CIA/NSA above the law since 1975, long before the Snowden revelations (opens in new tab)

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5 pointscklaus12y ago2 comments

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sp33212y ago· 1 in thread

We knew they were. But no one knew that they were spying on literally everyone all the time. There was no information that the NSA and British GCHQ were actively watching thousands and thousands of private yahoo video chats etc.

cklausOP12y ago

It just shows that this a culture and organizational issue that has been going on for a very long time. Now, it's automated and scaled up.

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