The NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police The NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police By Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain July 27, 2014 " ICH " - " The Intercept " - The National Security Agency last year significantly expanded its cooperative relationship with the Saudi Ministry of Interior, one of the world’s most repressive and abusive government agencies. An April 2013 top secret memo provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden details the agency’s plans “to provide direct analytic and technical support” to the Saudis on “internal security” matters. The Saudi Ministry of Interior—referred to in the document as MOI— has been condemned for years as one of the most brutal human rights violators in the wor...