Snowing: Fresh revelations, NSA spying on Mexico, France, business leaders, 70.3M
UPDATES 10/21/13: PARIS (AP) — The U.S. National Security Agency swept up 70.3 million French telephone records in a 30-day period, according to a newspaper report that offered new details of the massive scope of a surveillance operation that has angered some of the country’s closest allies.
The French government on Monday summoned the U.S. ambassador for an explanation.
Along with the 1st of our Le Monde stories (http://t.co/pKNrrsaCr6), we published more PRISM slides https://t.co/fkXGLJ0HBC
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 21, 2013
Dianne Feinstein with a great Orwellian joke in USA Today: “The call-records program is not surveillance” http://t.co/ehzYcohzAl
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 21, 2013
Our first story in Le Monde on NSA bulk surveillance on French citizens http://t.co/pKNrrsaCr6 – the fallout begins: http://t.co/D1BVDUH751
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 21, 2013
The National Security Agency (NSA) has a division for particularly difficult missions. Called “Tailored Access Operations” (TAO), this department devises special methods for special targets.
That category includes surveillance of neighboring Mexico, and in May 2010, the division reported its mission accomplished. A report classified as “top secret” said: “TAO successfully exploited a key mail server in the Mexican Presidencia domain within the Mexican Presidential network to gain first-ever access to President Felipe Calderon’s public email account.”
Go read the full article:
The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years, including presidents…. http://t.co/C9MdfvTMFi
— iroots.org activism (@irootsorg) October 20, 2013
In somewhat related news…NPR’s On the Media talks to @jayrosen_nyu about Glenn Greenwald’s new media project. New details: