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In reply to the discussion: Why the Snowden Leak Is Such a Big Deal [View all]BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Much of the world, and many of our strongest allies do not believe this is necessary or even related to the "war on terror". We have seen over and over again where heavy-handed policies carried out by our right-wing politicians and the mega-corporations they support have been rejected by the Europeans.
That is probably one of the bigger reasons why our government is so super-secretive about it. It isn't about keeping the terrorists from knowing about it. They already figured out phone monitoring -- even the perfectly Constitutional phone monitoring -- was a hazard. And they take counter-measures already.
It would be very interesting to see all the State Department people shitting their pants this week trying to explain to Germany, France, and everybody else why we have their citizens under surveillance.