--- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:58:44 -0500 Subject: Re: FC: U.S. plan to bug U.N. Security Council revealed --The Observer Cc: politechat_private To: declanat_private From: matthew bradley <mattat_private> For those who might take up Drudge's discounting of this email based on the English spelling, the reporter to the Observer said today on Pacifica's "Democracy Now" <www.democracynow.org> program that the spelling was changed to English by some editor for consistency for the English readers. A decision he seemed to think was a mistake. Perhaps other evidence will show that this is false, but the Institute for Public Accuracy <www.accuracy.org> and The Observer and other papers around the cite many "government sources" and named former analysts who say this is consistent with NSA memos, actions and not actually all that surprising. Matt --- From: "Richard M. Smith" <rmsat_private> To: "'Declan McCullagh'" <declanat_private>, "'Richard M. Smith'" <rmsat_private>, <mauriceat_private> Subject: RE: U.S. plan to bug U.N. Security Council revealed --The Observer Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:23:32 -0500 Message-ID: <000301c2e198$d9fa8df0$6601a8c0@rms2> Declan, The alleged email message from Frank Koza looks suspect. Here's what the Drudge Report noticed over the weekend: ALLEGED 'TOP SECRET' TEXT OF NSA EMAIL... BUT WOULD AMERICAN NSA EMPLOYEE SPELL FAVORABLE 'FAVOURABLE', RECOGNIZE 'RECOGNISE' AND EMPHASIZE 'EMPHASISE' IN BRITISH TONGUE?... WOULD NSA REALLY TIMESTAMP EMAILS '31/01/2003 0:16' IN EUROPEAN FORMAT?... NAME IN ALLEGED EMAIL IS 'KOZU'* OBSERVER STORY CLAIMS TO HAVE CONTACTED 'KOZA'? [*PAPER LATER CHANGED THIS GOOF]... GOVERMENET SOURCES TELL DRUDGE CLASSIFICATION LEVEL WRONG ON 'EMAIL' -- 'TOP SECRET/COMINT/XL' IS BOGUS. HOW ABOUT IT, GUYS, LET'S SEE A SCAN OF THE ORIGINAL 'EMAIL' NOT YOUR RECREATED ONE. A Frank Koza does live in Columbia, Maryland not far from NSA headquarters. And here's what the Washington Times wrote about the Observer story: Report of plans by U.S. to spy on U.N. states questioned http://washingtontimes.com/world/20030303-14680312.htm Richard --- Subject: RE: U.S. plan to bug U.N. Security Council revealed --The Observer Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:28:07 -0600 Message-ID: <4045E256C76D7B4DA003AD34CA1B3C2F582156at_private> From: "Paul Higgins" <pahigginsat_private> To: <declanat_private> Declan, I feel it should be pointed out that Maurice Wessling erred in stating that the "UK newspaper The Observer published an NSA email..." He should have said that The Observer published what it *PURPORTS* to be an NSA email. I read the article in the Observer, and from what I saw it neither revealed the source of the alleged leak nor described any confirmation, direct or indirect, it had received from NSA or any other U.S. government agency. (It did describe a phone call it placed to the NSA, which the recipient quickly terminated when it was revealed that the caller was a journalist. That proves nothing, of course: you or I could experience the same thrill any time.) The question I would pose to The Observer (and Mr. Wessling) is this: given the aggressive actions taken by certain European governments in opposing the U.S. and its allies on the Iraq affair, isn't it equally plausible that the "leak" you touted was produced by French or German operatives and released as a "dirty trick" to embarrass the Bush administration? Sincerely, Paul Higgins Madison, Wisconsin --- From:[deleted] To: declanat_private Subject: RE: U.S. plan to bug U.N. Security Council revealed --The Observe r Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 08:40:53 -0700 Declan - please keep me anonymous by removing my name & email address. It is quite a leak, until one reads the memo carefully. There is the interesting fact that at least three words have British rather than American spellings: "emphasize" (American spelling) appears as the British "emphasise," the same also is true for "favorable" ("favourable") and "recognize" ("recognise"). The probability of an American spelling three words with British styles is near zero -- especially when one considers that Microsoft Word's dictionary would pick up all three of those as spelling errors in the U.S. version, which we have a feeling is used at the NSA or any U.S. government entity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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