Israel Flagged As Top Spy Threat To U.S. In New Snowden/NSA Documeny -- Newsweek
Israel was singled out in 2007 as a top espionage threat against the U.S. government, including its intelligence services, in a newly published National Security Agency (NSA) document obtained by fugitive leaker Edward Snowden, according to a news report Monday.
The document also identified Israel, along with North Korea, Cuba and India, as a “leading threat” to the infrastructure of U.S. financial and banking institutions.
The threats were listed in the NSA’s 2007 Strategic Mission List, according to the document obtained by journalist/activist Glenn Greenwald, a founding editor of The Intercept, an online magazine that has a close relationship with Snowden, a former NSA and CIA contractor who fled the U.S. with thousands of top-secret documents last year.
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Update: Leaked documents show paradox of US-Israel intelligence sharing -- i24 News
My Comment: The above leak is from a 2007 document .... branding Israel as a top U.S. spy threat. But this recent leak (a document from last year) reveals that U.S. - Israeli intelligence cooperation is now at an all time high. So the next question is obvious .... what happened between 2007 and 2013 for this intelligence cooperation to become so close? Iran's nuclear program? Civil war in Syria? Arab spring? Iraq? No answers yet from both Israel and the U.S..
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Both are "political documents".
You must be right James .... these documents have to be political for such a radical shift to occur .... intelligence officials are not known to being radical when it comes to changes in policy ... especially U.S. intelligence officers.
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