Tag Archive for NSA

| August 3, 2019
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Orthodox Jewish Woman Heads NSA’s new Cybersecurity Directorate

Becoming operational on October 1, Anne ‘Chani’ Neuberger, the NSA’s first Director of Cybersecurity, an Orthodox Jewish woman, will be reporting directly to the agency’s director, Gen. Paul Nakasone, on issues that will focus on defending the U.S. against foreign cyber-threats.

By MARCY OSTER

 

(JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish woman has been tapped to head the National Security Agency’s new Cybersecurity Directorate.

Anne Neuberger of Baltimore has worked at the NSA for the past decade. She helped establish the U.S. Cyber Command and worked as chief risk officer, where she led the agency’s election security efforts for the 2018 midterms. Continue Reading »

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| August 4, 2017
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Caroline Glick points out NSA McMaster is cleansing pro-Israel staff under Trump’s nose

 

On her Facebook page, Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick posted on Wednesday now President Trump’s National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, is one-by-one firing his pro-Israel staff who BTW support the POTUS’s policies, from the National Security Council (NSC), turning a highly influential and significant office of the administration against President Donald Trump’s policies.

By BREITBART NEWS

 

In a Facebook post, Glick noted that “all of these people” whom McMaster has fired this week — Rich Higgins, Derek Harvey, and Ezra Cohen-Watnick — “are pro-Israel and oppose the Iran nuclear deal, positions that Trump holds.”

She noted that the firings were the latest evidence that NSA McMaster is “deeply hostile to Israel and to Trump”:

According to senior officials aware of his behavior, he constantly refers to Israel as the occupying power and insists falsely and constantly that a country named Palestine existed where Israel is located until 1948 when it was destroyed by the Jews.

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| February 24, 2016
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Wikileaks: Obama ordered eavesdropping on top Italian leaders, to watch Netanyahu

 

Wikileaks’ website posts NSA document acknowledging it eavesdropped on Italian officials’ conversations which revealed Israeli PM turning to Berlusconi for help with Obama, after Jerusalem’s decision to build new homes in East Jerusalem.

By News Agencies

 

Wikileaks announced Tuesday night that the National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropped on conversations which reveal that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned to Italian President Silvio Berlusconi to help him deal with US President Barack Obama.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and former Italian President Silvio Berlusconi – Photo: AFP

“Netanyahu pleaded with Berlusconi to help him deal with Obama,” the WikiLeaks website stated . Continue Reading »

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| January 30, 2016
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Leaked documents: UK & US Intel Services Hacked IDF Drones & War-Jets

 

The British intelligence services, Gov’ts Communication Headquarters, working in cahoots with the US’ National Security Agency, systematically hacked Israeli drones from Cyprus.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The United States and British intelligence services hacked into Israeli drones in order to monitor their activity under a classified program code-named “Anarchist,” Internet publication The Intercept reported Friday.

Hermes 900 drone. – Photo: IDF

 The United States and British intelligence services hacked into Israeli drones in order to monitor their activity under a classified program code-named “Anarchist,” Internet publication The Intercept reported Friday.

The UK’s intelligence services known as the Governments Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), working in conjunction with the National Security Agency (NSA), systematically surveyed Israeli drones from Cyprus in order to collect information on military operations in Gaza, watch out for potential strikes on Iran, and monitor drone technology the Jewish State was exporting around the world. Continue Reading »

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| January 5, 2016
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Obama still spying on Netanyahu

 

After the recent report in the Wall street Journal on the White House ordering the NSA to spy on the Israel Prime Minister, a top U.S. intelligence officer reveled to Israeli reporters how much, and how the White House is spying on Netanyahu and those in contact with him.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Following a string of embarrassing revelations of the US spying in friendly heads of state, President Barack Obama ordered intelligence agencies to end the practice – except for when it came to Israel.

A former high-level US intelligence officer – who was codenamed ‘Robert’ and was privy to most of the United States’ intelligence information on Israel over the past three decades – made the revelation in an interview with Yediot Aharonot. Continue Reading »

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| September 18, 2014
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Snowden: NSA gave Jerusalem its intel on Arab Americans

Allegations that Israel’s Unit 8200, is exploiting received NSA information it collected, to politically persecute innocent Palestinians.

By i24news

 

Former US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden has accused the US National Security Agency of routinely passing private, unedited communications of Americans to Israel, an expert on the intelligence agency said Wednesday.

US National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden speaks to European officials via video-conference at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France, on June 24, 2014 Photo: Frederick Florin – AFP/File

James Bamford, writing in the New York Times, said Snowden told him the intercepts included communications of Arab- and Palestinian-Americans whose relatives in Israel and the Palestinian territories could become targets based on the information. Continue Reading »

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| December 22, 2013
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US, UK used American satellites to eavesdropped & read emails of Israeli officials

 

 

Secret documents revealed by intelligence contractor Edward Snowden: The US & UK conducted a large scale operation in which they used satellite connections to intercept SMS and email communications between Israeli officials.

By Ynet

Intelligence and government officials in Israel have been looking since Friday into a report according to which the National Security Agency and Britain’s General Communications Headquarters (GHCQ) intercepted the email traffic of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and then Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and later spied on the communications of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to a report from the German news website Der Spiegel, and similar reports from The New York Times and The Guardian, both agencies also targeted various Israel Foreign Ministry offices across the world. Continue Reading »

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| November 3, 2013
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NYT Report: NSA spied on Israel’s military targets

 

Based on Snowden documents, New York Times reports how National Security Agency tracked ‘high priority Israeli military targets’, including Black Sparrow missile system & it’s drone aircraft.

By Yitzhak Benhorin

WASHINGTON – The National Security Agency spied on “high priority Israeli military targets,” a New York Times report says. Based on documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the report shows how the agency shares information with governments that are themselves important NSA targets, “notably Israel.”

The Snowden documents describe collaboration with Israel’s Sigint National Unit, Unit 8200, which gets raw NSA eavesdropping material and provides it in return. Continue Reading »

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| October 29, 2013
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Former Head of Mossad: Obama Also Spied on Israel

 

Danny Yatom, a former Israeli spy master says the United States has a very long history of listening in on their friends & enemies alike.

By Nina Giesecke

 

In the wake of the international scandal resulting from reports that America’s National Security Agency (NSA) tapped the phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the former chief of Israel’s Mossad revealed that Washington has been spying on the Jewish state, too.

Former Mossad Chief: Obama Also Spied on Israel!

Merkel was not the only leading international politician on whom the NSA was listening in, and “if the Americans think there would be a reason to spy on [Israel], they would do it,” said Danny Yatom. Continue Reading »

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| September 12, 2013
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Secret Doc: NSA shares U.S. intel with Israel

 

Snowden provided secret document to the Guardian that indicates US gov’t gave Israel intercepted communications likely to contain emails & phone calls from American citizens.

Documents also suggests Israel ‘3rd most aggressive intel service against U.S.’

By Ynet

 

 

The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.

Edward Snowden – Screenshot: Laura Poitras/Wikimedia Commons

The British newspaper said details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart that shows the US government handed over intercepted communications likely to contain phone calls and emails of American citizens. Continue Reading »

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| June 30, 2013
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German Report: U.S. spied on EU diplomats in Brussels, N.Y. & Washington

According to documents taken by whistleblower Snowden, NSA ‘bugs’ allowed to them to listen to conversations and hack EU computer networks.

By DPA

 

The U.S. National Security Agency allegedly conducted spying on European Union diplomats, according to classified documents taken by whistleblower Edward Snowden and reported by German news magazine Spiegel on Saturday.

Photos of Edward Snowden, a contractor at the NSA, and U.S. President Barack Obama in newspapers

Photos of Edward Snowden, a contractor at the NSA, and U.S. President Barack Obama are printed on Hong Kong newspapers in this illustration photo June 11, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

 

The NSA bugged EU offices in Washington and at the United Nations in New York and infiltrated internal computer networks, allowing the U.S. Continue Reading »

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