Whistleblower Snowden during a live connection with the Council of Europe to let us know that especially the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom has close ties with the NSA. He also made known that the NSA is on human rights focus.
Snowden said Tuesday the Committee on Legal Affairs and human Rights of the Council of Europe from Russia via a live video link and also answered questions from attendees. Among other things, the Dutch CDA Member of parliament Pieter Omtzigt, was present for the whistleblower to be questioned. According to Snowden, were all the intelligence services with sufficient resources involved in the large-scale collection of data in which they set-up the loopholes of the law to look up.
“There were no real rules, restrictions, or international standards. That was a fertile ground for experimenting with new technology and new capabilities, and brought new opportunities.” According to Snowden must also include not only the NSA, the accusing finger: “The U.s. intelligence only has the most capabilities, because the service the most money.”
“In particular, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom are not so much targets, but willing partners of the NSA,” said Snowden, new revelations in the prospect suggested. The countries have, according to him, no guarantee that the exchanged data is not used illegally. Previously claimed to be the American all of these countries instructions received from the NSA about how the legal protection of the communications of their citizens, could mitigate.
In addition, he revealed that human rights organisations, the targets of spying by the NSA. “The NSA focused specifically on the top of a number of civil organizations and ngos, also within the national borders of the US.” On the question of whether the NSA the sensitive and secret communication of large organizations, such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch aftapte, said Snowden according to The Guardian: “That answer is without doubt yes, absolutely.”
