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> As long as the various intelligence agencies are not operating within the borders of their own countries, targeting their own citizens or sharing information
by balabaster 9y ago
> As long as the various intelligence agencies are not operating within the borders of their own countries, targeting their own citizens or sharing information in totality with foreign agencies as quid-pro-quo to achieve the same (Five Eyes)
You mean the U.S. wholesale spying on the British for the British to circumvent British privacy laws and the British doing the same for the U.S.?
In a situation like this, there's little point in saying that intelligence agencies can't spy on Americans, because they're doing it anyway, they're just using a proxy to do so to bypass American laws.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoThere remains no evidence of this happening, despite countless leaks from the intelligence communities of all involved countries. The members of Five Eyes, formerly BRUSA, explicitly don't spy on each other according to the agreement. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24715168 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24715168
- willstrafach 9y agoEveryone believes this myth now apparently, it is best not to bother pointing out the fact that there is no proof.