SNOWDEN STILL HOLDS US- ISRAEL SECRETS
Tel Aviv, 6 Rabiul Awal 1435/8 January 2014 (MINA) – A Former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden still has “very significant” secrets to reveal relating to Israel, says the investigative journalist who first published the whistleblower’s leaks.
“I don’t want to preview any stories that aren’t yet published, but it is definitely the case that there are a huge number of very significant stories that are left to report,” Glenn Greenwald said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 10 aired Monday night.
“There definitely are stories left that involve the Middle East, that involve Israel. The reporting is going to continue at roughly the same pace that has been happening,” he said, Press TV reported quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).
Among documents disclosed by Snowden last year was information that the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ had in 2009 intercepted an email address belonging to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and those of other senior Israeli officials.
Following the revelations, Israeli officials demanded that the US stop “systematically spying” on Israel.
“In the close ties between Israel and the United States, there are things that must not be done and that are not acceptable to us,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on December 23.
Last month, several Israeli cabinet members and lawmakers said reports of US spying was an opportunity to press Washington to free Jonathan Pollard, a former US intelligence analyst who has been imprisoned for nearly three decades over spying for Israel.
Greenwald said he understood why Israel would link the NSA spying to the Pollard case.
“I think you are absolutely right to contrast the Jonathan Pollard case with revelations of American spying on their closest allies within the Israeli government, because it does underlie, underscore exactly the hypocrisy that lies at the center of so much of what the US government does,” he said.
Glenn Greenwald is an American columnist, blogger, and author. He was a columnist for Guardian US from August 2012 to October 2013. He was a columnist for Salon.com from 2007 to 2012, and an occasional contributor to The Guardian. Greenwald worked as a constitutional and civil rights litigator. At Salon he contributed as a columnist and blogger, focusing on political and legal topics. He has also contributed to other newspapers and political news magazines, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Conservative, The National Interest, and In These Times.
Greenwald was named by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013. Three of the four books he authored have been New York Times bestsellers. Greenwald is a frequent speaker on college campuses, including Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, UCLA School of Law, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Maryland. He frequently appears on various radio and television programs.
Greenwald has received awards including the first Izzy Award for independent journalism, in 2009, and the 2010 Online Journalism Award for Best Commentary. In June 2013 Greenwald became widely known after The Guardian published the first of a series of reports detailing United States and British global surveillance programmes, based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. His NSA reporting has won numerous awards around the world, including top investigative journalism prizes from the 2013 Online Journalism Awards, the Esso Award for Excellence in Reporting in Brazil for his articles in O Globo on NSA mass surveillance of Brazilians (becoming the first foreigner to win the award), the 2013 Libertad de Expresion Internacional award from Argentinian magazine Perfil, and the 2013 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.(T/P04/E1)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
