Great News! Four Countries Exempt From NSA Spying

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

Not-So-Great News! The United States isn't one of them!

The National Security Agency exempted four countries from its list of places where it could rightfully intercept information, leaving the world’s 193 other countries open to surveillance, according to a new set of top secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden.

Four countries that had signed a no-spying agreement with the U.S. — Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — were declared off-limits by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the Washington Post reports, but the court approved a list of 193 countries where the NSA could legally conduct surveillance.

NSA Authorized to Spy on 193 Countries

[gordianot]

1. Who wants to bet the exempt countries have their own secret domestic spying?

.....and all parties regularly share results.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. England is a fair bet.

But New Zealand? I always thought better of them.

[undeterred]

2. The exempt countries probably don't have electricity.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Not so great news...

Britain and Canada, and I suspect the other 2 countires, are doing the spying for the USA., on their own.
They have their own laws that allow any communication with one person being in a foreign country to be scooped up.
WE are that foreign country, to them.
And they share the info with our snoopers.

[winter is coming]

4. So of course the NSA won't spy on them.

[riderinthestorm]

5. Because they're part of our Five Eyes program - we share intelligence with them

And they share intelligence with us.

So the Administration can confidently say they aren't spying on Americans... because our other partners are doing it for us and reporting their findings.

We do the same for them.