Australia Spied On Indonesian President 213
mask.of.sanity writes "Australia tracked calls by Indonesia's president, documents leaked by defence contractor Edward Snowden reveal. The nation's top spy agency the Australian Signals Directorate tracked phone calls made and received on the mobile phone of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for 15 days in August 2009, and also tracked his wife and inner political circle. Indonesia was Australia's nearest and most important regional neighbour."
Re:Please shoot this man. (Score:4, Interesting)
"The facts are the facts; he's a threat to national security, right or wrong. "
You got that wrong. He's a threat to the National Security _Agency_!
National security is quite OK.
Re: Are we surprised? (Score:3, Interesting)
Yes australia did. Its called Anzus. Perhaps one of the biggest treaty coupes in Australias history.
Despite what people may think australia cannot defend itself without support. America is the ONLY logical source of that support.
Re:Anyone surprised? (Score:1, Interesting)
But if your spy agency spies on your own people at its own whims and fancies, including the people who are in charge of controlling that spy agency, it gives them too much power and leverage.
When it is illegal for them to do so, but they do it, and lie about it; you should start worrying. If they get away with it, you should be really worried on who is controlling who.
I think this story is just a distraction from what the NSA did.