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: *   According to our sources, this duplicitous, reciprocal arrangement
: *   disguises the most massive, and illegal, domestic espionage apparatus
: *   in the world. Not even the Soviets could touch the U.K.-U.S. intercept
: *   technology.
: *   
: *   Through this charade, the intelligence services of each country can
: *   claim they are not targeting their own citizens. This targeting is
: *   done by an authorized foreign agent, the intelligence liaison
: *   resident in Britain or the United States.
: *   
: *   Thus, in 1977, during an investigation by the House Government
: *   Operations Committee, Admiral Inman could claim, with a straight face,
: *   that "there are no U.S. Citizens now targeted by the NSA in the United
: *   States or abroad, none."
: *   
: *   Since the targeting was done not by NSA but by employees of British
: *   GCHQ, he was literally telling the truth.
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: *   
: *   According to a former special agent of the FBI, the you-spy-on-mine,
: *   I'll-spy-on-yours deal has been extended to other Western partners,
: *   particularly Canada and Australia. The Br