NSA: "Yeah, ... well ... but the other kid were doing it."

[ashling]

UK Spying Scandal Even Bigger Than In U.S., According To GCHQ Documents Obtained By The Guardian

LONDON — British spies are running an online eavesdropping operation so vast that internal documents say it even outstrips the United States' international Internet surveillance effort, the Guardian newspaper reported Friday.

[think]

1. News of the World would have had the inside scoop on this if they were still in business

I hear the reporters there were well connected....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal

[DJ13]

2. Theirs is large because they tap the US systems

then hand the data over to the US so our government can claim they arent tapping domestic phone calls.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. ^^^^____^^^ This

Hammer meet nail

[Catherina]

6. +1 and they have even less oversight (lol!) than the US does

The British people's reaction to this is cold fury.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Exactly....

as reported this week in the Guardian.

[treestar]

3. Countries aren't kids though, are they?

It is more like kids ruling without parents. The world has no parent to go to. All of the countries are unsupervised kids, with the big ones rolling over the little ones.

[DevonRex]

4. Good God. NOT A SCOOP. Look up UKUSA. Is everybody here like 20?

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Damn. Can you imagine all those people who have been sending nudies of themselves to their

boyfriend, girlfriends, wives and husbands?

And, can you imagine how many Congressmen that did the same thing that Weiner did must be sweating bullets?