WikiLeaks: US Bugged More Than Two Dozen Brazilian Leaders

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New spy revelations 'likely to reinvigorate tensions,' says The Intercept, which co-published list of targets

WikiLeaks: US Bugged More Than Two Dozen Brazilian Leaders
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Saturday, July 04, 2015

Just days after Brazil President Dilma Rousseff's official working visit to the United States, during which she and President Barack Obama issued a joint communique affirming their "mutual respect and trust," WikiLeaks and The Intercept on Saturday, July 4 published a "top secret U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) target list of 29 key Brazilian government phone numbers that were selected for intensive interception," or phone-tapping.

Noting that last week's visit to the U.S. was one "she had delayed for almost two years in anger over prior revelations of NSA spying on Brazil," The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald and David Miranda argue that "these new revelations extend far beyond the prior ones and are likely to reinvigorate tensions."

As WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange said in a press statement accompanying the leak: "Our publication today shows the U.S. has a long way to go to prove its dragnet surveillance on 'friendly' governments is over."

The list of priority targets includes not only Rousseff but also her assistant, her secretary, her chief of staff, her Palace office, and the phone in her Presidential jet. According to WikiLeaks, the NSA targeted "not only those closest to the President, but waged an economic espionage campaign against Brazil, spying on those responsible for managing Brazil's economy, including the head of its Central Bank."