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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, Informative) by edIII on Monday February 17 2014, @05:59PM

    by edIII (791) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:59PM (#900)

    I don't understand why this isn't causing a huge uproar right now in the US.

    It's one thing to be spying on the plebes who cannot defend themselves, and let's face it, most often are so blissfully ignorant with their banal distractions, but this is a law firm.

    Attorney client privilege and work product is supposed to mean something, and in cases like this does affect big business. This is espionage performed by the US government.

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