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NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls "On a Massive Scale"

Posted by Unknown on from the french-people-don't-deserve-privacy dept.

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. 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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  5. 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.

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

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