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Why would the Dutch and French police time the release of this information with a US law proposal?
by donkeyd 6y ago
Why would the Dutch and French police time the release of this information with a US law proposal?
- draugadrotten 6y agoBecause that's how global politics and alliances work, sometimes.
- donkeyd 6y agoSure. Because Trump hasn't completely messed up any form of allegiance the Europe had to the US.
- h0h0h0h0111 6y agoUltimately Trump is just one (albeit powerful) dude - I imagine intelligence and other agencies have built up relationships over a much longer period
- donkeyd 6y agoYes, they probably have, relationships based on trust. Using information for political gain is not the type of stuff that allows that trust to continue existing. So for US politicians to both know and abuse this, someone in the US intelligence community would have had to be willing to lose a lot of trust on the EU side by both sharing the intelligence and allowing it to be used for political gain and forcing the EU side to become their political puppet. That doesn't seem reasonable to me, but who knows. If that's what happened though, the US can forget any trust in the near future.
- jacobush 6y agoNo particular reason I guess, but stranger connections have been made when the US leans on other countries. Sweden violated its constitution and had dawn raids and confiscation of servers performed to satisfy the RIAA.
- donkeyd 6y agoThat's completely different from asking two different countries to withhold information from multiple criminal investigations for political gain by a specific group of US politicians. European countries don't even trust US politicians anymore with information about ongoing investigations, due to the blabbermouth president. Why would they even communicate this with them to begin with?
- jacobush 6y agoThey still hold some clout as long as they are in office. And don't forget that the administration has installed a lot of affiliated poeople into agencies. (Ratcliffe for instance.) I'm not saying the dutch and the french did some kind of cooperation with the US here, I'm just saying I would not gasp of surprise if it turned out to be so.
- donkeyd 6y ago> And don't forget that the administration has installed a lot of affiliated poeople into agencies. I haven't and neither have our agencies.
- jacobush 6y agoDo you mean the staff remember to cater to the whims of their newly appointed chief, or do you mean, they remember and try to stall the worst madness from above?
- griffzhowl 6y agoGCHQ were involved which means the NSa would have known about it since they're not really separate organizations. I believe they would refrain from briefing the president on something which was important to keep secret.
- koheripbal 6y agoIt's probably just a coincidence. The actual French access to the servers was in April - there were more rumors of it back then.