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NSA Wiretapped 122 World Leaders

posted by NCommander on Tuesday April 01 2014, @06:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the wonder-how-long-until-the-staff-gets-wiretapped dept.

Blackmoore writes:

Cory Doctorow at bOing bOing reports Newly disclosed documents from the trove Edward Snowden provided to journalists reveal the existence of the Nymrod database that listed 122 world leaders, many from nations friendly to the USA, that were spied upon by the NSA. Included in the list is German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was already known to have been wiretapped by the NSA thanks to an earlier disclosure. Nymrod's "Target Knowledge Database" combed through the NSA's pool of global intercepts to amass dossiers of private communications emails, faxes, calls and Internet traffic related to the leaders.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by metamonkey on Tuesday April 01 2014, @06:14PM

    by metamonkey (3174) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @06:14PM (#24379)

    Can we just have the list of people the NSA hasn't been spying on? That seems like it would be a much shorter list and save us all a lot of trouble. Thank you.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Blackmoore on Tuesday April 01 2014, @06:22PM

    by Blackmoore (57) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @06:22PM (#24382) Journal

    Can't. that would be a breach of National Security.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by unauthorized on Tuesday April 01 2014, @06:24PM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @06:24PM (#24387)
    As requested, here is the entire list:

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by mendax on Tuesday April 01 2014, @09:46PM

    by mendax (2840) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @09:46PM (#24479)

    The only person the NSA hasn't been spying on is my evil black cat. Yes, she's a cat but she believes that she is a person and that's enough for me and should be enough for the NSA. And because the NSA has not been monitoring my cat's activities means that they are incompetent because, after all, she is evil. She is the "Dark Lord of the Hiss". I have no doubt she is plotting the our downfall in her wicked brain.

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