A company with rather sensitive security concerns spies on a group because that group is dedicated to disrupting their operations. Besides the ritual criminality of these disruptions, that group also happens to use similar tactics to spy on others who they don’t like or who don’t agree with them.

So I’m shocked (shocked!) that nuclear plant operators EDF would spy on Greenpeace. If Greenpeace (with its own record of spying, as I and a former White House aide, among others, have learned firsthand — and of dishonestly combining and otherwise lying about the things they pulled from our trash) fiegns outrage, why, I’d suggest we stop taking them seriously.

Ok. It’s well past that time, on a substantive level.

Though it seems EDF went a little far, if it didn’t at least try to anticipate attacks from its antagonists we really should be concerned.