says: Top Secret Comm(?) REL() to USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
confirming the previous suspicions that many other governments are on board.
Der Spiegel actually has reported a few weeks back about XKeyscore [1] and that it is used by the BND (Germany's NSA). I.e. all this data is also available to the NSA equivalents of Australia, Candana, Great Britain and New Zealand.
Many Americans trust their government (unfortunately), will they also trust the other governments?
Good catch -- and really, I find it to be quite foreboding in terms of how indomitable it is precisely because of the secrecy of the program.
"This was a secret treaty, allegedly so secret that it was kept secret from the Australian Prime Ministers until 1973."
This is indeed a trend, and I speculate that NSA (and NSA-like entities in the other 4 eyes/countries) probably communicate information and abilities to prime ministers and presidents of the respective countries very selectively.
Bonus: The NSA likely can get around the "no spying on US citizens" by just requesting data from those governments, who proceed to pull it out of the NSA's web interface.
That's COMINT, or Communications Intelligence, basically the type of intelligence that XKeyscore is part of. It might say HUMINT if the intelligence was collected from human sources.
REL TO likely means release to.
As I've said before, the realisation that most countries do this sort of thing comes as no surprise.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video...
says: Top Secret Comm(?) REL() to USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
confirming the previous suspicions that many other governments are on board.
Der Spiegel actually has reported a few weeks back about XKeyscore [1] and that it is used by the BND (Germany's NSA). I.e. all this data is also available to the NSA equivalents of Australia, Candana, Great Britain and New Zealand.
Many Americans trust their government (unfortunately), will they also trust the other governments?
[1]:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-intelligenc...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-intellige...