UK’s Secret Mideast Internet Surveillance Base Revealed

Documents suggest that Great Britain operates a secret station in the Middle East to intercept emails, phone calls and web traffic, shared with the US National Security Agency. “All of the messages and data passed back and forth on the cables is copied into giant computer storage ‘buffers’ and then sifted for data of special interest,” reports the Independent. Telecom and tech firms have cooperated with government spy programs. The article does not provide the station’s location, leaving every UK facility in the region under a cloud of suspicion. The article suggests that intelligence officials are “free to target anyone who is overseas or communicating from overseas without further checks or controls if they think they fall within the terms of a current certificate.” Britain confiscated equipment carried by the partner of a journalist who has reported many of the disclosures and claimed he could put lives at "risk" – yet British intelligence stored the same information on a shared wiki site, accessed by the former NSA contract worker who has triggered an avalanche of disclosures. Edward Snowden, the contract worker, denies releasing this particular document. – YaleGlobal

UK’s Secret Mideast Internet Surveillance Base Revealed

Massive UK intercept station in the Middle East, part of £1 billion project assembled by GCHQ, is exposed; Snowden denies document release
Duncan Campbell , Oliver Wright, James Cusick, Kim Sengupta
Monday, September 2, 2013
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