I feel for the next President (if the country survives till 2017). His entire administration will be consumed with fixing the foreign policy damage done by THE WON™.
The denial probably is true. David Cameron doesnt do or say anything of interest to anyone :)
Robert Heinlein said that we shouldn’t attribute to malice that which is more property attributable to stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.
Is Obama stupid, or is he deliberately setting out top piss off our allies?
Every country gathers all the information they can get on every other country they can, because it is in their interest to have as much info as possible. Always have, always will. All heads of state know this, because they use this info to make decisions on a daily basis. The whining about being “spied on” is for domestic consumption.