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Australia spied on US law firm for NSA

posted by LaminatorX on Monday February 17 2014, @02:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the If-you-can't-trust-spies,-who-can-you-trust? dept.

Submitter ticho writes:

"The latest Snowden revelation suggests that Australia's spies are committing economic espionage on Americans, for the benefit of the American government.

The NSA's espionage partners in Australia offered the U.S. intelligence agency surveillance information on an American law firm that was representing the Indonesian government in a trade case against the U.S., according to leaked documents from Edward Snowden's stash.

Read more here."

[Ed. Note] This is another long-denied open secret now documented. One can only wonder what we gve Australia in return. Here is the NY Times article referenced in the above article.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Eunuchswear on Monday February 17 2014, @02:23PM

    by Eunuchswear (525) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:23PM (#716) Journal

    Continuing tradition, eh!

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  • (Score: 1) by Wodan on Monday February 17 2014, @02:27PM

    by Wodan (517) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:27PM (#726)

    Now we just need first posts saying first post! and it'll be just like home

    • (Score: 1) by Nerdfest on Monday February 17 2014, @02:31PM

      by Nerdfest (80) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:31PM (#732)

      More appropriately, non-first posts saying first post.

  • (Score: 1) by umafuckitt on Monday February 17 2014, @02:29PM

    by umafuckitt (20) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:29PM (#729)

    I think you mean "second dupe" :)

    • (Score: 1) by githaron on Monday February 17 2014, @03:41PM

      by githaron (581) on Monday February 17 2014, @03:41PM (#783)

      We have a dupe of a dupe?

  • (Score: 1) by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @03:36PM

    by mattie_p (13) on Monday February 17 2014, @03:36PM (#777) Journal

    Difference is that here someone is able to remove them. Thanks for being patient!

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by linsane on Monday February 17 2014, @03:53PM

      by linsane (633) on Monday February 17 2014, @03:53PM (#788)

      And merge the comments from both? Now that would be neat...

      • (Score: 1) by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @03:57PM

        by mattie_p (13) on Monday February 17 2014, @03:57PM (#791) Journal

        With only three comments (2 in one story, 1 in the third) I didn't feel the extra effort was necessary. Besides, those comments were Dupes themselves.