Political commotion in Germany re #PRISM resembles NSA's ECHELON story in late 90s, which took years to build; right now we're not 1 week in
@20committee Seems the Euro mobilization easily builds off prior politics abt SWIFT, though.
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@emptywheel & ECHELON thing never completely went away either -
@20committee Yeah, though I remember the SWIFT stuff was particularly sensitive in Germany, partly bc of EUP tensions.
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