Richard A. Best Jr. This is Me

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1. 1. Tenet resignation could spark struggle

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   Published on: 1/21/2005   Last Visited: 1/21/2005

   "There's no instant solution, no matter what anybody says," said Richard Best, a specialist at the Congressional Research Service, part of the Library of Congress. Proposals to wrest agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency away from Pentagon control "would be highly controversial," he said.

2. 2. www.securitynewsportal.com

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   "There's a ton more communications out there and how to sift through that is an increasing problem for the NSA," said Richard A. Best Jr. of the Congressional Research Service.
   
   The advent of e-mail, pagers, cellular phones, fax machines and the growth of international telephone service has left the NSA with "profound 'needle-in-a-haystack' challenges," Best said.

3. 3. Project Echelon: Orbiting Big Brother? :: PEJ News :: Stories, Features, Opinion and Analysis :: Peace, Earth & Justice News

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   Published on: 10/30/2004   Last Visited: 11/25/2005

   Similarly sanguine is Richard Best, Jr., a specialist in national defense at the Congressional Research Service (CRS), in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division. The CRS is a research arm of the U.S. Congress.
   
   "There has been a capability for many years to listen for specific words, to filter them out. But in terms of listening to every conversation or every email throughout the world, that's just wild speculation," Best told SPACE.com. "My sense is that [the word] Echelon is loosely used, probably more outside the intelligence community than inside the community. It's involved, I believe, in electronic surveillance, but maybe I'm wrong, of non-military targets and they do it in cooperation with other countries," he said.
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   In the United States, and particularly in view of the events of September 11, Best said, there is growing understanding of the need to "collect what you can."
   
   But if such an intelligence-hungry system like Echelon is real, why was there no warning from its operators that a massive attack on home soil was imminent?
   
   Given 20/20 hindsight, Best said, one could go back and perhaps see a pattern. "People for whatever reason didn't see the pattern at the time. Whether in retrospect they should have, or whether there was no reasonable expectation that they could havethat's the question and I'm not going to sit here and speculate on that," he said.
   
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