Electronic surveillance

What's a little spying between friends?

The recent raft of classified documents released by WikiLeaks, the whistle-blowing website, again spotlights just how deep and broad electronic spying operations conducted by the United States on its friends and allies has been.

This time, Japan is the victim of the prying National Security Agency (NSA), the US electronic spy organisation accused by WikiLeaks of performing these unsociable espionage activities.

WikiLeaks published its latest round of illegal NSA intercepts on July 31 under the heading: "Target Tokyo".