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by rhizome 4636 days ago
Current revelations aside, when agencies are prohibited by law from engaging in certain kinds of surveillance, looping other countries in can be a way of purifying the information they desire. In other words, it's not illegal for the UK to spy on US citizens (and vice versa), so if the US maintains good relations they can get backchannel data all they like.