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Australia spied on US law firm for NSA

posted by LaminatorX on Monday February 17 2014, @10:17AM   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: 1) by VLM on Monday February 17 2014, @10:39AM

    by VLM (445) on Monday February 17 2014, @10:39AM (#739)

    According to Crocodile Dundee, Austria or Australia or WTF it is, has had better intel gathering capabilities for 30 years now, so its no great surprise they're still giving us intel in 2014.

    "Neville Bell: Oh no, you can't take my photograph.

    Sue Charlton: Oh, I'm sorry, you believe it will take your spirit away.

    Neville Bell: No, you got lens-cap on it."

    (note to kids, people used to take selfies and stuff with cameras, not phones, and most real cameras had a lens cap to protect the optics so the pix wouldn't turn out as awful as a modern selfie)