NSA Spies on Americans

In some terrific investigative journalism, The New York Times has uncovered information that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been eavesdropping on people within the United States since 2002. This signals a drastic departure from the agency's longstanding rules, and indicates that the government permitted extraordinary exceptions to laws and regulations after the World Trade Center was attacked in 2001.

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Originally Posted by Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle

In some terrific investigative journalism, The New York Times has uncovered information that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been eavesdropping on people within the United States since 2002. This signals a drastic departure from the agency's longstanding rules, and indicates that the government permitted extraordinary exceptions to laws and regulations after the World Trade Center was attacked in 2001.

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and you're surprised by this?

frankly i think it's been going on for decades, nay since the 1860s, what with agents in the field (on the land) delivering our mail!

I've also read that the Eschelon project (q.v. via google) has been used: there are teams from various partner countries who man the project, in one location i think, maybe more, and a team from one country is assigned to listen or watch the traffic from another partner country.

That's the way they circumvent the law which clearly says ``no in-country spying''

the projet was always misused.

Is it true? i dunno, but it is likely and possible.