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Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by rayiner on Monday December 16, 2013 @01:23PM (#6916668)
What are you talking about? The fact of American agencies spying on the world has been well-known since at least World War II, and is the stuff of major motion pictures, etc.
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Re:NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Ge... by nitrogen on Monday December 16, 2013 @06:03PM (#6918465)
There's spying in the abstract, which is known just from the existence of intelligence organizations, and there's spying on specific targets (or everybody), which hasn't been subject to public scrutiny or debate until now.

It's one thing to "know" from movies that someone is being spied on. It's another thing entirely to know from NSA documents that you and people you know are being spied on.

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