JERUSALEM, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- The "refusniks," a group of dissenting spies from Israel's Unit 8200 agency, spoke out against Israel's spying on Palestinians last Friday. The group of 43 dissenters wrote a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of Israel's army claiming the citizens they were spying on posed no security threat and should not be spied on any longer. Now, Snowden documents reveal the NSA may have had a hand in the spying that was done.
NPR's Arun Rath spoke with James Bamford, a journalist who's interviewed Snowden recently, and he explained documents from Snowden that show the NSA spied on Palestinian-Americans and shared the information with Israel without any censoring of names, which is something that is usually done.