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BBC News - NSA surveillance: Spain demands US explain 'monitoring'

Spain has urged the US to give details of any eavesdropping, amid reports it monitored 60 million Spanish telephone calls in a month.

The US ambassador to Spain, who had been summoned by its EU minister, vowed to clear the "doubts" that had arisen about his country's alleged espionage.

The minister, Inigo Mendez de Vigo, said such practices, if true, were "inappropriate and unacceptable".

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Oct 28th, 2013 at 04:22:59 PM EST
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http://rt.com/news/cameron-tougher-measures-snowden-leaks-885/

British Prime Minister David Cameron has issued a veiled threat against media organizations, calling on The Guardian and other outlets to stop publishing the disclosures leaked by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
... "We live in a free country so newspapers are free to publish what they want," Cameron told the House of Commons Monday, adding that The Guardian, in particular, has made "this country less safe."

"I don't want to have to use injunctions or D-Notices or other tougher measures. I think it's much better to appeal to newspapers' sense of social responsibility. But if they don't demonstrate some social responsibility it would be very difficult for government to stand back and not to act."  

Oh yeah...I remember these things from our communist era in ex YU. Self - control is recommended to journalists and editors of the press...or else...

But on the other hand they are free as a birds to publish crap like this :

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/10/28/refugee-puppies-from-egypt-looking-for-homes-in-u-s/#.Um9iQVr Q3zo.twitter

Muslim Brotherhood Burns Dogs, Tortures Kittens, Eats Children

 See also here
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2013/10/muslim-brotherhood-burns-dogs-tortures-kittens-eats-children.ht ml#comments

So please do not ask me why I am so suspicious about western and specially English language press...

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind...Albert Einstein

by vbo on Tue Oct 29th, 2013 at 07:08:31 AM EST
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His threat isn't really about Snowden.

Cameron would be terrified if it went to the courts. Which is what the Guardian would surely do. They could get loads of expert testimony to point out the extent to which no damage has been done, democracy has been enhanced, simply revealing what was already in the public domain, la da da da dah. Not guilty me Lud.

Widespread denunciation of political show trial, waste of time and money, attempts to gag dissent etc etc.

No, this is to try to dampen the Guardian's desire to report on the minutiae of the just-started trial of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson (Cameron's ex-right hand man) for phone hacking and general public nastiness. Cameron thinks that a shot across the bows now may just stop them going to town on what a venal little shit he is.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Oct 29th, 2013 at 07:39:34 AM EST
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