John Oliver
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 8 Jul
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Top story this week, spying update!
Everybody snoops!
It's got to the point now, Andy, where if you live anywhere in the world and the NSA is not monitoring your phone and emails, you should probably feel deeply hurt or, at the very least, you should check to see that you're still alive.
The reason we're still finding out about this is that Edward Snowden has been continually leaking away like a BP oil rig, constantly with significant consequences and with no clear way to stop it, short of shoving a cork in the USB drive of his laptop.
The latest revelations show that the NSA has been monitoring the phone calls of 35 world leaders, including Germany's Angela Merkel, the news of which is likely to have pissed off at least 35 people, including Germany's Angela Merkel.
Although I will say, Andy, monitoring that last one, I don't really have a problem with.
I still think that monitoring the German leader, however dubiously, is significantly safer than not monitoring a German leader.
And I think deep down, even though she's justifiably upset about this, Andy, she can probably understand that.
This is an outrage.
What gives these foreign agencies a right to tap on my personal phone?
I cannot possibly let this... Well, yes, we did do that.
We did do it, yes.
It was a long time ago, but when you put it like that, it was, I guess, less than 100 years ago.
OK, in your position, I would probably do the same thing.
Nothing about this is particularly surprising.
I think everyone probably assumed that every country is trying to do stuff like this.
And the surprise is not so much that the US was successful, but that the president at least claims he didn't know anything about it.
Now, that seems bad.
in almost every possible way that you can explain it.
It's bad if he signed off on it and has now been caught, and it's also bad if he didn't sign off on it and has now been caught not knowing about it.
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