While I do think it was silly of them to mention the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation, there were not many who openly opposed the Iran nuclear deal as strongly as Netanyahu's government.

His speech to congress was unprecedented and a sign he was possibly being kept out of the loop in the negotiation deals. I wouldn't blame Obama, Bebe's emotions (or delusions) seem to get in the way of any attempts at peace talks.

I wouldn't be surprised. KL tend to nettle (expose activity of) most western spy agencies while bypassing Russian and to a lesser extent Chinese hacking activities.

Outsiders have no clue about Israel's role in the Equation Group. Or who the Equation Group actually serves, for that matter.

Equation Group was very clearly the NSA, given that actual NSA codenames appeared in the binaries.

Equation Group very clearly includes the NSA. But how do we really know what the NSA is? Given the maze of secrecy, does anyone at the NSA even know what the NSA is, in any comprehensive sense? Or who it serves?

A fair point. One of the most surprising revelations from Snowden is that NSA and GCHQ apparently have conjoined intranets.

Yes, blood brothers ;)

Another surprising revelation was that need-to-know structure isn't necessarily congruent with management structure or chain of command. That is, one can report to someone who isn't authorized to know what one is doing. As I recall, the focus was on financial accountability, duplication of effort, empire building, etc. But there are deeper concerns about accountability.