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To: long-gone who wrote (4738)	2/17/2000 7:54:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 17683

OT along the same lines: Spies Like US: Spooks and Money Talk Diane Alden February 11, 2000 The term for intelligence operations and snooping is aptly named the "The Black World." Searching through the murky depths for truth consists of looking for the point where justified national security concerns and unconstitutional and illegal prying diverge. Critics of the NSA and projects like Echelon are saying that a great deal of the intelligence gathering currently going on consists of snooping into the private lives of citizens and corporations ? nationally and internationally. As in the case of federal police agencies such as the FBI, the world of spies, including the NSA, CIA and other alphabet agencies, seems to be hung up on its own mystique and bureaucratic inertia. Playing a dumb and dangerous game close to the chest, these agencies keep their secrets at the expense of the citizens of the United States and the world, divesting them of certain freedoms. Spending billions of dollars on top-secret equipment and staff, these agencies war with one another, American civilians, American companies, and people in the rest of the world. On one hand they do a very good job when they keep to their original mission and tasks. On the other hand, they help create mistrust of government and at the very least indulge in unethical and most likely unconstitutional behavior when they veer off course. To find out what really takes place, follow the money. Recently, President Clinton asked for a $1.84 trillion budget. Included in this monster budget are appropriations for intelligence operations of one sort or another. One of the heftiest increases, from $15 million to $240 million, will pay telephone companies to allow the government to snooping as it sees fit. Declan McCullough of Wired Magazine says, "To rewire their networks and to facilitate federal and state wiretapping.? Under the 1994 Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), Congress may "reimburse" phone companies for their efforts, but the controversial process is the subject of a lawsuit currently before a federal appeals court. Half of that money, $120 million, will come from the Department of Defense's "national security" budget ? a move that alarms privacy groups. "The proposal to use thinly disguised intelligence (cont) newsmax.com

To: long-gone who wrote (4738)	2/17/2000 9:44:00 AM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

What a Pro...Bartiromo covered for the Geezer-he was lost...nice that he gave Her a trinket, though.