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Doc: NSA shares Americans' data with Israel
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Published: 11.09.13, 19:22
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1. Snowden: Israel is NOT the USA!
Dee Bee ,   The Galilee, Israel   (09.11.13)
Yes, we are aggressive! Yes, we will do anything to survive another attempt to exterminate us. You should know that Israel doesn't have the stupid "Rules of Engagement" that the US and its wimpy EU and NATO allies have. So Edward Snowden, butt out and remember Daniel Craigs words in "Munich": Don't fu*k with the Jews!
2. What does this mean?
Sarah ,   Tel Aviv   (09.11.13)
Aside from 'privacy rights' violation of American citizens...? Am I on some 'watch' list now because I sent a picture of my 6 months old to my mother with a shirt over her head and titled it 'Taliban'?
3. #2 lol,yeah probably!
Ilan ,   Ramat Gan, Israel   (09.11.13)
Does it matter? Those who have nothing to hide, shouldn't care! Those who think that statement is naive, is just paranoid!
4. Can you blame Israel?
Shimon ,   Cincinnati   (09.11.13)
Seems to me the US has been acting less and less like an ally since Obama was sworn into the Presidency. "We've got your back." is his way of saying "You're screwed." With President Obama's latest amateurish faux pas with Syria, how can Israel trust what he has to say? How can Israel trust him with respect to Iran?
5. it is further to be noted
CJK   (09.11.13)
it is absolutely remarkable that this little nothing person snowden was able to steal an entire library of top secret us documents, and this after the manning debacle. this should tell any rational observer that the obama administration is highly incompetent in all fields of activity. it is to be assumed that all us secrets have been stolen and handed over to russia and possibly china. Israel should go on the assumption that anything that it gives the us or that the us gains about Israel through spying, will be handed over to enemy states one way or another.
6. it is to be noted
CJK   (09.11.13)
all of snowden's revelations are about the united states, israel, and western states. there is not a single word about russia, china, iran, etc.... conclusion: snowden is a russian spy.
7. who cares
k ,   US   (09.11.13)
there are alot of neo nazis and palestinian supporters who should have their phones tapped, I am glad the government is doing this
8. Israel can not force America
Naor ,   USA   (09.11.13)
to do anything America does not want to do or benefits from. The reports say contradictory things. One claiming Israel is an "extraordinarily good Sigint partners" the other claiming it is not beneficiary to the US. I'm claiming just more nonsense from the Guardian.
9. And...so what!!!???
USA   (09.11.13)
So nations have been sharing "raw data" with other nations for centuries and this has only become more efficient with the computer age. So what??!! If nations or groups didn't threathen anyone, there would not be a need for data collection...
10. #1 Amen
MARK ,   Boston   (09.11.13)
11. @5, not Obama
AY ,   USA   (09.11.13)
What we see is the change in the way these services work. "In the olden days," they selected people right out of college and gave them jobs, essentially, for life. What happens now is that the secret services increasingly turn to subcontractors - like Snowden - whose services are used in return for money... in a relationship that can be terminated at will, once the project ends. Ever wondered how come former government officials easily move to the companies, which they were just auditing or supposedly regulating shortly before? This is part and parcel of the same situation - the needs of the business to save money, to not have permanent employees in preference to one-time or need-based outsiders just have consequences like Snowden. So, don't blame Obama.
12. NSA child of Israel?
Rudy Haugeneder ,   Victoria, BC, Canada   (09.11.13)
Hmmmm. God Bless the Israeli intelligence agency's American offspring, the NSA. Did you know that Saudi Arabia also has close intelligence with Israel. Furthermore, in Syria, in late 2012 Saudi intelligence began efforts to convince the US that the Assad government was using chemical weapons. says Wiki. In the late August 2013 Mint Press News alleged, based on the reports of the Ghouta residents, that Saudi Arabia supplied chemical weapons to Syrian opposition.[33], added Wiki. Interesting world we live in?
13. I'm not bothered
A/I ,   Israel/US   (09.11.13)
If someone gets a kick out of me complaining about lack of hot water in Israel or the price of fuel or my husband's dirty underwear- so be it! I have nothing to hide and only those who do use the old 'it's against the US Constitution' argument. Cliche it may be, but better be safe than sorry. Obviously not enough phones are being tapped and emails read because terror plots and attacks continue to claim lives of innocent people.
14. Duh, he's a Russian spy. Isn't it obvious by now?
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15. Snowden needs his diaper changed
ASTRONAUT ,   SC   (09.11.13)
16. 11 do not explain the start of the universe
CJK   (09.12.13)
did you ever hear the expression, "the buck stops here." it is most certainly obama's fault. he has surrounded himself with incompetents just like himself. he is not a leader in any sense of that term. he is just a speechefier. he is a total disaster.
17. WASHINGTON DISTRICT COLUMBIA (D.C.), JERUSALEM AND SO ON
SJOERD VAN DER VELDE ,   OUR BIG UNIVERSE   (09.12.13)
LET ALL OF US AND THE REST OF THE PRESENT HUMANKIND UNDERSTAND AND RESPECT EVERYBODY AND EVERY PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE JEWISH/ISRAELI PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE AND ALWAYS. LET US AVOID, PREVENT AND END ANOTHER SHOAH, HOLOCAUST , GENOCIDE, INHUMAN/UNNEEDED, CRIMINAL VIOLENCE AND TOTAL, RIDICULOUS WAR, ON OUR GLOBAL PLANET EARTH AND IN THE REST OF OUR UNIVERSE/MULTIVERSE. HEALTH, SECURITY, PEACE AND SALUTE, SJOERD RUURD.
18. #1, You bring it upon yourself, you invaded huge Arab world
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (09.12.13)
...and you will die by the sword, because you live by the sword, again.
19. # 18 Steve really?
BUILD BABY BUILD !!! ,   United States   (09.12.13)
The winner of 'Dying by the sword' is so far, the Muslims. Africa, all of the unrest in Islamic nations, all Muslim all brutal all a disgrace to all of humanity. Who brought all this chaos to the fray? Muslims no one else. Tell the truth and shame the devil.... Take responsibility for those Muslims who have been murdered. Muslims murdering Muslims nothing new except the time to report it is less. I pity the illiterate Muslims dying in vain to keep other Muslim despots in charge of a very miserable people. And, here's the kicker, no one seems to really care.. Ye reap what ye sew. Your garden your harvest, your Muslims being murdered by fellow muslims.. How many millions of dead Muslims so far??? KEEP BUILDING BABY !!!!
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