The leaked documents Snowden: U.S. spying on Israel

The leaked documents Snowden: U.S. spying on Israel

Washington UBI

Friday, August 30, 2013

Leaked documents showed the former employee in the U.S. National Security Agency, Edward Snowden, and published in the "Washington Post" that the United States American spying on enemies and allies alike, including Israel.

The newspaper published a summary of the budget secret U.S. intelligence, which reveals that intelligence agents Americans care about effectively with friends and opponents alike, as described Pakistan as "target stubborn" and that intelligence operations "focused strategically on the goals a priority, involving China, Russia, Iran, Cuba and Israel."

The United States and Israel to spy on each other despite the strong alliance that binds them. And American Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 on charges of spying for Israel.

It also showed the budget to focus affects other topics were fired CIA Central (CIA) and the National Security Agency projects to infiltrate computers foreign and steal information and sabotage systems "enemies" in the adoption of the description in the budget as "electronic processes offensive."

Reported that U.S. intelligence was concerned even before the incident Snowden staff of leaking of confidential information, and the National Security Agency is planning to re-investigation in about 4 thousand employees own remarks security.

The documents indicated that the processes of "anti-terrorism" remains the primary focus of U.S. intelligence agencies, and noted that Washington faces great difficulty in spying on North Korea. The documents indicate that U.S. spy agencies have succeeded in collecting a huge range of intelligence since the attacks of September 11 / September 2001, but remained unable to provide important information to the president on many of the threats to national security.

The value of the U.S. intelligence budget of the 16 or so-called "black budget" for the United States, with $ 52.6 billion for the fiscal year 2013 and a map of executive and bureaucratic scene was never subject to public scrutiny.

Although the government was annually announces the size of the total spending on intelligence since 2007, but did not reveal how to use these funds or how to implement the goals set by the president and Congress.

The U.S. intelligence budget doubled almost since September 11 / September 2001, where you get the CIA on the most at $ 14.7 billion, while you get the National Security Agency, where he worked Snowden, the second highest amount of $ 10.3 billion.

In another incision of the financial documents published by "The Washington Post" was highlighted indirectly on the role of satellites and electronic eavesdropping in tracking down al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011.