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• "ordinary Internet users - outnumbered targets !"

 

 

 

 

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• "in the communications data - of the NSA !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "nine - of 10 account holders !"

 

 

 

 

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• "found in a large cache - of intercepted conversations !"

 

 

 

 

 

• "were not - surveillance targets !"

 

 

 

 

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• "many of them were - US persons !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "nearly half of the files - a strikingly high proportion !"

 

 

 

 

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• "that the NSA marked - as belonging to US citizens - or residents !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "many files told stories - of the private life !"

 

 

 

 

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• "they told stories of love - and heartbreak - liaisons !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "political and religious conversions - financial situations - and hopes !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the cache had - domestic operations !"

 

 

 

 

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• "the Washington Post reviewed roughly 160,000 - e-mail - and instant-message conversations !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "some of them hundreds of pages long - and 7,900 documents !"

 

 

 

 

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• "taken from more than 11,000 - online accounts !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "among the latter were medical records - sent from one family member to another !"

 

 

 

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• "in others women leant into a webcam - in bikini tops !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

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• "Snowden had worked as a contractor - for Booz Allen - at the Hawaii operations center !"

 

 

 

 

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• "he had broad - unescorted access to raw SIGINT - signals intelligence !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "he searched stored - content !"

 

 

 

 

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• "and "tasked" new collection - without prior approval of his search terms !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "if he had wanted to pull a copy - of a judge’s - e-mail !"

 

 

 

 

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• "he entered that selector - into the program - "XKEYSCORE"  !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Germany arrested BND Member - the Guardian: LINK ¤ the GUARDIAN

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• "an employee of Germany's foreign intelligence agency - BND !"

 

 

 

 

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• "had been arrested - under suspicion of acting - as a double agent !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "that he had contacts - to a US intelligence agency !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "under questioning by the federal prosecutor - the suspect - the BND member !"

 

 

 

 

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• "said he had received - money !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "in exchange for passing on - secret information - to a US contact !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the BND staffer had collected - between 200 - and 300 secret documents !"

 

 

 

 

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• "from internal servers - he had been approached several times !"

 

 

 

 

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• "with one specific request for information - on the Bundestag's investigation into the NSA !"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interview with Thomas Drake - Spiegel online: LINK ¤ SPIEGEL ONLINE

 

• "Thomas Drake - was a former NSA contractor !"

 

 

 

 

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• "who left the NSA - after 9/11 - in protest !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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Spiegel online: - "Germany's federal prosecutor had only opened a formal inquiry - into Merkel's mobile phone !"

 

• "Angela Merkel's mobile phone - was not the only German citizen !"

 

 

 

 

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• "Germany had become - after 9/11 - one of the platforms for the NSA abroad !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "there were 150 different places - where data was collected !"

 

 

 

 

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• "they were activity designators - for signals intelligence !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "and that data - was provided back - to the NSA !"

 

 

 

 

 

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Spiegel online: - "the goal of that data - was security ?!"

 

• "well - that had traditionally - been the purpose !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "but it went beyond - that !"

 

 

 

 

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• "technology - the network of information - also economic !"

 

 

 

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• "had been collected by the NSA itself - or forwarded to it by the BND !"

 

 

 

 

 

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Spiegel online: - "where there also other reasons - for the data ?!"

 

• "Germany with its - engineers !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "they wanted to know more - what was going on !"

 

 

 

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• "new products - new methodologies - new approaches !"

 

 

 

 

 

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Spiegel online: - "Mr. Drake was that your assignment - when you had worked for the NSA in Germany ?!"

 

• "he personally did not - but he had seen it !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "between Germany's foreign intelligence service - the BND - and the NSA !"

 

 

 

 

• "it was a sort of paradox - in that relationship !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "there had been a cooperation between them - since before 1989 !"

 

 

 

 

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• "but most of the sharing - was in one direction !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "it had never been - equal !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "then 9/11 happened - and guess which country was actually declared ?!"

 

 

 

 

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• "a target - it was Germany !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the conversation of them - was like !"

 

 

 

 

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• ""my gosh - they could not trust - the Germans"  !"

 

 

 

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• "the NSA wanted to see more - what the guys in the BND were doing !"

 

 

 

 

 

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Spiegel online: - "what made you become a - NSA whistleblower ?!"

 

• "it was only months - after 9/11 !"

 

 

 

 

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• "it became clear - that they changed direction !"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "national security - must not be a - state religion !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

 

 

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• "the NSA must not spy - on its own people !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

 

 

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• "and the constitution - and the rules of law - must not be violated !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"