Brazil Target Of U.S. Spying, Globo Newspaper Reports

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Source: RT

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency monitored the telephone and email activity of Brazilian companies and individuals in the past decade as part of U.S. espionage activities, the Globo newspaper reported on Sunday, citing documents provided by fugitive Edward Snowden, a former NSA intelligence contractor.

The newspaper did not say how much traffic was monitored by NSA computers and intelligence officials. But the Globo article pointed out that in the Americas, Brazil was second only to the United States in the number of transmissions intercepted.

Brazil was a priority nation for the NSA communications surveillance alongside China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan, Globo said.

In the 10-year period, the NSA captured 2.3 billion phone calls and messages in the United States and then used computers to analyze them for signs of suspicious activity, the paper said. In the United States, the NSA used legal but secret warrants to compel communications companies to turn over information about calls and emails for analysis.

Some access to Brazilian communications was obtained through American companies that were partners with Brazilian telecommunications companies, the paper reported, without naming the companies.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/07/brazil-us-spying_n_3558187.html

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How many newspapers did Snowden pitch to

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[byeya]

2. Maybe this will cause Dilma to make a clean break with Lula and save her administration.

I would hope Brasil would join the other South American nations in support of Bolivia.

[Igel]

3. Any he could.

He's a man with a mission. Where he's indispensible may have changed over time, but his ever-present sense of his own importance has never left him.

But the article continues to confound metadata and wiretapping. It's not difficult to keep them separate, at least I don't think so.

Then again, getting the difference between "velocity" and "acceleration" through to some people is danged difficult. Let's not even mention "molarity" and "molality."

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4. I hope you guys are wearing protection

As the German story showed, your virginity in Libertarianism is getting robbed.