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WhereIsTheTruth 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite



According to Snowden the NSA just sends all the info directly so spies aren't necessary anymore

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/opinion/israels-nsa-scand...


Heard that one before. 2nd paragraph of the article:

The Pollard affair took Washington and Tel Aviv by surprise. Wolf Blitzer, Washington correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, in a book published just several weeks before Pollard’s arrest, wrote that there is no real fear in the US government that American Jews are leaking information to the Mossad, the Israeli equivalent of the CIA. “Experienced US intelligence officials readily acknowledge that the degree of cooperation between the CIA and the Mossad is already so close that the two organizations do not really have to spy on each other. Despite infractions on both sides,” Blitzer explained, “US and Israeli intelligence organizations have maintained a discreet arrangement since the 1950s, banning covert operations against each other.


A more recent essay on the topic that ended up becoming a best selling book: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n06/john-mearsheimer/the...




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