June 30-July 1, 2013 -- Updated to July 2. NSA's joint operations with European nations.
publication date: Jun 30, 2013
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June 30-July 1, 2013 -- Updated to July 2. NSA's joint operations with European nations. The Observer of the UK interviewed the editor on the National Security Agency's Second, Third, and Fourth Party agreements with other intelligence services that pointed out that German and French protestations about the NSA and British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) jointly tapping the transatlantic cable in Cornwall not withstanding, the NSA also cooperates with Berlin and Paris in collecting private information on European citizens. On June 29, after The Guardian ran the story prior to The Observer running it on its web site and featuring it as a splash in its June 30 print edition, the story was pulled by The Guardian and The Observer. The second print edition of The Observer also deleted the story but not before the first print run reached London area news agents, as well as those in other British and European cities. The decision appears to have been made after a well-coordinated campaign was launched by a number of web activists, including a Professor John Schindler who identifies himself as a professor with the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Schindler has been particularly critical of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald who broke most of Snowden's revelations on NSA surveillance. Schindler immediately began sending out Twitter messages, soliciting further responses and messages from dubious right-wing sites like LittleGreenFootballs and BusinessInsider.com. The tactic is a familiar one. It was used in the campaign to bring down CBS News anchor Dan Rather on a story about President George W. Bush's AWOL status during his service with the Texas Air National Guard. The Guardian is the sister paper of The Observer. The Guardian ran the Observer's story on Third Parties late afternoon on June 29. In a few hours, as the right-wing web campaign went into full throttle, the story was pulled from The Guardian. After a few hours, The Guardian page showed the following: This is how BusinessInsider covered the article's take down with Schindler's quote: Some of Madsen's controversial views include the belief that President Obama is secretly a homosexual and that the Boston bombing suspects were government agents. He's also reported on a "former CIA agent" alleging the 2000 USS Cole bombing was perpetrated not by al Qaeda terrorists, but by a missile fired from an Israeli submarine. John Schindler, a professor at the Naval War College and intelligence expert, called Madsen "batsh-- crazy, to use the technical term." From: Wayne Madsen
Author, journalist, columnist Regarding your tirade against me on several websites. I was shocked and appalled that you would use your US Naval War College affiliation in the following quote to BusinessInsider.com: The Guardian Revealed A Major NSA 'Scoop' Then Deleted It From Their Website
John Schindler, a professor at the Naval War College and intelligence expert, called Madsen "batsh-- crazy, to use the technical term." (BusinessInsider.com)
We have officially reached Peak Greenwald; if you need to rally Wayne Madsen as backup, it's entirely over.
@20committee Find someone nice who can slowly explain to you what a "byline" is.
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And then there are these Twitter comments by you:
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Really still can't believe a well known crank like Madsen could wind up in Anglosphere MSM. Desperation? Sometimes this Twitter thing works!
Short version of Madsen: Take pretty much any spy-like conspiracy theory fm last 30 yrs & he's come up with a crazier version, just add Jews
Okay, Mr. Schindler, you've had your fun. How do you want to handle this? You can ask Business Insider to publish a visible statement that your views do not reflect those of the US Naval War College (which I'd like done because I list my academic work there on my c.v. and you, representing the War College, have decided to use your affiliation to attack my credibility across the board.
More importantly for you, how do you propose the Naval War College to handle your comments? I think it would be proper for them to issue a press release stating that your views about an alum of the college do not reflect those of the college and these are purely your personal views and the Naval War College regrets your comments and that you've been properly counseled by the President and Provost.
Or if none of this sounds acceptable, I can have my attorney contact Rear Admiral Christenson directly in order to elevate this to a proper legal matter.
It's your choice.
Wayne Madsen ------------------------------- On June 30, The Guardian published an additional story referring to the declassified NSA and other intelligence documents I sent them about Third Parties and the code names used to exchange signals intelligence with Third and Fourth Parties. The declassified formerly Top Secret-S-CCO document is titled "Third Party Nations: Partners and Targets." In the case of Germany, France, and others, they are both partners and targets and leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel is well aware that the German intelligence agencies assist NSA in spying on Germans and others in the same manner as the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, the so-called "Five Eyes [FVEY]" English-speaking club of signals intelligence partners. The second declassified document, a formerly Top Secret National Reconnaissance Office declassification guideline, refers to Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Exchange descriptors. I explained to The Observer that code words found on Page 9 of the document like DIKTER and SETTEE, stood for Third Party SIGINT exchanges with Norway and the Republic of Korea, respectively. I also impressed on The Observer that these agreements, like the Second Party arrangements, are truly one-way streets, whereby NSA grabs all of the SIGINT from partner countries with the partners, especially the Third and Fourth Parties -- the latter include China, Sweden, Finland, Austria, and Switzerland -- receiving relatively little in return. In its later article, The Guardian put it in the following way, this time without naming the source: "Meanwhile, it has emerged that at least six European member states have shared personal communications data with the NSA, according to declassified US intelligence reports and EU parliamentary documents. The documents, seen by the Observer, show that – in addition to the UK – Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy have all had formal agreements to provide communications data to the US. They state that the EU countries have had "second and third party status" under decades-old signal intelligence (Sigint) agreements that compel them to hand over data which, in later years, experts believe, has come to include mobile phone and internet data. Under the international intelligence agreements, nations are categorised by the US according to their trust level. The US is defined as 'first party' while the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand enjoy 'second party' trusted relationships. Countries such as Germany and France have 'third party', or less trusted, relationships." |