Thanks, Jon. Although I had read about Echelon years ago, I did not realize the connection with 9/11. This is very interesting.

A staff member of the National Security Council who regularly attends briefings on bin Laden states, “We are probably tapped into every hotel room in Pakistan. We can listen in to just about every phone call in Afghanistan.”

Stuff like this makes it more difficult to accept the "failure of intelligence" claim.