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the world. Not even the Soviets could touch the U.K.-U.S. intercept
: *   technology.
: *   
: *   Through this charade, the intelligence services of each country can
: *   claim they are not targeting their own citizens. This 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 U.S. 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 literally telling the truth.
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: *   
: *   According to a former special agent of the FBI, the you-spy-on-mine,
: *   I'll-spy-on-yours deal has been extended to other Western partners,
: *   particularly Canada and Australia. The British, with the help of
: *   sophisticated NSA computers, can bug just about anyone anywhere. The
: *   electronic search for subversives continues, particularly in the U.S.
: *   
: *   The NSA conceded precisely that point when the U.S. Justice Department
: *   investigated its wiretapping of American protesters during the Vietnam
: *   War.
: *   
: *   The NSA assured the Justice Department that the information was
: *   acquired only *incidentally* as part of a British GCHQ collection
: *   program.
: *   
: *   The "incidental" British exception has become the rule.
: *   
: *   To this day Congress does not realize that the British liaison officers
: *   at the NSA are still free to use American equipment to spy on American
: *   citizens. And, in fact, they are doing just that. Congress has been kept
: *   in the dark deliberately.
: *
: *   This is a fact, not a matter of conjecture
: *