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| US recording 'nearly all' phone calls in Afghanistan: WikiLeaks |
| 2014-05-24 |
| [Iran Press TV] The founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has revealed that the US National Security Agency records almost all domestic and international phone calls in Afghanistan. On Monday, the Intercept reported that classified documents provided by American whistleblower Edward Snowden show the NSA "is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cellphone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas." According to the Intercept, the NSA's same spying program, MYSTIC, also targeted Mexico, Kenya, the Philippines, and another "unnamed country." A WikiLeaks tweet, however, revealed on Friday that the unnamed country is Afghanistan. In a statement, Assange said that the purpose of identifying the "unnamed country" was not only to make revelations about Washington's "crime of mass espionage" across the world but also to prevent the killing of innocent people in US drone strikes. "We know from previous reporting that the National Security Agency's mass interception system is a key component in the United States' drone targeting program," Assange said. "The US drone targeting program has killed thousands of people and hundreds of women and kiddies in Afghanistan, Pakistain, Yemen and Somalia in violation of international law. The censorship of a victim state's identity directly assists the killing of innocent people," he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Tongue in cheek aside, the Venona decrypts proved that both Julius and Ethel were Soviet agents involved in nuclear espionage. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I mean, it was a long time ago, things were different then. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-24 13:09 |
| #6 An apology to the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Tongue in cheek aside, the Venona decrypts proved that both Julius and Ethel were Soviet agents involved in nuclear espionage. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-05-24 09:57 |
| #5 I don't trust the new Afghan satellite. Looks shifty. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-24 09:06 |
| #4 That new Afghan satellite will make accessing the phone calls even easier. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-05-24 09:02 |
| #3 In the midst of a war there, and they're recording phone calls; I'm shocked. I didn't they had that much sense. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-05-24 07:25 |
| #2 An apology to the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.... long, long overdue. The carbon footprint of some of these people should be dealt with. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-24 03:43 |
| #1 Nearly all? Maybe not the ones that we make but I wouldn't bet on it. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-05-24 01:01 |