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New Snowdenski docs: NSA bugged UN in NYC
[Rooters] The U.S. National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations' New York headquarters, Germany's Der Brings to mind bears and their woodland toiletry habits, that sort of thing. Citing secret U.S. documents obtained by fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowdenski, Der Spiegel said the files showed how the United States systematically spied on other states and institutions. Hopefully we'll soon be evicted and banned forever. Der Spiegel said the European Union and the U.N.'s Vienna-based nuclear Valid enemy targets ek se. In the summer of 2012, NSA experts succeeded in getting into the U.N. video conferencing system and cracking its coding system, according one of the documents cited by Der Spiegel. "The data traffic gives us internal video teleconferences of the United Nations (yay!)," Der Spiegel quoted one document as saying, adding that within three weeks the number of decoded communications rose to 458 from 12. Internal files also show the NSA spied on the EU legation in New York after it moved to new rooms in autumn 2012. Among the documents copied by Snowden from NSA computers are plans of the EU mission, its IT infrastructure and servers. According to the documents, the NSA runs a bugging program in more than 80 embassies and consulates worldwide called "Special Collection Service". "The surveillance is intensive and well organized and has little or nothing to do with warding off terrorists," wrote Der Spiegel. Very likely "little to do with terrorists" anywhere I'd wager. Snowden's leaks have embarrassed the United States by exposing the global extent of its surveillance programs. Washington has said its spies operate within the law and that the leaks have damaged national security. Domestic espionage 'within the law'. An intriguing concept. Posted by: Besoeker 2013-08-26 |
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