WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Saying his emails are likely monitored by intelligence agencies, former President Jimmy Carter is using an old-fashioned method of communication with world leaders these days – the post office.
“As a matter of fact, you know, I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored,” Carter told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired yesterday.
“And when I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write a letter myself, put it in the post office, and mail it,” he added.
Asked about disclosures of sweeping U.S. surveillance activities, Carter, a Democrat who served as president from 1977 to 1981, said the practice “has been extremely liberalized and, I think, abused by our own intelligence agencies.”
