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NSA Secretly Continues Merkel Surveillance

posted by mattie_p on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-not-directly-spying-on-you dept.

Angry Jesus writes:

"German language magazine 'Bild am Sonntag' reports that, in response to Obama's recent order to stop spying on Angela Merkel and other heads of 'friendly' states, the NSA has instead ramped up spying on everybody Merkel communicates with. Cory Doctorow points out that this action demonstrates that the NSA is out of control and deliberately disobeying a presidential order with a level of duplicity worthy of a four year-old."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Nikker on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:23AM

    by Nikker (227) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:23AM (#6455)

    The public has always known about spy's. MI5 /007, Mission Impossible glamorized it and every nation has a similar agency. What we are seeing now is that the spy game in the USA is either falling apart as evidence of all their laundry being aired on a routine basis or this is all part of the plan. In the whole scheme of things can you ever effectively stop one person from trying to look over the shoulder of another? Not a chance. I think what you should really be worried about is that if all these leaks are legit then the US just has a really bad spy agency and should get it looked at quickly as possible.

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by mcgrew on Tuesday February 25 2014, @12:26PM

    by mcgrew (701) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @12:26PM (#6711) Homepage Journal

    The public has always known about spy's.

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