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...American lawyer who had sued the government for secretly tapping his phone for years. The decision raises serious questions about government adherence to Fourth Amendment restrictions on unreasonable search and seizure. More importantly, it highlights long-standing questions about the nature and actions of the National Security Agency (NSA...
Among the people Inman monitored during his stints as Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and an Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were scientists who research he insisted has bolstered the Soviet military...
When he headed the NSA, Inman instituted a set of voluntary restrictions on the publication of cryptology methods, including codemaking and breaking. Inman has said that scientists should prefer voluntary guidelines to one Congress might mandate...
Britain would not be the only country affected by a breach of GCHQ security. The Cheltenham facility is part of a four-nation intelligence net that also includes the U.S., Canada and Australia. GCHQ shares its cryptographic expertise with Washington's top-secret National Security Agency (NSA), an organization that gathers intelligence based on electronic eavesdropping. In return, the NSA passes on some of its intelligence and provides technical assistance. Moreover, the U.S. maintains spy bases in Britain whose data are processed at GCHQ, and Cray I, the complicated computer that does most of Cheltenham's decoding...
Inman's associates said, however, that the admiral chafed at playing second fiddle to Casey after running the NSA. When Casey came under fire last July for alleged business improprieties, Goldwater called for his resignation, hoping Inman would succeed him. But White House aides warned that if Casey were pushed out, Inman would not replace him and might be fired too-and the congressional pressure on Casey subsided. Inman contends that this fuss was "One of the most discomforting periods of my entire life. I found the invidious comparisons both unfair to Bill and embarrassing...