New Snowden Document Implies NSA May Be Putting Israel’s Security Ahead of America’s
Washington’s Blog
May 14, 2014
The following leaked slide from Edward Snowden was released today by Glenn Greenwald in his new book, No Place to Hide:
If you can’t read the slide, it says:
Balancing the SIGINT exchange equally between US and Israeli needs has been a constant challenge in the last decade, it arguably tilted heavily in favor of Israeli security concerns. 9/11 came, and went, with NSA’s only true Third Party CT relationship being driven almost totally by the needs of the partner.
That is a stunning statement. It implies that the signals intelligence exchange between the American and Israeli governments has been driven almost entirely by the NSA giving information to the Israelis, instead of Israel giving information to the U.S. … even though we were the ones attacked on 9/11.
Remember, the raw data in American citizens collected by the NSA is shared with Israel. As the Guardian reported in September:
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.
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According to the agreement, the intelligence being shared would not be filtered in advance by NSA analysts to remove US communications. “NSA routinely sends ISNU [the Israeli Sigint National Unit] minimized and unminimized raw collection”, it says.
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A much stricter rule was set for US government communications found in the raw intelligence. The Israelis were required to “destroy upon recognition” any communication “that is either to or from an official of the US government“. Such communications included those of “officials of the executive branch (including the White House, cabinet departments, and independent agencies), the US House of Representatives and Senate (member and staff) and the US federal court system (including, but not limited to, the supreme court)”.
This not only raises major privacy concerns for American citizens, but it might mean that Israel is spying on the American Congress and other high-level politicians.
We have nothing against Israel, but – as American citizens – we want our intelligence agencies to put the American people and American security first.
This article was posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 5:46 am
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You can thank the Clintons and their introduction of requirements for media access for D.C. government functions. This is why mainstream media treats 9/11 realities like a hot third rail. Mainstream media will lose its' rights for presence at White House Press Conferences and U.S. Congressional Access if they ask the question regarding how two jets can knock down three buildings.
But that's okay. The mainstream media is getting its lowest ratings in history, and this is because they are losing viewership to internet media sources (i.e. "tin foil hat wearers") who are getting the lions share due to their proven increases in viewership per Alexa and similar news agencies who monitor viewership, or popularity.
People are suckers for the truth.
If Edward Snowden is a tool, how come he gets top financial priority for protection with the Russian Secret Police??
Malcolm: Agreed.
Because russians are paranoid morons with tin foil hats on their heads? ;)
ACUTE OBSERVER: LMAO
So now Putin is wearing a tin foil hat?
IS THERE ANYONE OTHER THAN YOURSELF WHO ISN'T WEARING A TIN FOIL HAT?
I'm still waiting for you to post factual information (other than your wordy keyboard reflections) on how popular news sources are wearing tin foil hats.
Malcolm: LOL on response to Acute Observer.
You're supposed to laugh at my reply too. :)
No, Putin is completely naked and exposed. On all planes.
I doubt you can see that the emperor is naked though. Seeing that would take a childs mind, and that you don't have (not right now anyway).
As for your capital letters, they sure look nice and loud and I'm sure you have some sort of meaning to them as well, but if you want them answered this time, you'll have to learn to stop text-screaming. Children scream, adults talk.
As Life, so Internet. :)
As for your one and only properly formatted question, when have I ever said that popular news sources are wearing tin foil hats?
more and more I feel AO is loosing grip on reality
Feelings can be misleading. Tread carefully or you risk developing a mild psychosis. :)
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