At the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, the world's nations were supposed to reach an agreement that would protect future generations against catastrophic climate change. But not everyone was playing by the rules. A leaked document now reveals that the US employed the NSA, its signals intelligence agency, to intercept information about other countries' views on the climate negotiations before and during the summit. According to observers, the spying may have contributed to the Americans getting their way in the negotiations

’Third parties’ give NSA access to international fiber-optic cables, sharing massive amounts of phone and Internet data, new Snowden documents show. Germany and, by all accounts, Denmark, are among the partners in the NSA mass surveillance program codenamed RAMPART-A.

Artikel for artikel har alverdens medier på baggrund af Snowden-lækagen afdækket NSA’s metoder til at opnå global informationsoverlegenhed. Den første danskrelaterede afsløring skriver sig ind i rækken af historier om tjenestens indsats for at sikre amerikanernes strategiske interesser

Det er ikke lovligt for en fremmed efterretnings-tjeneste at udføre elektronisk spionage mod Danmark og de delegerede til et FN-topmøde på dansk grund. Men Danmark kan reelt kun svare tilbage med diplomatiske reaktioner