Today’s NSA Scandal: NSA Hit Spain
Back in early June, DayPage suggested the Snowden story might “have legs”. It seems that was quite the understatement. I’m Rex Latchford with another DayPage.
American lamestream media has fallen into lock step with the US Government, With Edward Snowden increasingly being cast as the “traitor in Russia”. NPR has been caught red-handed referring to the NSA documents as “alleged”. That leaves only Europe and the rest of the world to be outraged at the US’s Total Surveillance State. France and Germany are hoping to get a contractual agreement from the US, and allies are edgy. No wonder, they are fearful that nothing can be done about what the US, Brits, Aussies, and New Zedlanders have done to turn the world into this Totalirarian Surveillance State.
This morning’s fresh revelation is that the NSA secretly monitored 60 million phone calls in Spain in one month. That’s according to Spanish media, who released the news based on Snowden documents. They SAY that the NSA collected the numbers and locations of callers and recipients, not the audio, but other NSA documents indicate that the audio from the calls was probably recorded as well. Also, the NSA has, according to the Spanish news “suggested” that they don’t record positional data of mobile phone calls. And yet, other NSA documents indicate they do that as well.
This all makes Spain yet another country planning to make the pilgrimage to Washington DC to ask Obama: “WTF”?
Obama’s response, as reported in lamestream media, is “I didn’t know about it”. Hopefully, this indicates Obama could be ready to turn on the NSA, but more likely, it is just an expression of lameness that means “it will continue”. Obama has been making a series of “I didn’t do it”s and “I couldn’t help it”s. But the terrifying thing is that there is no reporting of discontent by the American people, and that is making Americans look complicit in the spying activities, as one-by-one the European companies protest.
This just in: BBC news has been heard reporting that Japan was asked to collect fiber optic cable traffic in Asia for the NSA but declined. This is significant in that it is the first reported example of a country saying “no” to NSA requests. Our producer Mincka is looking for confirmation of this story, but has so far found none. Presumably, this story may arise during the day.
Mincka also is handing me a report that The Guardian is running a feature entitled “Fed up with COngress over the NSA or shutdown? 5 tips to get your voice heard”. We certainly hope people will speak up about both, so you may want to take a look at that in The Guardian.
There are plenty of other stories in this morning’s news, but it looks like another week dominated by the shameful behavior of the US government in its bid for a Totalitarian Global Surveillance State.