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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: 1) by HiThere on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:39PM

    by HiThere (866) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @10:39PM (#7071)

    The problem is that the old saw about money being the root of all evil is wrong. Lack of consequences is the root of all evil. (I'll grant that there's a relationship to money.)

    What are the consequences to the perpetrators if they abuse their power? If there aren't any significant ones, then they WILL abuse it. It doesn't even need to benefit them, other than the emotional pleasure they get out of exercising their power over someone who can't stop them. And *THAT* is what needs to be fixed. But I can't see how.

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    Put not your faith in princes.