http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,43270,00.html Euros Continue Echelon Probe By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 3:30 p.m. April 24, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- A European Parliament committee studying U.S. surveillance technology Echelon is about to take a field trip to the National Security Agency. Members of the 33-person committee charged with investigating the U.S. government's surveillance apparatus are planning a series of meetings in the nation's capital next month in hopes of learning more about Echelon. In addition to a scheduled visit to the NSA's high-security campus in Fort Meade, Maryland, the group will meet with the House Intelligence Committee, which held a hearing on Echelon in April 2000. "The official purpose is to find out some more, which certainly will happen," says Andreas Dietl, an aide to committee member Ilka Schroeder. Last June, the European parliament created a temporary committee to investigate how extensive the Echelon system -- operated by the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand -- was, and whether it had been used to spy upon and give American firms an advantage in international business decisions. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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