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In reply to the discussion: Snowden's latest leak is about our spying on Russia. Is he trying to start WW3? [View all]marions ghost
(19,841 posts)and no, I don't think domestic spying will take a back seat. For one thing--it's all one gigantic linked system of databases. We are e-spying on the whole world. We have the capacity to investigate every person in the US and many others on the planet. Why are we doing this? You have to ask the hard questions. There is no justification for this, domestically or internationally. And I hope other countries are angry about it. We are living in a connected world. A dangerously connected world. You can't say it's bad here & it's OK over there. Not the right way to look at this.
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We the American People are ultimately responsible for what our government does around the world.
As we have seen, the abuse they will do to us, they will do to other people as well. So I am glad to know ALL of this that Snowden is confirming:
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News stories based on documents disclosed by Snowden were as follows:
On June 5, the Guardian released a top secret order of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) that ordered a business division of Verizon Communications to provide "on an ongoing daily basis" metadata for all telephone calls wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls and all calls made between the United States and abroad.
On June 6, the Guardian and the Washington Post revealed PRISM, a clandestine electronic surveillance program that allegedly allows the NSA to access e-mail, web searches, and other Internet traffic in realtime.
On June 9, the Guardian revealed Boundless Informant, a system that "details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information [the NSA] collects from computer and telephone networks."
On June 12, the South China Morning Post disclosed that the NSA has been hacking into computers in China and Hong Kong since 2009.
On June 15, the Guardian revealed that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency, worked jointly with the NSA to eavesdrop on a Group of 8 meeting of industrialized nations in London in 2009.
On June 17, the Guardian revealed that the GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at the 2009 G-20 London Summit.[8]
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