Sean Spicer just suggested that Obama used British intelligence to spy on Trump. Britain isn’t happy.

Of Interest 2017-03-24

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March 16, 2017

"Some people writing on intelligence and surveillance note that close working relations such as this can allow intelligence agencies to evade domestic controls. Jennifer Granick, in her new Cambridge University Press book, American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It, notes that Five Eyes countries aren’t supposed to spy on one another’s citizens. However, she says that the NSA has prepared policies that would allow it to spy on Five Eyes citizens without permission. She furthermore suggests that:

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03/24/2017, 11:07

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03/16/2017, 03:00