[fision]

I hate it when Napolitano gets it wrong. I worked for GCHQ during the cold war and differ with him on what we did. The Brits and the Yanks divided up targets to share the load in information gathering and analysis through various espionage activities. There was a lot of overlap in their coverage for verification and capture purposes.Spying on their own citizens was of no interest to us. That activity is left to other agencies such as the CIA and special branches.

GCHQ and NSA are very competitive and often use Eyes Only to hide information from each other until their analysis is complete and they can declare victory.

They let the Canadians in to certain espionage areas under what is known as the CANUKUS arrangement.

All this information used to be very secret but these governments opened up several years ago.

[Chgogal]

Don't you think things have changed a little here in the US after 9/11 and the Patriot Act?

[Grampa Dave]

“I hate it when Napolitano gets it wrong. I worked for GCHQ during the cold war and differ with him on what we did.”

So where you from the London area or maybe the Devon area?