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		lesuorac on June 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The US government is buying troves of data about A... Then why did the NSA tap Google [1]? Is Snowden some kind of 4d chess false flag? lol .... [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5046958/nsa-secretly-tap...

93po on June 13, 2023 [–]

It is perfectly reasonable with the track record of the NSA to both pay Google to provide user data (under threats of NSLs or a million other things) along with also spying on Google to check to deceit or things they don't want to disclose.

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