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NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts
The Guardian ^ | October 24, 2013 | By James Ball

Posted on 10/24/2013 11:48:25 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

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1 posted on 10/24/2013 11:48:25 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Vlad Putin is using Ed Snowden’s thumb drive to very deftly take apart all of our alliances piece-by-piece.


2 posted on 10/24/2013 11:54:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Vlad Putin Barak Obama is using Ed Snowden’s thumb drive to very deftly take apart taking all of our alliances apart piece-by-piece.

There, fixed it.

4 posted on 10/24/2013 11:56:49 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

5 posted on 10/24/2013 11:56:59 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

If powerful leaders can’t trust the US government and Obama, why should comparitively little people? What treachery is he capable of against US...???


6 posted on 10/24/2013 11:58:39 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: F15Eagle

All part of the plan in correct. Isolate us, then cause an internal conflict. Watch what happens next.


7 posted on 10/24/2013 12:03:57 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Buckeye McFrog

But you’re probably correct also.


8 posted on 10/24/2013 12:04:07 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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9 posted on 10/24/2013 12:04:11 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule the all)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The NSA memo seen by the Guardian was written halfway through George W Bush's second term, when Condoleezza Rice was secretary of state and Donald Rumsfeld was in his final months as defence secretary.

So it begins, blame Bush for this questionable document. Who believes this document is real? Could it not have been recently created?

10 posted on 10/24/2013 12:04:38 PM PDT by rawhide
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Obama has made certain that no ally will ever trust America again.

All part of the planned process.

From the thread titled "Poison Photo-Drop (Releasing photos endangers US lives)"

To: Bobkk47

Before he is done I fully expect him to release the names addresses and phone numbers of anyone anywhere in the world who has ever provided any information to agency workers.

The damage to US intel will last multiple generations.

7 posted on 05/12/2009 9:32:33 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 113 of our national holiday from reality.)

yep.

11 posted on 10/24/2013 12:04:48 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Vlad Putin is using Ed Snowden’s thumb drive to very deftly take apart all of our alliances piece-by-piece.

Obama is doing a good enough job of that on his own.

12 posted on 10/24/2013 12:05:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This is not an issue we should be getting hot and bothered about. We should be outraged if U.S. intelligence services are NOT spying on every foreign leader on earth.

They for darn sure are trying to listen to us, and they already know or assume we are doing so to them. This is old news.


13 posted on 10/24/2013 12:10:57 PM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: Brad from Tennessee

These 35 world leaders know exactly where the new NSA data center is too.

Oh well.


14 posted on 10/24/2013 12:11:19 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

You know, as an American citizen, I have NO problem with our intelligence agencies spying on foreign government and officials,and would be ticked off if we weren’t. What I have a big problem with is DOMESTIC SPYING on American citizens INSIDE our country. That’s the issue, not the foreign stuff, which I could care less about.


17 posted on 10/24/2013 12:16:29 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I feel a certain degree of satisfaction that so many of these Euro weenies who went all out in the effusive support of Obama in 2008 , giving his campaign a strong PR boost in the world media , are now getting a thumb(drive) stuck in their eyes . Note to Euros : STAY OUT of U.S. elections....


18 posted on 10/24/2013 12:29:17 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Brad from Tennessee
I suspect they have supplied the numbers of all of the geberals and admirals in the military to NSA, and have them flagged to submit results of surveillance to the WH.

The wholesale exodus of top military leaders is revealing.

19 posted on 10/24/2013 12:31:57 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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With all due respect to our allies, why the sudden anal-retentive objections to the obvious intelligence gathering?

Citizens have a constitutional right to privacy if not an intrinsic right. Congress MUST stop violating this right — it must be held accountable.

I’m guessing the data build-up is part of a larger effort to establish a digital blueprint of language and behavior to help predict events that interest or concern the keepers and sponsors of the technology. While I believe this speculative effort is a good thing, I expect an equal or greater effort be made to ensure privacy.


20 posted on 10/24/2013 12:33:19 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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