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SitiWanMahani - Obama
menghentikan NSA mengintip IMF, Ibu pejabat Bank DUNIA - (Laporan). Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama telah
menggesa Agensi Keselamatan Negara untuk menghentikan mengintip ibu pejabat
Tabung Kewangan Antarabangsa dan Bank DUNIA bersama-sama dengan kajian semula
aktiviti pengawasan, Reuters melaporkan.
Seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat kepada agensi
berita bahawa Presiden Obama dibendung yang mengintip dalam tempoh beberapa
minggu lalu, kira-kira masa yang sama beliau memberitahu NSA untuk berhenti
mencuri dengar ibu pejabat PBB.
Pengawasan NSA daripada Tabung Kewangan Antarabangsa
dan Bank DUNIA di Washington sebelum ini tidak diketahui berdasarkan sifat
terperingkat program tersebut.
Menjawab Reuters, atas pegawai pentadbiran Obama
berkata, “Amerika Syarikat tidak menjalankan pengawasan elektronik mensasarkan
ibu pejabat Bank DUNIA atau IMF di Washington.” Walau bagaimanapun , pegawai
itu tidak akan mengatakan sama ada intipan NSA entiti pada masa lalu.
IMF dan Bank DUNIA tidak akan mengulas, ‘nor would Spokespersons’
dari NSA atau Pejabat Pengarah Perisikan Kebangsaan.
Pegawai tertinggi agensi perisikan Amerika Syarikat telah
mengakui pengintipan ekonomi di masa lalu, tetapi bekas kanan pegawai perisikan
Amerika Syarikat berkata pentadbiran Obama telah meletakkan usaha yang lebih
daripada pentadbiran terdahulu ke dalam pengumpulan data ekonomi.
Apabila memasuki White House, Obama mula menerima yang
baru “Ringkas Perisikan Ekonomi” daripada Agensi Perisikan Pusat, di samping
untuk mengemaskini dengan kerap penilaian keselamatan antarabangsa melalui
Ringkas harian Presiden.
Sebab sepatutnya untuk perubahan pada masa yang -
mengikut Leon Panetta, pengarah pertama Obama CIA - adalah untuk memahami
aktiviti yang menyelubungi krisis ekonomi global.
Langkah untuk menyekat mengintip pertubuhan ekonomi
diikuti ayat-ayat yang mantap yang bermula pada bulan Jun - yang dibekalkan
oleh bekas kontraktor NSA Edward Snowden - program pengawasan NSA mensasarkan
kerajaan dan institusi asing, serta rakyat antarabangsa dan domestik.
Obama juga dalam beberapa minggu lalu mengarahkan
NSA untuk berhenti menoreh ibu pejabat PBB di New York di tengah-tengah mengkaji
program pengawasan elektronik, Reuters melaporkan Rabu, sekali lagi memetik
sumber-sumber rasmi.
“Amerika Syarikat tidak menjalankan pengawasan elektronik
mensasarkan ibu pejabat Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu di New York,” kata
seorang pegawai kanan Obama pentadbiran kepada Reuters.
Sumber tidak akan mengatakan sama ada Washington
terus memantau diplomat PBB di tempat lain di DUNIA.
Obama Stops
NSA Spying On IMF, WORLD Bank
headquarters - Report . . .
US President Barack Obama has called on the National
Security Agency to halt spying on the headquarters of the International
Monetary Fund and World Bank in conjunction with a review of surveillance
activities, Reuters reported.
A US official told the news agency that President
Obama curbed the spying within the last few weeks, around the same time he told
the NSA to stop eavesdropping on the United Nations headquarters.
The NSA’s surveillance of the International Monetary
Fund and World Bank in Washington was previously unknown based on the
classified nature of such programs.
Responding to Reuters, a top Obama administration
official said, "the United States is not conducting electronic
surveillance targeting the headquarters of the World Bank or IMF in
Washington." However, the official would not say whether the NSA spied on
the entities in the past.
The IMF and World Bank would not comment, nor would
spokespersons from the NSA or the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence.
Top officials with US intelligence agencies have
admitted economic espionage in the past, but a former senior US intelligence
official said the Obama administration has put more effort than previous
administrations into gathering economic data.
Upon entering the White House, Obama began receiving
a new “Economic Intelligence Brief” from the Central Intelligence Agency, in
addition to regular updates of international security assessments via the
President’s Daily Brief.
The supposed reason for the change at the time -
according to Leon Panetta, Obama’s first CIA director - was to understand
activity surrounding the global economic crisis.
The move to curtail spying on the economic organizations
followed steady revelations that began in June - supplied by former NSA
contractor Edward Snowden - of NSA surveillance programs targeting foreign
governments and institutions, as well as international and domestic citizens.
Obama also in the past few weeks ordered the NSA to
stop tapping the UN headquarters in New York amid the review of electronic
surveillance programs, Reuters reported Wednesday, again citing official
sources.
“The United States is not conducting electronic
surveillance targeting the United Nations headquarters in New York,” a senior
Obama administration official told Reuters.
Sources would not say whether Washington is
continuing to monitor UN diplomats elsewhere in the WORLD.
