Re: Gentlemen do not read each other's mail...
At 07:57 PM 10/24/2013, Jim Bell wrote:
According to White House spokesman Jay Carney, the United States "is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor."
Which is NSA-speak for "has monitored the chancellor and will again but for now is only monitoring other officials of the German government, not her." And of course gentlemen don't read each others' mail, but she's a lady, so she's fair game.
I was reading that as the Brits are monitoring her calls, and the Americans are just receiving a copy via five eyes. They've been reading too much Lewis Carroll. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." Adam On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:19:47AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 07:57 PM 10/24/2013, Jim Bell wrote:
According to White House spokesman Jay Carney, the United States "is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor."
Which is NSA-speak for "has monitored the chancellor and will again but for now is only monitoring other officials of the German government, not her."
And of course gentlemen don't read each others' mail, but she's a lady, so she's fair game.
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