NSA Spied on a Conservative Political Party in India (is this supposed to be the big news?)

[JI7]

is this the big news we were waiting for ?


<India summoned the top diplomat from the US embassy Wednesday to complain for the third time about spying following new information that the National Security Agency targeted the ruling party.

"What we have said is that we expect a response and an assurance that this won't happen again," a foreign ministry source told AFP on condition of anonymity.

A new document supplied by fugitive former intelligence worker Edward Snowden and made public by The Washington Post on Monday showed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party was among authorized targets for the NSA in 2010 while it was India's main opposition.

The new incident comes ahead of a visit to New Delhi by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is expected to meet members of Modi's government in the next few months.>

http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=159410&frid=19&seccatid=38&cid=19&fromval=1

[merrily]

1. Meh. I got all the big NSA news I need to know

that my government is using my tax dollars to violate my constitutional rights and those of others. How much else do I need to know, really?

[Pholus]

2. Considering the NSA is basically a GOP Political Organ, yes that would be big news.

Reagan's 11th commandment would normally apply, though I guess these are furriners.

So why do I assert that the NSA is a GOP proxy?

This crap was conceived by PNAC as a way to "control cyberspace" and made manifest in Poindexter's Total Information Awareness program....

After a massive outcry, the NSA was "recreated" by Dick Cheney and cronies in the finest Al Gore sense (in that they made it administratively possible).

Staffed by many Bush appointees who got to keep their overpaid cush jobs into the Obama administration. (Except those few like Alexander who walk out the door and magically get consulting gigs paying $600k per corporation without somehow leveraging all that oh-so-top-secret information he guards so well). Half the reason these dorks hate Snowden is he gave the milk away for free....

So basically the NSA is working so hard trying to feel out the next Occupy to crush it before it takes off it would floor me if they actually did something else!

[joshcryer]

3. If so, what a bust.

Especially after DUs favorite journalist decided to delay the release at the behest of the US government.

[ReverendDeuce]

4. BRAWK! FACE THE MUSIC! BRAAAWK! TRAITOR 'N TREASON... BRAAAAWK!

Let fly the anti-Greenwald-because-it-happened-under-Obama talking points! Fly my pretties! Be free!