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NSA Spying Exposes Cataclysmic Failure of French Intelligence (Mediapart, France)

"Already quite sullied by the revelations of its own former agent Edward Snowden, the image of the NSA, and with it that of the United States, is unlikely to come out improved after these new revelations, which cast a harsh light on the aggressive and underhanded practices of the world's leading power against a country normally considered a 'friend.' At least on the face of it ... Beyond the scandal that the now-exposed American spying will now trigger, the ease with which the United States appears to be able to intercept the conversations of the most senior French leaders puts in doubt the counter-intelligence capabilities of the French special services."

By Fabrice Arfi, Jérôme Hourdeaux and Julian Assange (WikiLeaks)

Translated By Martyn Fogg

June 29, 2015

France - Mediapart - Original Article (French)

Beyond three French heads of state, for over almost a decade, ministers, senior officials, lawmakers and diplomats have been telephonically spied upon by the American secret services, according to documents obtained by WikiLeaks.

The United States has wiretapped the French Republic. Presidents François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac as well as numerous ministers, senior officials, lawmakers and diplomats have been wiretapped by the American secret services, either directly or on the rebound, for almost a decade, according to confidential National Security Agency (NSA) documents obtained by WikiLeaks.

According to the NSA summary notes to which Mediapart and Libération, in collaboration with WikiLeaks, have had access, within the framework of the Élysée Palace espionage operation, the wiretapping was spread over the period of 2006 to 2012. Nothing, however, nothing says that it didn't begin earlier or hasn't continued since. These notes, all classified "Top Secret," detail obsessive spying on France by the United States on questions of diplomacy and local or economic policy of all kinds.

That the United States wiretaps key leaders of allied countries like France is for some an open secret. That information is now demonstrated by these documents, which were issued from the heart of the U.S. state apparatus.

Above all, the documents we are making public reveal the hitherto unexpected magnitude of American spying carried out beyond the scope of any legal framework or real control. This is because it is not only successive presidents of the French Republic who have been eavesdropped upon over recent years, but all strata of public power that at one time or another have been targeted by the United States, whether ministers in charge of government departments, other ministers, presidential and ministerial advisers, diplomats or spokespeople. At the very heart of the Élysée Palace, for example, a significant number of telephone lines (fixed and mobile) have been hacked.

Already quite sullied by the revelations of its own former agent Edward Snowden, the image of the NSA, and with it that of the United States, is unlikely to come out improved after these new revelations, which cast a harsh light on the aggressive and underhanded practices of the world's leading power against a country normally considered a "friend." At least on the face of it ...

When contacted, the NSA didn't wish to comment.

Like his two right-wing predecessors, the current Socialist President François Hollande has not escaped the curiosity of the big ears of Washington. An NSA report dated May 22, 2012 [read below] makes explicit reference to a conversation held four days earlier between the newly-elected French president and his then-prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault. The conversation bears on the desire of François Hollande to organize "secret consultations" with the German opposition regarding a possible exit of Greece from the Euro zone  a subject that remains in the news.

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In the same document, NSA analysts mention the existence of "previous reports" concerning past discussions on the subject of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This therefore suggests that American wiretapping of the French president has been common indeed.

Contacted by Mediapart, sources at the Élysée indicate that without having kept track of the conversation, this was "absolutely credible." But on the substance of the matter, the presidency of the republic declined to comment. The president's entourage did, however, note that ahead of and during a meeting between François Hollande and Barack Obama on February 11, 2014 in Washington, there was an "undertaking to no longer carry out indiscriminate eavesdropping of the state services of an allied country."

Director-General of the Republican Party Frédéric Péchenard (and former member of Sarkozy's UMP) communicated this information to Nicolas Sarkozy, who "does not wish to react at the moment."

As with a majority of the documents obtained by WikiLeaks, the May 2012 NSA report targeting François Hollande is initialled by numerous people, and which, once decrypted, give an indication of the ultra-sensitive character of the data now in the public domain. Stamped "Top Secret" (TS), these notes discuss information obtained through electronic signals (marked SI for SIGINT, meaning "signal intelligence") which under no circumstances were to be shared with a foreign country (NF for NOFORN, meaning "no foreigner").

The note on Hollande is accompanied, like many others, with the word "unconventional," which in NSA parlance means that the intelligence has been obtained from non-conventional operations.

In this same note on Hollande there is a small supplementary statement that is anything but anodyne: "Foreign Satellite." This means the telephone interception was accomplished using non-American equipment. All suspicion is now centered on German satellites being the equipment involved, although as yet there is no absolute proof of this.

The media has indeed repeatedly reported over recent months on the subcontracting of the German secret services (the BND) by American intelligence, which has provoked strong indignation in Germany and the opening of a parliamentary inquiry to find precisely the type of documents WikiLeaks has obtained.

Apart from the current head of the French state, other senior French officials have also been listened to. According to documents in our possession and that we will discuss in the days to come, former French presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac, former Socialist Economics Minister Pierre Moscovici (today a European commissioner) and the former French Ambassador to Washington Pierre Vimont have also been spied upon.

It must be said, judging from the leaked documents, the American appetite for intelligence on France remains ravenous. Another confidential NSA document (see below) written during the Sarkozy presidency (2007-2012), reveals the list of French targets defined by the United States. They concern, in no particular order: the personal cell phone of the then-president Nicolas Sarkozy, those of diplomatic advisor Jean-David Levitte, Élysée Secretary General Claude Guéant, spokesman for the Foreign Minister Bernard Valero, former minister Jean-Pierre Jouyet (now Élysée Palace secretary general), an unidentified official of the Quai d'Orsay [Foreign Ministry] and Minister of Foreign Trade Minister Pierre Lellouche.

List of the NSA's French wiretapping targets during the Sarkozy presidency.

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For Claude Guéant, former Élysée secretary general and a former interior minister, "this practice is scandalous. The French government must react appropriately. At a minimum, that requires an explanation at the highest level and an absolute commitment to put a stop to these practices. We are heading toward a world that is extremely worrying in which no one has any privacy or confidentiality," the close friend of Nicolas Sarkozy complains.

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"If the Americans wiretapped Merkel, I can't see why others wouldn't have been listened to," commented Frédéric Péchenard [quoted earlier], former chief of the National Police and now Director General of the Republican Party. "But if we want to be capable of defending ourselves, our services must be up to par. We need more effective human and legal resources. To be spied on by those who are supposed to be our friends - that can pose a problem of a diplomatic nature," he said.

"I, who was a great friend of America, am less and less so," was the reaction of MP Pierre Lellouche speaking to Mediapart. "I'm not surprised. It doesn't astonish me that I was wiretapped while working on foreign trade. Industrial espionage is of great interest to the Americans. We have conversations like that all the time. It is also the argument people cite to us in the context of the framework of the new intelligence law: 'everyone is listening to everyone, why should we stop from listing to ourselves? There is wiretapping going on everywhere.' Unfortunately, and I will tell this to the National Assembly - economically we are in a global imperium where the United States has no hesitation about involving the CIA, NSA and the American justice system, which then asserts jurisdiction. I will continue to denounce this," he added.

According to the NSA documents, the landlines of the African advisors stationed at the Élysée and phone numbers on the switchboards of the ministries of Agriculture and Finance are equally targeted. One again finds in the list of targets the antennae of the Government Transmission Center (CGT) at the Élysée. The center is responsible for maintaining, under the cloak of the strictest secrecy, the continuity of government communications - specifically those of the head of state and the prime minister. Another number, referred to under the acronym "FR VIP AIRCRAFT REL," refers to a line of the French government's fleet of aircraft, the ETEC, which is operated by the Air Force.

Beyond the scandal that the now-exposed American spying will now trigger, the ease with which the United States appears to be able to intercept the conversations of the most senior French leaders puts in doubt the counter-intelligence capabilities of the French special services. In this regard, the Élysée is wont to remind people that on diplomatic and military matters there has never been a leak like this, adding that in the case of the most sensitive topics, all precautions are taken until proven otherwise.

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Die Zeit, Germany: Bundestag's NSA Committee of Inquiry Threatened with Criminal Charges

Die Zeit, Germany: BND Data Protection Officer Tells How Work with NSA Trumps German Law

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El Pais, Spain: Conflicted Europe Must Defend Citizen Liberties

El Pais, Spain: Mass U.S. Monitoring of Innocent Non-Americans Must End

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Dar Al-Hayat, Saudi Arabia: NSA, Drone Strikes, and Obama's 'Ethical Collapse'

Telegraph, U.K.: David Cameron 'Spies' Trouble

Der Spiegel, Germany: Embassy Espionage: The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany: Say it isn't so, NSA!

Guardian, U.K.: Spain Summons U.S. Ambassador Over Claim NSA Tracked Millions

Die Zeit, Germany: NSA Blackmail of Obama Himself is Not Far-Fetched

Trouw, The Netherlands: U.S. Spying? Don't Put Your Open Data in the Town Square!

La Jornada, Mexico: Latest NSA Leak Puts President Nieto's Credibility at Stake

de Volkskrant, The Netherlands: Snowden Exposes NSA Christmas Holiday Loophole!

O Globo, Brazil: NSA's 'Anti-Privacy Services' and NASA's 'Earth-Shaking

Guardian, U.K.: France Summons U.S. Envoy Over NSA Surveillance Claims

Dep Speigel, Germany: Fresh Leak: NSA Accessed Mexican President's E-mail

La Jornada, Mexico: Nations Should Quickly Heed Advice of Greenwald, Assange

Guardian, U.K.: World Editors: 'What Guardian is Doing is Important for Democracy

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Izvestia, Russia: Global Call to Arms Against 'American Exceptionalism'

Huanqiu, China: Letter By Vladimir Putin Exposes 'Exceptional' American Inequality

de Volkskrant, The Netherlands: Putin's Note to Americans a Guilty Pleasure for World

Epoca, Brazil: America's 'Undemocratic' Surveillance is More Invasive than China's

Guardian, U.K.: Committee to Protect Journalists Issues Scathing Report on Obama

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Estadao, Brazil: Warning to Brazil Lawmakers Before Meeting with Snowden

Folha, Brazil: NSA's Great Power Challenge to Brazil

El Mundo, Spain: The U.N.'s Yearly Show Again Plays a Vital Role

Folha, Brazil: 'In His Heart,' Obama Knows Rousseff is Right about Spying

Opera Mundi, Brazil: Outraged Evo Morales Wants Obama Tried for 'Crimes Against Humanity'

Pagina Siete, Bolivia: U.S. Fears, Not Evil, Motivate Desperate Search for Snowden

El Nacional, Bolivia: Snowden: South America Must Take Stand Against Old Europe

El Universal, Venezuela: Maduro Uses Snowden Asylum to Distract Venezuelan People

El Nuevo Diario, Nicaragua: 'Imperial Nations' Mock International Law

El Nacional, Venezuela: Bienvenido to Venezuela, Double Agent Snowden!

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Folha, Brazil: Dilma Postpones Her U.S. State Visit; Saves Face for Both Sides

Epoca, Brazil: President Rousseff: Snowden Documents Show U.S. Economic Espionage

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Carta Maior, Brazil: Invasions of Privacy and the Tools of Terror Maintenance

O Globo, Brazil: Adjusting to Our 'Brave New World' of Liberty

O Globo, Brazil: NSA Targeted Latin American 'Trade Secrets'

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Guardian, U.K.: Edward Snowden 'Living Incognito in Russia'

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Estadao, Brazil: Explaining John Kerry's Shellacking in Brazil

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Jornal Do Brasil, Brazil: Chancellor Tells Kerry: 'Terminate' Spying on Brazilians

Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Russia: The Prohibitive Global Price of Poor U.S.-Russia Relations

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Der Spiegel, Germany: Merkel Rival Calls for Suspension of Trade Talks

Telegraph, U.K.: NSA Employees Spied on their Lovers Using Eavesdropping Program

Reuters, U.K.: Close Cameron Aides Asked Paper to Destroy Snowden Data

People's Daily, China: America Must Come to the Table on Surveillance

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Guardian, U.K.: Groklaw Legal Site Shuts Over Fears of NSA E-Mail Snooping

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Guardian, U.K.: 'Attempt at Intimidation Will Result in More Disclosures'

Savon Sanomat, Finland: Better For Finland that Obama Goes to Sweden

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Die Tageszeitung, Germany: Manning Trial: Superficial Justice to Save American Face

El Pais, Spain: Manning Verdict a Warning to Future 'Heroes of Transparency'

Izvestia, Russia: Turning Mr. Snowden into a Tool of Russian 'Soft Power'

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Der Spiegel: Three PRISMS? Parliament Seeks Clarity in NSA Espionage Scandal

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Moskovskij Komsomolets, Russia: Snowden: Putin's Perfect 'Anti-Magnitisky' Weapon

Gazeta, Russia: Chapman and Snowden in: 'The Ghost of Sheremetyevo'

Izvestia, Russia: South vs. North: Snowden's Place in History is Assured

Kommersant, Russia: Snowden's Presence May Scuttle Obama's Visit to Russia

Izvestia, Russia: 'Servile Europeans' Inflict Huge Insult on Bolivians

Wiener Zeitung, Austria: Edward Snowden is No Enemy of Our State!

La Stampa: Europe Will Rue Toppling Obama Over Snowden

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Le Monde, France: French Big Brother is Watching You!

Guardian, U.K.: The NSA's Indiscriminate Mass Spying on Brazilians

Le Monde, France: French Political Class Holds 'Outrage Contest' Over NSA Spying

DNA, France: Espionage ... From Washington, With Love

Liberation, France: The NSA 'Panopticon'

Der Standard, Austria: Mass NSA Surveillance Implies 'Bizarre Presumption of Guilt'

Guardian,U.K.: NSA/GCHQ Metadata Reassurances are 'Breathtakingly Cynical'

Observer, U.K.: U.S. Attempts to Block Edward Snowden 'Bolsters' Case for Asylum

Der Tagesspiegel, Germany: NSA: Merkel Ignores the Nightmare of 'Stasi Squared'

Der Spiegel: What's All the Fuss About U.S. Spying?

Guardian, U.K.: Britain Blocks Crucial Espionage Talks between U.S. and Europe

Guardian, U.K.: France 'runs vast electronic spying operation using NSA-style Methods'

Guardian, U.K.: Venezuela and Nicaragua offer asylum to Edward Snowden

Elsevier, The Netherlands: Snowden's Revelations are of 'No Benefit to Society'

Der Spiegel, Germany: NSA Spying on Germany: How Much Did Angela Merkel Know?

Der Spiegel, Germany Bolivia Irate Over Forced Landing

Der Spiegel, Germany: Germany Rejects Asylum for Snowden

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El Comercio, Ecuador: Wanting to Keep U.S. Trade Privileges is Not Treason!

Der Spiegel, Germany: Spying 'Out of Control': EU Official Questions Trade Negotiations

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Diario de Noticias, Portugal: America 'Summons World' to Renewed Cold War

Guardian, U.K.: Ecuador Rejects U.S. Trade Pact to Thwart Snowden 'Blackmail'

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The New York Times, U.S.: China Said to Have Made Call to Let Leaker Depart

People's Daily, China: U.S. Internet Hypocrisy Creates Global Suspicion

Global Times, China: Internet 'Muckraking Frenzy' Damaging China's Global Interests

Huanqiu, China: 'Demented' Hacking Charges Betray U.S. Scheme for Cyber Domination

Guardian, U.K.: Snowden Leaves Hong Kong for Moscow: Seeks Asylum in Ecuador

Financial Times, U.K.: Snowden Fallout Impacts China and Russia

Russia Today, Russia: VIDEO: Former MI5 Agent Judges Snowden 'Canny'

Folha, Brazil: Trust in the State Inadequate as a Pretext for NSA's Spying

Les Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace, France: Edward Snowden is Not the Issue

El Pais, Spain: Powerless, Europe Must Nevertheless Stand Up to NSA Spying Program

Global Times, China: Demonizing China Will Backfire on Americans

Global Times, China: Extraditing Snowden Would Be a Mistake

Xinhua, China: 'Idealistic' Edward Snowden Should be Welcomed by China

Mediapart, France: 'Autonomous Machines': World Reawakens to U.S. Web Dominance

Guardian, U.K.: Britain's GCHQ Intercepted Data from Foreign Politicians at G20 Summits

Le Monde, France: French Lawmakers Scramble Over News of NSA Surveillance

Le Temps, Switzerland: Last Resort for Confronting 'Electronic Big Brother'

The Frontier Post, Pakistan: On Global Spying for Selfish National Interest

Mediapart, France: The NSA is Spying on Us! What a Surprise!

El Espectador, Colombia: Please Consider Yourself Watched!

Le Monde, France: NSA Surveillance Storm Gathers Over Cloud Market

Folha, Brazil: Being 'Carioca' Helped Glenn Greenwald Break NSA Surveillance Story

Sol, Portugal: WikiLeaks and Facebook: What Came Before Will Soon Be Rubble

Guardian, U.K.: World Leaders Seek Answers on NSA Data Collection Programs

Guardian, U.K.: Artist Ai Weiwei: The U.S. is 'Behaving Like China'

Russia Today, Russia: Putin: Government Surveillance 'Should Not Break the Law'

Guardian, U.K.: Russia Offers to Consider Edward Snowden Asylum Request

Handelsblatt, Germany: Obama's Data Nightmare is Europe's

FAZ, Germany: Protect Us from Terrorism ... and Government Snooping

SCMP, Hong Kong: What Will Hong Kong do with Snowden? ... The World is Watching

SCMP, Hong Kong: Why Hong Kong? Chinese Wonder if Edward Snowden is in Wrong Place

Suedostschweiz, Switzerland: Exposed: Spy Powers that Obama Shouldn't Use

Le Temps, Switzerland: Exploring the Limits of Sino-U.S. Compromise

Business Day, South Africa: Obama Sets 'Dubious Example' on Freedom

Economist, U.K.: The Reason We Fear Broad Surveillance

Guardian, U.K.: The NSA's Secret Tool to Track Global Surveillance Data

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany: On Torture, Kremlin Should Lead by Example!

Folha, Brazil: U.S. Schools Brazil on Confronting Stain of Torture

Polityka, Poland: Poland's CIA Black Site and Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Polityka, Poland: Kwasniewski: 'Sadist' CIA Should Be Shuttered; Denies Knowledge of Torture

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Former President Kwasniewski Admits Approving CIA Prisons

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Poland Itself Must Investigate Secret CIA Prisons

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Poland Beware: American Colossus Changes Course

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Former President Kwasniewski Admits Approving CIA Prisons

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Poland Itself Must Investigate Secret CIA Prisons

Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland: Poland Beware: American Colossus Changes Course

News, Switzerland: In Praise of the U.S. Senate's CIA Torture Report

L'Orient Le Jour, Lebanon: 'Success' of CIA Torture: Raises Anti-Americanism to its 'Zenith'

Khaleej Times, U.A.E.: Tales of Torture: A 'Betrayal of the American Revolution'

U.N., Intl. Terr., Geneva: 'Those Behind CIA 'Criminal Conspiracy' Must Face Penalties': U.N.

El Pais, Spain: CIA Torture Report: Now is Obama's Chance to Shutter Guantanamo

NRC Handelsblad, The Netherlands: No Leniency for CIA Torture

Le Monde, France: Report Confirms CIA Ran Secret Prisons in Poland, Romania

Le Monde, France: Governments Across Europe Investigate CIA 'Renditions'

La Jornada, Mexico: Loughner - Carriles: Two Terrorists, One U.S. Double Standard

La Stampa, Italy: Now, Italy Must Gird for the Repercussions Over CIA Convictions

Publico, Spain: Torture Charges Filed Against Bush Legal Team; Judge Garzon Handles Case

Die Welt, Germany: A Disgrace to the West: CIA Doctors Helped With Torture

Financial Times Deutschland, Germany: Obama: Inviting the Next Torture Scandal

Die Tageszeitung, Germany: America and Torture: 'Just Following Orders'

Hurriyet, Turkey: Dick Cheney's Torture Logic is 'Deeply Offensive'

La Repubblica, Italy: With Robert Seldon Lady, America 'Humiliates' Italy

Gazzetta del Sud, Italy: Former CIA Station Chief Held in Panama Over Italy 'Rendition'

La Stampa, Italy: Now, Italy Must Gird for the Repercussions Over CIA Convictions

Corriere Della Serra, Italy: CIA Agents Convicted of Kidnapping; Italian Officials Walk Free

Corriere Della Serra, Italy: Ex-Intelligence Chief, CIA Agents Indicted for Kidnapping

Le Monde Diplomatique, France: The Law Will Catch Up With CIA's European 'Accomplices'

Izvestia, Russia: 'Servile Europeans' Inflict Huge Insult on Bolivians

Corriere Della Serra, Italy: U.S. Must Fess Up to CIA Kidnapping on Italian Soil

La Repubblica, Italy: Italy's Spymasters Arrested for Aiding CIA Kidnappings

Digital Journal, Canada: U.S. Double Standard - Snowden, Seldon Lady and Jose Carriles

Guardian Unlimited, U.K.: Criminal Justice Rendered Impotent

Publico, Spain: Torture Charges Filed Against Bush Legal Team

Corriere Della Sera, Italy: Italy Says CIA Guilty of Abduction, Issues Europe-Wide Arrest Warrants

Corriere Della Sera, Italy: U.S. Must Fess Up to CIA Kidnapping on Italian Soil

Tageblatt, Luxembourg: Europe Investigator Into CIA Activity Comes Under Criticism

Le Monde, France: Governments Across Europe Investigate CIA 'Renditions'

Le Monde Diplomatique, France: Law Will Catch Up With CIA's European 'Accomplices'

La Repubblica, Italy: Italy's Spymasters Arrested for Aiding CIA Kidnappings

Corriere Della Sera, Italy: Ex-Intelligence Chief, CIA Agents Indicted for Kidnapping

Corriere Della Sera, Italy: U.S. Must Fess Up to CIA Kidnapping on Italian Soil

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[Posted By Worldmeets.US June 29, 2015, 8:59am]