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...pouch could also have contained the daily digest of National Security Agency intercepts gathered by ultrasecret satellites and listening devices. These often bear the special code-word classification UMBRA, a category beyond TOP SECRET, reserved for the most sensitive electronic intelligence. Most riveting would have been pages of NSA intercepts dealing with Iraq. Typically, the NSA targets not only hostile countries but also U.S. allies...
...White House -- perturbed, perhaps, by the fine print -- spent its Monday spin cycle qualifying President Clinton's earlier endorsement. NSA advisor Sandy Berger described the deal as merely an outline of "some basic principles," and added the U.S. would work to ensure it resulted in "rigorous and professional" inspections. If it doesn't, at least the Annan accord gives Washington much more of the missing ingredient in this winter's noisy efforts to face down Iraq: a legal and moral basis for military action...
...letter spelled out U.S. guarantees for Israeli troop withdrawals from the West Bank. The Israeli official in Washington suggested going to Mega for a copy of the letter, but his superior rejected the idea. "This is not something we use Mega for," the Israeli supervisor said, according to the NSA transcript of the call...
...more documents out of the White House on everything from Haiti to Lake's stock holdings to the campaign-finance scandal. Administration officials tell TIME that a Shelby aide even drove the 35 miles to the supersecret National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, to ask if the NSA had any information on the nominee. The NSA shooed the aide away but alerted the CIA and the White House about the approach...
...last year, however, the National Security Agency picked up intercepts of provocative communications among Chinese officials. They included discussions of a covert operation aimed at influencing the 1996 elections. Other intercepts indicated that front companies for the Chinese government might try to funnel cash. A few months later the NSA took its information to the FBI, which began a probe. Of the six U.S. lawmakers who emerged as major targets, four were from California, where the business community began courting the Chinese soon after Richard Nixon renewed ties in 1972. Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer are longtime supporters...