NSA spies on Yahoo, Google, and even the Vatican

Big Brother is watching, with or without the help of Yahoo and Google.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/30/nsa-yahoo-google_n_4178227.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, the Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

A secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, indicates that NSA sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency's Fort Meade, Md., headquarters. In the last 30 days, field collectors had processed and sent back more than 180 million new records — ranging from "metadata," which would indicate who sent or received emails and when, to content such as text, audio and video, the Post reported Wednesday on its website.

Now it is being reported that the NSA spied on the Vatican, too. Perhaps they want to know if the pope is a secret terrorist.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/30/nsa-vatican_n_4177882.html

An Italian magazine is reporting that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on internal communications at the Vatican and phone calls at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the church residence where cardinals lived during the papal conclave and the pope's current home. 

The weekly magazine, Panorama, reports in an issue that hits the streets on Thursday that the NSA labeled calls in and out of Vatican offices as "leadership intentions," "threats to the financial system," "foreign policy objectives," and "human rights." It says calls regarding this year's election of the new president of the Vatican Bank, Ernst von Freyberg, were also intercepted.

The article also cites WikiLeaks to suggest that Francis was being watched as far back as 2005 when he was the Archbishop of Buenos Aires.