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They're shocked, shocked

It turns out that the Germans have discovered that friends spy on friends in this all too realistic world. Having waxed indignant--at tiresome length--on discovering that our NSA listened in on their prime minister's phone calls, German sources now say their intelligence service eavesdropped on at least a couple of American secretaries of state, to wit John Kerry and Hillary Clinton--not that those two might ever have anything interesting to say.

Boy, wait till the Germans discover that our spies even spy on our own spies. A couple of them, Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, are doing long stretches even now after having been unmasked as long-time Russian moles. Would that the FBI and CIA had been alert enough to catch Edward Snowden before, his cover blown, he took refuge in Mother Russia. Yet we're all supposed to be aghast at the latest capital-R Revelations. It's hard to believe anybody really is. All this spying and counter-spying is just the nature of the beast, and anybody who's shocked by it deserves some kind of award for sheer naivete. It's more likely they're just feigning shock for strictly political purposes.

Could we all get real for a change? Undramatic as it might be, a dose of reality might add some long overdue perspective to this whole discussion.

Editorial on 08/19/2014

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