Snowden Document Shows Canada Set Up Spy Posts For NSA 177
An anonymous reader writes with news that even Canada is getting its hands dirty in the international dragnet fiasco. From the article: "The leaked NSA document being reported exclusively by CBC News reveals Canada is involved with the huge American intelligence agency in clandestine surveillance activities in 'approximately 20 high-priority countries.' ... Wesley Wark, a Canadian security and intelligence expert at the University of Ottawa, says the document makes it clear Canada can take advantage of its relatively benign image internationally to covertly amass a vast amount of information abroad. 'I think we still trade on a degree of an international brand as an innocent partner in the international sphere,' Wark said. 'There's not that much known about Canadian intelligence.'"
Old News (Score:4, Informative)
I thought it was common knowledge for quite a long time that the canadian Communications Security Establishment [wikipedia.org] set up all the american embassies with their SIGINT gear and such.
Sweden too (Score:4, Informative)
The Swedes 'cooperated' too.
http://www.thelocal.se/20131205/sweden-spied-on-russia-for-nsa-report [thelocal.se]
It's pretty hard to say no when the guy with the biggest guns and millions of murders to back them asks you to do something.