Snowden Files Show U.S. Spied on Petrobras, Globo TV Reports
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The U.S. government spied on Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Globo TV reported yesterday, citing classified documents obtained by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
The television network’s “Fantastico” news magazine, which reported a week ago that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted phone calls and e-mails of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, aired slides last night from an NSA presentation from 2012 that explained the agency’s capability to penetrate private networks of companies such as Petrobras, as the oil company is known, and Google Inc. In a written statement, Rousseff said Petrobras is no threat to any country.