Well, we were watching a 60minutes program last night and guess whose name came up..ECHELON, this grabbed my attention and after learning more about these guys I really feel these guys owed it to the United States people and others around the world to divulge any information pertaining to anything that will jeopordize the national security and safety of our country...you told me about these idiots, now I've learned more, and now believe even more so today than I did the other day....they should and still should be held accountable for the terroist attacks at the WTC, if they knew and or had details with evidence regarding these attacks before hand, then they should be held equally responsible..ECHELON you may be able to spy on people, countries...government people/business-companies...one day you WILL get yours!!

Quote: Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks Thursday, September 13, 2001 U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies received warning signals at least three months ago that Middle Eastern terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture, according to a story in Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The FAZ, quoting unnamed German intelligence sources, said that the Echelon spy network was being used to collect information about the terrorist threats, and that U.K. intelligence services apparently also had advance warning. The FAZ, one of Germany's most respected dailies, said that even as far back as six months ago western and near-east press services were receiving information that such attacks were being planned. ... [Read on]

I am just curious to whom the Authorities are???
It seems to me they are all going to blame each other.
And guess what, Its been said there "word tragger system" doesn't work as expected (Hear say, I havn't seen any reports yet, so don't take this as truth).

..supposedly the authorities as they put it were in the United Kingdom who evidentally was the gov't ....whatever!!!!

Go to EU releases Echelon spying report and download a 200 page (DOC or PDF) report.

You know me I will get around to reading it 1 day

I read that also somewhere but cannot recall where exactly...I do know it definitely isn't the gov't itself that is "echelon" or whomever, but I do know that it is a branch off the gov't, but in time word will get out even more so in order to rid these people, as it is a pure invasion of privacy...if these people used their resources purely for legitimate reasons, such as what happened recently here at NYC or for people who are wanted by the FBI etc that I can understand