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| US accuses Israel of spying on Iran nuclear talks |
| 2015-03-25 |
| [Guardian] According to the report, the US has long been aware that Israel is among the shortlist of countries with the most aggressive intelligence operations targeting interesting word choice America, alongside Russia, China and France. but not the UK, of course It said American diplomats attending the talks in Austria and Switzerland were briefed by US counterintelligence officials about the threat of Israeli eavesdropping. It also raised the possibility that Israel gathered intelligence about the US position by spying on other participants in the negotiations, from western Europe, Russia, China or Iran. US intelligence had previously provided help to the Israelis to spy on the Iranians, the report said. The US also conducts intelligence operations against Israel so there and learned of the Israeli spying operation when it intercepted communication between Israeli officials exchanging classified information that US intelligence believed could only have been acquired by espionage. However, what appears to have upset administration officials more than the spying is the use of the classified intelligence acquired to brief members of the US Congress and to persuade them to torpedo the talks. After Netanyahu addressed Congress this month, 47 Republican senators wrote an open letter to the Iranian leadership, warning it that a successor to Obama could refuse to honour any agreement reached. seeing the words "honour" and "Obama" in the same sentence kind of gives me the willies "It is one thing for the US and Israel to spy on each other. It is another thing for Israel to steal US secrets So, it went from "spy" to "steal." Interesting. and play them back to US legislators to undermine US diplomacy," the Wall Street Journal quoted a senior US official as saying. |
| Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp52169 |
| #4 Israel would have to be stupid to not spy on Mr aid and comfort whorebama |
| Posted by: newc 2015-03-25 08:59 |
| #3 What did.they think Israel and as going to do? Meekly line up for the showers? It's very existence is at stake. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-03-25 08:18 |
| #2 After Champ disallowed Israel's participation or knowledge regarding the Iranian negotiations, it would have been completely negligent of Israel not to make collection on this process a Priority Intelligence Requirement (PIR). We're dealing with rank amateurs and ideologues in Washington. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-03-25 07:37 |
| #1 what appears to have upset administration officials more than the spying is the use of the classified intelligence acquired to brief members of the US Congress The real enemy? Anyways, re spying, it's a lot easier to let Chinese and Russians to gather raw data, process it, and then hack their computers. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-03-25 03:43 |