alt Hacker Newshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/SB95326824311657269 (https://archive.is/N46di)
Why We Spy on Our Allies
March 17, 2000 11:56 am ET
By R. James Woolsey, a Washington lawyer and a former director of central intelligence.
We'll begin with some candor from the American side. Yes, my continental European friends, we have spied on you. And it's true that we use computers to sort through data by using keywords. Have you stopped to ask yourselves what we're looking for?
tl;dr: "You bribe, so we spy"
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I haven't read the op-ed, but I wonder if it talks about the French Leclerc case?
TIL that when Greece tested four tanks in 2000 before a big arms purchase, the US M1A1 Abrams and British Challenger 2E tanks had trouble with their satellite navigation systems. A French intelligence agency used GPS jammers to help the French Leclerc tank in the competition. <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6bhr14/til_th...>
Yes, but the US bribes too. In fact, I'd say that corruption is more common in the US than in much of Europe. The article's claim that the US worships Adam Smith is only nominally true; in practice, they love nothing more than monopolisation and market domination.
> Have you stopped to ask yourselves what we're looking for?
Any advantage that they can exploit. It's no great secret that the US government often acts on behalf of its major corporations and vice versa.