Debate flares over Israel's access to American secrets

It's only "flaring" where people want to deny it, because they're freaking out. - Ed.

Excerpt:

In his latest book, published in October by DoubleDay, Bamford writes
that the largest American telecommunications companies cooperated
with the NSA in the “warrantless eavesdropping program by allowing
the agency to tap its phone lines and fiber-optic cables.” To do so,
he writes, the telecom giants resorted to the assistance of at least
two high-tech firms, Narus and Verint, founded in Israel and with
alleged ties to its intelligence services.

Narus and Verint were involved in tapping phone and Internet
communications for, respectively, AT&T and Verizon.

“AT&T have outsourced the bugging of their entire networks — carrying
billions of American communications every day -— to two mysterious
companies with very troubling ties to foreign connections, ” he
writes. “What is especially troubling, but little known, is that both
companies have extensive ties to a foreign country, Israel, as well
as links to that country’s intelligence service — a service with a
long history of aggressive spying against the U.S.”

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