Sweden investigating alleged U.S. spying

[Chatt]

And they wonder why some suspect US involvement in the smear of Julian Assange there. US is reportedly spying there without even telling the Swedish!

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/06/sweden.us.investigation/?hpt=T2


CNN (November 7, 2010):

(CNN) -- The Swedish security police have launched an investigation into "unlawful intelligence activities" conducted by the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, according to a statement released Saturday.

The investigation was opened one day after the U.S. Embassy there told authorities its employees had been conducting surveillance activities, similar to what was recently discovered in Norway, according to the security police statement.

The work was primarily aimed at protecting the American embassy, the security police said.

The scale of surveillance is not known, but according to the statement, operations have been ongoing since 2000. They were conducted without the knowledge of the Foreign Affairs office, the Justice Department, the security or the local police in Sweden, the statement said.

Read it all here:

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1. K & R nt

[KansDem]

2. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US doesn't have to tell the Swedes...

I thought I read many years ago about what was essentially a "English-speaking, white guys' pact"--The US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand had agreed at one time to not spy on each other without notification.

Of course, this was before the rise of fascism in this country...