Exclusive: Obama orders curbs on NSA spying on U.N. headquarters

[Indi Guy]

Source: Reuters

President Barack Obama recently ordered the National Security Agency to curtail eavesdropping on the United Nations headquarters in New York as part of a review of U.S. electronic surveillance, according to a U.S. official familiar with the decision.

Obama's order is the latest known move by the White House to limit the NSA's vast intelligence collection, in the wake of protests by allies, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, over U.S. spying on foreign heads of state.

The full extent of U.S. eavesdropping on the United Nations is not publicly known, nor is it clear whether the United States has stopped all monitoring of diplomats assigned to the U.N. in New York or elsewhere around the world...



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/29/us-usa-security-un-idUSBRE99S14E20131029

[Autumn]

1. Curbs

yeah that's the ticket.

[billhicks76]

4. BS To Insist Only Foreign...It's Mostly Domestic

How about ordering the stopping of vacuuming up and recording every single phone call, text and email of EVERY American that can be tied to an identifier like an IP address, cell phone # or email address with a name so that it can be accessed at a later date for whatever reason, a job application, a criminal investigation or someone in power just doesn't like you and perhaps the cases you present as an attorney or the articles you write as a journalist. And what happens when a fundamentalist religious zealot gets in high office and decides to purge certain types of people from wherever or whatever. What really stinks is people here defending these practices and insisting that only foreign communications are recorded...this isn't just naive it's factually 100% wrong as evidenced by every single realistic comment made by those in power that wasn't an outright lie....they already admitted it so please no more apologists, defenders, excusers, obfuscators or ostriches with their heads in the sand.

[Autumn]

6. You can bet it's mostly domestic, and has nothing to do

with keeping us "safe"

[billhicks76]

7. I agree 100%

I know...it never did...this whole war on terror is just a rebranding of the failed and unpopular drug war that consumes most of our economy but was on the way outs circa 2000,2001.

[a2liberal]

2. Now how about curbing domestic spying on citizens?

Honestly I'm less bothered about all the foreign spying "scandals", since that's supposed to be the point of a spy agency in the first place, and more concerned about the blatantly unconstitutional domestic spying

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. The UN doesn't have a Fourth Amendment protection. We do. (Or did.)

[Indi Guy]

8. Then why curb the spying?

[AnotherMcIntosh]

9. Mere cant for public relations.

[Jamiletto]

13. Was US wrong in asking China to stop spying on us?

Because their laws don't have an amendment that prohibits spying on USA?

Remember, your law is that country X should spy on anyone if no laws in country X prohibits it.

[Poll_Blind]

5. LOL- What a hoax.

PB

[Enrique]

10. the top guy is allowed to lie under oath to Congress

so what possible use to anyone is some claim made by an anonymous official?

[jsr]

11. And always trust the surveillance apparatus when it says there is no surveillance

[Indi Guy]

12. You should always trust...

...professional liars to lie.