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NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President
rtoz writes "The National Security Agency (NSA ) of United States hacked into the Mexican president's public email account and gained deep insight into policymaking and the political system. The news is likely to hurt ties between the US and Mexico. This operation, dubbed 'Flatliquid,' is described in a document leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Meanwhile U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is urging the Supreme Court not to take up the first case it has received on controversial National Security Agency cybersnooping."
The NSA not only has the capability to violate client attorney privilege at every point in the course, and to threaten judges, lawyers and everyone up and down the line, they have demonstrated the will to ignore the courts already by ignoring the FISA courts rulings.
Not only should the supreme court rule on this before any lower court can, it should invalidate the entire domestic spying apparatus.
And that's likely just what will happen given the circumstances. Judges do not like their power being questioned.
Anti-NSA Activists are like Anti-Gun Control Activists. In principle I don't disagree with them that much, but their paranoia and self-righteous BS just piss the fuck out of me.
In this case I have to point that the police have guns. This gives them the practical ability to kill your ass with no warning. However unless you are a black male, or suffer untreated mental illness, they do not do that shit; so it's highly illogical to demand all cops be disarmed because lest they start shooting random perfectly sane white people.
By the same token the NSA is not likely to start blackmailing people anytime soon. If they tried to use somebody's weed habit against them all they'd have to do is take a road trip to Canada, upload a tearful video to Youtube, and roll in the dough as the first sane, white, non-Muslim oppressed by the evil NSA.