| Last night as the Echelon Committee adopted its report, it made it clear that running systems of random interception of messages breaches the fundamental right to privacy in one's personal life and communications. |
| We have just had a committee of inquiry into Echelon and we are angry that the NSA and other secret services are violating fundamental rights. |
| Mr President, it has been a very happy coincidence for the sake of democracy to have had the previous debate on the Echelon network. |
| In addition, we have evidence that the system does indeed have the code name Echelon. |
| Yet all these allegations that Echelon has been misused have not been proven. |
| If we only set up a temporary committee, the European Parliament will just be viewed as a paper tiger in its endeavours to cast some light on the activities of Echelon. |
