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Some people think there's a conspiracy.
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That the government eavesdrops on everyone.
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It's no conspiracy.
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Right now, satellites and ground
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stations are listening in.
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Faxes, e-mail communication, phone calls,
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are all routed to high-speed voice and
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optical recognition computers.
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They can analyze words spoken and written
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in any common language on Earth.
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The system's called Echelon.
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Yeah, I heard about Echelon. I just don't
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understand how it's legal. So, what, it's
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just like a computer that listens to and
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reads everything?
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Yeah, looking for key words. The system
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scans two million conversations an hour.
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Yeah, while shamelessly violating
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the Constitution.
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The National Security Agency argues it's
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one of its most important weapons against
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terrorists. And that they don't
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abuse the system.
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Somehow that's... unreassuring.
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Well, there's this man named Gerard Cuvee
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who figured out how to hack into Echelon.
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He was able to pick up secure military
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communications.
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Because of that, he was able to locate and
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destroy a US military lab in Dresden.
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In London, we shut down Cuvee's access to
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Echelon and, thank God, kept it
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away from SD-6.
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So you get Echelon, you become Big Brother.
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The best thing about this mission,
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this guy that I work with --
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this sweetheart, Marshall --
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was pulled out of SD-6 and taken
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into protective custody.
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The CIA's gonna give him a life.
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A real life. I can't tell you
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what a relief it is to know
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he's safe.
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