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A comment on Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets translation from last night. Parent comment

Re:Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets transla... by Fargren on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @10:49AM (#5984857)
Well, that assertion by Assange is somewhat out of context. What he said is that of the medium sized Latin American countries, Argentina's surveillance was the most aggressive. He also said it was nothing compared with what's being done in the USA, the UK or China. So calling it "her own NSA" seems a bit disingenuous, at least from this perspective.

Link to the interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If7MbOvuEbg

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Re:Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets transla... by wslh on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @12:27PM (#5985622)
You can't compare the NSA with the Argentinian intelligence agencies because the countries are in a very different scale.
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Re:Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez's tweets transla... by JVIDEL on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @07:00PM (#5988040)
Indeed, Argentina lacks the ability or manpower to launch a worldwide program like PRISM but it has more than enough to do similar things to its <40MM population.

That and a set of laws that allow the government to make life a living hell to any dissidents: had Snowden been Argentine getting his passport cancelled would be the least of his problems.

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