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Where's the national interest in revealing how the US and its allies' intelligence services target adversaries like China and Russia, international drug cartels
by jackgavigan 13y ago
Where's the national interest in revealing how the US and its allies' intelligence services target adversaries like China and Russia, international drug cartels and terrorist networks?
- cwp 13y agoI think maybe he means "public interest."
- talmand 13y agoFrom what I've seen a great deal of the materials released so far show how the US spies on everyone but the examples you cite, including these allies you speak of. Have there been examples in the Snowden materials of how the US spies on "adversaries" such as Russia and China? I didn't even realize that those were adversaries in the traditional sense that justifies such intrusions in everyone's lives.
- jackgavigan 13y agohttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-computers-not-connected-to-internet.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/nsa-effort-pries-open-c... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-uks-secret-mideast-internet-surveillance-base-is-revealed-in-edward-snowden-leaks-8781082.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-uks-...
- talmand 13y agoI can't read the first article as it is behind a paywall. It starts with the NSA installing software in nearly 100,000 computers worldwide to conduct surveillance. I suppose it explains somewhere after the paywall of how they use that to spy on adversaries such as China and Russia? The second one seems to be more about the British spying on the Middle East of which they share information with the NSA. I admit I skimmed it but does it accuse the NSA of spying on adversaries such as China and Russia? So far, they just seem to spy on everyone.