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> https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/we-need-five-eyes-spy-network-oversight https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/we-need-five-eyes... This is an
by haroldp 3y ago
> https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/we-need-five-eyes-spy-network-oversight https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/we-need-five-eyes...
This is an article for an AU government-funded policy think-tank, written by a China-hawk who is also a fellow at America's government-funded, war-hawk Center for Strategic and International Studies, saying that 5Eyes is actually fine. His main thrust seems to be that AU just needs super-effective oversight like the US has with its secret rubber-stamp courts and nothing-to-gain-from-it Congressional review.
> The partnership has one core rule, that the members agree not to spy on each other.
The US's core rule #4 is that you can't rifle through people's shit without convincing a judge of the crime you suspect them of committing, and why you need to look, and what the narrow limits of your search are.
Yet here we are.