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GCHQ-NSA: There's No Good Reason for Spy Agencies to Snoop on Humanitarian Groups

03 June 2014

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"The news that the CIA is no longer using vaccination programs as a front for spying operations may come as a relief to many humanitarian workers. Yet their fears should not be completely assuaged, because the CIA’s activities—which undoubtedly threatened the safety of humanitarian workers and those they seek to help—pale in comparison to the surveillance that the NSA is conducting on humanitarian organizations across the globe."

See the article: There's No Good Reason for Spy Agencies to Snoop on Humanitarian Groups (Slate, link)

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