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Pholus

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3. Since monitoring stifles speech, it IS a free speech issue!

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Sun Mar 23, 2014, 09:09 PM

Mar 2014

But instead we have to trust Hayden and his ilk to collect it all yet not be petty enough to try to use words that offend them to extract revenge.

Yet I see no evidence that they're any less petty than old J. Edgar himself.

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Former NSA chief Hayden apologizes to Germans, but not for spying [View all] bananas Mar 2014 OP

Wow, I didn't know you'd take it that bad. Sorry for that. Pholus Mar 2014 #1

The subtext loud and clear is that Americans approve of these actions. Jesus Malverde Mar 2014 #2

agreed grasswire Mar 2014 #5

Since monitoring stifles speech, it IS a free speech issue! Pholus Mar 2014 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author christx30 Mar 2014 #4

Are other countries who are spying on Germany apologizing as well? Blue_Tires Mar 2014 #6

Wow, that second paragraph. Ash_F Mar 2014 #7

This bongiver Mar 2014 #8

Wow, Michael Hayden is quite the fucker isn't he? I guess he forgot about Stasi, Nazis, KGB pragmatic_dem Mar 2014 #9

Gee, discrediting a country on the spying issue, that has had experience at being a police state. RC Mar 2014 #10

I'm not sorry I did it, I'm just sorry you found out... uriel1972 Mar 2014 #11

Yup bongiver Mar 2014 #12