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British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged To Play In NSA's Data Pools
Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes "Britain's electronic surveillance agency, Government Communications Headquarters, has long presented its collaboration with the National Security Agency's massive electronic spying efforts as proportionate, carefully monitored, and well within the bounds of privacy laws. But according to a top-secret document in the archive of material provided to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, GCHQ secretly coveted the NSA's vast troves of private communications and sought 'unsupervised access' to its data as recently as last year – essentially begging to feast at the NSA's table while insisting that it only nibbles on the occasional crumb."
We now know the chief's mustache is from the NSA's chocolate pie... or perhaps a dirty Sanchez.
They want to find out if the NSA knows who Grace Murdoch's father is.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Why the hell is the introduction and title written that way? It sounds so........ melodramatic and retarded.
"Great Britain" does not deserve the word "Great" anymore because it is now nothing more than a client state of the United States of America.
As a client state, Britain (without the word "Great") must beg its master for everything.
NSA's treasure trove was not the only thing that Britain feasts on the leftover from the USA --- The ICBMs that Britain's submarines use, the Trident, was passed down from USA.
Isn't that pretty much the same as talking to yourself?
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
Then they can start building a similar setup.
And be a remote site for US data.
A storage array remote sync to the UK, and a fast format.
Then the weasels here can say, "We are not (currently) saving any data on US citizens )
A resync the arrays from the remote site and back to work, until the next report to Congress.
And the US can test it's scanning/people control software on London.
They have more street cameras than anyone else (?)
Go Weasels !
If one ignore the sensationalism these days everyone in the whole world knows USA and UK spy agencies have kid to uncle or glove in hand relationship with each other.
Sit in your ass munching chairs, ye bastard foes who much my dirty shits.
If you're technology is paramount to doing good, ye bastards wouldn't be in some dark alley of some special hidden agency spending our taxes without any accountability?! Would ye be so kind as to put on public record how many times you read peoples' emails and didn't find anything? How many times ye did find something? Now, if ye be reading this message, I ponder the great expense of wasting so much of the tax dollars that could have been spent making the world a better place so a few nutjobpeople wouldn't be so likely to want to destroy it... Oh that'd be too good for you, you'd rather read people's emails and get your jolly rogers off spying on some girl's skype videocalls to her bf?
"You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight? Aye, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!"
--William Wallace
Where's the fight in your fags? Where's the balls attached to your thang? From the lot of you, you might have one and a half balls, counting generously.
-The Culling Timer
The NSA really had to pee in the pool, but they knew there was that pink dye that reacted with urine. So they said "hey, come stand near me" so no one knows who exactly peed in the pool.
Anyone with a lick of sense has been aware all along that the very people making the biggest stink about this are, themselves, hip-deep in the same pile of shit. I notice a distinct lack of righteous anti-establishment warriors in this thread, too; others of this type have quickly grown to 500 posts or more. Can't blame them... crow is a bit stringy and greasy, after all.
When British Politicians want to feel good about the UK's place in the world, they talk about the special relationship. It's a bit of wordage for home consumption that
they use to say 'We're America's most important ally.'
It's nonsense. That visiting US politicians are politely hectored into saying it, much to the glee of this or that foreign minister, is proof of bugger all. The UK is treated like a large unsinkable aircraft carrier parked off of Europe. That Israel has NoForn access to the NSA treasure troves is proof of where the US's preferences lie.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
The funny thing about all this extreme nationalist security craziness...
There is no such thing as an "American people". America is a country of immigrants. Imperialist europeans invaded the Americas (taking the lands of the indigineous native indians by force) and formed an "American" politcal identity. All an "American" is people from various ethnic backgrounds that get pressured to be assimilated into into an unhyphenated American identity. Everyone play pretends they have common heritage. Anthropologists call this nationalist phenomena an "imagined community"
As for the allege "British"... yup there also is no such thing as a "British people". The modern British identity is based on state sponsored fiction of common heritage to ancient Brits (which is why many Scots want out). Even the Queen herself isn't "British". The house of Windsor, is the result of anti-German sentiment during WW1. The "British" king at the time (George V -- who was first cousins with Russian Tsar Nicholas II) changing the "British" Royal House's German name of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to sound more modern English. If one looks at the real ethnic heritage of George, one finds a long long line of German ancestors. Even modern English language has essentially nothing to do with the Runic alphabet dialect of the original Brits which is today framed as "old English" . The original Brits (long gone) were a separate people than the Angles, Jutes, Saxons, and others that immigrated into Britain and formed a modern "British" identity in the early 18th century.
But hey... we need weapons of mass distruction and to spy on everyone like the gestapo to protect ourselves from the "invaders".
Everyone! But only the US government can do it freely and profit from it. It's called "insider trading", except here the "insider" is the US government.
No wonder our economy's tanking - the spies are tapping to the financial analysts' phones and buying/selling stocks/bonds/whatever long before the rest of the economy can even begin to know what's happening.