The details on NSA Scandal

[Guest]

I'll be happy to see that if it happens!

[Bob Schroeck]

And while we're on the topic, did anyone see 60 Minutes' hour-long "Why the NSA R0xx0rz" special Sunday night? "We're not really spying on your phone calls! We don't listen, we just want to know everyone you talk to, where they and you are, how long you talk to them, and how often." Oh, and let's not forget, "OOoooooooh, and we stopped the Evulz plan from the nasty Chinese to brick every PC in existence. Don't worry that you never heard of this before now, and independent specialists are calling bullshit on the very idea! We're heroes, dammit, and Edward Snowden was a weirdo who did computing with a hood over head head, and we don't know how he got hired anyway, it couldn't have been us, and if you don't acknowledge immediately that we're Big Damn Heroes we're going to find you traitors and put you away where your lawyers will never find you hahahahahahaha!"

I mean, god. The only thing I can imagine is that the NSA had something on somebody at CBS (not obtained via illegal wiretapping, nope, no way) and extorted a first public relations salvo out of them.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[robkelk]

Maybe they knew this was coming...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/16/justice/n ... index.html
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

Um, Rob? I linked to that very article just three messages back. That was the topic "while we were on" I was referring to in my last post.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.