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Re:Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden by BWStearns on Friday February 05, 2016 @12:36PM (#11043032)
Listening in on Merkel's phone calls. Yes, an ally of the US but allies spy on each other all the time and have and will for all time. Was it illegal? That's a hard no. Was it immoral? That's an interesting debate.

Edit: Though I did appreciate her Captain Renault impression about being so terribly shocked that as head of state she was a target for espionage.

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Re:Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden by robotresearcher on Friday February 05, 2016 @01:50PM (#11043664)
> Was it illegal? That's a hard no.

It was illegal under German law. Should we ignore the laws of our close allies?

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Re:Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden by Philadelphia on Friday February 05, 2016 @02:09PM (#11043796)
Being a foreign spy is always illegal. That's the point of it, and why spies are separate from soldiers and police.
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Re:Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden by BookmarkSaver on Friday February 05, 2016 @02:03PM (#11043755)
Whether or not we should, it later came out that they were doing the same to us.
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Re:Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden by BWStearns on Friday February 05, 2016 @02:45PM (#11044068)
If I were a German taxpayer and the BND weren't spying on the US I would want a refund.
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