they are hoovering a small amount of messgae traffic
and sharing the results with the UK after studiously removing usain info. They share this with the commonwealth and others. I have no doubt that Cheltenham is also hoovering up traffic, removing the UK data and sharing the rest with the USA and others. Echelon has been doing that with phone calls since the 1960s. I have no issue with gathering every sigint we can offshore. That is what the NSA was designed to do. It is only when it is pointed at US do I have a major grief with it.
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