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AP - The Official NSA Public Relations Organization Yeah, Al Qaeda didn't know that NSA listens and reads to their communications. That's why Bin Laden used co
by throwaway10001 13y ago
AP - The Official NSA Public Relations Organization
Yeah, Al Qaeda didn't know that NSA listens and reads to their communications. That's why Bin Laden used couriers to personally deliver thumbdrives and had no telephone or internet.
- codex 13y agoTrue, but it would likely be impractical to use couriers to communicate between Al Qaeda H.Q. to any Al Qaeda cells in the U.S., or even in an adjacent country.
- throwaway10001 13y agoBut Snowden offered them nothing new, so they must trying to avoid detection as much as they can.
- zwegner 13y agoIt's amazing that the AP would so eagerly accept these anonymous government officials' stories after they were specifically targeted by the FBI, what was it, a month ago? Why grant these people anonymity, when all they're doing is spouting out government-serving platitudes with zero evidence or justification for keeping their identities secret?