freedom of Information Act, the
Electronic Privacy Information Center
(EPIC) discovered that the agency was planning to use the photos, culled by Image
Data,
for its own activities. Image Data reportedly got more than $1 million in seed money from
the
Secret Service for a trial run of its TrueID project in 1997. Marketed as a method of
combating
check and credit-card identity fraud, TrueID involved the purchase and scanning of photos
from
participating DMVs. Three states, Florida, Colorado, and South Carolina, participated in
the trial
run with the Secret Service. But after news disclosures prompted a public outcry,
Colorado and
Florida halted the transfer of images, and South Carolina filed suit asking for the return of
millions
of images already in the company's possession."
James Ridgeway The Village Voice 9/22/99
Unified military efforts to thwart computer hackers began eight months ago, but the
program takes
on a greater importance and prominence Oct. 1, when it is set to move under the control
of the
U.S. Space Command, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base. The new arrangement,
which
is scheduled to be announced Wednesday in Washington, D.C., is awaiting President
Clinton's
signature. Putting the high-profile job of computer defense at Peterson will increase the
importance of Space Command, which already controls all military satellites providing
missile
warning, weather, navigation and other information to troops. "Taking on (this program) is
a natural
fit for Space Command," said Maj. Perry Nouis, a command spokesman. "It's not a large
number
of folks, but the mission is huge and of critical importance." By Oct. 1, 2000, Space
Command is
scheduled to take the offensive in cyber warfare. Though details are sketchy, the
Computer
Network Attack program basically will train military workers to hack into enemies'
computers.
John Diedrich Colorado Springs Gazette
8/10/99
Defense Dept showed latest arsenal of high-tech crime-fighting tools Friday - a $15 million
computer lab where it can trace hackers across the Internet, unscramble hidden files and
rebuild
smashed floppy disks that were cut in pieces. Investigators will use the new Defense
Computer
Forensics Lab, located in a nondescript brick building south of Baltimore, to unravel
electronic
evidence in cases of espionage, murder and other crimes involving America's military.
Using
powerful computers and special software, these 80 digital detectives can trace a hacker
across the
Internet to his keyboard, recover files thought to be safely deleted and quickly search tens
of
thousands of documents for an important phrase. Christopher Mellon, a deputy assistant
Defense
secretary, "We have important national interests, and we have to be able to function.
Ted Bridis AP 9/24/99
Supersensitive scanners that detect microscopic levels of drug or bomb residue can be
found operating unobtrusively in airports and border crossings around the world.
But in Iowa, some new and expanded uses for the scanners have prompted several
diverse
groups, from truck drivers to families of prison inmates, to question whether the drug-
fighting
technology violates people's civil rights. The ion scanners, which can be programmed to
detect
tiny molecular substances including cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and even bomb
material,
are now being used by the state's corrections department to test prison visitors. At the
same time,
the state Department of Transportation (DOT) is using scanners provided by the Iowa
National
Guard to randomly test truck drivers."
APB Criminal Justice System 4/2000
The NSA is "a combat support agency of the Department of Defense"? Then why does its
mission
entail domestic security operations? What links exist between the
NSA
& the FBI indicating substantive law enforcement functions inappropriate to military
operations, i.e. how much do Echelon and FBI intelligence gathering overlap, esp. in co-
mingling
of databases?
How big of a blank
hole does "terrorism" put between cops & soldiers ?
Is any crime committed with political motives a terrorist act?
How can collusion be distinguished from malfeasance when motives are assigned after
the fact
and statements retracted by reason of ignorance on the part of authority ?
Formed in 1952 by President Harry Truman as a separately organized agency within the
Department of Defense, the NSA is believed to be the largest intelligence agency in
the world, with some 38,000 military and civilian employees around the globe; the
CIA employs about 17,000. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan further defined the
agency's mission in an Executive Order as the "ability to understand the secret
communications of our foreign adversaries while protecting our own
communications."
How much risk & liability can be offset by limited partnerships ?
Its core competency has always been code breaking & code making, and it has
maintained a
capability to drive the development of sophisticated, high-tech information security
systems.
Describes its "customers" as the White House & other executive agencies, the Joint
Chiefs of
Staff, military commands, multinational forces and allies, and industry.
It operates one of the largest centers for foreign language and research in government;
runs the
National Cryptologic School, & deploys its technologies from "outer space to the
office or
foxhole," says the agency. The NSA also is said to be the largest employer of
mathematicians in
the U.S.
motto memoria They Served in Silence
4.23.01 Jas. Bamford Random House |
Book Sheds Light on NSA Secrets 4.24.01 Scott Shane & Tom Bowman Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON U.S. military leaders proposed in 1962 a secret plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans and blame Cuba to create a pretext for invasion and the ouster of Fidel Castro, |
Citing a White House document, Bamford writes that the idea of creating pretext for
invasion of
Cuba might have started with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the last weeks of his
administration, when the plan for an invasion by Cuban exiles trained in the U.S. was
hatched. Carried out in April 1961, soon after Kennedy became president, Bay of Pigs
invasion
proved a fiasco. Castro's forces quickly killed or rounded up the invaders. Army Gen.
Lyman L.
Lemnitzer, Joint Chiefs chair, presented Op. Northwoods plan to Kennedy early in 1962,
but
president rejected it that March because he wanted no overt U.S. military action against
Cuba.
Lemnitzer then sought unsuccessfully to destroy all evidence of the plan, according to
Bamford.
Lemnitzer & those who served with him in 1962 as nation's military branch chiefs are
dead.
But 2 former top Kennedy admin officials said yesterday that they were unaware of
Op.Northwoods and questioned whether such a plan was ever drafted. "I've never heard
of
Op.Northwoods. Never heard of it & don't believe it," said Theodore Sorenson,
Kennedy's
White House special counsel. "Obviously, it would be totally illegal as well as totally
unwise." Robt
S. McNamara, Kennedy's defense secretary, said: "I never heard of it. I can't believe the
chiefs
were talking about or engaged in what I would call CIA-type operations."
Bamford writes that besides the Joint Chiefs, then-AsstSec.Defense Paul H. Nitze also
favored
"provoking a phony war with Cuba." "There may be a piece of paper" on Northwoods, said
McNamara. "I just cannot conceive of [Nitze] approving anything like that or doing it
without talking to me." The book contains many other revelations in detailed account of
NSA, biggest U.S. intelligence agency & Maryland's largest
employer, with more than 25,000 personnel at Fort Meade, site of its
global eavesdropping efforts. Among them:
In the late 1990s, NSA tracked efforts by Chinese & French companies
to sell missile technology to Iran, particularly the C-802 anti-ship missile. The
eavesdropping led to
U.S. protests to the Chinese & French govts.
When U.S. troops evacuated Vietnam in 1975, "an entire warehouse overflowing with NSA's most important cryptographic machines & other supersensitive code & cipher materials" was left behind. It was the largest compromise of such equipt in U.S. history, Bamford writes, but the agency still has not acknowledged it.
When he wrote The Puzzle Palace in 1982, Bamford was attacked by some NSA officials, who said his revelations gave the Soviet Union & other U.S. adversaries too much information on the secret agency. One former director referred to him as "an unconvicted felon." With the end of the Cold War, the agency has been less guarded. NSA's current director, Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, has granted a number of interviews. Hayden "cracked the door open a tiny bit," said Bamford, partly to burnish NSA's public image and correct misconceptions.
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