Report: NSA shared unedited data on Arab Americans' calls with IDF intel unit

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Ex-NSA contractor Snowden told author Bamford that data could enable Israel to target callers' relatives in Israel and territories.

By Haaretz | Sep. 18, 2014 | 3:06 PM

The U.S. National Security Agency shared unredacted private communications from Americans – particularly Arab-Americans – with a key Israeli military-intelligence unit, an author and professor wrote.

In a New York Times op-ed piece, James Bamford said that he'd met this summer with Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked thousands of classified documents.

Snowden found that the data NSA was passing to Israel's Unit 8200 included IDs for who was calling whom.

Snowden said that the callers' relatives in Israel and the territories could become targets based on the data, Bamford wrote in the Tuesday op-ed. When NSA shares information with other countries, it normally removes that identifying data, Bamford wrote.

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