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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: 2, Interesting) by linsane on Monday February 17 2014, @11:53AM

    by linsane (633) on Monday February 17 2014, @11:53AM (#788)

    And merge the comments from both? Now that would be neat...

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  • (Score: 1) by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @11:57AM

    by mattie_p (13) on Monday February 17 2014, @11:57AM (#791) Journal

    With only three comments (2 in one story, 1 in the third) I didn't feel the extra effort was necessary. Besides, those comments were Dupes themselves.