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Marines, and Air Force.

Let's just say lots of secrecy, Military power, Military and civilian
personnel, MANY BILLIONS of dollars of funding per year and no accountability.

Called UKUSA.


*   "A Spy Agency Admits Accumulating $4 Billion in Secret Money"
*   By Tim Weiner, The New York Times, May 16, 1996
*   
*   In a complete collapse of accountability, NRO, the Government agency that
*   builds spy satellites, accumulated about $4 billion in uncounted secret
*   money. [First they said it was $1 billion, then $2 billion...]
*   
*   The new head of the agency, John Nelson, said that the secret agency had
*   undergone "a fundamental financial meltdown."
*   
*   The agency's secrecy made Congressional oversite next to impossible,
*   intelligence officials said.
*   
*   Just two years previously, the NRO constructed a "stealth building".
*   It was a $300 million new headquarters. The agency had explained that
*   happened because they treated the construction of the building as a
*   covert operation.

A covert operation against whom?

The Pentagon was in operational charge of the NRO.

The NRO is a sister agency to the NSA.


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                   Key Recovery Means No Cryptography
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It's one way or the other.

Zero or One.

We either have uncrackable crypto, or crackable crypto, meaning no crypto.

#   "White House Challenged on Data Security"
#   By John Markoff, The New York Times, May 31, 1996
#   
#   The United States Government should IMMEDIATELY relax export con