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Two reasons: 1. The practice of intelligence sharing makes the distinction between spying on one's own citizens and foreign nationals less meaningful. Collabor
by Tarq0n 10y ago
Two reasons:
1. The practice of intelligence sharing makes the distinction between spying on one's own citizens and foreign nationals less meaningful. Collaborating with foreign intelligence agencies like five eyes is a convenient way to bypass the outdated legal framework around domestic intelligence gathering.
2. While spying on foreign nationals may be, within a limited perspective legal; performing dragnet collection on the private communications of millions of people may still be unethical and disproportionate to the U.S.'s interest. Not to mention a violation of the human right to privacy of these people.
- marcoperaza 10y ago#1 is an interesting point, but that's not the extent of what was revealed. For example, Snowden revealed details about our intelligence activities in Germany. #2 is a great point to make to Congress, but I'm sure they've already considered the issue at length. Perhaps it is against US interests to partake in that kind of dragnet activity against foreign civilians, but it is not an individual NSA contractor's job to determine what the American interest is.