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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, Interesting) by TheLink on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:46AM

    by TheLink (332) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:46AM (#7181)
    What worries me is the polarized mindless D vs R voters/supporters.

    Doesn't seem a great stretch that such D/Rs can easily be convinced by their respective leaders to kill R/Ds "to save America" or whatever bullshit required.

    Happens in other countries, just look at the news from time to time - part of the population starts going to war with the rest of the population, and all for no real good reason.
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  • (Score: 2) by SMI on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:22PM

    by SMI (333) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:22PM (#7591)

    "I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office."
      - Milton Friedman