<story><title>Latest Snowden Doc Shows NSA Spied on German Intelligence</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-document-reveals-us-spied-on-german-intelligence-a-1055055.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Someone1234</author><text>I agree that this is a legitimate intelligence target. All of the allies spy one one another all of the time, that&amp;#x27;s how we keep trust.&lt;p&gt;I think the biggest scandal that isn&amp;#x27;t discussed often enough (in the US) is not spying on foreign government officials for legitimate security-related reasons (e.g. this), it is spying on foreign government officials to give the US an advantage in trade negotiations or worse passing on &amp;quot;tips&amp;quot; to US-based private companies so they can gain an advantage during negotiations&amp;#x2F;bidding.&lt;p&gt;The US constantly beats the capitalism drum, and that&amp;#x27;s fine. But it seem hypocritical to beat the capitalism drum with one hand, while with the other quietly subverting capitalism by giving certain favored entities tips and advantages.&lt;p&gt;Even people in the US should be asking why large US corporations are given these tips&amp;#x2F;advantages&amp;#x2F;etc while small-medium US businesses are not. Let alone the immorality of helping a US company win against a foreign one due to state supplied corporate espionage.&lt;p&gt;The justification &amp;quot;well China does it!!1!&amp;quot; while true, is just kind of pathetic. China does a lot of things, doesn&amp;#x27;t make it right for a country that claims it is the beacon is capitalism and democracy to do the same.</text></comment>
<story><title>Latest Snowden Doc Shows NSA Spied on German Intelligence</title><url>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/new-snowden-document-reveals-us-spied-on-german-intelligence-a-1055055.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>unreal37</author><text>Seems like a non-story. The NSA was in possession of a couple of documents created by German intelligence. There&amp;#x27;s no evidence how they got them. Perhaps there was a leaker inside of the German intelligence service who posted a copy of these memos to a pastebin? They have no idea how the Americans got it.</text></comment>