Saturday, August 3, 2013

178 Espionagem Britânica ao serviço do Uncle Sam

O Benfiquista na espionagem


Parece que o GCHQ, centro eletrônico de espionage anglo-americano em Cornwall anda envolvidos em operações underground, murky waters. Se não andessem não  nisso não teriam razão de existência ali naquele ponto.

Leia o artigo em Inglês e tire as suas ilações.

Os Europeus parecem estar agora a acordar para vida e andam em efervescência no Parlamento Europeu, depois de algumas revelações do Julian e do Edward. Eles já sabem disso há muito tempo. Só não espia quem não pode. Até o Benfiquista tem por aí vários agentes espalhados pelo mundo fora a sondar as mentes e os ares. Lol.


British spies 'paid £100million to do America's dirty work': How the U.S. is secretly bankrolling GCHQ spy centre

  • US gave GCHQ money and in return allowed to influence its work
  • Agency told it was expected to 'pull its weight' in return for the £100m
  • Documents were leaked by fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden

PUBLISHED: 01:48, 2 August 2013 | UPDATED: 10:14, 2 August 2013

Whistleblower: A copy of a temporary document to allow Edward Snowden to cross the border into Russia
Whistleblower: A copy of a temporary document to allow Edward Snowden to cross the border into Russia
The US government gave Britain’s spying centre at GCHQ £100million over three years and apparently expected to influence its work, it was claimed last night.
In return for the secret payments, the eavesdropping agency was expected to ‘pull its weight’, according to documents leaked last night by the fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden.
One document states that weaker regulation for British spies than American agents is one of the intelligence services’ ‘selling points’ for the US.
The leaked papers will raise more questions for the spy agency and ministers who oversee it, over the extent to which the US makes demands of Britain in its intelligence-gathering activities.
In a document from 2010, GCHQ said the US National Security Agency had ‘raised a number of issues with regards to meeting [its] minimum expectations’, and GCHQ ‘remains short of the full NSA ask’.
A cache leaked to The Guardian reveals the UK’s biggest fear is that ‘US perceptions of the … partnership diminish, leading to loss of access, and/or reduction in investment … to the UK’.
The information is the latest to be leaked by Mr Snowden, a former NSA contractor who was charged with espionage in the US. 
He left Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport yesterday where he has been since late June after exposing Prism – a US intelligence project to snoop on Facebook accounts, emails and phone calls. 
Claim: The US government gave Britain's spying centre at GCHQ (pictured) £100million over three years and apparently expected to influence its work, it was alleged
Claim: The US government gave Britain's spying centre at GCHQ (pictured) £100million over three years and apparently expected to influence its work, it was alleged
GCHQ was criticised after he claimed British spies used the Prism system to bypass UK laws.
Last week Parliament’s spy watchdog called for an investigation into the laws on intelligence eavesdropping, saying they may not be fit for purpose.

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The latest documents reveal the NSA gave GCHQ £22.9million in 2009, £39.9million in 2010, and another £34.7m in 2011-12.
The 2010 payment included £4million to support GCHQ’s work for Nato forces in Afghanistan, and £17.2million to fund the agency’s Mastering the Internet project, which gathers and stores vast amounts of ‘raw’ information ready for analysis. 

SNOWDEN GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS IN RUSSIA

Fugitive former US spy Edward Snowden was granted refugee status in Russia yesterday amid Western concerns he is now in the embrace of Moscow’s secret services.  
The 30-year-old intelligence leaker was accompanied by his British handler Sarah Harrison as he left Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in a taxi.
Miss Harrison, an ex-lover of WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange, has been at Mr Snowden’s side in the airport’s transit area for almost six weeks.  
The granting of refugee status pending his application for temporary political asylum is certain to spark fury in Washington which had urged President Putin to deport him to the US to face espionage charges.
Also funded by the NSA was redevelopment of GCHQ’s sister site in Bude, Cornwall, to the tune of £15.5million. The site intercepts transatlantic cables that carry internet traffic.
In return, the documents suggest GCHQ has to take the American view into account when deciding what to prioritise.
The money has been an important source of income for the British agency as it has been forced to cut costs and has shed more than 300 of its 6,000 staff.
Documents seen by the newspaper show GCHQ is heavily investing in harvesting personal information from mobile phones and apps, and wants to be able to ‘exploit any phone, anywhere, anytime’.
But some GCHQ staff expressed concern about ‘the morality and ethics of their operational work, particularly given the level of deception involved’.
A UK Government paper setting out GCHQ’s view after the 2010 strategic defence and security review says: ‘Our key partnership is with the US … GCHQ must pull its weight and be seen to pull its weight.’
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: ‘In a 60-year alliance it is entirely unsurprising that there are joint projects … but the benefits flow in both directions.’
Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said: 'The vital work of the intelligence agencies requires effective and thorough oversight by the Intelligence and Security Committee on behalf of Parliament, and by ministers, and in the case of GCHQ, by the Foreign Secretary.
'The latest reports in the Guardian only underline the importance of the Foreign Secretary and the Intelligence and Security Committee being able to assure the public that the legal framework within which our intelligence agencies operate is both being adhered to and is fit for purpose.'

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And yet your leading story is about Simon Cowell and his married girlfriend ? Your sovereignty is going, going, GONE and this story is buried down the bottom . What a rag !
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We knew the USA already regard its own public as the biggest enemy - seems the British government think the same of the British people. - Les, Thailand, Thailand, 2/8/2013 6:17----------------------------------------Yep,but somehow we are led to believe according to opinion polls that the majority of people in this country would still vote for these people? And we have the audacity to be sceptical about Mugabe and his vote rigging,lol.
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Ha ha ha !,....Britain is thicker than and denser than PORRIDGE !!....it licks and whines to the Yanks...how f--king disgusting...Britain the WIMP world power !!....what a f--king laugh ! - alec34 , Wellington, 02/8/2013 23:57 If you are from wellington, New Zealand, I'd shut your mouth as the Kiwis are part of the same system (New Zealand, Australia, canada, GB and USA all share and help with communication intercepts on behalf of each other).
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Sold your soul for money, eh? Despicable. Just because the US and the UK are friends and/or allies, doesn't mean the UK has to bow at the feet of the US and do their dirty work. Grow some balls and say *&$^% off!
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Who do you think will fall first if the US end up in a war over this? The United Kingdom of course, with the main "snoop" out of the way, the US only have themselves left. I don't think they would have as many allies as they think. They can't afford to bribe anyone, their debt is stupidly high and will collapse one day.
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So do you all still want to publish every bit of your life on Facebook ? I would shake Putins hand he's standing up to what he believes in and not bowing down to Obama good on him!
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For all those people who don't understand the UK is the best at signals intelligence of course our American brothers and sisters would want to be a part of GCHQ and its projects we've shared intelligence with America for about a 100 years. Some people clearly don't understand how far back the special relationship goes.
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Ha ha ha !,....Britain is thicker than and denser than PORRIDGE !!....it licks and whines to the Yanks...how f--king disgusting...Britain the WIMP world power !!....what a f--king laugh !
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Well, this should please all the swivel-eyed loony right wingers who cant wait for us to leave the EU and become the yanks lapdog
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Edward Snowden is a traitor to the Anglo Saxon people.
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