{"id":2593,"date":"2005-12-27T16:20:07","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-27T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T23:20:07","slug":"talk-of-nsa-spying-actually-goes-further-back-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/27\/talk-of-nsa-spying-actually-goes-further-back-than-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk of NSA Spying actually goes further back than that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject of the NSA and intercepting international emails, I&#8217;m surprised how few people remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/politics\/0,1283,32586,00.html\">ECHELON<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about five years old now, but the reports of the intercepts of global communications data were troubling enough to spark an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2000\/07\/06\/euro_parliament_to_investigate_echelon\/\">investigation by the EU Parliament<\/a>. The year-long investigation confirmed the existance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/politics\/0,1283,44984,00.html\">of ECHELON<\/a>, but in the end also conceded there was little which could be done about it. <\/p>\n<p>The EU Report doesn&#8217;t seem to be on the EU Parliament&#8217;s website any longer, but it can still be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/program\/process\/rapport_echelon_en.pdf\">here<\/a> (WARNING: This 200 page long PDF is fairly large, so if you&#8217;re on a dialup, expect a wait).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject of the NSA and intercepting international emails, I&#8217;m surprised how few people remember ECHELON. It&#8217;s about five years old now, but the reports of the intercepts of global communications data were troubling enough to spark an investigation by the EU Parliament. The year-long investigation confirmed the existance of ECHELON, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}