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I don't have the ultimate answer here, but why were the (highly classified, some marked "no foreign national viewing") GCHQ slide decks on NSA servers? I also

• caskance 11y ago
  The most obvious answer is that the NSA pwned them.
• rhino369 11y ago
  They obviously work together very closely. I'm just objecting to the idea that the UK spy agencies are just American outposts and that each agency is responsible for the mistakes/crimes of the others. Maybe they are really pushed around by the US, but I'd have to see more than Snowden making unfounded statements about it. In the past, he's made some illogical leaps based on some of the information he took. It's very easy to do that when you expect the worst of someone/thing.
  • cryoshon 11y ago
    It's also possible that the documents outlining the closest collaborations are too sensitive for Greenwald et al. to publish. Snowden may be speaking generally based off of background which he has seen firsthand, but indicated to the journalists that it should be kept secret. Hard to conjecture much farther without seeing everything. At this juncture, I'm going to continue assuming that the GCHQ equals the NSA.
  • TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
    > I'm just objecting to the idea that the UK spy agencies are just American outposts and that each agency is responsible for the mistakes/crimes of the others. The UK agencies aren't US outposts and the US agencies aren't UK outposts. They're all AUSCANNZUKUS/Five Eyes outposts.