The U.S. National Security Agency's foreign eavesdropping included phone conversations between top Israeli officials and U.S. lawmakers and American-Jewish groups, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing current and former U.S. officials.
White House officials believed the intercepted information could be valuable to counter Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign against the nuclear deal with Iran, according to the officials, the Journal said.
NSA eavesdropping revealed to the White House how Netanyahu and his advisers had leaked details of the U.S.-Iran negotiations, which they learned through Israeli spying, the newspaper reported.