Originally Posted by Pete E
Paul,

The story I have heard is that the US routes certain domestic traffic over to the UK where it is intercepted by GCHQ.

GCHQ then send the recordings back to the interested Agency in the States.

Apparently this enables the Agency in the US to say hand on heart they don't intercept and listen to to domestic traffic and puts the actual monitoring ect in the hands of GCHQ and beyond US law..

Regards,

Peter



Hi Pete,
thats not the story thats coming out from people that have been involved with it. And as for the US government they don't have a great track record for "Hand on heart truth"!And nor does the British Government either!
All the Echelon locations in the in the UK,and world wide are run and operated by the NSA.
This is a BBC report from 1999.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/503224.stm

If any one is really interested in ECHELON , the read a book called "Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping" by Patrick Radden Keefe.

Cheers,
Paul.