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Spying thriller: The Snowden case touches the Eastern Mediterranean

nsa-ed-snowdenThe British newspaper made an important revelation: he made public, citing "documents obtained by o Edward Snowden by the US National Security Agency ”(NSA), the existence of a secret British mass telecommunication interceptor station and Internet traffic across the Middle East. This station, part of a larger network of £ 1 billion, was commissioned on David Miliband's days by the British diplomacy leadership and is based on a site for which the newspaper avoids naming, for safety reasons, but is considered because of its accessibility to the submarine fiber optic networks in the region. The data collected are being forwarded to Cheltenham, the headquarters of the UK watch service GCHQ, and are mostly notified to the US NSA.

This revelation is noteworthy for three reasons: first, because it shifts the focus of Anglo-American service action to the already flammable and, by many opinions, "topical" region of the Eastern Mediterranean. Secondly, because it is the first leak in the "Snowden case", which is published in the Independent and not in its competitor Guardian or the The Washington Post. And third and foremost, because he himself Snowden states that it is not the source of this leak.

The complete που απέσπασε ο Αμερικανός φυγάδας από την NSA βρίσκεται, όπως έχει δηλωθεί, στα χέρια μόνο τριών ανθρώπων: του ιδίου του Snowden, του εγκατεστημένου στο Ρίο ντε Ζανέιρο Αμερικανού πρώην δικηγόρου και νυν αρθρογράφου του Guardian, Glenn Greenwald και της εγκατεστημένης στο Βερολίνο Αμερικανίδας παραγωγού βραβευμένων ντοκυμανταίρ (και άτυπης συντονίστριας της τριάδας) Laura Poitras.

Συνεπώς έχει ιδιαίτερη σημασία η ανάρτηση του Greenwald στην ιστο of the Guardian (a few hours after the Independent's publication) under the headline "Snowden: British government now leaking documents about itself". In it, a statement from the 30-year-old fugitive is conveyed that he never cooperated with Independent journalists and it is argued that the source of the said leak can only be the British government itself, in its attempt to discredit, as harmful to national security, what they have already leaked by Snowden and his collaborators to the Guardian and the Washington Post. In the same statement it is emphasized: "the journalists I have worked with have been, at my request, very careful to reveal only what the public should know and not information that could put a person in danger."

Από την πλευρά του ο Greenwald θεωρεί ότι η διαρροή προς τον Independent αποτελεί προσπάθεια της βρετανικής κυβέρνησης να αποστρέψει την από την καταχρηστική επίκληση της αντιτρομοκρατικής νομοθεσίας για την επί εννέα ώρες κράτηση και ανάκριση του Βραζιλιάνου συντρόφου του, David Miranda στο αεροδρόμιο του Heathrow(προερχόμενου από το Βερολίνο και κατευθυνόμενου στο Ρίο) και την κατάσχεση όλου του εξοπλισμού του. Πράγματι, η βρετανική αστυνομία ανακοίνωσε ότι πραγματοποιεί έρευνες με την κατηγορία της τρομοκρατίας για τα ντοκουμέντα που ο Miranda είχε στην κατοχή του και των οποίων η δημοσιοποίηση “θα μπορούσε να απειλήσει ζωές”. Όπερ έδει δείξαι…

Greenwald also denies the claim that the Guardian's manager agreed with the British authorities to "limit" Snowden's leakage coverage. It is recalled that a paradox (and apparently unremarkable in digital technology) took place recently in the basement of the Guardian offices in London, a "ceremony" of the destruction of hard drives with the Snowden records, in the presence of British service men, in order for the newspaper not to be compelled to allow access to the data in question, in accordance with British legislation on preventive censorship.

Unlike in the US (obliging President Obama to maneuver, reassuring denials and corrective moves, such as the appointment of a panel of specialists to oversee NSA action) in Britain, the country with the world's largest number of closed-circuit cameras per capita, the secret service surveillance framework is extremely loose and the possibility of shielding them through restrictions on information much greater. The White House spokesman himself acknowledged that such a controlled hard disk destruction would be inconceivable in his own country.

But, beyond the issues of political freedoms, leakage to Independent has, if and wherever the Snowden and Greenwald conjectures are, a major security and even extensions of Greek interest.

Because, despite the "discretion" of Independent officials in naming the location of the monitoring station in question, it is obvious that the only location that could provide secure facilities, proximity to the Middle East and access to the Mediterranean submarine cables is British "sovereign bases" in Cyprus.

Το να υποδεικνύονται αυτές ως κρίσιμος για τον “πόλεμο κατά της τρομοκρατίας” κόμβος παρακολουθήσεων όλης της περιοχής αποτελεί σχεδόν “πρόσκληση για τρομοκρατικά αντίποινα”. Οι επιρρεπείς στη συνωμοσιολογία θα έβλεπαν σε κάτι τέτοιο μιαν ιδεώδη συνταγή για εντονότερη εμπλοκή των χωρών της Ε.Ε. στη συριακή κρίση αλλά και για “συσπείρωση” των κοινοτήτων της Κύπρου απέναντι σε μια νεότευκτη έξωθεν απειλή. Και πάντως, με δεδομένη την πείρα της βρετανικής πλευράς στις black flag operations (είναι πρόσφατη η σύλληψη τον Σεπτέμβριο 2005 στη Βασόρα, μετά τον φόνο δύο ιρακινών αστυνομικών, Βρετανών στρατιωτών μεταμφιεσμένων σε Άραβες), Λευκωσία και Αθήνα θα πρέπει να επιδείξουν μέγιστη προσοχή.

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