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"The National Security Agency wiretapped the pope,"Panorama claimed on Wednesday.accusing the United States of listening in to telephone calls to and from the Vatican, including the accommodation housing cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio before he was elected Pope Francis.
The allegations follow a report on surveillance website Cryptome which said the United States intercepted 46 million telephone calls in Italy in December 2012 and early January 2013.
Among those, "there are apparently also calls from and to the Vatican," Panorama said.
It is feared that the great American ear continued to tap prelates' conversations up to the eve of the conclave," it said, adding that there were "suspicions that the conversations of the future pope may have been monitored".
Bergoglio "had been a person of interest to the American secret services since 2005, according to Wikileaks," it said.
The bugged conversations were divided into four categories: "leadership intentions", "threats to financial systems", "foreign policy objectives" and "human rights," it claimed.
http://www.thelocal.it/20131030/US-spied-on-Vatican-ahead-of-conclave-report
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)The Catholics have their process for selecting a new pope. We should respect their process. Arguments can be made about how the selection could affect future US - Vatican relations or how the new pope might affect the world. But at some point enough is enough.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)okieinpain
(9,397 posts)Now thats one government agency that earned their money. No sir there no six guys watching one guy type in there, hell i bet they spied on jesus too. Lol.