Friday, May 23, 2014

WikiLeaks statement on the mass recording of Afghan telephone calls by the NSA, Friday 23 May 2014, 05:00 GMT --- The National Security Agency has been recording and storing nearly all the domestic (and international) phone calls from two or more target countries as of 2013. Both the Washington Post and The Intercept (based in the US and published by eBay chairman Pierre Omidyar) have censored the name of one of the victim states, which the latter publication refers to as country "X". --- Both the Washington Post and The Intercept stated that they had censored the name of the victim country at the request of the US government. Such censorship strips a nation of its right to self-determination on a matter which affects its whole population. An ongoing crime of mass espionage is being committed against the victim state and its population. By denying an entire population the knowledge of its own victimisation, this act of censorship denies each individual in that country the opportunity to seek an effective remedy, whether in international courts, or elsewhere. Pre-notification to the perpetrating authorities also permits the erasure of evidence which could be used in a successful criminal prosecution, civil claim, or other investigations. -- Although, for reasons of source protection we cannot disclose how, WikiLeaks has confirmed that the identity of victim state is Afghanistan. This can also be independently verified through forensic scrutiny of imperfectly applied censorship on related documents released to date and correlations with other NSA programs (see http://freesnowden.is). -- We do not believe it is the place of media to "aid and abet" a state in escaping detection and prosecution for a serious crime against a population. -- Consequently WikiLeaks cannot be complicit in the censorship of victim state X. The country in question is Afghanistan. - More, http://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-statement-on-the-mass.html

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