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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: 2, Funny) by gundul on Monday February 17 2014, @02:54PM

    by gundul (388) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:54PM (#749)

    is this site Beta? ;P

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  • (Score: 1) by Nerdfest on Monday February 17 2014, @03:32PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Monday February 17 2014, @03:32PM (#772)

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