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Report: NSA spied on Israel
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Published: 20.12.13, 19:43
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1. What about Pollard?
tiki ,   belgium   (12.20.13)
Isn't he still in jail because the Americans can't forgive him for spying. No, the Americans can't forgive him because he's a Jew and was spying. Iranians in US jail have been send home as part of the ''deal with Iran, but only if you are Jewish and spy for Israel, you can rot forever in an US jail. No compassion there.
2. OBAMA, FREE JONATHAN POLLARD!
shmulke ,   w coast usa   (12.20.13)
Keeping him imprisoned is not only immoral, it's now the height of hypocrisy!
3. US has always spied on Israel
CJK   (12.20.13)
israeli leaders should always go on the assumption that their communications, even encrypted, are spied on by the us, uk and others. obviously, such spying has increased under the obama administration.
4. I'll believe anything, but this? : never!!! :-)))
tom ,   tel aviv   (12.20.13)
5. That's why Bibi flew twice to Moscow this year to meet Putin
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.20.13)
6. Internal treachery & sneak behavior gets stepped on, #1 & 2
Cameron ,   USA   (12.21.13)
A sharp lesson for US citizens and Israelis to be mindful of.
7. No big deal.
Robert ,   USA   (12.21.13)
8. #6 In that case, who will step on the NSA?
Tahl   (12.21.13)
9. Try to imagine the reaction if Israel spied on the US...
N.L.Katz ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (12.21.13)
...President and the various cabinet members of his government....??
10. All of this is old news. During the Nixon Administration in
Rivkah   (12.21.13)
the early 1970's, Howard K. Smith, the ABC Evening News Anchor at the time said he wanted to say, "Happy Birthday" to Attorney General John Mitchell. So he dialed a phone number at random and said, "Happy Birthday, Attorney General Mitchell." Then he hung up. He said Attorney General John Mitchell got the message. That was an admission long ago that all phone calls were being recorded and listened to. Attorney General Mitchell's wife Martha went public on that, like Edward Snowden; but she was not prosecuted although a considerable embarrassment. When my 1936 USMA G2 (Intelligence) US Army Colonel father retired in 1963, he kept a radio on 24/7 next to the only phone in the house so that conversations in the room could not be listened bo by "hot on the hook" phones. That technology was available that long ago and was being used secretly on US citizens en masse. People find out about technology the government has decades afterwards. Why the fuss about Edward Snowden for revealing what has been known publicly from Howard K. Smith and Martha Mitchell's revealed FORTY YEARS AGO???
11. NSA spied on Israel
Toledano Jean-Pierre ,   Israel   (12.21.13)
I'm sure the NSA spied on a lot of people, ennemies, terrorists, etc... The USA were already eavesdropping the radio and telephone communications from the USSR-leaders and I'm sure also the Kremlin tried to do it. I'm also sure that the NSA was and is spying on firms, companies,... to steal technical, economical, financial,.... information. Spying was never only based on political, military matters... never, but not only the CIA, NSA,... also the British Intelligence Services (MI5, MI6,...), the French, Russian (KGB, FSB), Chinese ones.... Remember the story about the Concorde and the Concordski, maybe a complot theory story, but..., then the space shuttle-Buran, etc.... About looking into the gsm of people, state or political leaders. Well, those leaders - even their own secret services warn them about the dangers - open their gsm during meetings, typing their code while a lot of cameras to protect and to monitor meetings, congresses, conventions,... are around them. "Maybe" some hosts use the pictures to... Folks, it's up to you what you want to hear, to conclude, to think about it. I'm sure our services do the same. It's the game. You have to live with it. A friend now, can become an enemy, an opponent or a rival. It's the responsibility or job of such services to use all means to prevent it. But, maybe,... - I don't know - Snowden is sometimes exagerating the impact of the NSA because of personal motives.
12. 3 CJK,
Walt K ,   Sherbrooke, Canada   (12.21.13)
Are you kidding ? Do you think Israel doesn't take care ? In our world, everybody always spying everybody and I am sure that israeli secret agents spy the USA everyday. At the end, think about the Rosenbergs story and about an old movie : The falcon and the snowman.
13. 9 NL Katz
Walt K ,   Sherbrooke, Canada   (12.21.13)
Israel sies the USA. The difference between today and the Cold war era is today, the spying is more about commercial, scientific and industrial secrets than military secrets. Also, forget about Israeli-USA frienship. The States work for themselves.
14. @1 your reason to mess with Israel over Pollard?
Miron ,   USA   (12.21.13)
15. To: No. 9
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (12.21.13)
We already do. Shhhh ... it's a greaT bIG SECRET!
16. What about Pollard?
Saul ,   NY   (12.21.13)
Let him rot another 28 years.
17. NSA sharing U.S. citizens' private data with Israel
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.21.13)
#5 not mine.
18. #6, #16. Contrary to you Pollard never spied on US.
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.21.13)
He provided information about Israel's Middle East enemies. It had nothing to do with US security or defense secrets. On top of that US grossly violated an agreement with ally Israel to supply this information.
19. whys this supposed to be surprising
zionist forever   (12.21.13)
The NSA spies on but US allies and enemies and Israel is a high profile target because gas a history of being gung ho, has nukes and is surrounded by enemies Of course its also a fact Israel spies in the US and not just with Jonathan Pollard. Its all a big game and the only rules is not to get caught in the act not try and make the world think your innocent of such immoral things. The country with the best facilities make the best spies and the NSA is probably the best in the business with their huge budget.
20. Forgive my confused comment #17. Got screwed up by Obamacare
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (12.21.13)
21. 15
jonathan ,   adelaide/Israel   (12.21.13)
Not a good try Arooba.
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