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Re:U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks by antr on Saturday June 29, 2013 @02:13PM (#5963260)
I'd be curious to know how would U.S. citizens' reactions be if it were the EU spying on U.S. diplomats and citizens.

I can only imagine.

Re:U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks by adventured on Saturday June 29, 2013 @02:27PM (#5963308)
US allies do spy on American corporations and the US Government. Israel for example has been caught over and over again spying on the US, and is a big concern for US intelligence agencies.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-sees-israel-tight-mideast-...

Countries we're neutral with (not allies per se, not at war with), such as China, routinely spy on the US Government and its corporations; ditto Russia (and that goes back a long ways). And of course China is America's largest trading partner, so we're quite friendly there.

Or for example, the UK spying on the Germans:

http://rt.com/news/uk-germany-wiretapping-criticism-201/

I would argue that all the major countries are attempting to spy on all the other major countries.

Perhaps none so successfully or belligerently as the US of course.

Re:U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks by mpyne on Saturday June 29, 2013 @02:22PM (#5963288)
I can only speak for myself, but I'd be pissed that our counter-intel guys didn't detect the bug and that our NSA COMSEC guys didn't employ effective countermeasures.

We've assumed people are spying on us as a matter of course, if we've paid attention to world history. The Soviets and Israel especially have had some especially ingenious means to spy on U.S. diplomatic communications.

Re:U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks by uvdiv on Saturday June 29, 2013 @02:22PM (#5963290)
Re:U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks by belorn on Saturday June 29, 2013 @08:41PM (#5964264)
If the U.S. invited some EU representatives to the Whitehouse, and the representatives was caught planting bugs, then the outcry would be likely very high. Words like terrorist plots would likely be mentioned.

And the representatives would end up in jail/death row.

Re:U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks by known on Saturday June 29, 2013 @03:46PM (#5963551)
Re:U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks by tkahn6 on Saturday June 29, 2013 @11:06PM (#5964536)
... do you think the EU isn't spying on the US?

It would be absurdly naive to think they weren't.

Re:U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks by lispm on Sunday June 30, 2013 @04:55AM (#5965155)
The EU has no NSA.
Re:U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks by vidarh on Sunday June 30, 2013 @06:21AM (#5965301)
But member states do, although not funded to nearly the same level. E.g. GCHQ in the UK. It'd be surprising if someone revealed to be as trigger happy and willing to spy on allies as GCHQ does not also spy on US interests.
Re:U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks by lispm on Sunday June 30, 2013 @04:17PM (#5967030)
GCHQ has nothing to do with the EU. It is a British institution and works closely together with the NSA.