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delrem

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2. No. you don't get it.

Reply to Dustin DeWinde (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 28, 2013, 01:42 AM

Jul 2013

These aren't general "calls in a war zone", they are particular to a journalist:
"...to monitor the phone calls of Kiwi journalist Jon Stephenson and his associates while he was in Afghanistan reporting on the war".

This kind of shit doesn't happen to embedded journalists. It doesn't happen to Richard Engel, that's for sure.

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NSA obtained telephone metadata of NZ journalist in Afghanistan for NZ military [View all] dkf Jul 2013 OP

so? Dustin DeWinde Jul 2013 #1

No. you don't get it. delrem Jul 2013 #2

even our soldiers in war zones get their mail read and their phone calls listened to Dustin DeWinde Jul 2013 #3

I understand: you like totally embedded journalists. delrem Jul 2013 #5

Don't bother with that poster; they called me a zimmerman apologist and a paulbot in another thread. Fire Walk With Me Jul 2013 #7

Another terrorist suspect, eh? Waiting For Everyman Jul 2013 #4

Um, yeah, the NSA does have areas of responsibility besides terrorism. randome Jul 2013 #9

Oh, covering up crimes is on their duty list? Hydra Jul 2013 #10

The data the NSA collects on foreigners cannot be shared with another country... randome Jul 2013 #12

Then how did they get the data on Jon Stephenson? Hydra Jul 2013 #14

The point: this spying is supposed to be used against terrorists. Waiting For Everyman Jul 2013 #16

Marvelous. Savannahmann Jul 2013 #6

So: We don't like what this person is doing, collect all of their data. Omen signs in the shape of Fire Walk With Me Jul 2013 #8

The outrage is missing because it's "someone else" Hydra Jul 2013 #11

+10000000 woo me with science Jul 2013 #13

No, "They" Didn't Like otohara Jul 2013 #15