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Jimmy Carter sticks to ‘snail mail’ in missives to world leaders

Former President Jimmy Carter is using an old-fashioned method of communication with world leaders these days for the fear of snooping.

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 on 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,” 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.”

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