Canada, Mexico become part of U.S. homeland during NSA briefing

Canada, Mexico become part of U.S. ‘homeland’ during NSA briefing

• Canada, Mexico become part of U.S. ‘homeland’ during NSA Senate briefing

  

  By Andy Radia | Canada Politics – 4 hours ago
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  Picture of the homeland map via the Associated Press

  American reporters appropriately had a 'wait, what? moment' on Wednesday during a Senate Judiciary committee meeting. Senator Diane Feinstein, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was defending the National Security Agency's top secret spying when she brought out a prop identifying North America — the United States, Canada and Mexico — as the "Homeland".
  "You may also be surprised to learn that our homeland now includes both Mexico and Canada, two areas that we understood to be autonomous nations that are not part of the United States," noted the Atlantic Wire, the publication which first reported the unorthodox map.
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  "Normally, this would be written off as a design goof, as one of the NSA's (newly adept) graphics guys using a little more light blue than he ought.
  "This being the NSA, we're not inclined to offer that benefit of the doubt. Is this a way of blending in Canadian and Mexican
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  Canada, Mexico become part of U.S. ‘homeland’ during NSA Senate briefing