History Channel television show on NSA (fwd)

[Daniel Orr]

I agree, most of it was like a bad history of cryptography in America. I
wish I had stuck watching Boston Public.

Last year (1999/early 2000) Congress tacked a requirement onto an
appropriations bill which required the NSA to report on Echelon and
monitoring of American citizens. This was shortly after the director plead
attorney client privilege with the NSA's Chief Counsel.

Does anyone know what happened with this report? Were there any sections not
classified?

-----Original Message-----
From: Declan McCullagh
To: Jim Choate
Cc: cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com; The Club Inferno;
austin-cpunks at einstein.ssz.com; sci-tech at einstein.ssz.com
Sent: 1/8/01 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: History Channel television show on NSA (fwd)


Watched it, ET giving me a 3 hr advantage over you golden staters. A
definite passover except for last 10 minutes, Echelon-dodging making
the spooks limber enough to Macarena with Clipper Chip-endorsing Al
with dispatch. "Trust us," DIRNSA proudly proclaims, with Church bells
ringing in the near distance. Of note is latest permutation of
horsemen riding in on backs of Defcon-going hackers as justification
for existence of The Agency That Shall Not Be Named.

-Declan, channeling JYA



On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 05:18:24PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:38:19 -0500 (EST)
> From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder at freenet.tlh.fl.us>
> To: cryptography at c2.net
> Subject: History Channel television show on NSA
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> The 'History Channel' cable TV network will air a show about the NSA
> tomorrow night January 8, at 8 pm Eastern.  Their website says this
about
> it:
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> America's Most Secret Agency
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> The National Security Agency, America's most secret and controversial
> agency, is charged with safeguarding the nation's strategic
intelligence
> information and decoding the secret communications of our enemies. For
> only the second time in its nearly 50 year history, the N.S.A. allowed
> cameras inside its Ft. Meade, Maryland, headquarters, and the
director,
> Lt. General Michael V. Hayden, sits for a rare interview and addresses
> issues such as privacy. Tune in and find out if Big Brother is
watching
> you!
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