The U.S. Has Been Spying On Israel For Over A Decade: Report

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

The U.S. Has Been Spying On Israel For Over A Decade: Report

01/29/2016 04:20 am ET | Updated 5 hours ago
Reuters Dan Williams

JERUSALEM, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The United States and Britain have monitored secret sorties and communications by Israel's air force in a hacking operation dating back to 1998, according to documents attributed to leaks by former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Israel voiced disappointment at the disclosures, which were published on Friday in three media outlets and might further strain relations with Washington after years of feuding over strategies on Iran and the Palestinians.

Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth daily said the U.S. National Security Agency, which specializes in electronic surveillance, and its British counterpart GCHQ spied on Israeli air force missions against the Palestinian enclave Gaza, Syria and Iran.

The spy operation, codenamed "Anarchist," was run out of a Cyprus base and targeted other Middle East states too, it said. Its findings were mirrored by stories in Germany's Der Spiegel newsmagazine and the online publication The Intercept, which lists Snowden confidant Glenn Greenwald among its associates.

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Let's see. A heavily armed nation, including nuclear arms, run by crazies.

Yeah, I'd want to keep track of them, too.

[oberliner]

2. That sounds like a description of the US circa 2002

And most of the rest of the decade.

[Depaysement]

3. Good nt

[Sherman A1]

4. Agreed

because they spy on the US as well.

[King_David]

5. Who are we not spying on ?

And who isn't spying on us ?

Well maybe Canada , but any day now we gonna absorb them when they not looking.... They got oil.

[azurnoir]

6. sounds like the US is keeping a close eye on the entire ME

including Israel, not necessarily a bad thing

[King_David]

7. Probably Israel, Mossad doing all the heavy lifting for US

That's why we best friends...

Read em and weep....