[CSE = Canada's NSA. Supposedly "legal" under Patriot Act? --gnu]
http://cryptome.org/ Canadians Listen in on NSA's Behalf A high-level U.S. intelligence source has revealed exclusively to Intelligence Online that some of the communications surveillance evidence used by the U.S. government to try two Lebanese-born U.S. citizens of running a cigarette smuggling ring and sending cash to Hezbollah was collected by Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE), the Canadian counter-part of the National Security Agency and a long-standing partner of Echelon. The Canadian intercept data supplemented FBI wiretap evidence that a federal judge in Charlotte, North Carolina allowed to be entered into evidence in the trial of the two Shi'ite brothers, Mohammed and Chawi Hammoud. On June 21, the Hammoud brothers were convicted on a wide range of charges, with Mohammed specifically being found guilty of aiding a terrorist group. In the past, NSA has denied that it uses its Echelon partners to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens. In the instance, however, judge Graham Mullen allowed Canadian intercept information to be used. The case illustrated changes in electronic surveillance policy that were enacted by Congress following the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Still, charges that Echelon partners help one another out in covert operations aren't entirely new. In the 1980's, Britain's GCHQ was accused of asking its partners abroad to listen in on journalists who were investigating the business affairs of prime minister Margaret Thatcher's son, Mark. Excerpted from Intelligence Online newsletter, No 434, 25 July - 28 August 2002, www.intelligenceonline.com. Cryptome offers the USA v. Mohammed Hammoud, et al case docket (no filings are available online): http://cryptome.org/usa-v-mh-dkt.htm --g71Fwvl02253.1028217537/mx1.redhat.com-- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
