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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: 2, Interesting) by dilbert on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:54PM

    by dilbert (444) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:54PM (#6733)
    Wait, so Obama has dirty laundry on the NSA he can use to influence their actions?

    I'm sorry, but no. Post Snowden, the president is the one in this equation that believes he still has some secrets he'd rather the NSA not disclose. Thus it will be the NSA telling him what to do, and not the other way around.

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  • (Score: 1) by metamonkey on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:58PM

    by metamonkey (3174) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @04:58PM (#6741)

    I think you misread my post. I said the situation was reversed...Obama doesn't tell the NSA what to do, the NSA tells Obama what to do.

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    Okay 3, 2, 1, let's jam.
    • (Score: 1) by dilbert on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:27PM

      by dilbert (444) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @05:27PM (#6759)
      You're right, I did misread. My apologies.