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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by romanr on Monday February 17 2014, @04:54PM
Funny thing is that every government looks terribly outraged by the fact that intelligence agencies are spying and gathering information on them, but in my opinion, if they had the resources, they would do exactly the same (or maybe they are doing it already).