WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
The site WikiLeaks said the publication of portions of secret documents about the US intelligence agencies listening to world leaders. Among them – Ban Ki-moon, Angela Merkel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy
WikiLeaks website issued a press release on the publication of a new series of classified documents. It says that the US National Security Agency bugged world leaders, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Some of the documents are the secret of those who have ever been published in the media, the authors of the press release say.
«Today we have shown how personal meeting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, dedicated to saving the planet from climate change, the country can be heard, the purpose of which is to protect its major oil companies “, – quotes the words of the founder of the site WikiLeaks Julian Assange.
The new portion of the revelations concerns the NSA listening to the talks, Ban Ki-moon and the Chancellor Angela Merkel devoted to climate change, interviews of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. In addition, the summary referred to documents relating to the interception of key ministers of the EU trade and Japan on the World Trade Organization, as well as an informal meeting of parts of the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Merkel and Berlusconi.
In October, WikiLeaks has published letters from email CIA Director John Brennan. In one of them contained the recommendations of the “future president of the United States on how to play the pieces on the chessboard Iran».
Publications WikiLeaks about NSA spying for the world’s leaders have repeatedly been the cause of diplomatic scandals. From documents released by the portal, it became known that US intelligence in the framework of counter-terrorism program to collect information on citizens of Western Europe, not excluding the leaders of these countries. In particular, it became known that the NSA tapped personal phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Surveillance of friends is unacceptable,” – then announced Merkel. After that Barack Obama has decided to restrict the activities of US intelligence.
In December, The Wall Street Journal said that, despite the disposal of Obama’s “under the hood” of special services remained President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Publishing source then told that during the private discussions the Obama administration, it was decided to exclude Erdogan and Netanyahu from the list of heads of state surveillance of whom decided to stop. In the so-called protected list included French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders of the NATO member countries.
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