Clapper admits NSA should have been ‘transparent from the outset’ on surveillance — RT USA

"The Director of National Intelligence has admitted that, in hindsight, the US intelligence community would have been smarter to disclose some details about how telephone records belonging to millions of Americans have been collected for years."



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How NSA spying disclosures influence security strategies

"How has whistleblower Edward Snowden’s exposés affected the ways organisations deal with internal and external security threats?"



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Surveillance revelations: Angela Merkel proposes European network to beat NSA and GCHQ spying - Europe - World - The Independent

"Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has announced plans to set up a European communications network as part of a broad counter-espionage offensive designed to curb mass surveillance conducted by the US National Security Agency and its British counterpart, GCHQ."



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Marty Natalegawa cannot comprehend 'mind-boggling' explanation for Australia spying on US law firm in Indonesia - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 "Indonesia says it cannot comprehend Australia's "mind-boggling" explanation that spying on sensitive trade talks was a national security matter."



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Indon trade spying report to test Abbott | Perth Now

PRIME Minister Tony Abbott's claim that Australian intelligence gathering is done chiefly to save lives is being tested, with reports of spying on Indonesian-US trade talks over shrimp."



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Espionage game is a universal pursuit | The Australian

"INDONESIA is again engaging in damaging populist politics by pretending it was “mind-boggling” that Australia and the US would dare engage in economic espionage against Jakarta."



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