Italy ‘was spied on by U.S. NSA,’ says Greenwald

(ANSA) – Rome, October 24 – The Italian government was among the foreign administrations spied on by the US National Security Agency (NSA), Glenn Greenwald, the America journalist who first published former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s leaked documents, has said. “The NSA carries out many espionage activities on European governments, including Italy’s,” Greenwald told Italian weekly l’Espresso.

Greenwald gave the interview to l’Espresso before the furore over alleged US spying on the phone calls of German Chancellor Angela Merkel exploded.

He added that the British intelligence services also spied on data in Italian telephone calls and Internet traffic and exchanged the information with the NSA.