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Re:The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by N... by chc on Thursday August 28, 2014 @12:43PM (#8238199)
Curtis wrote also wrote a great piece about the role incompetence played in the formation of intelligence agencies, titled "BUGGER: Maybe the Real State Secret Is That Spies Aren't Very Good At Their Jobs And Don't Know Very Much About the World".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER

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Re:The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by N... by mpweiher on Friday August 29, 2014 @12:34AM (#8241140)
Yep, that was also excellent. Some confirmation from the highest places:

Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt recounts that he never read the BND reports, because anything they wrote was tainted. He just asked other world leaders directly instead.

http://www.zeit.de/2013/45/nsa-abhoeraffaere-gelassenheit

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