US GOVERNMENT SPIES ON NIGERIA's SSS, ASO ROCK

Indications emerged on Saturday that the United States has been spying on some Nigeria's security agencies, especially the State Security Service, and probably the Presidency.

"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 a report published 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 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 President, Barrack Obama every morning.
"In every international crisis, American policy makers look to the
N.S.A. for inside information," Snowden told New York Times.
The leak of documents that proved 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, 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.