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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: 2, Insightful) by jt on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:24AM

    by jt (2890) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @03:24AM (#6456)

    Surely other nations are already attempting these countermeasures? I really hope our allies are already defending themselves; if we can attack our allies in this way, so can our enemies.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:31AM

    by c0lo (156) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:31AM (#6502)

    I really hope our allies are already defending themselves; if we can attack our allies in this way, so can our enemies.

    That would be an utterly awful failure of imagination. Repeating one own's mistakes is bad enough, repeating others' mistakes is madness.

    Surely other nations are already attempting these countermeasures?

    Yes, they constructively [dev.soylentnews.org] are: making friends and good business partners makes for a better efficiency of effort expenditure.