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A Computer Program That Hacks Language & Exposes US Secrets

ne of the most significant effects of the ongoing NSA surveillance scandal is that it drew so much attention to the massive secret, official world that’s grown up in the US since the 9/11 attacks. These clandestine operations , though there is of course a long history of clandestine activity in the US government. This part of the bureaucracy puts out a tremendous number of secret documents, and it’s long been

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