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Mon Oct 28, 2013, 11:01 AM Oct 2013

You don't want to listen to these guys? You really can't help but listen . . . it just gets worse

If you care about what your government is doing, Greenwald, Snowden, etc., have a lot to tell you . . .


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Greenwald's Latest: NSA Monitored Tens of Millions of Spanish Calls Last Year: http://slate.me/1gVeg85

Oct. 28 2013 - Add another one to the list. Writing in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo on Monday, Glenn Greenwald reports that the NSA recently tracked more than 60 million calls in Spain during the course of a month. That revelation, the latest in a series highlighting the scope of America's surveillance of its allies abroad, is based on a previously secret document leaked by Edward Snowden. According to the report, the NSA monitored the calls' numbers and duration—but not their content—and that the agency was also capable of accessing emails and texts.


Reuters with the reaction from Madrid: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/28/us-spain-nsa-idUSBRE99R0AJ20131028



A frame grab made from AFPTV footage, reportedly taken on October 9, 2013, shows US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden speaking during his dinner with a group of four retired US ex-intelligence workers and activists at a luxurious room in an unidentified location

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