Edward Snowden and the golden age of spying

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Combien de personnes à la NSA et alentour ont un accès « plus que privilégié » à des données confidentielles exploitables en coups fourrés et coups de Bourse ?

Amorce de réponse avec Tom Engelhardt ici ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/304068 :

How many Americans have security clearances? The answer: 5.1 million, a figure that reflects the explosive growth of the national security state in the post-9/11 era. Imagine the kind of system needed just to vet that many people for access to our secret world (to the tune of billions of dollars). We’re talking here about the total population of Norway and significantly more people than you can find in Costa Rica, Ireland, or New Zealand. And yet it’s only about 1.6% of the American population, while on ever more matters, the unvetted 98.4% of us are meant to be left in the dark.

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