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by pinaceae 4729 days ago
or even more to the point, national intelligence agencies actually spy, news at 11.

if i were journalist i would compile a list of all of those agencies and then release a "story" each week.

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

enough to milk this topic for years.

i am austrian, so our HNA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heeresnachrichtenamt would be my "scandal". they run a sigint station smack in the center of vienna, located in a WW2 flaktower. public knowledge, but just add Snowden, Morales, some other bullshit and voila, another great feat of journalism.