70.3M records, 30 days: NSA report draws Paris ire

AP ^ | 10/21/2013 | LORI HINNANT

[markomalley]

The U.S. National Security Agency swept up 70.3 million French telephone records in a 30-day period, according to a newspaper report that offered new details of the massive scope of a surveillance operation that has angered some of the country's closest allies. The French government on Monday summoned the U.S. ambassador for an explanation.

The report in Le Monde, co-written by Glenn Greenwald who originally revealed the NSA surveillance program, found that when certain numbers were used, the conversations were automatically recorded. The surveillance operation also swept up text messages based on key words, Le Monde reported, based on records from Dec. 10 to Jan 7.

The Le Monde reporting emerged as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris for diplomatic talks Monday about a peace process for Israel and Palestinian authorities.

[Netz]

I am sure “they” have their own directives and definitions and that's fine. All I am saying is that the material written here is usually, center-right and no calls for extreme behavior. The worst things said by this Freeper are various critiques of the POTUS as an inept, stuffed shirt, who endangers America's standing and ability to defend herself in an increasingly dangerous world.

[OneWingedShark]

>> “I would want terrorists to believe every phone conversation Is being listened to and recorded”
>
> I wouldn’t.

Nor would I; it was bad enough in Iraq where they’d swap out SIM cards... now imagine a widespread collection of “terrorists” who, believing all electronic comms are tracked, must find a way to communicate. They’re going to come up with some wonderfully creative stuff, just as you and I would be forced to do if that same surveillance were turned on us (surprise, it is) — if the state of general-surveillance is not stopped, government will become all-knowing, and the petty bureaucrats will turn their attention to you and *finding* [perhaps inventing] faults to prosecute.