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Good thing Isreal is our greatest ally. If they were our enemy they'd be doing this to Americans


That is how some NSA-type agencies work around the prohibition of spying on their own citizens: they have the agency of another country do it. I think some also just ignore the prohibition. The German BND has the "space theory", the idea that the data might have theoretically been transmitted by satellites, which makes it okay to intercept.


If you think every nation isn’t doing it to every other nation, constantly, I have a bridge to sell you (cheap!).


"Israel isn't doing it, but I'll find a way to accuse it of doing it anyway."


Wait until you find out what Americans are doing to everyone else on earth (and sometimes to themselves). Americans should sit down. Don’t talk about surveillance and spies as if Americans have never ever spied or used survilliance.


So what? We want to be the strongest. The principle is not 'dont spy', the principle is 'dont spy on ME'.


You're delusional if you think the US isn't spying on you though.

They spy on everyone, they just happen to pay US-companies to do the spying to avoid any accountability.

I don't think we should also just tolerate spying on other countries. Why does the average Joe Blogs in Sweden need to be spied on by the US Government?


they might be doing it, we never know.




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