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"The source declined to identify the foreign governments involved in making the requests but described them as democracies allied to the United States" - why n
by hunglee2 3y ago
"The source declined to identify the foreign governments involved in making the requests but described them as democracies allied to the United States"
- why not identify them?
- vermilingua 3y agoBecause the requests likely contain legal cladding to forbid disclosing the request, as is the case in Australia. A lot of people would be vindicated if it turned out one of the “democracies” making these requests was Australia.
- peterkelly 3y agoAustralia was my first guess when I read that sentence. But I expect it's not the only one.
- thallium205 3y agoIt’s likely the five eyes allied nations.
- ericmay 3y agoYep. Most likely to try and catch Chinese spies or other countries like India, Iran, Russia, and others as they continue to go after dissidents abroad.
- toyg 3y agoOr to track US activists and resell the information to the US government, in exchange for data on other five-eyes citizens or access to other surveillance systems (US ones are obviously the best, from a military standpoint).
- ericmay 3y agoOr (insert country you have a political agenda against) to (do thing you disagree with) for the purposes of (pushing your own political agenda).
- toyg 3y agoMore like "or (insert country that shouldn't be doing something according to its own laws) to (do something against its own laws) for the purposes of (someone's profit)".
- ericmay 3y agoSure and that applies (at least) to the EU (and friends), US, UK, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, India, etc.
- toyg 3y agoYeah but a lot of those are not democracies, nor do much business at intel level with the US.
- ericmay 3y agoWhy would it matter if they are democracies or not? Why would it matter if they "do intel business" with the US, EU, UK, etc. ?
- toyg 3y agoBecause that's what the source said they are.
- selimthegrim 3y agoPakistan?
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoAnglosphere.
- toyg 3y agoWe already know, it's the Five Eyes
- yborg 3y agoMost likely group, since they info share and this is the standard end-around on laws prohibiting "domestic" surveillance; government has some other country run the surveillance on their nationals.