CBC: Canada Allowed NSA Surveillance at Summit

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reporting that Canada allowed the U.S. National Security Agency to conduct widespread surveillance during the 2010 Group of 8 and Group of 20 summits in Toronto. The report cites documents from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who is wanted by American authorities on espionage charges. The CBC report says the U.S. turned its Ottawa embassy into a security command post that spied during the summits with close coordination with its Canadian...

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