- The State Department has issued an apology to GCHQ via diplomatic channels.
Do you have a source for this?
- Most likely related: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trum...
Apparently a FISA request was made to wiretap Trump or people from his campaign. It was denied the first time, but a second one which narrowed the scope of surveillance got accepted.
- Yet people seemed to be awfully calm when Obama was droning weddings. I'm not saying we should've put so much hate towards Obama as well, I'm saying we should put things into perspective.
- Bombing predominately Muslim countries, overthrowing governments and covert black sites where Muslims get tortured. These are things that are acceptable, but a 90-day ban on immigrants coming from war-torn countries, that's a step too far? Has everyone seriously lost their mind?
- After that, it didn't seem worth watching the videos because you have lost credibility in my eyes because I'm not sure you're arguing in good faith.
Well, that's pretty convenient isn't it. I don't think you're arguing in good faith either, so I'm going to ignore everything you're saying.
- Calling it a terrorist attack would drive Trump's poll numbers up.
- Would the CIA willingly do so much damage to the US? Surely there are other ways to sabotage the NSA instead of doing something as high profile as leaking NSA documents to the public. Besides, I think leaking classified documents of other intelligence agencies is something no agency does, because an escalation of this sort would be disastrous for both agencies involved.
- Turkey’s recent-to-the-job prime minister, Binali Yildirim, announced: “I am sure that we will return ties with Syria to normal, we need it. We normalized our relations with Israel and Russia. I’m sure we will go back to normal relations with Syria as well.”
The prime minister said this a couple of days ago. A huge shift in policy and now suddenly a coup. I'm guessing Erdogan saw the writing on the wall and tried to shift gears, but it seems the military went ahead with the coup anyway.
- You're clearly not following the Syrian civil war very closely if you think Russia's the one acting irresponsibly.
- Literally all your comments are about how China's bad and how it's in deep trouble. These comments span back more than 100 days. I'm not sure you should be the one calling other people trolls.
- I'm suggesting a higher-up or someone else suggested Tavis target Kaspersky. I'm not suggesting Google execs all sat together and decided to destroy Kaspersky.
Is it that hard to believe that there are certain people that would like to dissuade Kaspersky from revealing further information about state-sponsored malware? I'm not even sure where this incredulity is coming from? Let's see you target an intelligence agency and see what happens.
- Into whose code? He found several bugs and is now writing about it. I'm not sure if I understand your question?
- They've been gunning for Kaspersky ever since Kaspersky released information about state-sponsored malware.
- If the information turns out to be false then the anonymous sources get blamed, not the author.
- Does Syriza actually want debt relief? Judging from Varoufakis' interviews, he wants to implement policies that would foster economic growth, which would allow Greece to slowly pay back its debts. He claims the EU's proposals would further cripple the economy which would mean they will never be able to pay back its debt.
So it's not necessarily about debt relief, it's about which policies are most suitable for Greece.
- A bunch of misogynists who are upset that a female employee was fired. Right.
- > "To exploit foreign signals intelligence for the benefit of the USA"
Does it benefit the average U.S. citizen? If not, then how can you say NSA does this for the benefit of the USA. And if it does, then how exactly does a U.S. citizen benefit from this? Making a bunch of rich people even richer doesn't seem all that beneficial to me.
- ...more of the gap should be filled with cuts to benefits as opposed to increases in taxes.
What's their reasoning behind this?
- So letting the public decide their own fate is now called "shifting blame"?
- It is so unlike Mozilla to introduce something like that, I ran a virus scan and checked what programs had been installed recently -- I assumed it had been put there in the same way that IE users used to get the Ask Toolbar installed.
Exactly how I felt. What the hell were they thinking? I'm generally very supportive of Mozilla, I even supported their initiative to put advertisements on Firefox's start page. But bundling stuff like Pocket and Hello with Firefox is just ridiculous. Why not make it an official extension? That way users can easily disable or remove it.
- No save functionality?
- As I posted before:
“Many of them are members of Opus Dei,” Hersh continued. “They do see what they’re doing — and this is not an atypical attitude among some military — it’s a crusade, literally. They see themselves as the protectors of the Christians. They’re protecting them from the Muslims [as in] the 13th century. And this is their function.”
My understanding of that statement is that he meant that they were deeply religious and were members op Opus Dei, not that there's a secretive organization that's controlling USSOCOM.
Please stop propagating things you read in that horrible VOX article.
- That same person is also standing at the entrance of almost every other building. To make his job easier he's also given you a unique identifier, so that he can notice when you enter a building he watches. I'm sure you've never noticed him, most people don't.
- Can you elaborate a bit on the vote manipulation? Other than certain Reddit power users regularly getting their posts to the top of certain subreddits, I haven't really seen anything suspicious.
- “Many of them are members of Opus Dei,” Hersh continued. “They do see what they’re doing — and this is not an atypical attitude among some military — it’s a crusade, literally. They see themselves as the protectors of the Christians. They’re protecting them from the Muslims [as in] the 13th century. And this is their function.”
My understanding of that statement is that he meant that they were deeply religious and were members op Opus Dei, not that there's a secretive organization that's controlling USSOCOM.
- “The switches weren’t turned off, but there has been a real decrease in quality” of communications, said one United States official, who like others quoted spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence programs.
A couple of days ago news outlets were calling Seymour Hersh a conspiracy nut because his report contained information gained off anonymous sources in the intelligence community.
- > The first time around it didn't get adequate attention in the US media.
Quite an understatement. Some of the news outlets deemed it unnecessary to mention what was said in the leaked tapes and instead referred to it as a "military strategy".
- So the correct response to someone ripping you off is using mental tricks to convince yourself you're better off than before?
- When you're highly invested in the tech scene and are depending on its continuing profitability, then it's only natural that you denounce people who attack it.
What we're seeing here is a conflict of opinion between the so called hackers and the people who think they're working on something that will be acquired by one of the tech giants.
Intelligence sources told The Telegraph that both Mr Spicer and General McMaster, the US National Security Adviser, have apologised over the claims. "The apology came direct from them," a source said.
It's based on an anonymous source.
Here's another quote from that same article:
"Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command - he didn't use the NSA, he didn't use the CIA, he didn't use the FBI and he didn't use the Department of Justice - he used GCHQ."
So we're going to discard what several anonymous sources said, but we will believe what some other anonymous source said?