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In reply to the discussion: Report: NSA spied on Merkel’s predecessor too [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)jakeXT
I guess NSA, CIA, and the rest of the intelligence salad soup have been spying on german chancellors all the way back to at least 1947, when CIA first was made into a organisation...
25-30 years ago - most mainstream americans was in anger over the fact, that the Soviets was keeping a tab on millions of people, the same with the satellite states in the Eastern Europe (East European block) who often did the dirty work KGB was not willing to do itself..
Today CIA, NSA and the rest of the alphabet soup - is on the same track as the old KGB - and have tools even KGB was not even near to have in their toolbox, when they was spying on everyone... NSA do spy - and have been doing it all the back to the "good old cold war when the enemy was USSR.
The cold war ended - but the need for a new enemy have never ended - new enemies have to be invented - or created in some cases - and now NSA and the rest of the soup salad is doing their best - to spy on everyone - who "might" be a enemy....
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