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> I read somewhere that France, the UK, the U.S. and Germany
> had agreed to spy on each others' citizens.   (It's illegal for the
> agencies to monitor internal communications, so they all made 
> a virtue out of the difficulty, and assist each other in watching
> each other.)
> 

Carsten,

This is old news, but this must have appeared in the local and/or
national news in Europe?  I didn't check to see if the BBC
article was still online.

--Steve


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"German police have been forced to admit that dozens of criminal
suspects had learned their phones were being tapped when the evidence
showed up on their monthly phone bill."
[...]
"Telecommunications authorities said that nearly 20,000 lines were
currently being tapped."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2387269.stm