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Once the agency gets its hands on these products, it embeds devices that are linked to the NSA's own system, giving officials access to foreign networks and information from all the users connected to that network."In one recent case, after several months a beacon implanted through supply-chain interdiction called back to the NSA covert infrastructure," a 2010 NSA report states, according to Greenwald. "This call back provided us access to further exploit the device and survey the network."
In 2005, Modi was denied a diplomatic visa to the United States. In addition, the B-1/B-2 visa that had previously been granted to him was also revoked, under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act which makes any foreign government official who was responsible or "directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom" ineligible for the visa. In July 2013, BJP president Rajnath Singh visited the US and gave a speech urging the US to grant Modi a visa to visit the country. In response to Singh's visit, 65 Members of the Indian parliament allegedly signed a letter to US President Barack Obama requesting that the policy of denying Modi a visa be upheld. However, the veracity of some of the signatures has been called into question, as Sitaram Yechury and purported signatories have denied ever signing such a petition. In March 2014, when asked if Washington was ready to do business with Modi, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal commented that "the United States has welcomed every leader (of India)", and "a democratically elected leader of India will be a welcome partner".Though BJP was in government as a coalition partner from 1998-2004, it could only put forward a moderate, secular, non-BJP personality like Atal Bihari Vajpayee as a consensus-based prime ministerial candidate.
A report in April 2014 in the Sunday Guardian revealed that by the end of 2012, a reversal in foreign policy towards Modi by Obama had occurred.
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