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Originally Posted by _Richard_
damn, you're right.
We better notify the world there is nothing illegal going on, and everything is A-OK
btw, you're talking to a foreigner about terrorism
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You don't think Canada and the UK and most other countries do the same thing? How many countries do you think are piggy backing on the same system the US runs?
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Originally Posted by _Richard_
don't worry tho, they'll just tap your phones and everything else from canada.. so it's perfectly legal
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I believe this is a large part of what they do, and I believe it is legal. At the very least this explains why when I do a trace route from California to the east coast, it is routed through Canada.
I think in the 1960s or 1970s it was discovered the CIA (NSA?) was tapping phones in Europe, and on occasion phone calls would involve someone in the US. They ended up in court over it, and at the end of the day it was decided that US law did not apply in Europe and it was perfectly legal. It's very much like what we are doing in Cuba - it's a neat way to get around the law.
I'm not saying it's right, but I'm saying if they are doing it might just be perfectly legal.
Snowden handed out copies of a power point presentation and one of the pages had locations of the servers included. All of them were outside of the US. I think this is intentional, because it allows them to get around US law.