Revealed: NSA pushed 9/11 as key 'sound bite' to justify surveillance (holy crap!)

[randome]

88. So you draw the line at spying when it involves someone's cell phone.

The NSA is doing the job it was designed to do. If they are doing that job too efficiently, fine, rein them in. But I don't see the point of getting outraged because they are spying in a manner some of us don't approve.

In general, I wouldn't approve of monitoring a head of state's phone (whatever 'monitoring' means). But would we approve of the NSA monitoring the phones of Ghadaffi when he was alive or Egypt's deposed Mubarak or North Korea's Kim Jong-un? Or Syria's Assad?

I doubt we'd have much to discuss in those cases.

In every spying scandal that has ever erupted, both spies captured in our country and spies captured in other countries, the spying is always roundly condemned. Often it's a game to see who can get the most political mileage out of the event. And then both countries continue business as usual.

Our spies weren't caught, in this case. Snowden simply 'told on us'.
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