NSA in bed with most Western states as Brazil also complains about surveillance by U.S. spy agencies
Julio Severo’s thoughts: The US surveillance on other nations is immoral, but
so do empires: they do whatever they do with whoever they want. Let
me clarify that a nation that imposes the gay agenda on other nations falls
under the category of empire, an evil empire. A 2011 WND report said about
the Obama plan to have the US as a
global LGBT sex cop. Two years ago, WND reported
on DHS monitoring my blog. I am a Brazilian citizen. Why such surveillance
on me? Are my pro-life and pro-family activities a threat to America? In
Brazil, I
am in the frontlines against gay tyranny.
I
am not worried just about the US surveillance. I am worried also that the
Brazilian socialist government will now use the US intrusions as a pretext to
ask UN intrusions in the nations. So a US wicked act will lead to a Brazilian
wicked act.
As
a Christian, I am opposed to the wicked acts by the US and Brazil, especially
their love for the gay agenda.
Read
now the DailyMail report:
Snowden says NSA 'in bed' with most Western states as Brazil also complains about surveillance by U.S. spy agencies
By Reuters Reporter and Daily
Mail Reporter
Fugitive whistleblower Edward
Snowden says America’s National Security Agency is ‘in bed’ with Germany and
other Western states, while Brazil is demanding an explanation from the U.S.
over reports that its citizens have been under surveillance for at least a
decade.
America's National Security Agency
works closely with Germany and other Western states on a 'no questions
asked'-basis, former NSA employee Snowden said in comments that undermine
Chancellor Angela Merkel's indignant talk of ‘Cold War’ tactics.
‘They are in bed with the Germans,
just like with most other Western states,’ German magazine Der Spiegel quotes
him as saying in an interview published on Sunday that was carried out before
he fled to Hong Kong in May and divulged details of extensive secret U.S.
surveillance.
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| Outspoken 'hero': Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden says America's National Security Agency is 'in bed' with Germany and other Western states |
Snowden’s comments about
cooperation with governments overseas, which he said were led by the NSA's
Foreign Affairs Directorate, appear to contradict the German government's show
of surprise at the scale of the U.S. electronic snooping.
Germany has demanded explanations
for Snowden's allegations of large-scale spying by the NSA, and by Britain via
a programme codenamed 'Tempora', on their allies including Germany and other
European Union states, as well as EU institutions and embassies.
Chancellor Angela Merkel pointed
out during President Barack Obama's recent visit that Germany had avoided
terrorist attacks thanks to information from allies.
But she says there must be limits
to the intrusion on privacy and wants this discussed next week in parallel with
the start of EU-U.S. free trade talks.
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| Close allies: U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, toast during a dinner hosted by Merkel in honour of the Obamas at Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin on June 19, 2013 |
Brazil is getting ready to demand
an explanation from the United States over report its citizens' electronic
communications have been under watch by U.S. spy agencies for at least ten
years, foreign minister Antonio Patriota said on Sunday.
Patriota's remarks were in response
to a report in the Globo daily newspaper on Sunday saying that the U.S.
National Security Agency has been monitoring the telephone and e-mail activity
of Brazilian companies and individuals as part of U.S. espionage activities.
The report cited documents obtained
from U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden, a former NSA intelligence contractor.
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| More accusations: Brazil's foreign minister Antonio Patriota, pictured, says the United States has been spying on Brazil's citizens' electronic communications for at least a decade |
Brazil also plans to present
proposals to the United Nations to protect the privacy of electronic
communication.
‘The Brazilian government is
gravely concerned by the news that electronic and telephone communications of
Brazilian citizens are the objective of espionage efforts by U.S. intelligence
agencies,’ a foreign ministry statement said.
The Globo report did not say how
much traffic was monitored by NSA computers and intelligence officials. But the
article pointed out that in the Americas, Brazil was second only to the United
States in the number of transmissions intercepted.
Brazil was a priority nation for
the NSA communications surveillance alongside China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan,
Globo said.
In the 10-year period, the NSA
captured 2.3 billion phone calls and messages in the United States and then
used computers to analyze them for signs of suspicious activity, the paper
said.
In the United States, the NSA used
legal but secret warrants to compel communications companies to turn over
information about calls and emails for analysis.
Some access to Brazilian
communications was obtained through American companies that were partners with
Brazilian telecommunications companies, the paper reported, without identifying
the companies.
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| Speaking out: Activists from the Internet Party of Ukraine perform during a rally supporting Snowden in front of U.S. embassy, in Kiev on June 27, 2013 |
After providing the information to
Greenwald, Snowden fled the United States for Hong Kong and was most recently
seen in the transit area of the Moscow airport.
Snowden's U.S. passport has been
revoked. He has made asylum requests to several countries, including Ecuador,
Venezuela and Bolivia. Three countries - Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua -
have offered to give Snowden asylum.
Germany’s domestic intelligence
chief has said he knew nothing of such widespread surveillance by the NSA.
But German opposition parties -
with an eye on September's federal election - insist that somebody in Merkel's
office, where the German intelligence agencies are coordinated, must have known
what was going on.
The government did not immediately
respond to a request for comment on the Der Spiegel report, which follows a
report last week in French daily Le Monde saying France also had an extensive
surveillance programme.
Der Spiegel has reported that on an
average day, the NSA monitored about 20 million German phone connections and 10
million internet data sets, rising to 60 million phone connections on busy
days.
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| Protest: A member of German Piraten Partei holds the portraits of U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning and Snowden during a protest in Berlin's Tiergarten district on June 19, 2013 |
Snowden, a U.S. citizen, fled in
May a few weeks before the details he provided about the NSA were published and
is believed to have been holed up in Moscow airport since June 23.
Bolivia offered asylum on Saturday
to Snowden, joining leftist allies Venezuela and Nicaragua in defiance of
Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of the secret
U.S. spy programs.
Der Spiegel said the interview was
conducted while Snowden was living in Hawaii, via encrypted emails with U.S.
documentary maker Laura Poitras and hacker Jacob Appelbaum.
Snowden told them that America's
closest allies sometimes went even further than the NSA in their zeal for
gathering data.
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| NSA headquarters: An undated aerial handout photo shows the National Security Agency headquarters building in Fort Meade, Maryland |
‘It sucks up all information, no
matter where it comes from and which laws are broken,’ Snowden said. ‘If you
send a data packet and goes through Britain, we'll get it. If you download
anything, and the server is in Britain, we'll get it.’
If the NSA is ordered to target an
individual, it virtually take over that person's data ‘so the target's computer
no longer belongs to him, it more or less belongs to the U.S. government.’
Source:
DailyMail,
via Julio Severo in English.
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