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The Bahamas?
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Wikileaks says they know County X to be .....(drum roll)....Afghanistan. ::darthvader::

Wikileaks stated Friday that, in addition to the Bahamas, the United States is tracking and recording all mobile phone calls within the country Afghanistan. In making the announcement, the publication claimed to be shedding light on information redacted by journalists at The Intercept who reported earlier this week on the existence of far-reaching NSA surveillance in a series of countries.
Characterizing The Intercept's decision to withhold the identity of what came to be called 'country x' as a form of media censorship, Wikileaks released a statement on Friday which argued:
Such censorship strips a nation of its right to self-determination on a matter which affects its whole population. An ongoing crime of mass espionage is being committed against the victim state and its population. By denying an entire population the knowledge of its own victimisation, this act of censorship denies each individual in that country the opportunity to seek an effective remedy, whether in international courts, or elsewhere. Pre-notification to the perpetrating authorities also permits the erasure of evidence which could be used in a successful criminal prosecution, civil claim, or other investigations. [...]
For those reasons, the group continued, "[we] cannot be complicit in the censorship of victim state X. The country in question is Afghanistan."
Jualian Assange, editor-in-chief of the media outlet which focuses on exposing government and corporate secrets, stated: "Although, for reasons of source protection we cannot disclose how, WikiLeaks has confirmed that the identity of victim state is Afghanistan. This can also be independently verified through forensic scrutiny of imperfectly applied censorship on related documents released to date and correlations with other NSA programs (seehttp://freesnowden.is)."
On Monday, journalists Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras revealed that the United States is intercepting nearly every mobile phone call in the Bahamas and an additional country, which they declined to name, citing "credible concerns that doing so could lead to increased violence." Based on documents revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the story also disclosed that the United States is spying on telecommunications networks in Mexico, Kenya, and The Philippines, using previously disclosed program MYSTIC.
Wikileaks immediately condemned the redaction of 'country x'compared it to previous "censorship" it perceived in reporting by the Washington Postand vowed to reveal the nation's identity within 72 hours.
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The Bahamas? - by Drew Phipps - 20-05-2014, 01:04 PM
The Bahamas? - by David Guyatt - 20-05-2014, 02:31 PM
The Bahamas? - by Drew Phipps - 20-05-2014, 02:49 PM
The Bahamas? - by Peter Lemkin - 20-05-2014, 08:01 PM
The Bahamas? - by Keith Millea - 20-05-2014, 09:26 PM
The Bahamas? - by Drew Phipps - 20-05-2014, 11:10 PM
The Bahamas? - by David Guyatt - 21-05-2014, 08:20 AM
The Bahamas? - by Magda Hassan - 21-05-2014, 08:46 AM
The Bahamas? - by Magda Hassan - 21-05-2014, 08:51 AM
The Bahamas? - by Drew Phipps - 21-05-2014, 01:07 PM
The Bahamas? - by Magda Hassan - 21-05-2014, 01:13 PM
The Bahamas? - by Drew Phipps - 21-05-2014, 01:56 PM
The Bahamas? - by Magda Hassan - 23-05-2014, 01:54 PM
The Bahamas? - by Drew Phipps - 23-05-2014, 06:50 PM
The Bahamas? - by Magda Hassan - 23-05-2014, 11:48 PM
The Bahamas? - by Peter Lemkin - 30-05-2014, 06:40 AM
The Bahamas? - by Magda Hassan - 30-05-2014, 08:43 AM
The Bahamas? - by Peter Lemkin - 30-05-2014, 09:14 AM
The Bahamas? - by Magda Hassan - 30-05-2014, 09:58 AM
The Bahamas? - by Drew Phipps - 30-05-2014, 01:44 PM
The Bahamas? - by Magda Hassan - 30-05-2014, 02:04 PM

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