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In reply to the discussion: NSA Spying Not Very Focused on Terrorism: Power, Money and Crushing Dissent Are Real Motives Ops [View all]Thanks for the OP, Octafish. Seriously. I'm getting "up there", as in geezerville, but I remember reading Bamford's Puzzle Palace when it first came out way back when and thought it was bad that we were all being spied upon. Now, they are not only spying on all of us, they are spying on the whole GD world! WTF? We're ALL enemies now. Who died and made the USA the effing boss of the world? That is some Hellacious hubris. I've been saying for years: "...they're 'gonna get us one of these day, they're 'gonna get us." They, as in "the world" is 'gonna get us.
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NSA Spying Not Very Focused on Terrorism: Power, Money and Crushing Dissent Are Real Motives Ops [View all]
Octafish
Oct 2013
OP
Agreed. Dirt on a key politician is worth money, potentially a lot of money.
GoneFishin
Oct 2013
#50
I'm trying to figure out why they wiretapped Howard Baker; he was a moderate Republican?
Uncle Joe
Oct 2013
#43
What if they used it to, eh, filter out those who opposed their wars for profit?
Octafish
Oct 2013
#9
We either strip corporations of their power, or they will soon finish the job of stripping us
Zorra
Oct 2013
#55