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NSA Shares Intel On Americans With Israel

Posted by Soulskill on from the hits-keep-coming dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The U.K.'s Guardian newspaper is reporting that the NSA shares the raw intel collected on Americans with Israel. From the article: 'Details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart that shows the U.S. government handed over intercepted communications likely to contain phone calls and emails of American citizens. The agreement places no legally binding limits on the use of the data by the Israelis. ... The deal was reached in principle in March 2009, according to the undated memorandum, which lays out the ground rules for the intelligence sharing. The five-page memorandum, termed an agreement between the U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies "pertaining to the protection of U.S. persons," repeatedly stresses the constitutional rights of Americans to privacy and the need for Israeli intelligence staff to respect these rights. But this is undermined by the disclosure that Israel is allowed to receive "raw Sigint" – signal intelligence. The memorandum says: "Raw Sigint includes, but is not limited to, unevaluated and unminimized transcripts, gists, facsimiles, telex, voice and Digital Network Intelligence metadata and content."'

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  1. Legal and NSA by fustakrakich · · Score: 5, Informative

    are mutually exclusive

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    1. Re:Legal and NSA by Gilmoure · · Score: 4, Informative

      Or bad things might happen. Suddenly a shared gmail account is made public, tax records come to light, etc. Everyone has something to hide.

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  2. Re:How close is this to treason? by LMariachi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jonathan Pollard got life in prison for passing classified data to Israel.

  3. Re:How close is this to treason? by sconeu · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jonathan Pollard says hello.

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  4. Re:Once again we see who actually runs our country by St.Creed · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, I see what you mean: the old "communists and jews eating our babies" conspiracy again - aka the Blood libel. It's not an explanation, it's a rambling collection of bullshit that traces right back to the Tsarist Ochrana and even darker times before that.

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  5. Re:In other words... by Valdrax · · Score: 3, Informative

    It kinda figures... but why pick Israel of all allies? Israel should have plenty of work to do themselves before bothering with NSA lists, and if the story breaks out like it just did, those theorizing that the USA is Israel's pet would have a field day. I'd have asked some Commonwealth country instead.

    We're already working with all the other major English-speaking countries in the Five Eyes program. Also Germany.

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