International security/ Intelligence sharing

European countries are voluntarily providing the United States with large amounts of information about their citizens, particularly as those citizens attempt to travel, the nation’s top counterterrorism official said.

Compared to the summer of 2013, U.S.intelligence professionals have seen a “pendulum swing” in the willingness of European law enforcement to share information with the United States on European citizens, said Nicholas J. Rasmussen, director
 of the National Counterterrorism Center, or NCTC, on Wednesday.

Things have turned around since summer 2013, when NSA contractor Edward Snowden first disclosed some of the nation’s most closely kept secrets on surveillance capabilities.

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