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WikiLeaks: NSA Eavesdropped On the Last Three French Presidents
Earthquake Retrofit writes: The NY Times is reporting that WikiLeaks has released "material which appeared to capture officials in Paris talking candidly about Greece's economy, relations with Germany — and, ironically, American espionage." The information was leaked "a day before the French Parliament is expected to definitively pass a controversial security bill legalizing broad surveillance, particularly of terrorism suspects."
Have gnu, will travel.
If we snooped them, they probably snooped us. Somewhere there may be a recording of the moment the ill-fated invasion of Iraq was decided:
Dick: Now that the Taliban are gone, lets smash Saddam!
Colin: What if something goes wrong? Iraq is far more populated than Afghanistan.
W: Don't worry, Colie, we whacked the Taliban real good.
Colin: Actually, we don't know where the Taliban went. Intel didn't find enough bodies to account for most. They may be hiding in caves and hills.
Dick: You worry too much. They are gone for now; let the next prez worry about them coming back out.
Colin: I don't want to foul my legacy with a war gone wrong.
W: Don't worry, Colie, Dickie is an expert on blaming it on the Dems in the off case shit comes back later. Look, I almost choked on a pretzel the other day; life is short; go for the ball now!
Dick: Amen! My mechanical heart could clack up any day, and you eat a lot of fries yourself, Tubbie.
Colin: Alright, I did have a bad feeling about this, but maybe it's just those damned fries, eh?
Dick, W, & Colin: "Onward Christian Soldiers!..."
Table-ized A.I.
You want animal farm references on a story about the NSA. Try this link http://www.nationalsheep.org.uk/
And it would be much better to worry about the real problems, - the global pollution, mass unemployment, the life extinction on the planet, etc. But not the ridiculous ghosts of the past.
I beg to differ. We must prevent the French from transferring top secret guillotine technology to ISIS.
Fifty years of Yippie! 1968-2018