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US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement
itwbennett writes "The German Federal Intelligence Service said in a news release that the U.S. has verbally committed to enter into a no-spying agreement with Germany. The no-spying agreement talks were announced as part of a progress report on an eight-point program proposed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in July with measures to better protect the privacy of German citizens. In the progress report, the German government found that U.S. intelligence services comply with German law. Also, the operators of large German Internet exchanges and the federal government did not find any evidence that the U.S. spies on Germans, the government said."
Not hard to imagine setting up a spying agreement with some 3rd world nation where the US spends a lot of money to upgrade their infrastructure and train their cyber warrriors to do the spying for us. "It wasn't us! It was THEM!!" You know... sort of an Al Qaeda that hacks, cracks and tracks? And of course the US will always be able to control them just as they have Al Qaeda.