New Snowden Docs Show United States Spied During G20 in Toronto Greg Weston, Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher - CBC News
go to original November 29, 2013

Top secret documents retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden show the Harper government allowed the U.S. to spy on world leaders during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits. (CBCTheNational)

Top secret documents retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden show that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government allowed the largest American spy agency to conduct widespread surveillance in Canada during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits.

The briefing notes, stamped "Top Secret," show the U.S. turned its Ottawa embassy into a security command post during a six-day spying operation by the National Security Agency while U.S. President Barack Obama and 25 other foreign heads of government were on Canadian soil in June of 2010.

The covert U.S. operation was no secret to Canadian authorities.

An NSA briefing note describes the American agency's operational plans at the Toronto summit meeting and notes they were "closely co-ordinated with the Canadian partner."

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