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NSA Secretly Continues Merkel Surveillance

posted by mattie_p on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:00AM   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, Redundant) by beckett on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:25AM

    by beckett (1115) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:25AM (#6420)

    NSA Secretly begins Doctorow Surveillance

    An anonymous NSA leaker revealed to rival blogger Matt Drudge that the agency has been spying on senior Doctorow figure, Cory Doctorow. The move is apparently a response to Cory Doctorow reporting Obama prohibiting the agency from spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel (or other world leaders) without his authorization -- by spying on the people that report on the surveillance employed against whom Merkel communicates, the agency is still able to intercept a large fraction of Doctorow's personal communication concerning Merkel's most sensitive communications without presidential authorization, without presidential authorization.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:28AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 25 2014, @06:28AM (#6422) Journal

    :) It wasn't Doctorow to break the news for the entire world, it was Reuters [reuters.com]

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    • (Score: 1) by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:55PM

      by Fnord666 (652) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:55PM (#6779) Homepage

      ) It wasn't Reuters breaking the news, it was 'Bild am Sonntag', but since I can't find the original article, Reuters will have to do for now.