US spies on Nigeria’s SSS and the Presidency
United States has been spying on the Nigeria’s security agencies, especially the State Security Service, and
probably the Presidency.
A report in New York Times, Edward Snowden, an American computer specialist, who worked for the US Central
Intelligence Agency and as a contractor with the US National Security Agency, stated that Nigeria’s SSS was
one of the security agencies across the globe that the N.S.A. had been listening in on.
He said briefs on the information gleaned from intercepting of telephone conversations and hacking of
computers of the SSS, other security agencies in Nigeria and other countries are delivered to the office of the
US President, Barrack Obama every morning.
“By many accounts, the agency provides more than half of the intelligence nuggets delivered to the White
House early each morning in the President’s Daily Brief — a measure of success for American spies. One
document boasts that listening in on Nigerian State Security Service had provided items for the briefing “nearly
two dozen” times. In every international crisis, American policy makers look to the N.S.A. for inside
information,” Snowden told New York Times.
The release of documents that proved that the NSA had been eavesdropping on the communications of world
leaders, including US allies, had caused diplomatic rows, with Germany and some other countries protesting.
Snowden also noted that the NSA had obtained thousands of classified documents, containing secrets of
governments around the world, pointing to a possibility that it might have obtained secret documents of the
Federal Government of Nigeria, or tapped President Goodluck Jonathan’s phone conversations.
Snowden, who is on a temporary political asylum in Russia, disclosed classified details of several top-secret
United States, Israeli, and British government mass surveillance programmes to the press.
He started releasing the NSA’s documents in June and the documents he has released so far show that the US
has been spying most countries in the world