The National Security Agency's effort to eavesdrop on communications between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides reportedly also captured private conversations involving U.S. lawmakers and members of American Jewish groups.

The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that the NSA's monitoring of such exchanges raised fears that the Obama administration would be accused of spying on Congress, with one official calling it an "oh, s--- moment".

According to the paper, the enhanced monitoring of Netanyahu began, with the assent of lawmakers from both parties, late in Obama's first term out of concerns that the Israeli leader would pursue a preemptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.

The sweeping up of conversations between Israeli officials and U.S. lawmakers began in earnest earlier this year, ahead of a March visit to Capitol Hill by Netanyahu to speak out against the developing Iran nuclear deal, and continued through this past September, when the deadline for Congress to block the deal passed.

The Journal, citing U.S. officials, reported that Netanyahu's office repeatedly attempted to learn details about changes in U.S. positions during the sensitive nuclear talks. Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Ron Derner, was described as coaching unnamed Jewish- American groups to press members of Congress, especially Democrats, to oppose the deal.

A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington described the U.S. claims as "total nonsense."

The White House, reportedly wary of the political fallout if the spying on Netanyahu was to become public, allowed the NSA to determine what conversations should be disclosed to Obama administration officials and what should be kept secret. The Journal reported that the NSA removed the names of U.S. lawmakers from the intelligence reports it shared, and also redacted any criticism of the Obama administration.

The Journal also reported that Obama left Netanyahu off a list of world leaders who would be exempt from NSA activities after the president vowed to curtail eavesdropping on friendly heads of state in January 2014.

Among the world leaders who made the so-called "protected" list was German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, and most leaders of NATO nations, with the notable exception of Turkey.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/30/us-spying-on-israel-reportedly-ensnares-members-congress.html?intcmp=hpbt1

banning muslim immigrants, practical
monitoring mosques, practical

SPYING on ISRAEL conversations,,,OMG!


lol

The Obama WH must be concerned about "radicalized Jews" here.

Gefillte Fisch is extremely dangerous!

i wonder why obarry tries as hard as he can to get everyone to hate him except for the muslims?

That's because monitoring Mosques is practical, or don't you read the news.

monitoring citizens phones is supposed to against the law as well, without a court order...

Everything is monitored these days..

Everything is monitored these days..

lol... i agree, i noticed yesterday my fathers new car has a camera and a mic built into the rear-view mirror...

So is a President spying on Congress, which he clearly did.

so what is congress going to do about it?

Topic: SANHEDRIN- Pope & Obama On Trial
http://m.mingle2.com/topic/show/441223/

Netanyahu needed to be bugged, any lawmaker caught in that web should face scrutiny about the bugged conversations.

I suspect some treason charges may come from this

I think you might want to look up the definition of Treason,and also some International Law!

Benjamin says ' Yo '

The National Anthem of Israel - Hatikvah: http://youtu.be/6r2M8ply_l0/

כל עוד בלבב פנימה
נפש יהודי הומייה
ולפאתי מזרח קדימה
עין לציון צופיה.

עוד לא אבדה תקוותינו
התקווה בת שנות אלפיים
להיות עם חופשי בארצנו
ארץ ציון וירושלים

לכל השירים של האמן

Yea well don't discount the real possibility of a traitor in the midst, terrorists aren't always holding the Quran, inside jobs see, Benny and some of the boys in congress real tight see

Trump will clean all that up lol

doesn't BN have a summer home in Quebec?

Gasp! lol

He's your boy ain't he? You tell me


I do recall a local land developer get dragged to court on some shaddy deal in the west bank... something about building residences on land they never EVER owned... but don't quote me on that