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."
(Score: 1) by jimshatt on Tuesday February 25 2014, @07:33AM
(Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:32AM
And also high value targets more likely to yield useful intelligence.
I'd rather have surveillance of the Indian Prime Minister, or the Iranians or the Saudis or the Chinese.
The Germans have played pretty straight with us, more so than even the Brits, and god know the French and Israelis.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 1) by starcraftsicko on Tuesday February 25 2014, @07:29PM
The good news is, we almost certainly try to monitor their communications too. And the Germans, just in case.
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