The Snowden saga continues. Just as the world thought things couldn’t become tenser between Israel and the United States, it was revealed this week that Edward Snowden has a treasure trove of information regarding U.S. state secrets that relate to Israel.
Glenn Greenwald, a writer for Britain’s Guardian and a co-author of many articles based off of classified information passed on by Snowden, told Israel’s Channel Ten news that indeed the world has not yet heard the end about some of the misdeeds of the U.S.
“Yes. I don’t want to preview any stories that aren’t yet published, but it is definitely the case that there are a huge number of very significant stories left to report. We have only had these documents for seven months, which, given their volume and complexity, is not a very long time. There definitely are stories left that involved the Middle East, that involves Israel.”
Greenwald, who has met face to face with Snowden, commented that he found Snowden to be “extremely honest, trustworthy and reliable.”
When news broke several weeks ago that the U.S. has been actively spying on Israel for many years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an investigation into the matter, stating that between allies “there are things that must not be done.”
News of how the U.S. has been spying on Israel caused a major uproar in Israel in regards to jailed Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987 for spying on Israel, Pollard, a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, has received a far harsher punishment than his crime. No U.S. president has agreed to pardon Pollard.
With evidence of American double standards when it comes to spying, the case to release Pollard is even stronger. Greenwald further iterated: “I think you are absolutely right to contrast the Jonathan Pollard case with revelations of American spying on their closest allies within the Israeli government, because it does underlie, underscore exactly the hypocrisy that lies at the center of so much of what the U.S. government does.”
