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Monday, August 26, 2013

WHAT SNOWDEN REVEALED ABOUT UK MIDDLE EAST SECRET SURVEILLANCE

Exclusive by The Independent:
 
Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and web traffic on behalf of Western intelligence agencies.

 
The station is able to tap into and extract data from the underwater fibre-optic cables passing through the region.
 
The information is then processed for intelligence and passed to GCHQ in Cheltenham and shared with the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States. The Government claims the station is a key element in the West’s “war on terror” and provides a vital “early warning” system for potential attacks around the world.
 
The Independent is not revealing the precise location of the station but information on its activities was contained in the leaked documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden.
 
The Guardian newspaper’s reporting on these documents in recent months has sparked a dispute with the Government, with GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives containing the data.
 
 
 
RELATED
 
UK government ordered The Guardian to destroy hard drives with Snowden information http://rt.com/news/guardian-hard-drives-destroyed-697/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2397827/The-Guardian-allowed-GCHQ-spies-offices-oversee-destruction-leaked-NSA-data.html


Russia Today - The UK secret surveillance of the Middle East
http://rt.com/news/uk-middle-east-surveillance-873/

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Something to think about:
 
If the UK - and probably other Western countries as well - have such a sophisticated Middle East surveillance web, how did they get the Arab Spring so very wrong?
 
 
 
 
 
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