And the Chinese, Japanese, Soviets, and any other techically capable nation, or those that can pay others for such equipment are not monitoring cell phone usage or those of other nations!
If it's on the air waves, it is being monitored by someone, somewhere.
If I talk in public, I can expect someone other than the person I'm talking to be listening! Using a cell phone is just the same as yelling across a room. Cell phones are fancy radio's, aren't they.
This is not to defend the NSA, but to note the hippocrisy of a story based on a document (released by persons whose intent is not known) that has not been verified by second sources. Seems to me that the media is using the authors credibility as the validation.
Hey, they did try to verify the story, but received a no-comment or non-comment, that should be good enough. Hey, wait, they can use the media created refrain, "We offered them the opportunity to deny the story, they didn't, so it must be true!
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