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> “The oversight is baked into Western operations at the technical, tradecraft, and procedure level,” they added. At least for Germany this is patently untrue.
by chopin 6y ago
> “The oversight is baked into Western operations at the technical, tradecraft, and procedure level,” they added.
At least for Germany this is patently untrue. Our parliament is stonewalled regularly and they get away with it. And even in the US, the congress is being lied to with no repercussions.
- 13415 6y agoWhat's even worse about this is that intelligence agencies are highly suspect of outsourcing surveillance that would be illegal for them to conduct (e.g. because it's on their own citizens on their home soil) to allied intelligence agencies, thereby circumventing judicial oversight and local laws.
- ceejayoz 6y agoSpecifically: the various Five Eyes nations can share intelligence to the point where if the Americans can't access information on an American without a warrant, they can just ask the Brits to do it, and vice versa. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-deal-surveillance-personal-data https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-d...