The real story behind the UKUSA agreement and NSA domestic espionage from former Justice Department prosecutor John Loftus. No FISA court warrants required:
By the 1960’s the “temporary” British personnel at Fort Meade had become a permanent fixture. The British enjoyed continued access to the greatest listening post in the world. The NSA is a giant vacuum cleaner. It sucks every form of electronic information, from telephone calls to telegrams, across the United States. The presence of British personnel is essential for the American wiretappers to claim plausible deniability.
Here is how the game is played. The British liaison officer at Fort Meade types the target list of “suspects” into the American computer. The NSA computer sorts through its wiretaps and gives the British officer the recording of any American citizen he wants. Since it is technically a British target of surveillance, no American search warrant is necessary. The British officer then simply hands the results over to his American liaison officer.
Of course, the Americans provide the same service to the British in return. All international and domestic telephone calls in Great Britain are run through the NSA’s station in the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) at Menwith Hill, which allows the American liason officer to spy on any British citizen without a warrant. According to our sources, this duplicitous, reciprocal arrangement disguises the most massive and illegal, domestic espionage apparatus in the world. Not even the Soviets could touch the UK-US intercept technology.
Through this charade, the intelligence services of each country can claim that they are not targeting their own citizens. The targeting is done by an authorized foreign agent, the intelligence liaison resident in Britain or the United States. Thus, in 1977, during an investigation by the House Government Operations Committee, Admiral Inman could claim, with a straight face, that “there are no US citizens now targeted by the NSA in the United States or abroad, none.” Since the targeting was done not by NSA but by employees of British GCHQ, he was telling the literal truth. Still, the congressional staff knew enough at the time to characterize Inman’s statements in an unpublished report as “misleading.”
John Loftus and Mark Aarons
The Secret War Against The Jews
New York, NY: St. Martin’s Griffin,1994
Pgs 189-190
Loftus' source is The Puzzle Palace: Inside America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization by James Bamford. Pgs 129, 331-332,306. Of course, Bamford doesn't mention any of the above information when appearing on C-Span (12/20/05). The implication is Americans obviously don't know how to read or handle the truth about their government's perpetual lying machine.
Big Brother has been here for a very long time.
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