{"id":266020,"date":"2016-09-07T04:50:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T04:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-snowden-leaks-reveal-mystery-behind-nsas-uk-base\/"},"modified":"2016-09-07T04:50:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T04:50:13","slug":"new-snowden-leaks-reveal-mystery-behind-nsas-uk-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-snowden-leaks-reveal-mystery-behind-nsas-uk-base\/","title":{"rendered":"New Snowden leaks reveal mystery behind NSA&#039;s UK base"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Newly leaked documents show that a US spying agency has used a British military base to carry out \u201ccapture-kill operations\u201d across the Middle East.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Former US intelligence contractor and whistle-blower Edward Snowden made the revelation on Tuesday, as cited in a report by online publication <em>The Intercept<\/em> that America\u2019s National Security Agency (NSA) is using a UK base to conduct\u00a0missions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;The files reveal for the first time how the NSA has used the British base to aid a significant number of capture-kill operations across the Middle East and North Africa, fueled by powerful eavesdropping technology,&#8221; the report said, referring to the heavily guarded military facility at Menwith Hill (pictured below) in Yorkshire, northern England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20160907\/fee4d808-9f00-41cd-8943-926cd38f7f59.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;The [NSA] programs, with names such as GHOSTHUNTER and GHOSTWOLF, have provided support for conventional British and American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan,&#8221; it added. &#8220;But they have also aided covert&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/09\/07\/483519\/NSA-Edward-Snowden-UK-base-capturekill-operations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly leaked documents show that a US spying agency has used a British military base to carry out \u201ccapture-kill operations\u201d across the Middle East. Former US intelligence contractor and whistle-blower Edward Snowden made the revelation on Tuesday, as cited in a report by online publication The Intercept that America\u2019s National Security Agency (NSA) is using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}