I was a kid in the mid-late 90s and even wrote my senator about Echelon for a civics class project. It wasn't 'proven' but it was known. That senator, a few yea

I was a kid in the mid-late 90s and even wrote my senator about Echelon for a civics class project. It wasn't 'proven' but it was known. That senator, a few years later, was the only one to vote against the PATRIOT Act (Russ Feingold, WI).