Israel Helped the NSA Spy on Former French President According To Documents

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 28, 2013 @01:33AM from the with-a-little-help-from-my-friends dept.

rtoz writes "It wasn't the US government breaking into the private communications of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to top secret documents unearthed by Edward Snowden and published in Le Monde – it was the Israelis. A four-page internal précis regarding a visit to Washington by two top French intelligence officials denies the NSA or any US intelligence agency was behind the May 2012 attempted break-in – which sought to implant a monitoring device inside the Elysee Palace's communications system – but instead fingers the Israelis, albeit indirectly. A few days back, Le Monde reported that the NSA Intercepted French Telephone Calls 'On a Massive Scale' ."

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right by superwiz · 2013-10-28 02:15 · Score: 3, Interesting

So this is the "let's accuse the Israelies so that the US would have no choice but to admit that it was really us" trick? Thanks. I think I already saw that episode of West Wing.

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Re:Who Says they Never Paid for those Nukes... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-28 02:25 · Score: 2, Interesting

Rule #1 for not looking anti-Semitic is to know what a semite is, take a look:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/semite
You see, Arabs are also semites, so Israel looks quite anti-Semitic if you take that on account.