Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/2006/01/31/new-white-paper/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Politech] NSA surveillance: EFF lawsuit; new white paper by ACLU Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:16:37 -0500 From: Barry Steinhardt <bsteinhardt@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> CC: jstanley@private References: <43DFE5BA.3070706@private> Declan, You are right-- in part. No one outside of the Government and the providers themselves can confirm which specific companies are cooperating with NSA's "program". Our map very intentionally does not point to at any specific company or companies. Although if any company would like to make a pledge not to cooperate with the NSA's warrantless and illegal communications spying, we would be happy to publicly applaud that pledge on the map and our other materials. What the map shows are the various access and interception points that are likely involved in the NSA's surveillance.Many of those points have been described over the years in reports from well informed journalists like James Bamford and government reports like those prepared for the European Parliament. Several of the nations involved in what had been called the Echelon program have also admitted to its existence. Most recently, there have been a series of articles in the New York and Los Angeles Times, as well at the Washington Post and the James Risen book, describing how the program has evolved and now has extraordinary direct access to the communications infrastructure. The citations for the various reports and articles are all available on NSAwatch. at http://www.nsawatch.org/scandal.html. We can only hope that more details will emerge as a result of further reporting by the journalistic community, the litigation brought by the ACLU, EFF and others, and by the probings of a responsible Congress. Barry Steinhardt _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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