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Obama had NSA spy on Israel during Iran nuclear deal negotiations
Though President Obama announced two years ago he would cut back on spying on leaders of USA allies after the scope of US surveillance programs was revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the White House made a decision to keep monitoring certain allies, notably Netanyahu, current and former US officials told the newspaper.
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But the United States continued its surveillance of Netanyahu out of concern that Israel itself was spying on the nuclear negotiations with the goal of derailing the effort, senior USA officials told the Wall Street Journal.
Netanyahu has been a staunch opponent of the Iran nuclear deal, and his stance has caused much disagreement with the United States.
Netanyahu spoke out against a potentially unsatisfactory nuclear deal during a speech to a joint session of Congress in March.
White House officials believed the intercepted information could be valuable to counter Netanyahu’s campaign. To avoid “a paper trail stemming out from a request”, the White House left it to the NSA to decide what information should be either shared or withheld.
President Obama’s commitment to America’s “unshakable bond” with Israel didn’t prevent USA spy agencies from electronically snooping on Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, an explosive new report reveals.
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel had been embarrassed by the revelation that her cellphone had been monitored and other allies expressed private concerns about the breadth of NSA monitoring.
A 2011 NSA directive said direct communications between foreign intelligence targets and members of Congress should be destroyed when they are intercepted.
After Israel’s lobbying campaign against the deal went into full swing on Capitol Hill, it did no take long for administration and intelligence officials to realize the NSA was sweeping up their conversation content.
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The US managed to capture communications between Netanyahu and his aides, which led to mistrust between Washington and Tel Aviv and created a politically sticky situation when the Israeli leader spoke to Congress in an attempt to push through his anti-Iran message.