Well and for all the "legal oversight" much of the five eyes operations seems to have been designed around economic advantages, circumventing the rules about sp

Well and for all the "legal oversight" much of the five eyes operations seems to have been designed around economic advantages, circumventing the rules about spying on your own citizens (it's not us who is doing the spying, it's the Australians). So I'm not sure if it being a five eyes operation makes it better or worse.