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WikiLeaks: NSA Eavesdropped On the Last Three French Presidents

Posted by Soulskill on from the enjoy-this-can-of-worms dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Just doing their job. by antiperimetaparalogo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just want to mod you down for being a deadbeat Greek.

    I respect that Sir (especially since you do NOT post as an "anonymous coward")! Unfortunately i think that, even if you had mod points, you can't mod me down since you already made a comment on this story... sorry about that.

    Your country owes money, your country needs to pay money.

    I agree.

    Your poor and destitute can go suck ass as us freemarketer's are concerned.

    Greece is still among the most rich countries of the world (keep in mind that it is our state which is in trouble, no so much the citizens).

    --
    Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!
  2. Re:FOI Request ... by SlovakWakko · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google search will achieve effectively the same results and will be much faster.

  3. Super Important by JimSadler · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wiki Leaks is so important in correcting social and political issues that it may well be something the history books must feature as a very prominent turning point in history. The more that people around the world are able to see and understand the better our laws and social policies will become. In a way it is simply nothing more than social and political government in the sunshine and we all should demand the kind of access that wiki has created for us. Every utterance of public officials should be public 24/7/365. Corruption could cease to exist.

  4. Re:Just doing their job. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    A social democracy need not be established by force. For example the Nordic Model refers to the economic and social models of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands and Sweden), which involves the combination of a free market economy with a welfare state.

    Another example would be Australia in years past, though its moving away from this in recent years.