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US Conducted Secret Surveillance of China's Huawei, Prosecutors Say (reuters.com)
U.S. authorities gathered information about Huawei through secret surveillance that they plan to use in a case accusing the Chinese telecom equipment maker of sanctions-busting and bank fraud, prosecutors said on Thursday. From a report: Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Solomon said at a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn that the evidence, obtained under the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), would require classified handling. The government notified Huawei in a court filing on Thursday of its intent to use the information, saying it was "obtained or derived from electronic surveillance and physical search," but gave no details. The United States has been pressuring other countries to drop Huawei from their cellular networks, worried its equipment could be used by Beijing for spying. The company says the concerns are unfounded. Brian Frey, a former federal prosecutor who is not involved in the Huawei case, said FISA surveillance, which requires a warrant from a special court, is generally sought in connection with suspected espionage.
Don't let China spy on you, let us do it instead.
I think that US just wants less people using the Huawei network equipment with the Chinese backdoors in it's firmware, and the Cisco network equipment with the NSA backdoors in it's firmware instead. It just makes things a bit easier for our various three letter intelligence agencies. I mean, the Chinese keep changing the passwords on their backdoors, and it's a pain to have to brute force them instead of just looking them up in USpyWiki...
The united states has the largest prison population in the world by a huge margin