It’d be nice if Congress members were not only outraged with the NSA spying on Americans when the Americans happen to be themThe Wall Street Journal published an extensive investigation on Tuesday night detailing how a large NSA spying operation targeting the Israeli government and its prime minister,Binyamin Netanyahu, also swept up communications of sitting members of Congress.
It shouldn’t necessarily approach as a surprise that the NSA is spying on Israeli leaders, or given Israel has attempted to sabotage US foreign policy objectives like the Iran nuclear deal,and the fact that the Israeli intelligence services are notoriously aggressive in their own spying on the US government (See Newsweek reporter Jeff Stein’s excellent series on the extreme lengths Israel will proceed to spy on United States officials). But this latest record demonstrates the startling powers the NSA holds to collect the communications of other branches of government without repercussion. And it’s a prime example of how innocent Americans often close up in the databases of the world’s most powerful spy agency.
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Source: theguardian.com