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That last part doesn't happen: it's part of the intelligence agreements not to do that.
by wbl 9y ago
That last part doesn't happen: it's part of the intelligence agreements not to do that.
- kuschku 9y agoThe snowden leaks, 4 years ago, offer proof that this happened, and you still deny it? Officials of the BND admitted it in a parliamentary hearing, too.
- wbl 9y agoWhat proof did Snowden show of this?
- willstrafach 9y agoNone. People refuse to let this myth die, yet cannot provide any evidence. It is very strange.
- kuschku 9y agoI don’t have his documents on hand, but I’d instead recommend you read the transscripts of the NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss of the German Bundestag, which investigated the NSA and BND affairs. They’re official government documents, and are transscripts of people testifying under oath. The head of the BND stated that the BND did not record any information about Germans, and the NSA did not record any information about Americans, but that the BND shared whatever it collected about Americans with the NSA, and in reverse.
- vinchuco 9y agoWould you have thought of all Snowden revealed by yourself if he hadn't?
- trhway 9y agoThat agreement is to not to spy on each other against each other's will. That is completely different from spying on each other's domestic targets at each other's request/will to workaround domestic no spying and privacy protections laws.
- wbl 9y agoExplain how anyone would think that works. You can't get around the 4th amendment by directing someone else to violate it.
- trhway 9y agoUK spying on US citizens doesn't violate US Constitution and the 4th in particular which naturally applies only to US government and the people on US soil. And thus they do it that way. UK obviously has all the rights to listen, record, etc on telecommunications of all of the foreigners, including US people on US soil as long as the traffic leaves the US (and even if not - i don't think they bother to pay attention to such a small detail as long as they are doing it from comfortable office in London :). >Explain how anyone would think that works. US government lawyers explained how torture is legal. Compare to that, the circumventing of the 4th by means of allies doing the actual spying ... i'd be surprised if they even bothered to explain it away.