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2014-03-04 -Land of the Free

US law firm representing Indonesian government caught in NSA spying web

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Reuters story, same subject.

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A Mayer Brown [Chicago law firm] spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

The Times report quoted Mayer Brown lawyer Duane Layton, who was involved in the trade talks, as saying that he did not have any evidence that he or his firm had been under scrutiny by Australian or U.S. intelligence agencies.

"I always wonder if someone is listening, because you would have to be an idiot not to wonder in this day and age," he told the Times. "But I've never really thought I was being spied on."

Commenting on the report, Kent Zimmermann, a consultant at law firm consulting firm Zeughauser Group, told Reuters:

"It was only a matter of time before this happened to a U.S. law firm and was publicly reported ... There is a widely held perception that U.S. law firms are the soft underbelly of corporate America when it comes to vulnerability of spying and hacking."

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-04 03:23|| 2014-03-04 03:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Additional legal protestations from The Hill.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-04 08:57|| 2014-03-04 08:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Is this the same Indonesian government, as we mentioned earlier, hauling off young Papuan children to be converted to Islam so they could be preacher/beggars in the street?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-04 10:15|| 2014-03-04 10:15|| Front Page Top

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