US & GCHQ spy on everyone

Spying on friends: strange bedfellows Thanks to high-tech equipment, the American spy agency, the National Security Agency (NSA), accessed the Mexican president's e-mail domains, which were also used by members of his cabinet. And, no surprise, the domains contained “diplomatic, economic and leadership communications which continue to provide insight into Mexico's political system and internal stability.” Let's take a moment to reflect on the gold mine these NSA guys discovered. After NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed this information every intelligence agency in the world envied their American colleagues. The Mexican president's office, according to the NSA report, was now “a lucrative source” of information. Infiltrating foreign governments is the dream of any spy agency. But only under one unbreakable condition (remember the golden rule of the game): Do not get caught. The NSA got caught in the Mexican job thanks to an NSA worker spilling the beans. And our “gentlemen” diplomats, who are never supposed to know anything about this dirty business, rush to the scene of the crime to do damage control. Whether you engage in old-fashioned spying or high-tech interception, the method has been and always will remain the same: Get as much systematic information about your rivals as you can, categorize the information, do your utmost to confirm its authenticity, evaluate it, and disseminate all available knowledge according to the political goals specifically identified by government. Under direct orders from the government, the main task of any spy agency is simple but clear: to feed the policy-making process with accurate and timely information. [... CONTINUED @ SOURCE ... ] http://www.todayszaman.com/_spying-on-friends-strange-bedfellows_357667.html

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Found this interesting because I didn't know the US spied on Mexico or that the G20 delegates got spied on by GCHQ.