米国のスパイの責任者はプライバシー上の保証を置く

プライバシーは警告するマイクMcConnellに保証の名で`の後部席を」取らなければならない

Iain Thomson著

国家情報のあるディレクター、16の米国の情報機関をすべて監督する、国内および国際的なインターネット・トラフィックが監視されている範囲を明らかにした。

安全保障問題の直接助言するブッシュ大統領マイクMcConnellはの記事で言った ニューヨーカー そのプライバシーは保証の名で後部席を取らなければならない。

McConnell gave details of a proposed cyber-security policy which will closely police internet activity.

Lawrence Wright, the article’s author, claimed that Ed Giorgio, a former chief code breaker at the National Security Agency who is working with McConnell on the plan, had told him that this would mean giving the government the authority to examine the content of any email, file transfer or web search.

“Google has records that could help in a cyber-investigation,” said Wright. “Giorgio warned me that ‘privacy and security are a zero-sum game’.”

McConnell, who keeps a clock on his desk counting down the seconds of the Bush presidency, admitted that the plans would be a tough sell to the legislature but insisted that they are necessary.

“My prediction is that we are going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens,” he told Wright.

Wright suggested that this kind of monitoring is already going on. He spoke to an AT& T employee, Mark Klein, who claimed that he installed data switching systems in the company’s exchange that copied all internet traffic to the National Security Agency.

“I know that whatever went across those cables was copied and the entire data stream was copied,” said Klein. “We are talking about domestic as well as international traffic.”

He added that previous claims by the Bush administration that only international communications were being intercepted are not accurate.

“I know the physical equipment, and I know that statement is not true,” said Klein. “It involves millions of communications, a lot of it domestic communications that they are copying wholesale.”

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