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by Arun2009 1801 days ago
It's very disturbing to me as an ordinary Indian citizen that a foreign private company was given the carte blanche to spy on prominent individuals in India. India's history is replete with incidents where seeking the help of foreign agents to subdue local opponents compromised India's security and Indians' liberty.

Traitors don't necessarily have to set out to commit treason against their country - they can be just unsophisticated simpletons greedy for power. And they can commit treason and sabotage the nation in the name of patriotism.

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If it wasn't a foreign agent, would that stop Modi from doing the exact same thing to the people of India? From what I see (a limited amount) the problem is unrelated to a foreign agent being involved.
Hopefully courts take suo moto on this case and drag Gov through mud. I really cannot believe people who defend this sort of thing. One more reason why a country needs independent media.
It wasn't a foreign agent being used for spying. It was software the government paid for.