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France's involvement in particular makes my blood boil. To feign complete outrage over being spied upon yet happily tarnish relations with a sovereign nation to
by ramblerman 13y ago
France's involvement in particular makes my blood boil. To feign complete outrage over being spied upon yet happily tarnish relations with a sovereign nation to catch the whistleblower.
- lazyjones 13y agoI'm not surprised, considering how corrupt politicians are everywhere (including the EU) and how useful PRISM must be for threatening/blackmailing them into submission.
- cLeEOGPw 13y agoMaybe US even used PRISM data to blackmail those officials? It's crazy, but after all this I would not throw the possibility away.
- lazyjones 13y agoIn the (very) recent light of Austria's decision to search Morales' plane (I'm Austrian; Morales is claiming that he was basically "kidnapped" now according to local newspapers), this is actually a plausible explanation, because the only other would assume so much stupidity and recklessness on behalf of our politicians that I cannot imagine it, even though the foreign ministry is held by the ÖVP (of Ernst Strasser fame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Strasser#2011_cash_for_influence_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Strasser#2011_cash_for_i...).
- cubicle67 13y agoDon't forget the Rainbow Warrior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior