‘France and Spain provided self-tapped telefoondata to NSA

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France and Spain have phone calls tapped and the NSA forwarded, as report anonymous government officials to The Wall Street Journal. Both countries were mentioned as the primary European targets of the interception activities of the NSA.

According to the officials, both the French and the Spanish secret services on a large scale calls tapped. These were often in conflict zones and outside the country’s own borders have been collected. Then they would have the data in the context of a mutual partnership, the NSA have supplied. This is according to the anonymous sources to have happened to both American and European soldiers and civilians to protect.

Although the NSA tapped data from his French and Spanish colleagues would have obtained, underlines The Wall Street Journal that this apart from other NSA-afluisterprogramma, such as the rel that is created around the draining of the mobile phone of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, it is the first time that the US is the only access seems to give in the partnerships with European secret services.

On the basis of documents of the whistleblower Edward Snowden came out that the NSA in France between the beginning of december 2012 and January 2013, more than 70 million French phone calls has drained. In Spain, the American intelligence, in the same period more than 60 million phone calls intercepted. Also in the Netherlands, would the NSA calls draining, as reported Tweakers last week.

The NSA called before the messages are about 70 million-tapped conversations in France ‘incorrect’, but the organisation did not want to go into detail on the matter. The Us business newspaper reports Tuesday, however, that the figures published in the Le Monde published NSA document, according to the government officials incorrectly interpreted the statistics on tapped calls by the French and Spanish secret services to the NSA passed. The National Security Agency would be the figures in the document have been processed. Meanwhile, in the united states, more and more votes on surveillance on the NSA needs a lot of sharpening.