“You might think that if the National Security Agency were tapping the phones of dozens of world leaders, President Obama would be aware of this fact. Apparently not—according to a Wall Street Journal report last night, the NSA’s spy operations are so extensive that not even the president of the United States knows about all of them. Based on interviews with US officials, the paper said that ‘President Barack Obama went nearly five years without knowing his own spies were bugging the phones of world leaders. Officials said the NSA has so many eavesdropping operations under way that it wouldn’t have been practical to brief him on all of them.'”
Related posts:
The Most Dangerous Cities in America
Eric Holder: Drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil are legal
Goldman Sachs: Bitcoin Isn’t a Currency But Tech Holds Promise
French cops caught on video beating and tear-gassing women at traffic stop
NY Times Peddles War Propaganda: Interview with Daniel Simpson
Dotcom: Surveillance and Copyright Extremism Will Cost United States Dearly
Jeffrey Tucker: Who Will Lose in the War on Contractors?
Snowden Is No Traitor: 55% to 34%
"Mongolia open for business"
100MPH Police Chase of Pot Car Ends in Fatal Crash, Injured Workers
Scope of Secretive FBI National Security Letters Revealed by First Lifted Gag Order
The Ominous Warning in Denny Hastert's Downfall
Bitcoin Block Time Halved To Five Minutes Amid Exponential Network Growth
The Ten Most Disturbing Things You Should Know About the FBI Since 9/11
Iceland may use more electricity mining bitcoin than powering homes this year