Posted on 06/30/2013 10:41:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Trans-Atlantic relations plunged at the weekend as Berlin, Brussels and Paris all demanded that Washington account promptly and fully for new disclosures on the scale of the US National Security Agency’s spying on its European allies.
As further details emerged of the huge reach of US electronic snooping on Europe, Berlin accused Washington of treating it like the Soviet Union, “like a cold war enemy”. …
The reports of NSA snooping on Europe—and on Germany in particular—went well beyond previous revelations of electronic spying said to be focused on identifying suspected terrorists, extremists and organized criminals.
Der Spiegel reported that it had seen documents and slides from the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden indicating that US agencies bugged the offices of the EU in Washington and at the UN in New York. They are also accused of directing an operation from NATO headquarters in Brussels to infiltrate the telephone and email networks at the EU’s Justus Lipsius building in the Belgian capital, the venue for EU summits and home of the European council. …
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this fits right into the Obama machine spin control.
there is ALWAYS spying between countries. even between the us and its beloved (by some) ally Israel, we’ve had many instances of Israeli spies (some caught, some not).
they are using it as obfuscation.
the one and only issue, the Obama government was spying on its own citizens. period.
Are they going to blame this on Bush also?
Will they give Obama another Peace Prize for this? They’re so naive it’s shocking.
Good to know we are spying on Germany. Someone needs to keep an eye on them.
Hey, Germany, don’t blame America, most of us don’t want Obama.
Hey, Egypt, don’t blame America, most of us don’t want Obama.
Hey, Africa......
The NSA is just supposed to sit around and do Gregorian Chant, like the monks of Solesmes. Only other countries are permitted to spy.
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