Snowdon is a dummy

Does Merkle fit this bill?

So would I. Billrm certainly knows how to butcher the English language.

I agree the NSA's in fault because it hired poorly vetted people, but it's easier to check on 1000 people than it is to check on 26,000 people. The very idea to go for a massive spying operation was ALREADY poor management, or bad foresight.

It is a possibility that the traditional intelligence community might have an interest in scuppering the mass surveillance programs. Such programs, with practice and investment, might render it redundant and replace the secret agents with a bunch of computer nerds sitting in bunkers in Utah. If PRISM catches terrorists then bigger and better PRISMS catches them all.

Just as DNA evidence tends to replace detectives and drones to replace the military.

I'm not claiming that Snowden is part of a turf war between agencies but guessing that he isn't with no evidence is not something Apisa approves of. He is constantly asserting that "To acknowledge what you do not know, is a display of strength. To pretend you know what you truly don't, is a display of weakness."

Efficiency of operations always costs jobs as the Luddites said. Spy thriller movies will go the way of invisible ink and Mata Haris.

Would you not want to discuss Knight and Day either JTT?

It is probably quite interesting what people who like that sort of shite add up to.

I read that Cruise was small enough to be a jockey but chose acting due to being frightened of horses.

And the idea that Diaz is sexy is strictly for the misogynists.

You cannot help but mention me, can you, Spendius.

Obsession is more than a perfume.

And the idea that Diaz is sexy is strictly for the misogynists.

To say nothing that massive spying on the world population including US citizens is likely to be more of a moral problem.

I just want to discuss stuff with you that I think is appropriate for discussions with you, Spendius.

Cruise was short (now 5' 6")...but was never really small...so I doubt he ever really wanted to be a jockey.

I find her very sexy...and I am not a misogynist.

You ought really to see Knight and Day...and we can discuss it.

Spiegel has a lot more, including some revealing information about how the NSA uses the US embassy in Berlin to intercept all kinds of communications.

But then there's this incredible claim: President Obama insists he had no idea about it when he spoke to Merkel:

Merkel spoke with Obama on Wednesday afternoon, calling him from her secure landline in her Chancellery office. Both spoke English. According to the Chancellery, the president said that he had known nothing of possible monitoring, otherwise he would have stopped it. Obama also expressed his deepest regrets and apologized.

Now, remember, this is the very same President Obama, who just a couple months ago claimed that every time more Snowden news broke, it would be the first he'd heard about some of these programs, and he'd have to go ask the NSA what they were really doing. Could this be one of those situations? It seems almost impossible to believe that the NSA would be spying on the head of state of one of our closest allies without the President being aware. As the Spiegel report notes, those kinds of orders would have to be renewed with approval from the top:

Among the politically decisive questions is whether the spying was authorized from the top: from the US president. If the data is accurate, the operation was authorized under former President George W. Bush and his NSA chief, Michael Hayden. But it would have had to be repeatedly approved, including after Obama took office and up to the present time. Is it conceivable that the NSA made the German chancellor a surveillance target without the president's knowledge?

However, after trying to avoid the question, over the weekend, the NSA admitted that Keith Alexander had never briefed the President about spying on Merkel (though, it's possible he heard about it from others).

This makes it sound, again, like the NSA has gone rogue. How can President Obama seriously allow Keith Alexander and James Clapper to remain in charge when they've just made him look like a complete fool, supposedly totally unaware of what his own intelligence apparatus is up to -- especially when it concerns programs that, once revealed, can have a serious negative impact on a variety of diplomatic fronts?

And for what benefit? The Spiegel report makes it clear that the NSA saw little value in spying on Merkel. They just did it because... reasons.
Former NSA employee Thomas Drake does not see this as a contradiction. "After the attacks of September 11, 2001, Germany became intelligence target number one in Europe," he says. The US government did not trust Germany, because some of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots had lived in Hamburg. Evidence suggests that the NSA recorded Merkel once and then became intoxicated with success, says Drake. "It has always been the NSA's motto to conduct as much surveillance as possible," he adds.
The fact that President Obama hasn't yet fired Alexander in particular is fairly incredible, given this latest revelation.Source

This is quite an incredible story that's unfolding about a new opportunity for a Constitutional challenge to the FISA Amendments Act, which has enabled broad NSA surveillance. If you haven't been following the details (and even if you haven't been following all of this closely), the specifics may be a bit confusing, so we'll try to go piece by piece through the history here to explain the events leading up to a new Constitutional challenge being placed on the law, which the Supreme Court had previously effectively wiped out -- in large part due to false information presented by the Solicitor General, who now appears to be not at all happy the intelligence community led him to lie to the Supreme Court. And it may have all unravelled because of Dianne Feinstein's gloating and bragging about how important the FISA Amendments Act is. Lots more

Did you see Obarmy keep touching Merkel on the back and putting on his big smile as if to reassure her that she's his friend?

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I just want to discuss stuff with you that I think is appropriate for discussions with you, Spendius.

Try my latest Acronym.

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Cruise was short (now 5' 6")...but was never really small...so I doubt he ever really wanted to be a jockey.

I can't imagine a bloke who might do 8 stone 4 pounds, with diet and training, who would not want to be a jockey.

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I find her very sexy...and I am not a misogynist.

She presents an image similar to that of a fancy cake all got up for your misogynistic delectation. She aims to please.

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You ought really to see Knight and Day...and we can discuss it.

I haven't been in a cinema for a very long time. And I don't have a video these days. But what do you want to discuss about it? Isn't it just a business proposition? Why do I "really ought" to see that movie? What might I learn? What did you learn from it?

I have offered one or two interesting angles on the Snowden affair and you give evidence of being a bit obsessed with avoiding them.

He was probably trying to fix a bug on her coat.