Snowden: Europe uses U.S. spy tools Here's something President Obama and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden might agree on. Snowden told a German magazine that other western governments use information from the same NSA phone and Internet intelligence programs that some of their leaders are now protesting. Or, as Snowden put it, NSA analysts are "in bed together with the Germans and most other Western states."
The magazine Der Spiegel
Jordan 7 Olympic said the comments came before Snowden -- now in hiding at the Moscow airport -- became internationally known. U.S. intelligence agencies have long discussed their close cooperation with allied governments when it
Jordan 4 Cavs comes to battling the threat of terrorism. "In remarks published in German, Snowden said an NSA department known as the Foreign Affairs Directorate coordinated work with foreign secret services. "The partnerships are organized so that authorities
Jordan 6 Carmines in other countries can 'insulate their political leaders from the backlash' if it becomes public 'how grievously they're violating global privacy,' he said.
"The interview was conducted by US cryptography expert Jacob Appelbaum and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras using 'encrypted emails shortly before Snowden became known globally for his whistleblowing', Spiegel said."
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