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Australia spied on US law firm for NSA

posted by LaminatorX on Monday February 17 2014, @02:17PM   
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.

• Re:My shame knows no bounds.Re:My shame knows no bounds. (Score: 2, Insightful) by TrumpetPower! on Monday February 17 2014, @02:38PM

  by TrumpetPower! (590) <ben@trumpetpower.com> on Monday February 17 2014, @02:38PM (#738) Homepage

  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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  All but God can prove this sentence true.

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• Re:My shame knows no bounds.Re:My shame knows no bounds. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @05:12PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @05:12PM (#845)

  The submitter's handle is actually a single nonbreaking space character. Pretty cool, huh?

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  • Re:My shame knows no bounds.(Score: 1) by crutchy on Tuesday February 18 2014, @06:43AM

    by crutchy (179) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @06:43AM (#1448) Homepage Journal

    damn why didn't i think of that when i signed up

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