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NSA director Hayden's testimony on NSA and 9/11
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 23:59:35 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 13:47:56 -0800 To: cryptography () wasabisystems com Subject: NSA director Hayden's testimony on NSA and 9/11 http://intelligence.senate.gov/0210hrg/021017/hayden.pdf Hayden's testimony deserves to go into the cryptome archives, and should be read by everyone on this list. He spends ten pages explaining how NSA worked on terrorism pre- and post-9/11, and then tells Congress that they can best help him by going back to their constituents and understanding where the public wants to draw the line between liberty and safety, i.e. between not being wiretapped domestically and being wiretapped domestically. We should help to give him a loud and clear answer to that. John Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:30:43 -0400 To: politech () politechbot com From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> Subject: FC: The Echelonization of America: NSA to spy domestically? The head of the National Security Agency said last week that Congress might want to aim the most powerful surveillance system in the world at American citizens. Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, in a rare public appearance before the Senate Intelligence committee, said the ongoing terrorist threat means America needs to debate where to draw the line between foreign and domestic surveillance. Currently the NSA is prohibited from spying domestically. Here's an excerpt: "Where do we draw the line between the government's need for (counter-terrorism) information about people in the United States and the privacy interests of people located in the United States? This line-drawing affects the focus of NSA's activities, foreign versus domestic... the type of data NSA is permitted to collect and how, and the rules under which NSA retains and disseminates information about U.S. persons." Until the 1970s, when the Senate's Church Committee revealed what had been going on in secret, the CIA and the NSA conducted illegal surveillance on American citizens. In response, Congress enacted a series of reforms, notably the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. "These are serious issues that the country addressed, and resolved to its satisfaction, once before in the mid-1970's," Hayden said. "In light of the events of September 11th, it is appropriate that we, as a country, readdress them. We need to get it right." Statement: http://intelligence.senate.gov/0210hrg/021017/hayden.pdf -Declan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo () wasabisystems com ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=125275&user_secret=1aa8f2d6 Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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