After 27 Years, Reporter Who Exposed ECHELON Finds Vindication in Snowden Archive

Ever since legendary British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell told the world in a 1988 magazine article about ECHELON — a massive, automated surveillance dragnet that indiscriminately intercepted phone and Internet data from communications satellites — Western intelligence officials have refused to acknowledge that it existed. Despite sporadic continuing press reports, people who complained about the program — which, as Campbell disclosed...
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