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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, Informative) by LaminatorX on Monday February 17 2014, @02:28PM

    by LaminatorX (14) <reversethis-{moc ... ta} {xrotanimal}> on Monday February 17 2014, @02:28PM (#728)

    I apologize for the multiple post everyone. There were some weird errors as I was attempting to post it, but it seems to actually have been working.

    First Dupe!

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    I just noticed -- there actually was a glitch. The headline reads, "Posted by on..." with the username of the poster omitted. Hope that helps point to whatever went awry....

    b&

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