The United States federal government should cease its surveillance of foreign diplomats in the United States and at United States embassies

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NSA embassy spying decks US-Indonesia relations

As partners there should be no need for surveillance, says a former ambassador A FORMER Indonesian ambassador to Australia has called on the two countries to resolve their differences over allegations of electronic spying, but called for Australian-US surveillance activities in his country to end before they damaged the relationship. ``I really question that Australia should be eavesdropping on the conversations of government and political figures in Indonesia to find out their intelligence and strategy,'' said Sabam Siagian, who headed the Indonesians' Australian embassy from 1991-95. ``There should be no need for surveillance. If Indonesia and Australia are strategic partners then Indonesia's strategic intention is friendship with Australia, for the sake of Indonesia's interests.'' His comments came after Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa warned that intelligence exchanges with Australia would have to be reappraised. Mr Natalegawa was responding to new allegations arising from former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that Australian and US agencies collaborated in spying on Indonesian officials during the 2007 UN climate change conference in Bali. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is due to arrive in Indonesia this evening for the Bali Democracy Forum tomorrow and Friday, during which she is expected to meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Dr Natalegawa. The issue of the allegations -- which Dr Natalegawa said the Australian and US governments had neither confirmed nor denied to his ministry -- is expected to be raised. ``I think with wisdom on both sides they can resolve this problem,'' said Mr Sabam, founding chief editor of The Jakarta Post and now senior editor at the newspaper. He believed Australian surveillance activities in Indonesia were serving its defence partnership with the US under ANZUS which Mr Sabam described as ``a Cold War agreement''. Spying under such arrangements must be put aside before Australia harmed its strategic partnership with Indonesia and relations with other Asian nations, he said. Mr Sabam said it was in neither country's interest to end security information exchanges, which were very beneficial in the field of counter-terrorism. He added that Indonesia's intelligence services had gained technical and analytical skills from the Australians, who had in turn gained better intelligence material from Indonesia's counter-terrorism efforts at home.

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IBT 13 – (“NSA Surveillance Scandal: Top Five US Allies Bugged by Washington,” International Business Times - US ed. 24 Oct. 2013. Academic OneFile. Web. 26 June 2015, http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA346807304&v=2.1&u=lom_umichanna&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&asid=54aa39443e6c04f8a2f8a0fbb1cd5aae)//twemchen

A Brazilian news program, Fantastico, reported that the US NSA spied on emails, phone calls, and text messages of President Dilma Rousseff and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto. Earlier reports suggested that Washington spied on the emails and phone calls of ordinary Brazilians. The Brazilian government summoned US ambassador Thomas Shannon. Foreign minister Luiz Figueiredo expressed the "government's indignation" over "an inadmissible and unacceptable violation of Brazilian sovereignty".

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Curtailing embassy surveillance is critical to India surveillance

Burke 13 – south Asia correspondent for the Guardian (Jason Burke, 9/25/13, “NSA spied on Indian embassy and UN mission, Edward Snowden files reveal” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/nsa-surveillance-indian-embassy-un-mission)//twemchen

The US National Security Agency may have accessed computers within the Indian embassy in Washington and mission at the United Nations in New York as part of a huge clandestine effort to mine electronic data held by its south Asian ally. Documents released by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden also reveal the extent and aggressive nature of other NSA datamining exercises targeting India as recently as March of this year. The latest revelations – published in the Hindu newspaper – came as Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, flew to Europe on his way to the US, where he will meet President Barack Obama. The NSA operation targeting India used two datamining tools, Boundless Informant and Prism, a system allowing the agency easy access to the personal information of non-US nationals from the databases of some of the world's biggest tech companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. In June, the Guardian acquired and published top-secret documents about Boundless Informant describing how in March 2013 the NSA, alongside its effort to capture data within the US, also collected 97bn pieces of intelligence from computer networks worldwide. The largest amount of intelligence was gathered from Iran, with more than 14bn reports in that period, followed by 13.5bn from Pakistan. Jordan, one of America's closest Arab allies, came third with 12.7bn, Egypt fourth with 7.6bn and India fifth with 6.3bn. Though relations between India and the US were strained for many decades, they have improved considerably in recent years. President George Bush saw India as a potential counterweight to China and backed a controversial civil nuclear agreement with Delhi. Obama received a rapturous welcome when he visited in 2010, though concrete results of the warmer relationship have been less obvious. According to one document obtained by the Hindu, the US agency used the Prism programme to gather information on India's domestic politics and the country's strategic and commercial interests, specifically categories designated as nuclear, space and politics. A further NSA document obtained by the Hindu suggests the agency selected the office of India's mission at the UN in New York and the country's Washington embassy as "location targets" where records of Internet traffic, emails, telephone and office conversations – and even official documents stored digitally – could potentially be accessed after programs had been clandestinely inserted into computers. In March 2013, the NSA collected 6.3bn pieces of information from internet networks in India and 6.2bn pieces of information from the country's telephone networks during the same period, the Hindu said. After the Guardian reported in June that Pm program allowed the NSA "to obtain targeted communications without having to request them from the service providers and without having to obtain individual court orders", both US and Indian officials claimed no content was being taken from the country's networks and that the programs were intended to aid "counter-terrorism". Syed Akbaruddin, an external affairs ministry spokesperson, said on Wednesday there was no further comment following the latest revelations. Siddharth Varadajaran, editor of the Hindu, said the Indian government's "remarkably tepid and even apologetic response to the initial set of disclosures" made the story a "priority for Indians". A home ministry official told the newspaper the government had been "rattled" to discover the extent of the the programme's interest in India. "It's not just violation of our sovereignty, it's a complete intrusion into our decision-making process," the official said. Professor Gopalapuram Parthasarathy, a former senior diplomat, said no one should be surprised by the Hindu's story. "Everybody spies on everyone else. Some just have better gadgets. If we had their facilities, I'm sure we would do it too. The US-Indian relationship is good and stable and if they feel India merits so much attention then good for us," he told the Guardian. Others have been less phlegmatic. Gurudas Dasgupta, a leader of the Indian Communist party, asked the government to raise the issue with Obama. Anja Kovacs of the Delhi-based Internet Democracy Project said the articles showed that such datamining was not about any broader "struggle to protect society as a whole through something like fighting terrorism, but about control". The Hindu argued that "the targeting of India's politics and space programme by the NSA busts the myth of close strategic partnership between India and US", pointing out that the other countries targeted in the same way as India "are generally seen as adversarial" by Washington.

NSA leaks reveal surveillance on the Indian embassy

NDTV 13 (Leading Indian news station, 7/1,“Indian embassy was among 38 missions targeted by American Intelligence”http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/indian-embassy-among-38-targets-spied-upon-by-us-national-security-agency-report-527010)//cc

London/Washington: The Indian Embassy in the US is among the list of 38 diplomatic missions that were being spied upon by American intelligence agencies, as per the latest top secret US National Security Agency documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. The spying methods used included microphones installed in building, bugs implanted in electronic communications gear and collection of transmissions with specialised antennae, the Guardian daily in London said. The computer network was also compromised, 'giving the agency access to emails and internal documents.' The NSA document lists the 38 embassies and missions and describes them as 'targets'. In addition to India, nations friendly with the US were also placed under surveillance according to the NSA documentation. These included the EU missions and the French, Italian and Greek embassies, as well as a number of other American allies, including Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and Turkey. "Traditional ideological adversaries and sensitive Middle Eastern countries," were also on the list of targets, the report noted. The list in the September 2010 document, however, does not mention the UK, Germany or other western European states. Earlier there was a report in German journal 'Der Spiegel' that the NSA had tapped EU offices in Washington, Brussels and at the United Nations. The news that foreign embassies of allied and friendly nations were also put under surveillance has caused outrage with a spokesman for the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, asserting that "bugging friends is unacceptable."

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