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From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:57:07 -0700, Mark Seiden said:
and also, only $20m/year? in my experience, the govt cannot do anything like this addressing even a single provider for that little money.
Convince me the *real* number doesn't have another zero.
Remember - the $20M number came from a source that has *very* good reason to lie as much as it can right now about the true extent of this.
Indeed. Luckily, the press is all over this like a bad smell. I mentioned The Story in a new posting just now; they have, surprisingly, already managed to dig at this spot, a pretty quick response for them: http://www.thestory.org/stories/2013-06/americans-spying-americans Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274