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Posted by: SonOfTheMask 1 year, 2 months ago

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SonOfTheMask1 year, 2 months ago

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That's true, berkeley, although there's a difference between spying and intelligence gathering, I think.

Spying is gathering information from actual human assets or surveillance. Intelligence gathering takes publicly available data and combs through it for information. I know I'm splitting hairs to a certain degree, but "spying" on your allies is different than gathering intelligence about your allies.

Of course, all the major powers spy on each other and their allies, nothing new there, to your point that Iraqi officials would surely suspect that we have "spies" in place there.

Thanks for the article gamahuche.

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  berkeley1 year, 2 months ago
  
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  i accept your distinctions. but in the case of the security council, we bugged telephones, and rooms, in the weeks before the vote. that's not really publicly available stuff. some of the countries involved discovered they were being bugged, and released their findings years later.
  
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