Comment by hunglee2
2 years ago
"The source declined to identify the foreign governments involved in making the requests but described them as democracies allied to the United States"
- why not identify them?
2 years ago
"The source declined to identify the foreign governments involved in making the requests but described them as democracies allied to the United States"
- why not identify them?
Because the requests likely contain legal cladding to forbid disclosing the request, as is the case in Australia. A lot of people would be vindicated if it turned out one of the “democracies” making these requests was Australia.
Australia was my first guess when I read that sentence. But I expect it's not the only one.
It’s likely the five eyes allied nations.
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We already know, it's the Five Eyes
Most likely group, since they info share and this is the standard end-around on laws prohibiting "domestic" surveillance; government has some other country run the surveillance on their nationals.
Anglosphere.