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Great write-up on a horrible and sad story. I was thinking this was another US focused story, but then recognized that it was you...and in investigating deeper...find out there is a major international scandal brewing. So thank you for bringing this out. Is there any outrage in Greece about this? Is this story just going to go away, because they don't want to touch the NSA??

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Tue May 9th, 2006 at 02:44:20 PM EST
"NSA Phone Home - The Greek Courts Want YOU!"

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Tue May 9th, 2006 at 02:44:53 PM EST
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There is a scandal. But there is a lot of resignation to the fact that this is the US government and we don't want to rock that boat.

The fact that someone was, quite probably, murdered makes the case harder to sweep under the rug though. Anyway, as the man said, just because a shadow phone known to have been used in illegally wiretapping half the Greek government, the armed forces and tens of Greek citizens, made 11 phone calls to within a few km of the headquarters of NSA, doesn't prove that the NSA was involved now, does it?

Yes, I think that this story is going to "go away" ultimately, but not before it reveals quite a few things about our diminishing privacy, sovereignty and capacity for collective outrage...


The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Tue May 9th, 2006 at 07:29:56 PM EST
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