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UK Spying Scandal Even Bigger Than In U.S., According To GCHQ Documents Obtained By The Guardian
LONDON British spies are running an online eavesdropping operation so vast that internal documents say it even outstrips the United States' international Internet surveillance effort, the Guardian newspaper reported Friday.
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NSA: "Yeah, ... well ... but the other kid were doing it." (Original Post)
ashling
Jun 2013
OP
News of the World would have had the inside scoop on this if they were still in business
think
Jun 2013
#1
Damn. Can you imagine all those people who have been sending nudies of themselves to their
Baitball Blogger
Jun 2013
#8
think
(11,641 posts)1. News of the World would have had the inside scoop on this if they were still in business
I hear the reporters there were well connected....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal
DJ13
(23,671 posts)2. Theirs is large because they tap the US systems
then hand the data over to the US so our government can claim they arent tapping domestic phone calls.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)5. ^^^^____^^^ This
Hammer meet nail
Catherina
(35,568 posts)6. +1 and they have even less oversight (lol!) than the US does
The British people's reaction to this is cold fury.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)7. Exactly....
as reported this week in the Guardian.
treestar
(82,383 posts)3. Countries aren't kids though, are they?
It is more like kids ruling without parents. The world has no parent to go to. All of the countries are unsupervised kids, with the big ones rolling over the little ones.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)4. Good God. NOT A SCOOP. Look up UKUSA. Is everybody here like 20?
Baitball Blogger
(46,962 posts)8. Damn. Can you imagine all those people who have been sending nudies of themselves to their
boyfriend, girlfriends, wives and husbands?
And, can you imagine how many Congressmen that did the same thing that Weiner did must be sweating bullets?