Boasting by the spooks the reason for Australia-Indonesia crisis

It is as if the lads and lasses at the Defence Signals Division wanted to show their peers worldwide just how clever they were. There seems no other reason for them creating the slide show that was eventually released by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The “secret” information released by Snowden and published by The Guardian and the ABCcontained nothing really secret at all beyond the revelation that DSD had once tapped into the 3G mobile phone used by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhyono. No state secrets. Not titillating exchanges beyond the President and his wife. Just this diagrammatic presentation of who was heard saying what to whom:
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Now. Look at that! Aren’t we just so clever?

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