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Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System by tomschlick on Sunday April 16, 2017 @10:38PM (#14128891)
Yes. Because that is exactly their purpose. To gain SIGINT on others.

Every major nation does this kind of thing to each other to keep the others in check. Trust but verify.

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Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System by willstrafach on Monday April 17, 2017 @07:10AM (#14130231)
> workaround of national law forbidding them to do so

Citizen data is still minimized, regardless of who collected it. There has never been evidence of this often-repeated "workaround" theory.

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Re:Leak Suggests NSA Was Deep in Middle East Banking System by ionised on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @06:08AM (#14146664)
> There has never been evidence of this often-repeated "workaround" theory.

I mean, it was pretty clear from the Snowden leaks that this is what was happening.

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