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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>…If the government shutdown proceeds tomorrow, we need volunteers to spy on themselves…I will start setting the example by noting the contents of this post. Recognizing that I wrote it, I will become suspicious of myself as possibly being some kind of snarky subversive. If l watch me will you watch you? If so, can we report each other to ourselves in this forum? Spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Requisition cancelled! The shutdown is going ahead in three minutes. But the NSA is immune. We no longer need to watch ourselves. Our government will do it for us:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h1 style='background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-family:Lora;color:#222222'>Government shutdown won’t shut down NSA spying<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222'>Published September 30, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222'><a href="http://watchdog.org/" target="_blank">watchdog.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222'><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/30/government-shutdown-wont-shut-down-nsa-spying/">Facebook</a><span class=fbk>183</span> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/30/government-shutdown-wont-shut-down-nsa-spying/">Twitter</a><span class=twt>86</span> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/30/government-shutdown-wont-shut-down-nsa-spying/">LinkedIn</a><span class=in>0</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=advert-txt style='background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222'>ADVERTISEMENT<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222'>Unless Congress can agree on a new budget, the federal government will shut down midnight Monday. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222'>But that's unlikely to stop the massive spy machine at the National Security Agency. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222'>The possible government shutdown would affect bureaucrats, park rangers and countless other government employees and contractors across the country. Even three-quarters of the White House staff would be sent home. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222'>But "essential personnel" and services would stay online -- including the NSA's surveillance operations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Lora;color:#222222'>"A shutdown would be unlikely to affect core NSA operations," a government official familiar with the <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/324857-government-shutdown-unlikely-to-curb-nsa-spying" target="_blank">plans told The Hill on Thursday</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>