du 23 d\u00e9cembre<\/a>, pr\u00e9sente un tableau complet sur l’impact du scandale des \u00e9coutes ill\u00e9gales sur la NSA (National Security Agency). Il s’agit de l’effet sur le moral du personnel de l’Agence, sur son statut, sur la l\u00e9galit\u00e9 de son action. Cet impact est compar\u00e9 \u00e0 celui que subit la CIA avec l’affaire des vols secrets de d\u00e9tenus forc\u00e9s vers des lieux d’interrogatoire contraignant (torture).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tConnaissant l’esprit proc\u00e9durier et juridique de la bureaucratie de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale US, les pr\u00e9cisions donn\u00e9es ci-apr\u00e8s nous paraissent tr\u00e8s plausibles, et nous font effectivement mesurer l’ampleur des effets du scandale sur l’Agence. Qu’en plus, ce scandale porte sur une violation du statut de la citoyennet\u00e9 am\u00e9ricaine rajoute une dimension \u00e9thique non n\u00e9gligeable, qui renforce encore ces effets. \u00ab In the public and Hollywood’s mind, the agency is often seen as an ominous Big Brother, an image best epitomized by the 1998 Will Smith movie Enemy of the State. The reality, former officials and NSA experts said, is far different. Under a 1978 law called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act <\/em>[FISA], elaborate procedures were put in place to ensure that the agency doesn’t routinely spy on Americans.<\/em> (…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb After the 1978 law was passed, the NSA issued an internal directive known as U.S. Signals Intelligence Directive 18, barring agency employees from eavesdropping on Americans in the United States, with few exceptions. NSA employees are required to re-read the document every six months and sign a form stating that they’ve done so. As a Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) officer, it is continually drilled into us that the very first law chiseled in the SIGINT equivalent of the Ten Commandments is that Thou shall not spy on American persons without a court order from FISA,’ said former NSA analyst Russell Tice.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb If the NSA inadvertently intercepts the communications of a U.S. citizen or communications that mention a U.S. citizen, they are supposed to be destroyed. There are a handful of exceptions. Intercepts of U.S. citizens that aren’t destroyed go into a special database code-named Body Surf’ and the real names are masked, available only to a handful of people.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tParmi d’autres t\u00e9moins interrog\u00e9s, souvent de fa\u00e7on anonyme, on rapporte ici les avis de deux des meilleurs sp\u00e9cialistes de la NSA, identifi\u00e9s dans l’article. Ils font une \u00e9valuation extr\u00eamement pessimiste des effets du scandale pour l’Agence. On retrouve notamment la mise en cause de l’indiff\u00e9rence compl\u00e8te et de l’ignorance des r\u00e9alit\u00e9s du renseignement de la part des hommes politiques qui donnent des ordres aux organismes de renseignement. \u00ab Former NSA Director Bobby Ray Inman, who helped push through the 1978 FISA law, said he worried that the agency is being unfairly tarred, with a huge impact on morale. They only act in accordance with law, and an executive order is law, Inman said, referring to the order Bush signed permitting warrant-less domestic surveillance. But he added: Frankly, my experience over the years is that politicians don’t worry about the impact of their actions on intelligence agencies’ morale.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb I’ve talked to a number of people over there since this came out … and there is none of them that are happy about this and many who are upset, said author James Bamford, whose book Puzzle Palace’ was the first in-depth look at the NSA. The revelations have hurt the NSA’s morale because this is an extremely deceptive program, Bamford said. Only a few people were told about it, he said. Everyone else in the agency went around telling people that they don’t spy on Americans. Around their back, they find out that the director has authorized that.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 25 d\u00e9cembre 2005 \u00e0 09H07<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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