{"id":80725,"date":"2016-10-03T13:08:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T12:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=80725"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T12:07:40","slug":"a-look-back-at-what-snowden-told-the-world-about-the-u-s-israel-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/10\/a-look-back-at-what-snowden-told-the-world-about-the-u-s-israel-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back at What Snowden Told the World about the U.S.-Israel Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A photo of Edward Snowden on the cover of Wired magazine.
Photo: Mike Mozart\/Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

29 Sep 2016 – <\/em>Edward Snowden remains exiled in Russia. But the former intelligence contractor and National Security Agency-whistleblower has captured headlines in recent weeks, thanks to a confluence of events.<\/p>\n

Snowden is the focus of Oliver Stone\u2019s new biopic, aptly called \u201cSnowden,\u201d which focuses on how Snowden went from a right-leaning CIA employee and NSA contractor to an internationally renowned leaker and whistleblower who blew the lid off mass surveillance in the digital age.<\/p>\n

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Coinciding with the movie is a new campaign, lead by the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, to convince President Obama to pardon Snowden because he \u201cprovided a public service by revealing a secret, global system of mass surveillance that violated the U.S. Constitution and was adopted without the public\u2019s consent,\u201d as the website PardonSnowden.org<\/a> puts it. And then there was the House Intelligence Committee report on Snowden<\/a>, which came out around the same time as the movie and pardon campaign. The report harshly criticizes Snowden as a man who did damage to U.S. national security.<\/p>\n

Snowden has sparked a fierce debate in the U.S. over the NSA\u2019s mass surveillance of citizens. But he also revealed a great deal about the U.S.-Israeli relationship. Snowden\u2019s leaks provide an unprecedented look at how the U.S. and Israel share intelligence, and also reveal the tensions in the relationship.<\/p>\n

With Snowden back in the news, Mondoweiss<\/em> reviews what he told the world about the U.S.-Israel relationship. Here is a look at those revelations.<\/p>\n