NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders

Re:NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders by mythz on Friday October 25, 2013 @02:59AM (#6610185)

Information is power and power is money. They can use it to protect themselves and control high-ranking officials to ensure, for instance, that they will always be well-founded to be able to continue unfettered in their mission to acquire even more information and power.

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Re:NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders by 7952 on Friday October 25, 2013 @07:41AM (#6610955)

The scary thing is that they would not have any leverage on people who have no skeletons in the cupboard. A morally "clean" president may shut them down. In a twisted way it would be in their interest to see bad people in power.

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Re:NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders by ihsw on Friday October 25, 2013 @09:29AM (#6611432)

Not at all. Lies are proliferated as truth as a matter of official policy -- misinformation campaigns. The truth doesn't matter when you can drown it out.

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Re:NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders by smacktoward on Friday October 25, 2013 @08:19AM (#6611094)

I doubt they worry about that much. Everybody has something they'd rather the world not know about.

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Re:NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders by ethanazir on Friday October 25, 2013 @08:43AM (#6611210)

In my experience with government and the legal field; it might not be as strict as 'silver or lead', but its 'dollars or the door.'

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