Members of a European Parliament committee investigating whether the United States engages in economic espionage angrily returned home Thursday after U.S. agencies declined to meet with them. [...] The European delegation was inquiring about reports of a super-secret surveillance network called Echelon that some former intelligence officials have claimed is being used to monitor billions of phone calls, e-mails and faxes. U.S. officials have not acknowledged the existence of any such a system and have said American agencies do not engage in industrial espionage.
HA! Ha ha hee! Oh, my, that's a good one, isn't it? "American agencies do not engage in industrial espionage." Almost as good as "I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky."
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