The surveillance of all phone conversations is part of an operation dubbed SOMALGET. The surveillance op has been implemented without the consent or knowledge of any official of the Bahamas. The US State Department concluded last year that the democratic regime in the Bahamas democratic is a stable one that shares certain values with the US democracy. The Bahamian minister of national security said it would investigate the NSA surveillance op. The surveillance program for the Bahamas seems to have been motivated by the need to locate international narcotics traffickers and special-interest alien smugglers, rather than terrorists.”]