Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Electronic modifications concealed within the circuitry would have allowed every call and every e-mail emanating from Afghanistan to be relayed without interference to NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. "This project was a dream," says one former senior FBI counterterrorism specialist who knew about the scheme at the time. "To be able to wire up a country from ground level up--you don't get too many opportunities like that." No, you don't. But at the critical moment, the Clinton administration put the project on hold, while rival U.S. agencies--the FBI, the NSA, and the CIA--bickered over who should control it. |