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Security first, liberty second? - The NSA spying controversy

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July 18, 2013

Germany's opposition is calling on the government to take a hard line in protecting the rights of its citizens from the NSA's surveillance program. The interior minister says the surveillance is a tool in the fight against terrorism. And a historian has unearthed Allied documents from the postwar era that expressly permit spying.

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