Report: NSA spied on EU institutions
...Spiegel reported in its Saturday online edition that the NSU used bugs, phone taps and cybermonitoring to obtain information from EU institutions in Washington, DC, New York and Brussels.

Edward Snowden, a former NSA contractor who recently leaked classified documents about the monitoring program, provided the documents the magazine cited in its report.

The documents, marked "top secret" and dated September 2010, specifically name the EU as a "target" for surveillance. The NSA appears to have had access to telephone calls, computer documents and emails....