US said to have spied on FARC in NSO spying scheme: NY Times [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

US said to have spied on FARC in NSO spying scheme: NY Times
posted by Daniel Freeman
Nov 4, 2013

In a spying scandal that has rocked international trust in the United States and its National Security Agency (NSA), it seems as though every day there is a new country or entity that is revealed to have been spied on by the American government. The New York Times wrote this weekend that the rebel group, FARC, is now included on that list.

Ranging from allied leaders of Brazil and Mexico to Germany and France, the NSA has been exposed as an “electronic omnivore of staggering capabilities, eavesdropping and hacking its way around the world to strip governments and other targets of their secrets,” wrote the New York Times in an extensive report this past Saturday.

The report revealed that the NSA had placed eavesdropping gear on a Defense Department plane to survey locations of FARC combatants and deliver them to the Colombian government to aid them in fighting the guerrillas.

“The agency’s eavesdropping gear, aboard a Defense Department plane flying 60,000 feet over Colombia, fed the location and plans of FARC rebels to the Colombian Army,” read the report.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/us-said-spied-farc-international-spying-scandal-ny-times/