p S Related Interviews: Israel pulling NSA strings: Fetzer'US Congress cannot be trusted'Related Viewpoints: Time to stiff ‘international community’Scott Rickard, a former American Intelligence Lindquist, says Israel is also “involved” in spying operations carried out by the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.
“The Israelis are very involved in any collection activity. A lot of the technologies that are being applied have been developed in the States as well as in Israel and Europe using Mossad agents,” Rickard told Press TV on Saturday.
A recent report has suggested that the CIA is collecting financial transaction records from the likes of Western Union under the Patriot Act. This is the same law exploited by the NSA. Many in the US have criticized the measure as massive violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Rickard said the revelation isn’t something new. He said the financial transactions have been collected for “well over 50 years”. US officials have now expanded the program to target “suspected terrorists,” he said.
The Wall Street Journal reported that former US government officials familiar with the CIA program have said that the program “has been useful in discovering terrorist relationships and financial patterns”.
“If a CIA analyst searches the data and discovers possible suspicious terrorist activity in the US, the analyst provides that information to the FBI” the Journal said, citing a former US official.
In 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center database contained over 700,000 names and the list was growing at a whopping 20,000 names per month. That means that the list now has well over a million names.
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9 13 60Related Stories: US wasting resources to back IsraelNSA to continue spying on AmericansNSA aims to keep US nuke tech secretMossad 'working with US over spying'Israel can access NSA intelligence US foreign policy could lead to WWIIIComments (5)Add Comment Click HereNote: The views expressed and the links provided on our comment pages are the personal views of individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Press TV. Asghar Bavafa Nov 17, 2013 1:37 AMOnly Hitler knew what to do with these ZioNazi blood suckers. Only Hitler. Bless his sole. Click to Rate ReplyRating0 JJ Nov 17, 2013 12:53 AMThe CIA, NSA, Mossad, etc, don't have to spy, there arelots of web sites where people can tell them what they reallythink of them. By the way, the most damaging spy of all to the USA wasJonathan Pollard and he spied on The USA for Israel. Click to Rate ReplyRating1 liamo Nov 17, 2013 12:39 AMSome years ago,i worked for a man called R.M a thief and a liar,he was also the go between Israel and Washington,he had a little sideline selling computer security systems to various countries,Suggesting,that all state,and sensitive data,would be safe and secure.Many,countries,bought into this system,[[]the Chinese gave it a no thanks,]Unfortunately,he was also a mossad agent,some years later,it transpired that Mossad,had placed a back door in this system and were happily reading all the secret data from almost every security service in the world.Lets face it,it was brilliant,is their anybody out there,who thinks,that there,is any security service worth its salt,is not spying on everything possible,wakey wakey,its an integral part of life sadly.His eventual thanks for his efforts,was to be murdered by his handlers,and a well earned burial,on the mount of olives.Meanwhile of course mossad had all the dirt,on everybody,it needed,to stop any country speaking out against,its atrocities. Click to Rate ReplyRating1 FIRST FROM RIGHT Nov 17, 2013 12:37 AMThe United States is financing the most expensive spy agency NSA with their "partners" from the "Five Eyes".An "other state" is becoming these informations without much financial efforts."The sixth Eye"...The U.S. is supporting Israel with $ 4 billion /year.Should an American Politicians try to refuse this aid then the knowledge will be used as a tool against them.So the USA is paying and an other state is profiting from.Who is the master in this case...? Click to Rate ReplyRating1 living Nov 16, 2013 11:33 PMIt is NOT involved, IT IS THEIR IDEA, everything the west dows is for israel, even here in Australia the jews demanded all the credit card details of all Australians, WHY IS THAT?.