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tiggeron What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know

Thinking of that George Orwell quote from 1984: “You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.” Perhaps even in darkness!

tiggeron NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’

They're doing that now... bit too late.. But who's going to believe they needed a nuke to blast a few flies?

tiggeron NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’

Maybe indeed, but what was easier?

tiggeron NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’

I would be very surprised if at least one foreign agency at least has not already hacked into both Verizon and AT&T ... one could argue that the US govt has at least been trying to do it (semi) legitimately just to keep up.

tiggeron Goldman Sachs Predicted The Exact Number Of Medals That Great Britain Would Win

Meaningless. Goldman Sachs got the prediction for New Zealand completely wrong along with many other countries. WSJ correctly predicted NZ's total number of medals including the exact number of golds. Maybe I should write an article about that?