Posted on 11/29/2014 9:09:29 PM PST by Olog-hai
German lawmakers probing the surveillance activities of the U.S. National Security Agency have uncovered a legal loophole that allows the country’s foreign intelligence agency to spy on its own citizens.
The agency, known by its German acronym BND, is normally forbidden from eavesdropping on Germans or German companies.
But a former BND lawyer told Parliament this week that Germans aren’t protected while working abroad for foreign companies. …
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At least they use a legal loophole. Our government just breaks the doggone laws when they do it.
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