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[quote=Anonymous]Of course Israel spies on us.  I’m sure we spy on them.  It’s what countries do.  They spy on each other, they spy on themselves, they leverage secrets, and they all pretend to be innocent.

Angela Merkel got upset when the Snowden leaks revealed that the US (NATO allies) had been spying on her, “Friends do not spy on friends,”  something that we were apparently helped with by Denmark.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57302806

Then it was discovered that German spies had helped Americans spy on other “friends”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32529017

I don’t know whether Israel overstepped some arcane spy ethics boundary, they spied so blatantly that America couldn’t believably maintain a facade of ignorance, or America felt that it served a political interest to out the Israeli espionage.  I’m certainly not endorsing other countries spying on us, and I do think we should vigorously protect our secrets, but to be shocked at the revelation that another country (even an ally) is spying on us would be disingenuous.  I don’t think this revelation significantly changes anything.  Israel is neither inherently more virtuous nor malicious, neither a better or worse ally than it was before the revelation that they were trying to gain information on us.  I would hope our intelligence forces would assume, as a given, that other countries will take every opportunity to get our confidential information, and guard it accordingly, and maybe that’s why we revealed that we’re on to them.[/quote]

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