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If spying on allies sounds appropriate to you, then I'm not sure you understand why Snowden is even an issue.
by ronreiter 11y ago
If spying on allies sounds appropriate to you, then I'm not sure you understand why Snowden is even an issue.
- tptacek 11y agoAll allies spy on each other. A lot. Germany's biggest espionage issue isn't Russia; it's France.
- privong 11y ago> If spying on allies sounds appropriate to you, then I'm not sure you understand why Snowden is even an issue. I disagree. The important revelations from Snowden (in my opinion) is not nation-states spying on (officals of) other nation-states, it's nation-states conducting dragnet surveillance on their own citizens and citizens of other countries.
- 13thLetter 11y agoTrue, but there was a big to-do about US spying on German officials a little while back. If it was that horrible and offensive for us to spy on the German government, it's also just as horrible and offensive for us to spy on the Israeli government. (My personal view is that the US should definitely spy on every government in the world, and they're welcome to try to spy on us if they want, because it's dumb to pretend that it's not going to happen and then pitch a fit when what everyone knew was happening is revealed to be happening. But under that policy it's not better or worse to target Germany as opposed to Israel.)