US spy agency NSA was authorized in 2010 to carry out surveillance on BJP: Washington Post report
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Copy of the report : http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/list-of-foreign-governments-and-organizations-authorized-for-surveillance/1133/
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America’s top spy agency was authorised by a US court in 2010 to carry out surveillance on the BJP along with five other political organisations across the globe, including Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and... Pakistan Peoples Party, according to a classified document.
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Copy of the report : http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/list-of-foreign-governments-and-organizations-authorized-for-surveillance/1133/
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America’s top spy agency was authorised by a US court in 2010 to carry out surveillance on the BJP along with five other political organisations across the globe, including Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and... Pakistan Peoples Party, according to a classified document.
BJP figures in the list of foreign political parties along with Lebanon’s Amal, the Bolivarian Continental Coordinator of Venezuela, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian National Salvation Front and the Pakistan Peoples Party for whom the National Security Agency (NSA) had sought permission to carry out surveillance, says the document made public by The Washington Post on Monday.
The document lists the 193 foreign governments as well as foreign factions and other entities that were part of a 2010 certification approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The list includes India and in particular BJP, a major national party of India.
It said each year a new certification must be approved by the court to permit such surveillance under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act.
“Virtually no foreign government is off-limits for the National Security Agency, which has been authorised to intercept information ‘concerning’ all but four countries, according to top-secret documents,” The Post reported.
The four countries are Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Without specifically responding to questions related to surveillance on India and the BJP in particular, NSA spokesperson Vanee’ Vines said that the agency collects foreign intelligence based on specific intelligence requirements set by the President, the Director of National Intelligence, CIA and departments and agencies through the National Intelligence Priorities Framework.
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Source: Indian Express
The document lists the 193 foreign governments as well as foreign factions and other entities that were part of a 2010 certification approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The list includes India and in particular BJP, a major national party of India.
It said each year a new certification must be approved by the court to permit such surveillance under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act.
“Virtually no foreign government is off-limits for the National Security Agency, which has been authorised to intercept information ‘concerning’ all but four countries, according to top-secret documents,” The Post reported.
The four countries are Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Without specifically responding to questions related to surveillance on India and the BJP in particular, NSA spokesperson Vanee’ Vines said that the agency collects foreign intelligence based on specific intelligence requirements set by the President, the Director of National Intelligence, CIA and departments and agencies through the National Intelligence Priorities Framework.
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Source: Indian Express
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