Echelon - This is a secret network rumored to be under development by the National Security Agency (NSA), supposedly designed to detect and capture packets crossing international borders that contain certain keywords, such as "bomb" or "assassination." There is no solid evidence to support the existence of Echelon. Many people confused this rumored system with the Carnivore system
Tha Aussies allready confirmed it's existence.
I know I pretty much speak for at least a few other when I say...
I dont give a crap how they found the information...I care about what the information IS...
We're talking potentially treasonous acts here man...We're told straight up that it was a lack of coherant intelligence...
Well that appears to be a bold faced lie...doesnt it...
Meaning it might very well have been the un-intended consequence of a political decision made out of self preservation...
Which also means that under the correct set of circumstances....it could happen again...
And not for lack of coherant inteligence...
When this story finally comes around - I hope that the names o f the schmucks who ran Adm. Poindexter out of the NSA and away from the data mining projects he was working on are duly noted. Political correctness in the Senate and elsewhere killed what would have been good efforts. I'm just hoping the DOD kept working on them in spite of Sen Boxer, et. al.
It is important to our national security that no one know that Bill Clinton personally knew of the Able Danger findings and that he personally ordered the destruction of all records. What would people think if they knew this?
"We're talking potentially treasonous acts here man...We're told straight up that it was a lack of coherant intelligence... "
Seems there is alot of that going on in Washington DC these days.