OMG. The NYT reveals that the NSA and GCHQ (British intel) targeted folks like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu, aid groups, and business elites.

Not particularly surprising. Bibi says many things in public, but is speaking a different tune in Hebrew and in private to his backers and to other officials in the Knesset. The NSA is wise to want to know what he’s really saying and doing, not just taking him at his (English) word.

It’s only slightly more surprising that aid groups are targeted along with business elites, but these groups and people have contacts in parts of the world that are hard to come by and can offer hard intel about what’s going on in some parts of the world.

And while some countries use their national spy agencies to further their own companies’ economic interests, it so far doesn’t appear to be that kind of relationship for the NSA and GCHQ.