i've posted previously on echelon, here and here... the description of nsa spying activities, provided by tice, the recently-identified nsa whistleblower, fits echelon to a "t..."

   Russell Tice, a longtime insider at the National Security Agency, is now a whistleblower the agency would like to keep quiet.

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    Tice tells ABC News that some of those secret "black world" operations run by the NSA were operated in ways that he believes violated the law.

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