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Originally posted by Skunk:
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Originally posted by philip:
And in the EU as well, yesterday I read that all security agencies in the EU are reluctant to give the other countries entrance to the information. To have an advantage over other countries while we're supposed to be a unity.
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That's a rather cynical conclusion Philip.
The more people that share a secret the less chance that it remains one. It is a sad but true fact that it is a neccessity to treat all counter-intelligence material on a strict 'need to know' basis, releasing information only when it is absolutely essential to do so.
That's not to say that nations do not trust eachother - more that they have a genuine worry of 'whistleblowers', political malcontents and even traitors in their midst and are sensibly seeking to reduce the risk of such persons derailing intelligence activities by leaking or sharing information with those who should not have access to it.
[/QUOTE]It wasn't my conclusion, it was the conclusion of the article. It wasn't only that but if needed it was even hard to get and cooperation was bad.
That's one of the reasons I feel either do it good or don't do it. If they had said that slowly we would be growing together as a EU with a few changes at a time, I'd be fine. But now the one of the few things we have in common is the same money. I don't think you can speak of the EU growing apart of the US cause there simply isn't a real EU. It's still a loose bunch of countries.