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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

For the NSA, espionage was a means to strengthen the US position in climate negotiations

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

»Vi var ved at gå bag over, da vi så, hvor ung han var«

Da Edward Snowden havde besluttet sig for at lække sin dokumentation for USA’s massive overvågningsmaskineri, var dokumentarfilmskaberen Laura Poitras den første kontakt, der tog ham alvorligt. Og han kunne næppe have fået en bedre hjælper. I årevis er Poitras selv blevet overvåget og adskillige gange udsat for samme slags tilbageholdelse, som i denne uge overgik David Miranda, Guardian-journalisten, Glenn Greenwalds partner

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