'Insane, Disgusting' and 'Epic Treachery' Bill McKibben reacts to Snowden's latest Revelation

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20. It's like stealing the test questions before taking a test.

It is, to say the least, dishonorable. Spying prior to international negotiations is an old tradition among diplomats. Reading everything published, studying the parties and people who will sit across the table from you is normal, but grabbing their internal communications via electronics is beyond the pale.

Now all nations do some spying, but when a student has to steal the test questions to pass the test, that student is admitting he or she would flunk if he just studied and took the test.

This suggests that our government's negotiators are ill prepared without the theft of the test questions or simply not capable of passing the test.

This speaks very poorly of the capability of our state department and government and their negotiators.