Officials alert foreign services that Snowden has documents on their cooperation with U.S.
Source: Washington Post
U.S. officials are alerting some foreign intelligence services that documents detailing their secret cooperation with the United States have been obtained by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, according to government officials.
Snowden, U.S. officials said, took tens of thousands of documents, some of which contain sensitive material about collection programs against adversaries such as Iran, Russia and China. Some refer to operations that in some cases involve countries not publicly allied with the United States.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/officials-alert-foreign-services-that-snowden-has-documents-on-their-cooperation-with-us/2013/10/24/930ea85c-3b3e-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html
Sort of like having to inform your sex partners that you may have exposed them to vd.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Whoa! No wonder the jobs we send there never get sent back.
Perhaps we should have a look at that?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)was part of the grand strategy to keep china and Russia away from the cheap oil.
Shivering Jemmy
(900 posts)And we need to spy on allies. China even more so.
Link Speed
(650 posts)rather than the general contractor, the United States of Mother-Fucking America.
"have been obtained", what a fucking joke.
"Gleaned and exposed", more like it.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)have never seen those spy vs. spy comics. It never turns out well for either side.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)loves shooting his mouth off.
Psephos
(8,032 posts)Nihil
(13,508 posts)Oops ... did I possibly suggest that those criticising "Comrade Eddie the Traitor" (sigh) are paid
trolls from the right wing of the US national collective?
Surely not ...
(Edited to correct a typo)
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Seriously... does anyone believe them anymore? I've heard it all so long.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)had missed this.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
bemildred
(90,061 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)The
one
that
Just
Keeps
Growing.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)The spooks got fat dumb and happy, and now they are toast.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)NoodleyAppendage
(4,619 posts)J
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)to reveal the illegal spying on Americans. Not only does it not appear illegal, all that we do overseas is not illegal. If people think everyone doesn't spy on us the way we spy on them is naive. China has destroyed and attempted to destroy businesses to either get their intellectual property or avoid paying royalties. China hacked into every single reporters email and most everyones phones at the NY Times. China hacked Obama and McCain's campaign computers. Brazil hacked airplane manufacturers in Canada.
Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) Hacks 9 Media Outlets: including NYTimes, Twitter, AP, BBC, NPR, The Onion, CBS News, Huff Po
Canada's version of NSA (CSEC) is caught hacking into energy companies in Brazil
Brazil is caught hacking into Canada's Airplane Manufacturers
China had been hacking into Canadian law firms and energy companies in order to win its takeover bid of Nexen Inc, a Canadian oil producer. Around that time, CSIS warned Canadians about the looming Chinese threat as they hacked and bought their way into the countrybecause those types of shenanigans can represent a threat to security interests.
Georgia's CERT, Computer Emergency Response Team caught Russia spying stealing classified information
China was caught hacking Lockheed Martin trying to steal intelligence on new military projects
Britian used their spy agency to hack into Belgian telecom company
China caught hacking into government computers of Britian, Nepal. India, US, and pretty much everyone else
These are just a few. Spying and hacking happens. All the governments do. An agent in France said they were jealous of our technology. Snowden is hurting a lot of people here. He's a traitor to this country and still hasn't revealed anything about domestic operations that weren't already published. I don't see how anyone can support what he does.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)An existential threat to the "indispensible nation" if we don't outdo various other global criminals? You think that is what our government is for?