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by ianhawes 4463 days ago
Do you support your country conducting their own foreign intelligence?
3 comments
codesuela 4463 days ago
Being German I'd argue that a problem is that Germany relies on the US to conduct intelligence for them and hence ignores the fact that the NSA is violating the rights of it's citizens on a massive scale.
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mpyne 4463 days ago
No, BND does a lot of intelligence work as well... weren't you paying attention to the Snowden leaks?
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coldtea 4463 days ago
No, I don't.

I could understand it for a country doing it for it's direct adversaries (e.g India and Pakistan and vice versa). That's what it was historically been connected to in any case.

I especially don't want a 10000-pound gorilla country with a constant history of war, imperialism and a racist feeling of "we are the chose country of God and a great experiment" doing it globally and using it for economic and military control.

So, no, I don't like Germany doing it. Or France. Or UK. Or China. Or Japan. And especially I don't like the big kahuna doing it.

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Sae5waip 4463 days ago
No, I don't.

a) We (my country and the US) are allies.

b) I may be less not ok with spying on high-ranking politicians. But any spying on companies and normal citizens is right out.

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