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US spied on Russian President Medvedev at 2009 G20 summit – NSA leaks
RT ^ | 6/16 | RT

Posted on 06/16/2013 2:37:35 PM PDT by RummyChick

As Britain readies to host the G8 summit, the documents uncovered by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed that back in 2009 US spies intercepted top-secret communication of then Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, during his visit to London.

The shocking news has been broken by The Guardian which has seen the documents. It also revealed that a UK intelligence agency, GCHQ, monitored foreign politicians and intercepted their emails during the 2009 G20 summit held in the British capital. Some delegates were tricked into using internet cafes which had been set up by UK intelligence agencies to read their email traffic.

The 39th G8 summit is scheduled to start on Monday in the small Northern Irish resort town of Lough Erne with all the nations who were present at the 2009 London meeting attending.

According to the leaked documents viewed by the British paper, the details of the intercept of Medvedev’s communications were set out in a briefing prepared by the US National Security Agency (NSA), and shared with high-ranking officials from Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The document was drafted in August 2009, four months after the Russian president attended the London G20 summit.

In the wake of the scandalous leak of NSA documents, US officials have been defending massive surveillance tactics stressing that they were crucial in the fight against terrorism. However, the recent revelations about the actions of the NSA and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) suggests this was simply a case of espionage.


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2009; 200904; 200908; g20; gchq; internetcafes; israel; medvedev; nsaleak; obama; russia; snowdenleak; spies; spooks; waronterror
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1 posted on 06/16/2013 2:37:35 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

ruh-roh...


2 posted on 06/16/2013 2:43:49 PM PDT by moovova
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Uh, this is what they are supposed to do..


3 posted on 06/16/2013 2:45:27 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: RummyChick

everybody at the summit spied on everyone else

the west just has more leakers and “whistleblowers”


4 posted on 06/16/2013 2:50:57 PM PDT by Wuli (qu)
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To: RummyChick
That had good reason to be spying on any Russian officeholder because the Russians were certainly spying on us.

For Big Brother to be spying on everyone who pays Big Brother's bills is a horse of a different color.

5 posted on 06/16/2013 2:54:43 PM PDT by metafugitive
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To: RummyChick

well I certainly hope so, it would have been malpractice not to. However, spying on your own citizens without a warrant is wrong


6 posted on 06/16/2013 2:56:10 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: RummyChick

Time to hand out more Superbowl rings with bugs in them to Russian diplomats. LOL


7 posted on 06/16/2013 2:58:29 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: RummyChick

Obama - First Prez 2b lecture about “excessive” spying.

By a Russian.

By a Russian *EX-KGB OFFICER*...!


8 posted on 06/16/2013 3:00:11 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: RummyChick

That was a good idea to have the NSA spy on everyone when they can’t even keep their own secrets.


9 posted on 06/16/2013 3:02:32 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: RummyChick

I'm Shocked!


10 posted on 06/16/2013 3:03:54 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: RummyChick

So whats new there? We had people watching Churchill, Stalin and Chang Kai Chek at all of those conferences too. And they had people watching us. Its the way things are done Bunky!


11 posted on 06/16/2013 3:06:12 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: gaijin

But rest assured that ex-KGB officer truly loves his country. WTSHTF he will be there to lead his nation.

Can you say the same thing about Bambi, or does it really matter in our present-day society?


12 posted on 06/16/2013 3:09:27 PM PDT by 353FMG ( I do not say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: Don Corleone
So whats new there?

Well, Sparky the Wonder Dog had just used Hillary the Great to hand a reset button to the Russians. So that reset button was supposed to mean that there were resetting the old Cold War ? Fairly obvious now that no one on the planet can trust the US government.

13 posted on 06/16/2013 3:42:24 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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"Reset" in English and "Peregruzka" in Russian

Translation: overcharged, or overloaded.

14 posted on 06/16/2013 3:47:47 PM PDT by maggief
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To: 353FMG
Can you say the same thing about Bambi,

Yes Broncobomber absolutely loves his country, the one with 57 member states, the Organization of Islamic Countries.

or does it really matter in our present-day society?

Yes, that he loves ummah more than life itself does matter very much to US.

15 posted on 06/16/2013 4:05:18 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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That’s what he really meant about more leverage....


16 posted on 06/16/2013 4:26:21 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Looks like Vlad ain’t gonna be happy with Obama.....hopefully this means the real Birth Certificate is released....and no miniture giraffe for Bam


17 posted on 06/16/2013 4:30:48 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Don't Blame Me For La Raza Rubio....I Voted For Alex Snitker)
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Do people not think Putin was doing the same thing?
It’s what government DOES!


18 posted on 06/16/2013 4:35:38 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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That was 4 years ago. I can’t imagine the info we have now. Why don’t they save us all a lot of dollars and just mail it in. What a waist of time and dollars.


19 posted on 06/16/2013 5:04:01 PM PDT by magua
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To: RummyChick

No this happened under Bush in 2007 here. It’s all Obama.


20 posted on 06/16/2013 5:19:46 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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