Apparently, the NSA also monitors everything in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. - Polidicks

[url]https://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-statement-on-the-mass.html[/url] Discuss. edit: Sorry for the title, Facepunch messed up and I can't erase the additional countries, which aren't monitored.

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Is there anything the NSA doesn't spy on? They're probably monitoring Antarctica for Christ's sake.

[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;44909021]This is the most interesting bit to me. I'd imagine it's either a country with terrible relations with America, or one with extremely good relations.[/QUOTE] or maybe they are monitoring everyone and they want to see who scrambles to find out if it's them, how they go about it, and why.

[QUOTE=Sergeant Stacker;44909006]Is there anything the NSA doesn't spy on? They're probably monitoring Antarctica for Christ's sake.[/QUOTE] Mathematicians are a priority too. We gotta make sure the Al-Gebra ain't doing no terrorism.

Not surprised by the news at all I was already under the assumption they took particular interest to these countries

why shouldn't they?

Would that not effectively be a duplication of government services? I'm not too familiar with US security agencies, but I thought such international monitoring would be left in the hands of the CIA. I dunno, it just seems that the NSA could be scrapped and the FBI and CIA could each take over the NSAs operations that are relevant to them respectively. Cutting costs and all.

[QUOTE=Antdawg;44909278]Would that not effectively be a duplication of government services? I'm not too familiar with US security agencies, but I thought such international monitoring would be left in the hands of the CIA.[/QUOTE] No, not at all. Each intelligence agency has a specific role in international work. NSA: SIGINT, signals and electronics. CIA: HUMINT, spies and informants. NGA: GEOINT, topographical data. NRO: IMINT, satellite imaging. And so on and so on. There are a bunch. It's like how the FBI, TSA, DEA, and ATF are all separate organizations, even though they all do domestic law enforcement- just different, specific aspects of the job. [QUOTE=Antdawg;44909278]I dunno, it just seems that the NSA could be scrapped and the FBI and CIA could each take over the NSAs operations that are relevant to them respectively. Cutting costs and all.[/QUOTE] Not to single you out, but I'm not sure why people on Facepunch of all places keep suggesting this. They have enough power as it is, centralizing those capabilities into just a few organizations is a very bad idea from a corruption standpoint. It's also inefficient, since it's more cost-effective, streamlined, and less bureaucratically-run to have each agency have one specific focus rather than make one agency do everything. Pretty much every country does the same thing, by the way, it's just that few have as many different agencies as the US. Everyone who's seen a James Bond movie knows that MI6 is the spies (HUMINT, CIA equivalent), but they also have GCHQ (SIGINT, NSA equivalent). Keeping things separate, limited, and accountable is the best way to operate.

I don't understand why we even tried to keep this private.

Is there anyplace that ISN'T being monitored on the planet Earth?

Monitors what, the total of 6 computers, out of which 3.5 have a internet connection?

[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;44909021]This is the most interesting bit to me. I'd imagine it's either a country with terrible relations with America, or one with extremely good relations.[/QUOTE] The whole point of the statement is that country X is Afghanistan.