"We're Really Screwed Now."

[rich]

u just have to be good at it and sadly we in the good US of A aren't. you
have to know something about where your colleagues as well as your enemies
are coming from. Congress can get all indignant but geez it's part of what
countries, businessmen, you and me do everyday, no?

rich


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:49 PM, <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Keep your enemies close and your friends even closer...
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> *From: * rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> *Sender: * owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> *Date: *Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:57:19 -0400
> *To: *Robin Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> *Cc: *“pynchon-l at waste.org“<pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject: *Re: "We're Really Screwed Now."
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> any country that doesnt spy on its allies is pretty dumb
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> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Robin Landseadel <
> robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Hard to imagine any current events closer to Bleeding Edge than this:
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>> "One of the National Security Agency's biggest defenders in Congress is
>> suddenly at odds with the agency and calling for a top-to-bottom review of
>> U.S. spy programs. And her long-time friends and allies are completely
>> mystified by the switch.
>> "We're really screwed now," one NSA official told The Cable. "You know
>> things are bad when the few friends you've got disappear without a trace in
>> the dead of night and leave no forwarding address."
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>> In a pointed statement issued today, Senate Intelligence Committee
>> chairman Dianne Feinstein said she was "totally opposed" to gathering
>> intelligence on foreign leaders and said it was "a big problem" if
>> President Obama didn't know the NSA was monitoring the phone calls of
>> German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She said the United States should only be
>> spying on foreign leaders with hostile countries, or in an emergency, and
>> even then the president should personally approve the surveillance.
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>> It was not clear what precipitated Feinstein's condemnation of the NSA.
>> It marks a significant reversal for a lawmaker who not only defended agency
>> surveillance programs -- but is about to introduce a bill expected to
>> protect some of its most controversial activities."
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>> "The rest . . . .    . . . . of the story":
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>> http://thecable.foreignpolicy.**com/posts/2013/10/28/were_**
>> really_screwed_now_nsas_best_**friend_just_shivved_the_spies<http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/28/were_really_screwed_now_nsas_best_friend_just_shivved_the_spies>
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>> And here's Mr. DiFi:
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Richard_C._Blum<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Blum>
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>> Conflict of interest? No way!
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