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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (49786)	2/28/2000 10:11:00 PM
From: Mark Bartlett	Respond to of 116779

Ron, <<Some of the things I stated about high Canadian tax rates and the burden of govt bureaucracy, were merely my repeating her comments about her govt (She's from Ottawa). So I'm not just pulling these things out of my @ss..>> Well, our budget came down today as a matter of fact -- and we are getting some nice tax cuts. So, perhaps you could pass that along to the expatriot -- she may want to reconsider. We have a few US expatriots here too ... and they have no desire to be repatriated. MB

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (49786)	2/29/2000 7:16:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116779

Officials:Spy agency carefully controlled United Press International - February 28, 2000 21:58 By PAMELA HESS WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) - A former official with the secretive National Security Agency says the agency has adequate safeguards in place to protect the privacy of American citizens as it goes about collecting electronic intelligence on foreign adversaries. "As a general rule, there are circumstances where you could pick up information about American citizens. It's not bad to pick it up. It's bad to distribute it or act on it," said Stuart Baker, a lawyer with the Washington, D.C. firm of Steptoe & Johnson. Baker served as the NSA's general counsel from 1992 to 1994. "The answer is to discard the information," he told United Press International Monday. An abuse of power is a charge the NSA sought to defend itself against preemptively last Friday when the agency mailed a letter to Congress in advance of what it believed would be a negative report on the Feb. 27 edition of the CBS news show "60 Minutes." The show and other news outlets covered charges from a Canadian ex-intelligence officer that a secret international network of sensors known as Echelon abuses its powers of collection to spy on private citizens. Further, some European officials charged in a report last week Echelon is used by the United States government to conduct economic espionage, allegations U.S. government officials flatly deny. NSA is not optimistic it can change the tenor of debate about the agency. "We anticipate a continuation, if not an increase, in these allegations for the foreseeable future," it stated in the Feb. 25 letter to Capitol Hill. But the fact is any electronic signal -- be it a telephone call, fax, radio transmission or e-mail message -- that involves foreign adversaries is fair game for the NSA, which was created in 1952. The wide net it casts often picks up information about Americans, an act expressly forbidden by law. (cont) marketwatch.newsalert.com