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The irony of Echelon is that it is making it more difficult for the CIA and other US government agencies to claim "plausible deniability." They were really on the spot when this came out: U.S. attack: Report: Echelon engaged months in advance: "THE U.S. NATIONAL Security Agency (NSA) engaged the so-called Echelon communications monitoring network, following on warnings of possible terrorist attacks, as long as three months ago, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper reported.
Western and Middle East intelligence services had received warnings more than six months ago that terrorists were planning attacks using hijacked airplanes against 'prominent symbols of American and Israeli culture' in the United States and elsewhere, the FAZ said Wednesday, citing 'information available to this newspaper.'"

A comprehensive eavesdropping system like this exists, and we are expected to believe that the FBI & CIA had absolutely no clues that 9-11 was going to happen?