For lawyers working in Asia, the thought that someone might be listening on their communications is nothing new. But the thought that it might be the U.S. government instead of, say, the Chinese government has come as a surprise.
But that’s the clear implication of the Feb. 15 revelation in the New York Times that the U.S. National Security Agency, through allies in Australian intelligence, listened in on communications between an American law firm and its client in a trade dispute, the Indonesian government.
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