Given that NSA/CIA hacked Mexico's election in 2012, and Mexico is a US ally, does that mean NSA and CIA must be sanctioned now?
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@emptywheel you didn't explicitly say that, no. But that's a clear takeaway one might takeaway from your tweet. -
if one was inventing stuff, sure. If one wasn't, then, no, it would not be a clear takeaway. Did you read new EO language?
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@emptywheel from your original tweet, calling what NSA did a hack, seemed to equivocate the two. Not trying to do a “gotcha” -
Was what the NSA did a hack? Of a candidate in a close election?
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@emptywheel key line from E) for me was this: “such activities to undermine democratic processes.” -
A claim I was NOT making in my tweet--one you had to have imposed--was that NSA leaked texts it hacked from EPN.
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But I'd say targeting EPN or Pakistan's People's Party is undermining election processes or institutions.
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@emptywheel if it as selectively leaked, sure. but i don’t see how that kind of collection on its own undermines processes. - 4 more replies
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