Snark aside, I think we have nearly reached the threshold:
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals [...]Although the memorandum is explicit in saying the material had to be handled in accordance with US law, and that the Israelis agreed not to deliberately target Americans identified in the data, these rules are not backed up by legal obligations.
"This agreement is not intended to create any legally enforceable rights and shall not be construed to be either an international agreement or a legally binding instrument according to international law," the document says.
This is going to win us lots of hearts and minds in the Muslim world, now, isn't it. You would think that after 60-odd years of treating our Friends in Freedom as first among equals in the Middle East, and earning the wrath and scorn of every other state in the region as a result, our political leaders might have re-thought the wisdom of this policy---but no, they're doubling down on it. Hope they're prepared for more 9/11s in the future because that's what they're eventually going to get. Too bad that a lot of innocent people will likely be killed because of their idiocy.
---Baron V
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