(Newswire.net — March 6, 2017) — After WikiLeaks published documents that exposed alleged NSA spying on French presidents and top officials, US and EU security agencies are investigating a possibility of a new whistleblower, Russia Today News reported.
This Tuesdat the website released what appear to be classified NSA documents alleging the US agency spied on three successive French presidents: Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and incumbent François Hollande.
While French President Hollande fumes at the US, calling these NSA activities unacceptable, the French justice minister said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden could be offered symbolic asylum in the country. Meanwhile, President Obama assured President Hollande that the US hadn’t spied on him, RT reported.
The new documents may not have originated from Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who says he justifies disclosing the secret documents on NSA spying activities to the world. According to the Reuters, who cited a source allegedly familiar with the newly leaked documents, NSA fears there is a new whistleblower out there who is directly working with WikiLeaks.
An investigation into the matter is underway in the US and Europe, According to the Reuters. However, no concrete proof of an existence of such a figure has been discovered yet.
Following the earlier reports, based on Snowden’s documents of NSA’s spying of personal communications of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, German prosecutors investigated the allegations, however, didn’t find any relevant proof that such activities ever took place.
After the US canceled Snowden’s passport, he got stranded in Moscow’s international airport while on route to Latin America. It was there that he asked for a political asylum, and Kremlin subsequently allowed him to stay in Russia, where he now lives and works.
Assange is currently being harbored by the Ecuadoran embassy in London, where he is shielded from extradition.