I'm Shocked!
Posted on 06/16/2013 2:37:35 PM PDT by RummyChick
As Britain readies to host the G8 summit, the documents uncovered by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed that back in 2009 US spies intercepted top-secret communication of then Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, during his visit to London.
The shocking news has been broken by The Guardian which has seen the documents. It also revealed that a UK intelligence agency, GCHQ, monitored foreign politicians and intercepted their emails during the 2009 G20 summit held in the British capital. Some delegates were tricked into using internet cafes which had been set up by UK intelligence agencies to read their email traffic.
The 39th G8 summit is scheduled to start on Monday in the small Northern Irish resort town of Lough Erne with all the nations who were present at the 2009 London meeting attending.
According to the leaked documents viewed by the British paper, the details of the intercept of Medvedev’s communications were set out in a briefing prepared by the US National Security Agency (NSA), and shared with high-ranking officials from Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The document was drafted in August 2009, four months after the Russian president attended the London G20 summit.
In the wake of the scandalous leak of NSA documents, US officials have been defending massive surveillance tactics stressing that they were crucial in the fight against terrorism. However, the recent revelations about the actions of the NSA and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) suggests this was simply a case of espionage.
ruh-roh...
Uh, this is what they are supposed to do..
everybody at the summit spied on everyone else
the west just has more leakers and “whistleblowers”
For Big Brother to be spying on everyone who pays Big Brother's bills is a horse of a different color.
well I certainly hope so, it would have been malpractice not to. However, spying on your own citizens without a warrant is wrong
Time to hand out more Superbowl rings with bugs in them to Russian diplomats. LOL
Obama - First Prez 2b lecture about “excessive” spying.
By a Russian.
By a Russian *EX-KGB OFFICER*...!
That was a good idea to have the NSA spy on everyone when they can’t even keep their own secrets.
So whats new there? We had people watching Churchill, Stalin and Chang Kai Chek at all of those conferences too. And they had people watching us. Its the way things are done Bunky!
But rest assured that ex-KGB officer truly loves his country. WTSHTF he will be there to lead his nation.
Can you say the same thing about Bambi, or does it really matter in our present-day society?
Well, Sparky the Wonder Dog had just used Hillary the Great to hand a reset button to the Russians. So that reset button was supposed to mean that there were resetting the old Cold War ? Fairly obvious now that no one on the planet can trust the US government.
"Reset" in English and "Peregruzka" in Russian
Translation: overcharged, or overloaded.
Yes Broncobomber absolutely loves his country, the one with 57 member states, the Organization of Islamic Countries.
or does it really matter in our present-day society?
Yes, that he loves ummah more than life itself does matter very much to US.
That’s what he really meant about more leverage....
Looks like Vlad ain’t gonna be happy with Obama.....hopefully this means the real Birth Certificate is released....and no miniture giraffe for Bam
Do people not think Putin was doing the same thing?
It’s what government DOES!
That was 4 years ago. I can’t imagine the info we have now. Why don’t they save us all a lot of dollars and just mail it in. What a waist of time and dollars.
No this happened under Bush in 2007 here. It’s all Obama.
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