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DirkGently

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3. The sheer scale is far too large to be about "terrorism."

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Sun Sep 8, 2013, 04:38 PM

Sep 2013

There simply aren't enough terrorists in the world to justify sucking in everyone's data, phone calls, and now, apparently financial data.

Whatever they're trying to say it's about -- whatever they're telling themselves it's about -- it hasn't been about stopping Al Quaeda or a handful of pissed off Yemenis for a long time now.

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