Snowden Docs: U.S. Spied on Negotiators At 2009 Climate Summit
Source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency monitored the communications of other governments ahead of and during the 2009 United Nations climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark, according to the latest document from whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The document, with portions marked "top secret," indicates that the NSA was monitoring the communications of other countries ahead of the conference, and intended to continue doing so throughout the meeting. Posted on an internal NSA website on Dec. 7, 2009, the first day of the Copenhagen summit, it states that "analysts here at NSA, as well as our Second Party partners, will continue to provide policymakers with unique, timely, and valuable insights into key countries' preparations and goals for the conference, as well as the deliberations within countries on climate change policies and negotiation strategies."
"Second Party partners" refers to the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with which the U.S. has an intelligence-sharing relationship. "While the outcome of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference remains uncertain, signals intelligence will undoubtedly play a significant role in keeping our negotiators as well informed as possible throughout the 2-week event," the document says.
The Huffington Post published the documents Wednesday night in coordination with the Danish daily newspaper Information, which worked with American journalist Laura Poitras.
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What is the point ? 
By Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is the chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation.
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"Whistleblower, traitor, hero, villain, Snowden may be many things at once but his apologies for the brutal record of Putin and the Russian state are inexcusable."
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"My reaction is not only due to Snowden’s first statement from Russia, while he was still in legal limbo at the Sheremetyevo airport, in which he included Putin’s Russia—a police state and patron of despotism worldwide—on his list of nations that “stand against human rights violations carried out by the powerful rather than the powerless.” Putin’s many political prisoners would disagree quite strongly, and Snowden could have been more respectful of the many injured and dead among journalists and his fellow whistleblowers in Russia."
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"Outside the stadiums, Sochi will be defined by how well the Olympics shine a spotlight on the corruption and repression of Putin and all who willingly overlook his crimes."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/29/snowden-s-revelations-shouldn-t-distract-from-putin-s-brutal-rule.html
DonViejo http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251351177#post7
Let's just pardon him, and bring him home. And then start holding trials for the bastards and traitors that he's risked his life to expose on our behalf. When he could have just stayed silent like most everyone else would have done.
- Right?
- Doesn't the rest of the world realize yet that we're the ones who know what's best for them?!?!? That we're only doing all this for their sakes!?!?! That we only want to keep them safe!?!?!? Don't they know that the BOOGIE MAN is out there and he'll get them if they don't watch out!!!
to find out if they had any skeletons in their closet. Apparently they do, but decide to sit on the dirty details so when they* want something done they can show what they got on them.
I'm beginning to feel like Jimmy Carter was the last president not being blackmailed by the secret inner government. Hard to get dirt on a peanut farmer 
*The NSA, CIA et al