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GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits
The Guardian ^ | 16 June 2013 | Ewen MacAskill, Nick Davies, Nick Hopkins, Julian Borger and James Ball

Posted on 06/16/2013 2:51:15 PM PDT by CMB_polarization

Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts, according to documents seen by the Guardian. Some delegates were tricked into using internet cafes which had been set up by British intelligence agencies to read their email traffic.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1984; eavesdropping; espionage; gchq; nsa; spying
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To: CMB_polarization

It took FIVE people to write this article! That has to be a record.


21 posted on 06/16/2013 4:06:08 PM PDT by txhurl (RNC 'voter suppression': attempting to limit each voter to ONE vote!)
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To: Strategerist

Good posts. The Snowden case is an interesting one. One does not have to accept false choices of either being for the NSA or Snowden. Some people apparently can’t deal with multiple bad guys and degrees of bad. Both the NSA and Snowden are wrong. Snowden’s action crossed a line when he started spewing off about China. Snowden should be tracked down and neutralized (shot) before he does any more damage. NSA should be reined in and those involved dealt with. There are no heroes here.


22 posted on 06/16/2013 4:28:52 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: CMB_polarization
This included: • Setting up internet cafes where they used an email interception programme and key-logging software to spy on delegates' use of computers; • Penetrating the security on delegates' BlackBerrys to monitor their email messages and phone calls; • Supplying 45 analysts with a live round-the-clock summary of who was phoning who at the summit; • Targeting the Turkish finance minister and possibly 15 others in his party; • Receiving reports from an NSA attempt to eavesdrop on the Russian leader, Dmitry Medvedev, as his phone calls passed through satellite links to Moscow. One document refers to a tactic which was "used a lot in recent UK conference, eg G20". The tactic, which is identified by an internal codeword which the Guardian is not revealing, is defined in an internal glossary as "active collection against an email account that acquires mail messages without removing them from the remote server". A PowerPoint slide explains that this means "reading people's email before/as they do". The same document also refers to GCHQ, MI6 and others setting up internet cafes which "were able to extract key logging info, providing creds for delegates, meaning we have sustained intelligence options against them even after conference has finished". This appears to be a reference to acquiring delegates' online login details. Another document summarises a sustained campaign to penetrate South African computers, recording that they gained access to the network of their foreign ministry, "investigated phone lines used by High Commission in London" and "retrieved documents including briefings for South African delegates to G20 and G8 meetings". (South Africa is a member of the G20 group and has observer status at G8 meetings.)
23 posted on 06/16/2013 4:32:58 PM PDT by txhurl (RNC 'voter suppression': attempting to limit each voter to ONE vote!)
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To: Strategerist; driftdiver

24 posted on 06/16/2013 4:35:32 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

I got my whistle


25 posted on 06/16/2013 4:36:28 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

LOL, I’m just having a little fun and trying to lighten the mood up.


26 posted on 06/16/2013 4:39:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Thats probably needed. I guess it comes down to me not understanding why some people will support the clearly unconstitutional actions of this administration.

We should be rioting in the streets over this.


27 posted on 06/16/2013 4:42:27 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

There is so much crazy stuff going on in the news, that I think a lot of people are on edge. It’s hard not to be angry at any number of things. IRS, NSA, Benghazi, Syria, Fast and Furious, etc...


28 posted on 06/16/2013 4:45:36 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: driftdiver

OK. When will you start rioting?


29 posted on 06/16/2013 4:51:36 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Strategerist

If you think the NSA monitoring is effective against terrorism, then why not simply place a LEO inside of every home? That would be really effective!

Cannot believe the people so willing to give up their liberties to be “protected” when in fact this protection is merely a facade, as proven by the Boston Marathon.


30 posted on 06/16/2013 4:53:18 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: driftdiver; Strategerist

“Ahh so you are taking heat for your position and now you try to be insulting to deflect away from your utter humiliation.”

Now insulting? Insulting from the first post on the thread...I scroll past now.


31 posted on 06/16/2013 5:03:38 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: austinaero

I really need to quit rattling my zipper.


32 posted on 06/16/2013 5:04:15 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Henry Hnyellar

The time to riot will be when Snowden proves zero electronically fraudulently stole ‘12.

... which could be tomorrow.


33 posted on 06/16/2013 5:06:45 PM PDT by txhurl (RNC 'voter suppression': attempting to limit each voter to ONE vote!)
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To: gaijin

“My guess is that for political/safety leverage he would release it incrementally in a, “didn’t mind that punch? How about THIS one...?”-type manner.”

Breitbart style


34 posted on 06/16/2013 5:19:36 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: driftdiver

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- An observation -

People that “carry” in various situations are now carrying everything from a Seecamp .32 to a Colt .45acp 100% of the time

Tracking, recording, and archiving everyone’s phone calls and emails is never going to stop Americans from shutting down the NAZIS in Washington DC -

Bite the pill crackhead

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35 posted on 06/16/2013 5:22:23 PM PDT by devolve (----- ----- ----- it not unlegal iffen I do*s it ----- ----- -----)
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To: driftdiver

I think that because we’ve been deceived, lied to, and steam rolled over, we (Americans) are desperate for the truth and validation of how we perceive policy ..and most of us will take it any way we can get it.


36 posted on 06/16/2013 5:27:03 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: devolve

Don’t do drugs and carry myself.

You haven’t stopped a single thing yet. Everything Obama wants is either done or on its way.


37 posted on 06/16/2013 5:31:56 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: CMB_polarization

Like it or not, this what these agencies are supposed to do..


38 posted on 06/16/2013 5:48:11 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: driftdiver

When did posters on FR (won’t call themFreepers) become such jerks? (not you)


39 posted on 06/16/2013 6:00:52 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB

A person who wants to hold political office may run the first time on ‘principles’ but subsequent elections are probably because they like being there or just need the job. Since so many of them are extremely wealthy I assume its more of the first category.

To win elections its a matter of numbers. They do whatever they have to in order to get the votes to stay in office. The bastard Karl Rove is an expert at this. Its why people like him control the Republican party. Just my opinion.


40 posted on 06/16/2013 6:07:14 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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