“It is not actually snooping,” was External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid’s response in July when the Guardian, based on Edward Snowden’s leak of U.S. National Security Agency documents, reported how the Indian Embassy in Washington D.C. had been spied on by the United States. Then, the Indian government mouthed the U.S. position that monitoring “patterns of communication” through the Internet did not amount to espionage. In the past few days, The Hindu has revealed how the NSA systematically tapped conversations between Indian government officials and elected representatives, whether it be through phone calls, e-mail, texts, chat or Skype videos.
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