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NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale"

rtoz writes "The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting French telephone calls 'on a massive scale,' according to a report published in Le Monde. According to Le Monde, the NSA recorded millions of telephone calls placed by French citizens over a 30-day period last year, including some placed by people with no connections to terrorist organizations. France called in the U.S. ambassador to protest the alleged large-scale spying on French citizens by NSA."

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  1. Re:Muslims by Joehonkie · · Score: 5, Funny

    America is 75% christian, and given how feral and out-of-countrol some of the groups are, I'd say they're fair game.

    Apparently the NSA agreed with you.

  2. Re:...including some placed by people... by Coeurderoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    All teenagers are terrorist, just ask the parents of the other teenager :-)

  3. Uh oh. by Daas · · Score: 5, Funny

    La merde vient de frapper le ventilateur.

  4. Re:Realities by ebno-10db · · Score: 3, Funny

    NSA tapped the whole frigging country including underwater sea cables.

    As much as I don't like what the NSA has been doing, it's nice to know that that Yankee "can do" spirit isn't dead.

  5. Re:Muslims by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Better go tell the Foo Fighters.

  6. Perfectly reasonable by DeathToBill · · Score: 4, Funny

    God knows, if there's anyone I want protecting from it's the French. Sir Humphrey Appleby had it right. They may be our allies now, but for most of the last 1,000 years they've been our enemies. I'd vote for an increase of surveillance on the French.

    And once that's happened, let's start on the Welsh.

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  7. Re:Muslims by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not to mention the fact that the Westboro Baptists are obviously a troll group and not a sincere church. Fred Phelps used to be a civil rights lawyer for God's sake.

    I get what you mean. They are a US domestic CIA PsyOp. It's always been evident.
     

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  8. Re:It's all just a show by ArcadeMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh yeah, "just in case". Never mind the fact that we Canadians had robotic moose and beavers for the last 150 years and we've been using them to spy on you since the late 1200's.

  9. Re:It's all just a show by wayne_t · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd like to know more about these robotic beavers of which you speak.

  10. Re:Muslims by tippe · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can come up with statistics to prove anything, AC. Forty percent of all people know that.