What I think needs to exist is a similar protection government has, national interest. I think there should be, in all democracies, a defence of national interest. The law should never be allowed to obstruct the truth.
Where's the national interest in revealing how the US and its allies' intelligence services target adversaries like China and Russia, international drug cartels and terrorist networks?
From what I've seen a great deal of the materials released so far show how the US spies on everyone but the examples you cite, including these allies you speak of.
Have there been examples in the Snowden materials of how the US spies on "adversaries" such as Russia and China? I didn't even realize that those were adversaries in the traditional sense that justifies such intrusions in everyone's lives.
I can't read the first article as it is behind a paywall. It starts with the NSA installing software in nearly 100,000 computers worldwide to conduct surveillance. I suppose it explains somewhere after the paywall of how they use that to spy on adversaries such as China and Russia?
The second one seems to be more about the British spying on the Middle East of which they share information with the NSA. I admit I skimmed it but does it accuse the NSA of spying on adversaries such as China and Russia?
