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Re:Revelations about the French Big Brother by threeseed on Thursday July 04, 2013 @09:59AM (#5990640)
You needed proof to know the US government was spying ? It isn't some giant secret you know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

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Re:Revelations about the French Big Brother by lucian1900 on Thursday July 04, 2013 @11:57AM (#5991213)
Until recently, it was considered ridiculous to think that the NSA is spying on citizens of countries allied to the US. Now we have proof.
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Re:Revelations about the French Big Brother by Aloisius on Thursday July 04, 2013 @01:50PM (#5991700)
Ridiculous by whom? It wouldn't surprise me if we spied on our allies citizens and then sold the intelligence to our allies so they didn't have to.

I mean, we have in the past warned allies that one of their citizens was planning an attack. It should have been obvious that meant we were monitoring their citizens.

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Re:Revelations about the French Big Brother by lucian1900 on Friday July 05, 2013 @05:02AM (#5994028)
It was considered ridiculous by the mainstream. If I told that to some of my friends, they would have thought I'm crazy. Not anymore.
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