SPAIN -- La NSA rastreó 60 millones de llamadas en España en un mes | Internacional | EL PAÍS

La NSA rastreó 60 millones de llamadas en España en un mes | Internacional | EL PAÍS

The NSA tracked 60 million calls in Spain in a month

The blogger Glenn Greenwald confirms massive U.S. intelligence

Spain has announced today the U.S. ambassador to give explanations The National Security Agency (NSA) spied 60 million calls in Spain between December 10, 2012 and January 8 this year. The data collected did not include the content of the calls but the phone number of the receiver and the transmitter, their locations, the duration and the serial number of the phone, according to information made public by U.S. blogger Glenn Greenwald, who has had access to secret documents leaked by the NSA exanalista Edward Snowden.

The publication of these data matches the call to the U.S. ambassador in Madrid , James Costs, by order of President Mariano Rajoy to give explanations for the information published in recent days by El Pais , who announced that the U.S. agency tracked million phone calls, SMS, and emails from Spanish citizens. The agency also had among its objectives Spanish politicians and government officials, as this paper progressed.

The ambassador and forward,   in an interview with this newspaper   on 24 September, the response given by the Spanish Government: "What has happened is something that others do too." But did not say what happened. Nor what the United States and other countries do.

U.S. ambassadors have been summoned for the same reason other countries have avoided going into details and informed of the objectives of the data collection and President Obama's decision to carry out a review of the program, especially in relation to intelligence capability with respect to the Allies. "We want to ensure that the need to collect information, not only because they can," said Lisa Monaco, advises the president on counterterrorism.

Costs are quoted on Monday at 10.30. As Foreign Minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, official travel is in Poland, the head of the U.S. delegation will be received by the Secretary of State for the EU, Inigo Mendez de Vigo. The Government has decided to give a response low profile at the revelations of espionage. Your goal is not to damage the close collaboration between the secret services of both countries

In fact, the National Intelligence Center (CNI), the leading Spanish secret service, was taken for granted since it began leaking information about massive electronic espionage perpetrated by the United States that the NSA had intercepted private communications massively in Spain, but ruled that had taken selective political objectives Spanish.

But the thread of revelations that the email from the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, and mobile German Chancellor Angela Merkel, were intercepted that confidence was crumbling. The documents released by the British newspaper The Guardian indicate that not only they, but a total of 35 world leaders was spied on by the NSA.

In Spain the interception of communications and data access (the identities of the sender and the receiver of the call, SMS, or email, date, time and duration) without the required judicial review, is a crime. The data revealed Greenwald and publishes El Mundo confirm the extent of this massive spying.

Madrid is one of 80 cities worldwide where the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA, spy world. Spain and the U.S. narrowed their cooperation against ETA terrorism and the jihad in 2001. The then Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar cleared the way for the U.S. secret services to operate in Spanish territory during a meeting with President George W. Bush in Washington only two months after 11-S. In return, Aznar asked Bush to provide the advanced equipment CNI interception.

News that U.S. mobile spied Merkel, tracked and intercepted massively in Spain some 70 million calls in France resulted in the case last week became the star of the EU summit, which came a Franco-German timid to set a framework for the secret services. Rajoy said then he did not plan to join the proposal of the two major partners. Nor had expected the prime minister to order an investigation into the CNI.