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The Absolute Joy Of The Guardian's Sting Over PRISM And The NSA
Forbes ^ | 6/30/2013 @ 6:39AM | Tim Worstall, Contributor

Posted on 06/30/2013 9:03:56 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

It looks like The Guardian/Observer*has managed to get itself mightily stung over a revelation about PRISM and the NSA. Which is all very amusing given the paper’s part in the Glenn Greenwald/Edward Snowden revelations. But what turns it into an absolute joy is that, while the news originally came from someone with, hmm, rather “out there” views, the actual information itself seems to be roughly true. And yet they’ve still taken the piece down.

The story starts here, at a site called The Privacy Surgeon. The site does an interview with an ex-NSA guy called Wayne Madsen. In which he claims that there are various European and other countries that cooperate with the NSA in the collection and then dissemination of information picked up from the monitoring of communications.

Madsen named seven EU countries that have been substantially engaged in communications intelligence gathering alongside the US. These are Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Those seven countries have formal second and third party status under the NSA’s signals intelligence agreements, and are contractually bound to the US.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nsa

1 posted on 06/30/2013 9:03:56 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Now it is getting interesting....related thread:

Attacks from America: NSA Spied on European Union Offices

Story is frim the German source ! SPIEGEL INTERNATIONAL!!

2 posted on 06/30/2013 9:09:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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3 posted on 06/30/2013 9:38:51 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

As Pat Buchanan once said, “It’s a rough day for the New World Order.”


4 posted on 06/30/2013 9:39:14 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

SNOWDEN, PRISM, AND THE NSA

Also, please watch the following video of three much more high level whistle blowers who have also come forward, one the former Director of Intelligence at the NSA, William Benny, who had 6,000 analysts working under him.

Video of Interview with three NSA Whistle Blowers

5 posted on 06/30/2013 10:08:55 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
So someone used Madsen to tar Snowden and Greenwald just simply because Madsen had some other crazy beliefs. It had nothing at all to do with Madsen's story which is factual and already public knowledge.

Has the Oligarchy hit rock bottom yet ?

6 posted on 06/30/2013 11:20:49 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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You know, taking a step back from it all, it would appear that Bozo knows he really only needs to continue to hold the wraps on the entire package for just a wee bit longer.


7 posted on 07/01/2013 1:48:13 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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