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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.

• spirit of the lawspirit of the law (Score: 5, Insightful) by Dale on Monday February 17 2014, @02:56PM

  by Dale (539) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:56PM (#750)

  It is sad that the government is completely willing to subvert the spirit of the law by doing the "we can't collect it, but we can help you collect it and you can then hand it to us" game.

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• Re:spirit of the lawRe:spirit of the law (Score: 1) by internetguy on Monday February 17 2014, @05:53PM

  by internetguy (235) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:53PM (#892)

  Doesn't asking someone to collect information on your behalf still fall under the definition of "collecting"?

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  • Re:spirit of the law(Score: 1) by Dale on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:01AM

    by Dale (539) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @05:01AM (#1409)

    Those funny rules things don't apply to the overlords for some reasons.

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