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by tootie 1801 days ago
This case isn't even about mass surveillance. It's still very targeted. The question is who is being targeted and by whom? The implication of what we know so far is that the surveillance is allowing bad actors to target political enemies.

And not that this isn't terrible but just throw it on the pile. Did they sell the Saudis access to Khashoggi's wife's phone? Maybe but we definitely sold them a fleet of fighter jets too. Trump campaigned on it and got huge applause from crowds. So I wouldn't expect a lot of outrage over this.