Posted on 03/05/2015 4:16:53 AM PST by WhiskeyX
New Zealand is conducting mass surveillance over its Pacific neighbours, reports citing documents leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden say.
Calls, emails and social media messages were being collected from Pacific nations, the New Zealand Herald said.
The data was shared with other members of the "Five Eyes" network - the US, Australia, Britain and Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Maybe they have a Belichick type coaching the All Blacks and they are spying on the other Rugby teams.
New Zealand does this because it secures it access to intelligence from the other four nations involved in the program. And that intelligence can come from countries that are a threat.
New Zealand does have valid national security concerns. It has put troops into Afghanistan and Iraq over the last decade and a half, and there are plenty of nations that don’t like that. But there’s also cases like the Rainbow Warrior where agents of the French government carried out a bombing in the heart of New Zealand.
French nuclear testing in the South Pacific area, has also lead to genuine tensions at times.
But most of all, this is about New Zealand being a good ally to the larger nations most important to its security. Since it upset a lot of its security relationship with the United States with its stance on nuclear weapons and refusing to allow access to its ports to USN ships unless they declare no such weapons are aboard (which the USN will not do), maintaining the other parts of the relationship is absolutely critical to the national security and defence of New Zealand.
“New Zealand does this because it secures it access to intelligence from the other four nations involved in the program. And that intelligence can come from countries that are a threat.”
Bingo and that is covered below:
Technically, the five countries which make up FiveEyes, can’t spy on their own people. So they spy on other countries and share the data with their FiveEye countries.
Go to the search link below to read about FiveEyes and Echelon:
I was referring to PREDATOR, IIRC. I tried to look it up in the book that was published about it by a former CSIS agent, but I can’t lay my hands on it right now. The project exploited the ability to collect telecommunication services microwave transmissions and sort the digitized voice and other collected traffic using IBM mainframe computers.
As I understand it ECHELON and CARNOVORE, for another example, covered other aspects of the signals intelligence.
Correction: CARNIVORE
Interesting re the names, predator/carnivore versus Echelon and FiveEyes.
Interesting re the names, predator/carnivore versus Echelon and FiveEyes.
See also:
PROMIS
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html
Raw List of NSA Nicknames and Codewords
https://decryptedmatrix.com/raw-list-of-nsa-nicknames-and-codewords/
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