CIA suspends chief of Iran operations over workplace issues
WASHINGTON — The CIA’s chief of Iran operations was placed on paid administrative leave and sent home from agency headquarters after an internal…
Tag Archives: US surveillance programs
Obama proposes limits on NSA data collection
WHITE HOUSE — President Barack Obama unveiled reforms Friday in the vast surveillance being conducted by the country’s clandestine National Security Agency.…
NSA phone surveillance legal: federal judge
TEHRAN, Dec. 28 (MNA) – A federal court on Friday has declared that mass collection of domestic telephone data by NSA is…
Israel unmoved by reports that US, UK intelligence spied on Olmert, Barak in 2009
‘The Guardian’ and ‘The New York Times’ cite British intelligence document indicating that surveillance was conducted against Israeli leaders, other allies. Israel…
Highlights from Obama’s news conference
President Obama held a news conference on Friday before departing with his family for a two-week vacation in Hawaii, and Times reporters…
Xbox among US and UK spy agencies targets
TEHRAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) – To the National Security Agency analyst writing a briefing to his superiors, the situation was clear: their…
NSA spied on 2010 G8, G20 summits in Toronto
Newly revealed documents show the US National Security Agency spied on the G8 and G20 summits held in the Canadian city of…
US spies fear ‘doomsday’ cache stashed by Snowden
Intelligence officials in the US and Britain are worried that former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, whose revelations in June triggered a…
When the lawless superpower irks its allies
TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (MNA) – The contemporary American scientist and award-winning author Glen David Brin once made an astutely brilliant statement, which…
Pakistani daily reveals US eavesdropping of Tehran-Islamabad contacts on IP pipeline
TEHRAN (FNA)- The US spy agencies have been tapping the phone calls between the Iranian and Pakistani officials on the multi-billion-dollar gas…
Wiretaps, drone strikes show Obama worse than Bush
TEHRAN (FNA)- “Barack Obama is not George W. Bush,” the liberal French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy said, and added, “Everybody knows that.” Until…
NSA tracks Israeli military actions
US security services shared data collected through eavesdropping with Jerusalem and secretly tracked Israeli military actions, the NSA documents leaked to the…
US refuses to deny spying on Israeli politicians
The United States has refused to deny whether it is spying on Israeli politicians following leaks of secret documents about Washington’s eavesdropping…
Germany, U.S. to ink no-spying deal in 2014
TEHRAN, Nov. 3 (MNA) – Germany and the United States plan to ink a no-spy agreement next year to prohibit the bilateral…
German, Brazilian U.N. draft urges halt to excessive spying
TEHRAN, Nov. 2 (MNA) – Germany and Brazil circulated a draft resolution to a U.N. General Assembly committee on Friday that calls…
NSA espionage scandal gives US black eye: Analyst
Danny Schechter, the editor of mediachannel.org from New York city, has joined Press TV’s Debate program to share his opinions on the…
China to boost security amid US spying
China plans to reinforce its security amid reports that spying activities by the US National Security Agency (NSA) have spread into major…
EU lawmakers condemn US spying on citizens, leaders
Members of the European Parliament have condemned the United States for widespread spying on European citizens and leaders. The nine-member European Union…
Spying tests trust between Obama, Merkel
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama visited Berlin in June, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a point of showing him a…
MP: Spying on allies proves US unreliability
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior Iranian lawmaker said the fact that Washington spies on the phone conversations of officials and citizens of…
Obama’s Twitter, Facebook accounts hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
TEHRAN (FNA)- Hackers of the Syrian Electronic Army claimed Monday they had taken control of US President Barack Obama’s Twitter and Facebook…
NSA tracked 46 mln Italian phone calls: Report
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The NSA bugged 46 million phone calls in Italy in a month, according to digital library host Cryptome. The…
Obama orders review of spy operations
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – US President Barack Obama said he has ordered a review of the way US spy agencies gather intelligence. It…
Germany says it doesn’t trust US anymore
Germany says its confidence in the United States has been shaken by recent revelations that the US National Security Agency spied on…
King urges Obama to stop apologizing for NSA phone taps
President Barack Obama should “stop apologizing” for the National Security Agency’s telephone-surveillance program that has “saved thousands of lives,” according to Republican U.S. Representative Peter…
Spain to summon US ambassador over spy reports
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Friday he would call in the US ambassador to Madrid to explain reports…
Huge coalition calls for federal investigation over spying on Muslims in NY
TEHRAN, Oct. 25 (MNA) – Over one hundred organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union and dozens of diverse religious and community…
U.S. justifies espionage: ’all nations’ spy
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) – The White House on Monday brushed off France’s complaints about new allegations of eavesdropping by a top…
AP lashes Obama administration over leak probe
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The US government’s seizing of phone records of Associated Press reporters does not bode well for free speech, the…
Snowden’s father: My son has more secrets to share
SHAFAQNA (International Shia News Association) – Snowden’s father says his son has more secrets to share, and has advised the former NSA…
The NSA is gathering email and instant messenger contact lists from millions of ordinary citizens worldwide
SHAFAQNA (International Shia News Association)– The National Security Agency is gathering email and instant messenger contact lists from hundreds of millions of…
Is the US losing control of the internet?
TEHRAN, Oct. 13 (MNA) – All of the major internet organizations have pledged, at a summit in Uruguay, to free themselves of…
FISA Court: NSA can keep spying on phone calls
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in the US has ruled that the National Security Agency can continue its secret collection of phone…
Snowden’s father arrives in Moscow
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The father of former US intelligence contractor and whistle blower Edward Snowden arrived in Russia where his son was…