{"id":11441,"date":"2014-05-22T00:58:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11441"},"modified":"2014-05-22T00:58:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:58:32","slug":"french-report-says-mar-binay-ex-targets-of-us-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/22\/french-report-says-mar-binay-ex-targets-of-us-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"French Report says Mar, Binay ex- targets of US spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11442\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mar-Roxas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11442\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mar-Roxas.jpg\" alt=\"DILG Secretary Mar Roxas answering emails while waiting for his flight. Photo courtesy of Roxas' official Facebook page.\" width=\"604\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mar-Roxas.jpg 604w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mar-Roxas-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DILG Secretary Mar Roxas answering emails while waiting for his flight. Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Mar-Roxas\/32626764352\">Roxas&#8217; official Facebook page<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two of the country\u2019s top leaders are said to have been victims of communication\u00a0interception by using submarine cables to collect and carry essential data from\u00a0conversations, according to a recent report from a French newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Le Monde, has recently decrypted a page from an internal file disclosed by the United\u00a0States National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower and American fugitive Edward\u00a0Snowden stating that Vice President Jejomar Binay and Interior Secretary Manuel &#8220;Mar&#8221;\u00a0Roxas were among US lists of targets using an underwater cable surveillance program\u00a0in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper\u2019s May 9 report claimed that the same \u201cUpstream\u201d program of NSA\u00a0were used to carry conversations in a resort in the Caribbean, an institute of physics\u00a0in Italy, emails of Saudi Telecom staff, a computer company in Pakistan and a telecom\u00a0company&#8217;s subsidiary in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>While previous reports already has mentioned US spying on Philippines\u2019 text messages,\u00a0Roxas is still positive that the recent report will not strain US-Filipino ties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is not much I can do about it so I don\u2019t worry about it,\u201d Roxas said in a message\u00a0to the Philippine Star.<\/p>\n<p>Roxas also added that he has not been aware of the existence of the surveillance\u00a0program and that he is also not worried that it would have any serious effects on the\u00a0long-time allied nations, the US and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, while the US government\u2019s intention for the surveillance of the two top\u00a0leaders in the country remained unclear, Le Monde noted that the two are still influential\u00a0political figures in the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from Camille Diola<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the country\u2019s top leaders are said to have been victims of communication\u00a0interception by using submarine cables to collect &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[536,3830,1026,2102,406,352],"class_list":["post-11441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-america","tag-cyber-spying","tag-jejomar-binay","tag-mar-roxas","tag-united-states","tag-us","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}