‘NSA in spying partnerships with Western govts’

Fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden said the US National Security Agencyoperates broad secret spying partnerships with other western governments now complaining about its programmes, in an interview published on Sunday. Snowden said in comments made before his exposure of US espionage practices came to light last month and printed in German news weekly Der Spiegel that NSA spies are ‘in bed together with the Germans and most other western states’. Snowden said an NSA department coordinated the work with others.