Indications
emerged on Saturday that the United States has been spying on the
Nigeria’s security agencies, especially the State Security Service, and
probably the Presidency.
In a report published in New York Times,
Edward Snowden, an American computer specialist, who worked for the US
Central Intelligence Agency and as a contractor with the US National
Security Agency, stated that Nigeria’s SSS was one of the security
agencies across the globe that the N.S.A. had been listening in on.
He said briefs on the information
gleaned from intercepting of telephone conversations and hacking of
computers of the SSS, other security agencies in Nigeria and other
countries are delivered to the office of the US President, Barrack Obama
every morning.
“By many accounts, the agency provides
more than half of the intelligence nuggets delivered to the White House
early each morning in the President’s Daily Brief — a measure of success
for American spies. One document boasts that listening in on Nigerian
State Security Service had provided items for the briefing “nearly two
dozen” times. In every international crisis, American policy makers look
to the N.S.A. for inside information,” Snowden told New York Times.
The release of documents that proved
that the NSA had been eavesdropping on the communications of world
leaders, including US allies, had caused diplomatic rows, with Germany
and some other countries protesting.
Snowden also noted that the NSA had
obtained thousands of classified documents, containing secrets of
governments around the world, pointing to a possibility that it might
have obtained secret documents of the Federal Government of Nigeria, or
tapped President Goodluck Jonathan’s phone conversations.
Snowden, who is on a temporary political
asylum in Russia, disclosed classified details of several top-secret
United States, Israeli, and British government mass surveillance
programmes to the press.
He started releasing the NSA’s documents
in June and the documents he has released so far show that the US has
been spying most countries in the world.
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