September 23, 2014

Snowden: NSA routinely passed communications of Palestinian-Americans to Israel

Daily Mail, UK - Former U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden has accused the U.S. National Security Agency of routinely passing private, unedited communications of Americans to Israel, an expert on the intelligence agency said Wednesday.

James Bamford, writing in the New York Times, said Snowden told him the intercepts included communications of Arab- and Palestinian-Americans whose relatives in Israel and the Palestinian territories could become targets based on the information.

'It's one of the biggest abuses we’ve seen,' Bamford quoted Snowden as saying.

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