美前總統吉米·卡特認爲自己受到監控

Former President Jimmy Carter believes U.S. intelligence agencies are spying on him — so much so, he eschews email to avoid government spies.

"You know, I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored," Carter told NBC's Andrea Mitchell in an interview broadcast Sunday. "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.

"I believe if I send an email, it will be monitored," Carter continued.

The 89-year-old said the National Security Agency and others have abused the argument that gathering intelligence is critical to homeland security.

"That has been extremely liberalized and, I think, abused by our own intelligence agencies," Carter said.

The 39th president, however, stopped short of criticizing No. 44 over the handling of the N.S.A. scandal, the crisis in Ukraine or anything else.

"I don't have any criticism of him," Carter said of Obama.

He was asked if the the president ever asks him for advice.

"Unfortunately, the answer is no," Carter said. "President Obama doesn't. But previous presidents have called on me and the Carter Center to take action."

Why not Obama?

"That's a hard question for me to answer, you know, with complete candor," he said. "I think the problem was that in dealing with the issue of peace between Israel and Egypt, the Carter Center [took] a very strong and public position of equal treatment between the Palestinians and the Israelis. And I think this was a sensitive area in which the president didn't want to be involved."據美國雅虎新聞網3月23日報道，美國前總統吉米·卡特認爲美國情報部門在監控他，因此，他一直避免使用電子郵件。

在週日播送的採訪中，卡特對美國全國廣播公司記者安德烈亞·米切爾說：“我感覺到我和別人的交流很可能被監控了。如果我想與外國的領導人私下交流，我就自己打印或手寫信件，然後郵寄給對方。我相信如果我發電子郵件給對方，就會被監控。”

卡特認爲，雖然收集情報對國家安全十分重要，但國家安全局和其他部門一直極端地濫用這項職權。

“我覺得這自由過了頭，這項職權被我們自己的情報部門濫用了”，卡特說。

不過，作爲第39任美國總統，卡特並沒有批評奧巴馬在處理國安局醜聞、烏克蘭危機和其他事務中的作爲。他說：“我對奧巴馬沒什麼批評意見。”

記者問卡特，奧巴馬有沒有曾經向他請教過，卡特回答：“很遺憾，沒有。但之前的幾任總統都向我和卡特中心諮詢過。”

“奧巴馬爲什麼不向你求教呢？”記者問。

卡特說：“這個問題對我來說不好回答。坦白講，我覺得是在以色列和埃及的問題上我們有分歧。卡特中心堅決主張在巴勒斯坦人和以色列人之間應當平等對待，而奧巴馬總統不想被牽涉到這個敏感的事務中。”