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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: 5, Interesting) by Popeidol on Monday February 17 2014, @10:51AM

    by Popeidol (35) on Monday February 17 2014, @10:51AM (#746) Homepage Journal

    I'm very interested to see what this leads to. Late last year, it was revealed that Australia had tapped the phones of the Indonesian president. This led to a fairly major incident - some joint ventures were canceled outright, some were delayed, and the Indonesian ambassador was recalled from Australia. Our relations with them have not recovered completely, despite a personal written apology from the Australian prime minister. Local sentiment seems to be that this is a personal insult from Australia. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-n ews/indonesia-recalls-ambassador-to-australia-over -phone-tapping-20131118-2xrfw.html [smh.com.au]

    I do not think the Indonesian government will take it lightly, and I support them: For a long time, our politicians have treated the countries surrounding us fairly roughly, while reserving their respect and admiration for the US and UK. If it takes an international incident like this to remind them that a powerful neighbor can only be pushed so far, Then I guess this is how they'll learn.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by romanr on Monday February 17 2014, @12:54PM

    by romanr (102) on Monday February 17 2014, @12:54PM (#830)

    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).

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by edIII on Monday February 17 2014, @01:59PM

    by edIII (791) on Monday February 17 2014, @01:59PM (#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.