[LockAndLol]

> “The oversight is baked into Western operations at the technical, tradecraft, and procedure level,” they added.

So what the NSA has been doing (even after exposure by Snowden) has had "oversight baked in"? Who are we kidding?

This posturing, pretending that " the west is better than everybody else", is downright naive and idiotic. No organisation is pure of heart, moral, or ethics, and none have crystalline motives.

[juanani]

Blind exceptionalism is required to get by in the West. I can't see good reasons for it, Hollywood plays the fiddle.