Posted on 10/21/2016 8:26:47 AM PDT by Olog-hai
German lawmakers have approved a bill that allows the country’s foreign intelligence agency to spy on European Union institutions and fellow EU member states.
The legislation passed Friday is part of a range of measures meant to improve oversight of espionage in the wake of the revelations by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. […]
Critics say that instead of clamping down on questionable BND activity, the law will merely legalize them. …
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That way the globalist can gather aggregate on US citizens and trade that info for aggregate on their own citizens sans 4th amendment and privacy laws
Idiots. You don’t pass a bill authorizing you to spy on your allies, you just do it. That way, when you get caught, you can say “oh that is illegal, these spies went rogue!”
Come on, there must be a word for “plausible deniability” in German? Probably something like hackenschnickelfreutzenshimming?
Back in 2013, the meme out of Germany was “you don’t spy on allies”.
That’s just silly. You spy on everyone, because they will definitely spy on you if they can.
They were fond of hurling that one at the USA, as if the NSA had broken some kind of taboo by spying on Germany.
Germans being German... God how they love the boot grinding the human visage...
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