Indications emerged on
Saturday that the United
States has been spying
on some Nigeria’s
security agencies,
especially the State
Security Service, and
probably the Presidency.
“By many accounts,
the agency provides
more than half of the
intelligence nuggets
delivered to the
White House early
each morning in the
President’s Daily
Brief — a measure of
success for
American spies. One
document boasts
that listening in on
Nigerian State
Security Service had
provided items for
the briefing 'nearly
two dozen' times."
In a report published in
New York Times, Edward
Snowden, an American
computer specialist, who
worked for the US Central
Intelligence Agency and
as a contractor with the
US National Security
Agency, stated that
Nigeria’s SSS was one of
the security agencies
across the globe that the
N.S.A. had been listening
in on.
He said briefs on
information gleaned from
intercepting of telephone
conversations and
hacking of computers of
the SSS, other security
agencies in Nigeria and
other countries are
delivered to the office of
the President, Barrack
Obama every morning.
"In every international
crisis, American policy
makers look to the N.S.A.
for inside information,”
Snowden told New York
Times.
The leak of documents
that proved the NSA had
been eavesdropping on
the communications of
world leaders, including
US allies, had caused
diplomatic rows, with
Germany and some other
countries protesting.
Snowden also noted that
the NSA had obtained
thousands of classified
documents, containing
secrets of governments
around the world, pointing
to a possibility that it
might have obtained
secret documents of the
Federal Government of
Nigeria, or tapped
President Goodluck
Jonathan’s phone
conversations.
Snowden, who is on a
temporary political asylum
in Russia, started
releasing the NSA’s
documents in June and
the documents he has
released so far show that
the US has been spying
most countries in the
world.
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