Brazil lawmakers want to question U.S. envoy about spying

Source: Agencia EFE via Global Post

July 8, 2013 16:01

Brasilia, Jul 8 (EFE).- Lawmakers in Brazil said Monday they want to question Washington's ambassador here about revelations that the United States has collected and stored the e-mail and telephone records of millions of Brazilians.

"We have to verify the veracity of the information that has been published in the press," the chairman of the Brazilian Senate's foreign relations committee, Ricardo Ferraço, told reporters.

Besides U.S. envoy Thomas Shannon, the committee will demand to hear from Brazil's foreign, defense and communications ministers, the senator said.

One of Brazil's leading newspapers, O Globo, published in its Sunday edition an expose of U.S. surveillance efforts in the South American country ...

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