Hold the Phone
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12779087/site/newsweek/
Big Brother knows whom you call. Is that legal, and will it help catch
the bad guys?
By Mark Hosenball and Evan Thomas
Newsweek
May 22, 2006 issue - In the difficult days after 9/11, White House
officials quietly passed the word through Washington's alphabet soup of
intelligence agencies: tell us which weapons you need to stop another
attack. At the supersecretive NSA, the National Security Agency (also
known as No Such Agency), the request came back: give us permission to
collect information on people inside the United States. The NSA had
been struggling, without much success, to listen in on terrorists who
use cheap and easily available encrypted phones, and officials eagerly
drew up a wish list, according to a participant in the discussions.
This source, who declined to be identified discussing sensitive
matters, said NSA officials did not really expect the White House to
say yes to domestic spying. After scandals over wiretapping erupt-ed in
the 1970s, the code breakers and electronic sleuths at the NSA had been
essentially restricted to eavesdrop-ping on conversations between
foreigners abroad. American residents and even most foreign visitors to
the United States were off-limits to "Big Noddy," as NSA insiders call
their giant "Ear in the Sky" surveillance capability.
NSA OR "National Security Agency"
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