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Hello Thomas Fernandez,
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:17:23 +0800 GMT your local time,
which was Thursday, July 20, 2000, 6:17:23 PM (GMT+0700) my local
time,
Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> Hello Jason,
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 03:49:05 -0700GMT (20/07/2000, 18:49 +0800GMT),
> Jason Thompson wrote:
JT>> But do you have any reason other than _speculation_ to believe
all
JT>> this?
> Will articles in DER SPIEGEL be sufficient for you? Many other
> repectable news media have reported about this over the last couple
> of years. The issue in Germany is that the U.S. FBI is allowed a
> lot more spying on the private citizen in the U.S. than what is
> allowed to the government in Germany according to the Basic Law
> (constitution).
> Privacy issues are very big in Germany, but the U.S. government
> wants the same access to email, phone calls, etc, as they have in
> the
> States. The system is called Echelon. For the fist time ever
> journalists were let into the listening plant (center) on German
> ground.
> Echelon and privacy were part of the dissonances during Clinton's
> most recent visit to Berlin.
JT>> Have you seen any tangible evidence of such widespread
JT>> governmental snooping? To me, all this sounds like just another
JT>> conspiracy theory. :-)
> Hope you don't mean that the news media are conspiring against the
> government.... ;-)
They are, they havent got a clue whats really happening...
what you read is the proverbial bone.
You think the germans arent snooping? even the French are...
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