Obvious question now for Obama, with his new concern, what more can he learn from Ed Snowden?
. . . and, is his punitive policy and pursuit of Snowden still in his interest, given it's almost certainly keeping him from discovering even more important stuff (that he should be interested in) that's been withheld from his knowledge or understanding by members of his own administration and government. This is nuts . . .
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This is NUTS--WSJ says the NSA didn't tell Obama they were spying on world leaders. Took him 5 years to find out: http://slate.me/1ho0vfO
Glenn Greenwald's latest Snowden-fueled revelation dropped Monday in Spanish newspaper El Mundo, but the day's most interesting revelation about American spying—at least for those of us not living in Spain—comes courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, which cites unnamed U.S officials to report that the White House ordered an end to the monitoring of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and "a number of other world leaders" only after learning of the existence of the operation this past summer.
That's noteworthy for two reasons: 1) it largely confirms that the NSA was indeed monitoring its allies abroad as has been suggested by Snowden's leaks/Greenwald's reporting; and 2) it also suggests that President Obama may have gone his entire first term without being briefed on what appears to have been a rather wide-ranging and aggressive surveillance effort.
The account suggests President Barack Obama went nearly five years without knowing his own spies were bugging the phones of world leaders . . .
read more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/28/obama_nsa_wall_street_journal_reports_obama_didn_t_know_about_spying_on.html
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304470504579162110180138036
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/28/snowden_spain_glenn_greenwald_reports_that_the_nsa_monitored_more_than_60.html
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